Gregg Murray
Assistant Professor Honors College- Education
University of Minnesota
Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Arts, English, September 2010University of Notre Dame (summa cum laude)
Bachelor of Arts, May 2002 Majors: English, Philosophy
- Specializations
Play & Playfulness; Contemporary American Poetry; Artificial Intelligence; Modernism; Harlem Renaissance; American Literature; 20th Century American Poetry; 20th Century French Poetry; Giorgio Agamben; Lyric Essay; Cyborg Humanism; African-American Poetry
- Biography
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- Recognitions and Awards
CREATIVE HONORS:
Semi-finalist, POL Prize. When I Was an Octopus. 2016. [Still under consideration]Finalist, Augury Books, 2015. [When I Was an Octopus]. 2015.
Finalist, Patricia Bibby First Book Award. s Ø n a r. Tebot Bach Press. 2013.
Finalist, Pocataligo Poetry Contest. “[Railroads].” Yemassee Journal. 2013.
Pushcart Prize Nomination. “Brothers.” Midway Journal. 2011.
ACADEMIC, TEACHING, SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS:
Faculty Service Excellence Award. Georgia Perimeter College (Now GSU), 2013.National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Scholar, “Don’t Deny My Voice: Reading and Teaching
African-American Poetry.” Summer Institute. Kansas University, 2013.Governor’s Teaching Fellowship (GTF), 2012. Summer Symposium. University of Georgia Institute of Higher Education.
Southern Academy for Literary Arts and Scholarship Fellowship, 2011. Academic Year 2011-2012.
University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts “Best Dissertation” Award Nomination, University of Minnesota English Department, 2011.
SERVICE HONORS & RECOGNITION:
Phi Theta Kappa Honorary Recognition for service to Georgia Perimeter College (Now GSU) students, 2013.National Society of Collegiate Scholars Advisor Award, 2013.
- Committees and Organizations
Honors Coordinator, Online Campus (Spring 2013-Present)
Contributing Poetry Editor, The Chattahoochee Review (Spring 2011-Fall 2015).
*College Advisory Board, The Chattahoochee Review (Fall 2015-Present)Committee Member, Honors Consolidation Committee. (2015)
We were tasked with presenting an action plan for unifying the Honors College at Georgia State University with the Georgia Perimeter College Honors Program.Chair, World Literature Committee. (Fall 2014-Present)
I joined this committee near the time of my hire and have recently volunteered to serve as chair. I have served on this committee since the fall of 2010. This semester I have worked on unifying our assessment strategy with the downtown campus and having it prepared for approval.Founder & Faculty Advisor, Poetry & Performance Club. (Fall 2012-Spring 2016)
Tenure-Track Faculty Hiring Committee (2013, Fall 2015).
Faculty Co-Founder (2012) & Faculty Advisor (AY 2012, AY 2013), National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Judge, High School Literary Arts Committee. (Fall 2010-Fall 2014)
- Publications
ESSAY, ARTICLE, REVIEW PUBLICATIONS:
Murray, Gregg. “The End Zone Profanations of Chad Ochocinco.” (Lyric Essay/ Scholarly Essay.) The Fanzine. 17 May 2016. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Stephanie Ford’s All Pilgrim.” (Review forthcoming in Rain Taxi.)
Murray, Gregg. “Stephen Dixon’s Beatrice.” (Review.) Entropy. 10 May 2017. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Shannon Burns’ Oosh Boosh.” (Review.) ArtsATL.com. 9 May 2017. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Am I Bot or Not?” The Huffington Post. (Scholarly Essay.) (Previously at Real Pants and KurzweilAI.net.) 6 March 2016. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Something Mechanical in Something Living.” KurzweilAI.net. 22 February 2016. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Copies of Copies.” Real Pants. (Lyric Essay.) 10 February 2016. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Why I Read Baraka.” (Lyric Essay). The Pierian. 2015. Print.
“Metaphors of Impossibility in Matt Schumacher’s Spilling the Moon.” (Scholarly Essay). Phantom Drift blog. June 2014. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “A Story Concerning Nuala Ní Chonhúir’s Of Dublin and Other Fictions.” (Lyric Review). The Hooch. 7 March, 2014. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “A Tribute to Amiri Baraka.” (Lyric Essay.) The Project on the History of Black Writing. 31 January 2014. Online.
“Disappearing Cowboy Tricks: A Few Notes on Kristin Abraham’s Debut Poetry Collection.” (Review). H_ngm_n Journal. Vol. 16. May 2013. Online.
Murray, Gregg. Kim Vodicka’s Aesthesia Balderdash. (Review.) H_ngm_n Journal. Vol. 15. May 2013. Online.
Murray, Gregory Kirk. “Covering Giorgio Agamben’s Nudities.” (Lyric Essay/Scholarly Essay). Continent. : Year 1, a Selection of Issues 1.1-1.4. Brooklyn: punctum, 2012. Print.
Murray, Gregory Kirk. “An Offer You Can Understand: Assessing the Achievement of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.” (Scholarly Essay.) The Chattahoochee Review. Fall/Winter 2012. Print.
Murray, Gregg. “Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta.” (Creative Review). Alice Blue Re-views. September 2012. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Julie Doxsee’s Objects for a Fog Death.” (Lyric Review). HTML Giant. June 2012. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Laked, Fielded, Blanked” (Review). Coldfront Magazine. Spring 2012. Online.
Murray, Gregory Kirk. “Covering Giorgio Agamben’s Nudities.” (Lyric Essay/Scholarly Essay). Continent. 1.2. pp. 145-7. Spring 2011. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play.” (Review). Rain Taxi Online Edition. Spring 2009. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Cleaning the Mirror.” (Review). Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry/ Literature & Culture. 2008. Online.
CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS (Poems, unless otherwise indicated):
Murray, Gregg. Ceviche. (Chapbook, 29 pp.). Spittoon Press. April 2014. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “How I Get Word of You.” pioneertown. Spring 2016.
Murray, Gregg. “[When I Was a Horse Thief].” Augury Books, Poetry Book Finalist feature. November 2015. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “The Surgery.” Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism. Vol. 5. 2015.
Murray, Gregg. “When on Lookout How Careful To Be by the Noose.” Alice Blue Review. Vol. 27. 2015. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “The Truth about Liver-Eating Johnson.” (Short story.) The Mondegreen. 1.1. January 2015. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “The Itch.” The Mondegreen. 1.1. January 2015. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “The Deal.” Birmingham Poetry Review. Spring 2015. Vol. 42. Print.
Murray, Gregg. “Night Writer.” Quiddity International. 8.1. 2015. Print.
Murray, Gregg. “[When I Was a Huswyf, I Haggled the Merchants].” The Carolina Quarterly. Winter 2014. Print.
Murray, Gregg. “[When I was a railroad hammer].” Sou’wester. 2014. Print.
Murray, Gregg. “Monologue of Dracule,” “A Man of Preferences.” Phantom Drift. 2014. Print.
Murray, Gregg. “In My Dreams of the West.” Berkeley Poetry Review. Vol. 44. Summer 2014. Print.
Murray, Gregg. “[When I ran the numbers, I stayed],” “[When I was a killing hand].” Vol. 4. Summer/Fall 2014. The Free State Review. Print.
Murray, Gregg. “Sawdust.” Tinderbox. Vol. 1.1. 2014. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Amiri Baraka (1934-2014).” The Pierian. May 2014. Print.
Murray, Gregg. “Plates 1-4 of the Wheeler Photographic Survey].” (4 Poems). Menacing Hedge. April 2014. Online with audio.
Murray, Gregg. “Early Draculean Metaphysics.” The Bicycle Review. April 2014. Print and online.
Murray, Gregg. “In the Biblio.” Midway Journal. January 2014. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “[When I was a shipwright, the sea].” Josephine Quarterly. December 2013. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “White.” Ayris. Vol. 10. 2013. Print.
Murray, Gregg. “On the Final Days of a Danish Coastguard.” The Lake Poetry: Seamus Heaney Tribute. 2013. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Braille.” Interrupture: Best of Years One and Two. 2013. Print.
Murray, Gregg. “Capiche.” Interrupture. June 2013. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Black Flag,” “Manning the Shutters,” “Suppose.” Vol. 22. 2013. Word for/ Word. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Nighthawk.” RealPoetik. Sunday, May 19, 2013. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Trade Secrets.” [PANK]. 8.1. January 2013. Online with audio.
Murray, Gregg. “Fetch,” Seamstress.” Horse Less Review. Vol. 13. December 2012. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Instances of Graciella Tabling Ceviche,” When the Ceviche Was Off,” “Parable of the Birdcages.” Spittoon. September 2012. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Sonar.” LEVELER. June 2012. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “You Prevaricate.” decomP magazinE. June 2012. Online with audio.
“Brothers.” Letterpress on broadside. Artist Robyn Ward. Em Space Book Arts Center. Rives BFK, Portland. 11 x 15. Edition of 45. Text by Gregg Murray.
Murray, Gregg. “Some Translations for Arturo de Benedicto.” New South. February 2012. Print.
Murray, Gregg. “System Analyst.” elimae. January 2012. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “The One and Only.” DIAGRAM. Vol. 11.3. November 2011. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Sludge.” Caketrain. November 2011. Print.
Murray, Gregg. “Braille,” “Typeface.” Interrupture. Vol. 1.2. June 2011. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Brothers,”* “Shelf-life.” Midway Journal. March 2011. Online. *Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Murray, Gregg. “Man with Air Guitar,” “Lay Anthem.” Alice Blue Review. Vol. 12. 2010. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Stone Cliffs.” The Denver Syntax. October 2010. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Wreck,” “Somewhat.” Scythe. Winter 2010. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “Looking for Pancho Villa at Pancho Villa Bar and Restaurant.” Mandala. 2010. Online.
Murray, Gregg. “The Dream of the Rude.” DIAGRAM. 9.2. April 2009. Online.