About the Provost
Soraya Murray is the Provost of Porter College and an associate professor in the Film and Digital Media Department. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art and Visual Studies from Cornell University. Her writings on art, film, and video games are anthologized nationally and internationally, and may be found in publications like Art Journal, Third Text, Film Quarterly, European Journal of American Studies, and Critical Inquiry. Murray’s book, On Video Games: The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space (London: I. B. Tauris, 2018), considers video games from a visual studies perspective. Dr. Murray is co-editing an anthology with media and games scholar TreaAndrea Russworm, entitled Antiracist Futures: Games, Play and the Speculative Imagination. She is also writing a book on the technological imaginary in American popular films from the 1970s to the present, entitled Technothriller.
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