A 2021 Guggenheim fellow, Susan Murray is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and is the author of Bright Signals: A History of Color Television, (Duke University Press, 2018), which was supported by fellowships from the NEH, the ACLS, and The NYU Center for the Humanities. Bright Signals was awarded the 2019 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and the 2019 Michael Nelson Book Prize (biennial) presented by the International Association for Media and History.
Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals such as Public Culture, Screen, and The Journal of Visual Culture as well as in The Atlantic, Newsweek, Smithsonian Magazine. She is also the author of Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom and the coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2004 and 2009) with Laurie Ouellette. She is currently researching her next book project: a history of the development and use of closed-circuit television in a range of contexts such medicine, education, business, and government.
She has worked as a consultant and expert witness on copyright cases involving reality TV programs.
She is associate faculty in Cinema Studies at NYU, sits on the advisory board of the NYU Center for the Humanities, and is a Peabody Awards faculty judge.
email: susan [dot] murray [at] nyu.edu
Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals such as Public Culture, Screen, and The Journal of Visual Culture as well as in The Atlantic, Newsweek, Smithsonian Magazine. She is also the author of Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom and the coeditor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2004 and 2009) with Laurie Ouellette. She is currently researching her next book project: a history of the development and use of closed-circuit television in a range of contexts such medicine, education, business, and government.
She has worked as a consultant and expert witness on copyright cases involving reality TV programs.
She is associate faculty in Cinema Studies at NYU, sits on the advisory board of the NYU Center for the Humanities, and is a Peabody Awards faculty judge.
email: susan [dot] murray [at] nyu.edu