College of Graduate Studies

Prof J Murray

College of Graduate Studies
Department: Deanery
Professor
Tel: 012 429 6047
E-mail: murraj@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • PhD (York) 

NRF Rating

C2

Fields of academic interests

  • Critical Animal Studies
  • Vegan Studies
  • Embodied memory
  • Feminist theory
  • Gender studies and women’s writing
  • Queer theory
  • Representations of violence in South African literature
  • Trauma and testimony 

Journal articles

  • Groenewald, G. and J. Murray (submitted in 2022 and currently accepted and in press). “Lady Anne Barnard (née Lindsay)” in The Routledge Research Companion to Romantic Women Writers. Ann R. Hawkins, Catherine S. Blackwell, and E. Leigh Bonds (eds.).
  • Murray, J. (submitted in 2022) “Haunted by the Specter of the Animal Other: Reading beyond the Human in Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series”. Submitted to Scopus journal. Currently in review process.
  • Murray, J. (submitted in 2022) “Silencing and Distancing: Literary Representations of Strategies that Negate Meaningful Engagement with Climate Change”. Submitted to Scopus journal. Currently in review process.
  • Murray, J. (2021) “Human Rights in Spaces of Violence: Exploring the Intersections of Gender, Violence and Lesbian Sexuality in Selected African Fiction by Women” in Gendered Violence and Human Rights in Black World Literature and Film. Naomi Nkealah and Obioma Nnaemeka (eds.). New York: Routledge. pp. 93-108.
  • Murray, J. (2021) “My Body’s Voice Guides Me”: A Postcolonial and Postanthropocentric Analysis of Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning” in Stories for Healing’: Mohale Mashigo’s Creative Philosophy. Monica Latham, Claire Mckeown & Marilyne Brun (eds.) Nancy, France. Presses Universitaires de Nancy. pp. 193-206.
  • Murray, J. (submitted in 2021). “When Silence is Violence: Exploring Literary Representations of Abuse within a Lesbian Relationship in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House”. Accepted by Alternation and in press.
  • Murray, J. (2021). “Women Navigating the Climate Catastrophe: Challenging Anthropocentrism in Selected Fiction” in Journal of Literary Studies 37 (3): 15-33.
  • Murray, J. (submitted in 2021). “‘[T]he Options Were Shrinking. Choices Were Being Removed’: Selected Literary Representations of the Consequence of Climate Change”. Accepted by Current Writing. Scheduled for publication in first issue of 2023.
  • Murray, J. (2020). “The casual cruelty of fat phobia: A feminist literary analysis of “unruly” feminine corporeality in selected texts” in English Academy Review 37(1). 37-51.
  • Murray, J. (2020). “‘They don’t make plus size spacesuits’: A Fat Studies Analysis of Selected Literary Texts” in Literator 41(1). 1-7.
  • Murray, J. (2020). “Representing Fat Female Bodies: A Fat Studies Analysis of Selected Literary Texts” in Journal of Literary Studies 36(2). 99-111.
  • Murray, J. (2020) “Female Interventions in Contemporary South African Drama and Performance: An Analysis of Selected Work by Women Artists” in Forays into Contemporary Drama, Theatre and Performance: A Wealth of New Stage Idioms. Marc Maufort and Jessica Maufort (eds). Leiden: Brill. pp. 252-270.
  • Murray, J. (2019) “Violence and the Gendered Shaming of Female Bodies and Women’s Sexuality: A Feminist Literary Analysis of Selected Fiction by South African Women Writers” in Current Writing 31(1). pp. 2-10.
  • Murray, J. (2018) “Disciplining Women: South African Literary Representations of Gendered Surveillance and Violence” in English Academy Review 35 (2). pp. 71-82.
  • Murray, J. (2018) “The Role of Shame in the Construction of Victim Narratives: A Feminist Literary Analysis of Selected Texts from Antjie Krog’s Oeuvre” in the Proceedings of the 39th International Academic Conference, Amsterdam, 19-22 June 2018. pp. 154-162.  http://www.iises.net/proceedings/39th-international-academic-conference-amsterdam/table-of-content/detail?article=the-role-of-shame-in-the-construction-of-victim-narratives-a-feminist-literary-analysis-of-antjie-krog-s-oeuvre- 
  • Murray, J. (2017) “‘I was a Girl of my Time’: A Feminist Literary Analysis of Representations of Time and Gender in Selected Contemporary South African Fiction by Women” in Literator 38 (1). pp. 1-8.
  • Murray, J. (2017) “‘And They Never Spoke to Each Other of It’: Contemporary Southern African Representations of Silence, Shame and Gender Violence” in English Academy Review 34 (1). pp. 23-35.
  • Murray, J. (2017) “Stitching a Female Corporeal Archive: Representations of Gender, Violence and Resistance in To the Black Women We All Knew” in Current Writing 29 (1). pp. 16-25.
  • Murray, J. (2016) “Manifestations of shame at the intersections of gender, sexuality, race and class: A feminist literary analysis of Dominique Botha’s Valsrivier” in Journal of Literary Studies 32 (4). pp. 17-34.
  • Murray, J. (2016) “Gendering Utopia: A Feminist Literary Analysis of Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time” in Proceedings of the 25th International Academic Conference, Paris. pp. 306-313. http://www.iises.net/proceedings/25th-international-academic-conference-oecd-paris/table-of-content
  • Murray, J. (2016) “Constructions of Gender in Contemporary South African Crime Fiction: A Feminist Literary Analysis of the Novels of Angela Makholwa” in English Studies in Africa 59(2). pp. 14-26.
  • Murray, J (2015) “Locating Home Where Discourses of Gender and Empire Intersect: An Analysis of Selected Excerpts from Lady Anne Barnard’s Cape Diaries and Journals” in New Contree 73 pp. 88-105.
  • Murray, J. (2014) “Shaping Innovative Pedagogical Spaces: Feminist Reflections on Open, Distance and eLearning” in Progressio 36 (2). pp. 73–89.
  • Murray, J. (2014) “The gendered embodiment of shame: intersections of acquaintance rape, trauma and self-blame in Pompidou Posse by Sarah Lotz” in Literator 35(1). pp.  1-8.
  •  Murray, J. (2015) “‘[I]t left shame in me, lodged in my body’: Representations of shame, gender and female bodies in selected contemporary South African short stories” in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 59(2). pp. 216– 230. OnlineFirst Version of Record - Jun 24, 2014. 
  • 2013. A Zombie Apocalypse: Opening Representational Spaces for Alternative Constructions of Gender and Sexuality. Journal of Literary Studies 29(4): 1-19.
  • 2013. Reading Crime through a Gender Lens: Intersections of Shame, Women’s Alcohol Consumption and Sexual Vulnerability in the Novels of Sarah Lotz. Current Writing 25(2): 210-219.
  • 2013. Stereotypes and Subversions: Constructing Queer Identities in Contemporary South African Fiction. English in Africa 40 (1): 119-138.
  • 2013. As ek dáárdie nektar wil eet, dan moet ek steke verdra’: Stereotipering en vervreemding in die uitbeelding van lesbiese verhoudings in twee Afrikaanse romans. Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 50(1): 1-11.
  • 2013. ‘The Girl was Stripped, Splayed and Penetrated’: Representations of Gender and Violence in Margie Orford’s Crime Fiction. English Academy Review 30(2): 67–78.
  • 2013. The politics of the preface: Lady Anne Barnard’s gendered negotiations in a liminal textual space. English Studies in Africa 56(2): 49-59.
  • 2013. Murray, J., Byrne, D. C. And Koenig-Visagie, L. (2013) Teaching Gender Studies via Open and Distance Learning in South Africa. Distance Education 34(3): 339-352.
  • 2012. Stereotipering, vervreemding en tuiskoms in die uitbeelding van ʼn lesbiese verhouding in Réney Warrington se Oktober. Stilet 24(2):36-52.
  • 2012. ‘I write after the impression has been partly wiped away’: gender and the politics of memory in Lady Anne Barnard’s textual legacy. scrutiny2: (2): 44-64.
  • 2012. Is the Closet Door no More? Critical Engagements with Lesbianism in the South African Context. scrutiny2 17(1): 87-99.
  • 2012. Venturing to ‘launch a woman’s opinion’: A feminist reading of Lady Anne Barnard’s letters. South African Journal of Cultural History 26(1): 33-50.
  • 2012. ‘Pain is beauty’: The politics of appearance in Kopano Matlwa’s Coconut. English in Africa 39 (1): 91-107.
  • 2012.‘Thinking your journal unimportant’: A feminist literary analysis of selected excerpts from Lady Anne Barnard’s Cape diaries: New Contree: A Journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa 63. 91-109.
  • 2012. The Layered Gaze: Reading Lesbian Desire in Selected South African Fiction. Current Writing 24 (1): 88-97.
  • 2011. ‘She had agony written all over her face’: Representations of rape in the work of Rozena Maart. Journal of Literary Studies 27 (4): 1-14.
  • 2011. Daring to Speak Its Name: The Representation of a Lesbian Relationship in the Work of Rozena Maart. English Academy Review 28 (2): 52-61.
  • 2011. Africa has erred ‘in its memory’: Exploring continuities and discontinuities in texts by Petina Gappah and Yvonne Vera. English Studies in Africa 54 (2): 154-170.
  • 2011. ‘Binne ʼn halfuur het ek wit geword’: Snypunte van gender, ras en klas in Suid-Afrikaanse fiksionele uitbeeldings van voorkoms. Litnet Akademies 8 (2): 270-285.
  • 2011. Remembering the short stories of Yvonne Vera: A postcolonial and feminist reading of Why don’t you carve other animals? Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 48(2) (Forthcoming).
  • 2011. They can never write the landscape out of their system: engagements with the South African landscape. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 18(1): 87-101.
  • 2010. Dit kom daarop neer dat ek nie vergete was nie: Die vroulike liggaam, gender en geweld in Suid-Afrikaanse slawenarratiewe. Litnet Akademies 7(3): 302-322.
  • 2010. Murray, J., Erlank, N. & Tshabangu, B. Enhancing participatory governance and fostering active citizenship: an overview of local and international best practice. Politikon 37(1): 45-66.
  • 2010. The recidivist tongue: embracing an embodied language of trauma. Social Dynamics 36(3): 488-503.
  • 2010. Gender and violence in Cape slave narratives and post-narratives. The South African Historical Journal 62(3): 444-462.　
  • 2010. Gerald Groenewald in gesprek met Jessica Murray oor die vroulike liggaam, gender en geweld in Suid-Afrikaanse slawenarratiewe. See Litnet Akademies website at http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&cause_id=1270&news_id=96176
  • 2009. Accused by the place and face of the other: negotiating complicity. Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies 31(3): 1-27.
  • 2009. A postcolonial and feminist reading of selected testimonies to trauma in post-liberation South Africa and Zimbabwe. Journal of African Cultural Studies 21(1): 1-21.
  • 2008. Reborn from silence and touch: gender violence in Southern Africa. In Irigaray, L. & Green, M. (Eds.) Luce Irigaray: Teaching. Continuum Books: 3-12.
  • 2008. When ‘good’ mothers kill: a representation of infanticide. Agenda 76: 32-41.
  • 2008. Tremblings in the distinction between fiction and testimony. Postcolonial Text 4(2): 1-19.　
  • 2008. Murray, J., Erlank, N., Tshabangu, B., Maptisa, C. and Sekhonyana, T. Green paper on citizenship in the City of Johannesburg. See the City of Johannesburg website at http://www.joburg-archive.co.za/2009/pdfs/greenpaper.pdf