Susan Murray (historian)

Susan Murray
OccupationHistorian
Children2
Awards
Academic background
Alma mater
Thesis"Hitch your antenna to the stars!": early television and the renegotiation of broadcast stardom (1999)
Doctoral advisorJanet Staiger
Academic work
DisciplineTelevision studies
Institutions

Susan Dorrit Murray[1] is an American historian who specializes in television studies. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars (2005) and Bright Signals (2018) – winning the 2019 Katherine Singer Kovács Society for Cinema and Media Studies Book Award for the latter – as well as co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2004). She is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.[2]

Biography

Murray was born to Donald and Dorrit Murray.[3] She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she got a BA in journalism in 1989; The New School for Social Research, where she got a MA in media studies in 1994; and the University of Texas at Austin, where she got a PhD in radio, television, and film in 1999.[4] Her doctoral dissertation "Hitch your antenna to the stars!": early television and the renegotiation of broadcast stardom[1] was supervised by Janet Staiger.[3]

Murray originally worked at the Brooklyn College Department of Television and Radio as an assistant professor from 1999 to 2001, when she moved to New York University.[4] She was promoted to associate professor in 2007 and full professor in 2019.[4] She became the NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication's graduate studies director in 2019 and eventually department chair in 2021.[4] She was the 2010 Wolf Visiting Professor of Television Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.[5]

As a historian, Murray specializes in television studies.[2] In 2004, she and Laurie Ouellette co-edited a volume on reality television, Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture.[6] In 2005, she published Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars, a book on the rise of the television star in early television.[7] She won the 2019 Katherine Singer Kovács Society for Cinema and Media Studies Book Award and the 2019 International Association for Media and History-Michael Nelson Book Prize for Bright Signals,[8][9] a 2018 history book on color television.[10] In 2021, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Film, Video, & New Media Studies.[11]

Murray has two children.[12]

Bibliography

  • (co-edited with Laurie Ouellette) Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2004)[13][14][6]
  • Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars (2005)
  • Bright Signals (2018)[15][16][17][18][19]

References

  1. ^ a b Murray, Susan Dorrit (1999). "Hitch your antenna to the stars!": early television and the renegotiation of broadcast stardom (PhD thesis). University of Texas at Austin. OCLC 44731236.
  2. ^ a b "Susan Murray". steinhardt.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on April 30, 2025. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  3. ^ a b Murray, Susan (2013). Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars! Early Television and Broadcast Stardom. Routledge. p. 26-27. ISBN 978-1-135-46520-9.
  4. ^ a b c d "Susan Murray CV" (PDF). New York University. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  5. ^ "Murray, Susan". University of Pennsylvania Department of Cinema and Media Studies. Archived from the original on January 16, 2025. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  6. ^ a b Stober, Joanne (March 30, 2006). "Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture". Canadian Journal of Communication. 31 (1): 275–277. doi:10.22230/cjc.2006v31n1a1578. ISSN 0705-3657.
  7. ^ "Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom". Routledge. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  8. ^ "2019 SCMS Awards". Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  9. ^ Chapman, Llewella (June 16, 2019). "Congratulations to Susan Murray: 2019 IAMHIST-Michael Nelson Book Prize winner". International Association for Media and History. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  10. ^ "Bright Signals: A History of Color Television". Duke University Press. Archived from the original on February 9, 2025. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  11. ^ "Susan Murray". Guggenheim Fellowships. Archived from the original on March 17, 2025. Retrieved July 28, 2025.
  12. ^ Murray, Susan (2018). Bright Signals: A History of Color Television (PDF). Duke University Press. p. xi. ISBN 9780822371700.
  13. ^ Deery, June (November 1, 2005). "Book Review of "Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture," edited by Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette". Popular Communication. 3 (4): 269–271. doi:10.1207/s15405710pc0304_4. ISSN 1540-5702.
  14. ^ Sykes, Jolyon (November 1, 2010). "Review: Trauma and Media: Theories, Histories and Images". Media International Australia. 137 (1): 169–169. doi:10.1177/1329878X1013700131. ISSN 1329-878X.
  15. ^ Altman, James (February 8, 2020). "Review of Bright Signals: A History of Color Television". Popular Culture Review. Archived from the original on May 19, 2025. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  16. ^ Dootson, Kirsty Sinclair (June 1, 2019). "Book Review: Bright Signals: A History of Colour Television". Critical Studies in Television. 14 (2): 268–270. doi:10.1177/1749602019835719. ISSN 1749-6020.
  17. ^ Ellis, Phil (September 1, 2018). "Review of Bright Signals: A History of Color Television". Leonardo. Archived from the original on September 23, 2023. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  18. ^ Kane, Carolyn (2020). "Bright Signals: A History of Color Television by Susan Murray". Technology and Culture. 61 (1): 375–376. doi:10.1353/tech.2020.0028. ISSN 1097-3729. Archived from the original on July 10, 2024. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
  19. ^ Yumibe, Joshua (2019). "Review of Bright Signals: A History of Color Television Sign, Storage, Transmission series". Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. 58 (4): 170–174. ISSN 2578-4900.
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