Hannah Murray is Honorary Research Fellow and tutor at the University of Melbourne. She was formerly Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Liverpool, and undertook a PhD in American Studies at the University of Nottingham. She works in the fields of critical whiteness studies and speculative genres, with a focus on how texts receive and shape ideas on race and the legacy of the nineteenth century, particularly the long history of racial transformation narratives in the US gothic imagination. She is currently working on a project on race in colonial Australian speculative literature and the reception of ‘race science’ in nineteenth century Australian texts.

Areas of interest: Race in literature and culture, Nineteenth century literature, US Literature, Australian Literature