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Brittany Murray

Ph.D. 2016

Brittany Murray is an Assistant Professor of French at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies from Northwestern University and her B.A. from Vanderbilt University. She specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century French literature and culture. Her first book, co-edited with Diane Perpich, examined a French feminist movement that rose to prominence in the aughts. Her current project is a book about France in the 1970s, a decade of economic and political struggle matched by artistic creativity, and mines the past for insight into many issues that feel urgent in the present like migration policy, gender roles, unemployment, and urban space. At Northwestern, she was Coordinator for Research and Pedagogy for the Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education (CFMDE), hosted at Vassar College. After receiving a B.A. in French and Comparative Literature from Vanderbilt University, she spent a year in France studying gender issues in the Parisian banlieues through a Fulbright Research Fellowship.