• Kiana Murphy
• Brown University

Dr. Kiana T. Murphy (she/her) is a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work, both creative and scholarly, focuses on speculative representations of Black children in literature, comics, music, and visual art. In 2019-2020, she served as co-curator of the Spring 2020 exhibit and conference “Writing Across Genres: African American Women Writers in the Joanna Banks Collection,” hosted in Philadelphia, and co-coordinator of the interdisciplinary working group the Black Cultural Studies Collective. She is currently writing about Black girls in comics, and will be a Huntington Library Fellow in 2022 to do research in the Octavia Butler collection.

Speaking In:

• Black Girls on the Verge