Katie Owens-Murphy, Ph.D.
256.765.4893
UNA Box 5050
110 Willingham Hall
Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the MA in English Program
Alabama State Coordinator for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program
Email: kowensmurphy@una.edu
Research & Teaching fields:
American literature, theories of lyric and narrative, prison literature, Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program
| Institution | Degree | Year |
| The Pennsylvania State University | Ph.D. | 2013 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | M.A. | 2009 |
| The State University of New York at Geneseo | B.A. | 2007 |
Publications:
- Lyrical Strategies: The Poetics of the Twentieth-Century American Novel. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
- "So We Went to Prison . . ." with Yaschica Williams and Christopher W. Purser. Chronicle of Higher Education.
Courses taught:
- American Literature through Walt Whitman
- American Literature Walt Whitman to the present
- Civil War Literature
- Poetry at the Margins
- Literary Criticism
- Prison Literature in the U.S.
Read more about our collaborative work with Limestone Correctional Facility:
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