Dr Hannah Murray

@hlmurray

Lecturer in English: C19 US & Oz Lit, racial transformation, white supremacy, the speculative. Melbourne. she/her ‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now!

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Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray· 3d

What a terrible week with wonderful people leaving us.

Close up photograph of Kusama sculpture at the NGV in 2025. Large twisting tentacles take up a whole room. The tentacles and the walls are black and yellow polka dot patterns.

Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray· 22d

Abram, 15, distinguished chonk

Tabby cat with a white face facing the camera, getting a scritch under his chin

Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray· May 9

Roger Stevens building, University of Leeds, apocryphal filming location for Star Wars and connected to at one point the longest corridor in Europe(?)

Large brutalist grey building connected to an elevated walkway.

Close up of side of large grey brutalist building with external staircase and large vents.

Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray· Apr 13

I’m in danger

Cover of a book titled ‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’

Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray· Apr 13

Welp

Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray· Apr 1

Chag sameach, it’s the matzah lasagne!

Photograph of a slice of lasagne on a white plate

Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray· Jan 27

Starting back from leave with proofs! Out soon with Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly Journal of Commonwealth Literature)

Photograph of article proofs. A stack of A4 paper with a typed abstract and title. Article is ‘Resisting melancholic whiteness in Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man’ by me.

Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray· Nov 30

At @nationallibrarynz.bsky.social they have this cool poetry machine that prints out random colonial NZ poetry for you!

Photograph of a poetry machine. A wooden kiosk with a wooden lever and a blue sign saying ‘poetry machine’.

Photograph of poetry machine poem. A receipt-sized piece of white paper with black text in colonial newspaper print.

Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray· Nov 22

Rainy Sunday morning, sticky bun, reading 1820s newspapers on Trove 🤓

Photograph of sticky bun and coffee on a light brown table. A bun covered with white icing on a white small plate, next to a cappuccino in a dark green coffee cup and saucer. On the right is an iPad showing a column from an old newspaper that has been digitised.

Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray· Sep 18

Your campus has squirrels and geese? That’s cute. MINE HAS KANGAROOS 😎

A grainy photograph of a grey coloured kangaroo across a street, looking at the camera.

Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray· Sep 16

It’s calling to me

Close up of bookcase and a row of paperback books. In the middle is American Psycho with a bright red spine.

Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray· Aug 24

Made it to Sale yesterday for the last weekend of Turner & Australia. Amazing collection of Australian landscape art inspired by Turner, and a few originals in there too! And I’m teaching Turner this week 😎