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Simone Murray Simone Murray i(A109758 works by)
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BiographyHistory

Simone Murray holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Queensland (1992) and a first-class Honours in English also at The University of Queensland (1994). She then completed a PhD in English Language and Literature at University College London (1999), the outcome of which was published as Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics. After working in academic publishing, she took up an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of School of English, Media Studies and Art History at The University of Queensland (2001-03), and subsequently a Lectureship in School of English, Art History, Film & Media at The University of Sydney (2004).

She began a Lectureship in the Communications and Media Studies program at Monash in 2005 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2008; from mid-2009 until 2011, she was Director of Monash University’s Centre for the Book. She became a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies in 2014, and Associate Professor in Literary Studies at the beginning of 2017.

In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

In addition to works indexed on AustLit, she has published the following monographs: Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics, The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation, and Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media.

Source: Monash.

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y separately published work icon The Digital Literary Sphere : Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2018 14756193 2018 multi chapter work criticism

'Reports of the book's death have been greatly exaggerated. Books are flourishing in the Internet era-widely discussed and reviewed in online readers' forums and publicized through book trailers and author blog tours. But over the past twenty-five years, digital media platforms have undeniably transformed book culture. Since Amazon's founding in 1994, the whole way in which books are created, marketed, publicized, sold, reviewed, showcased, consumed, and commented upon has changed dramatically. The digital literary sphere is no mere appendage to the world of print-it is where literary reputations are made, movements are born, and readers passionately engage with their favorite works and authors.

'In The Digital Literary Sphere, Simone Murray considers the contemporary book world from multiple viewpoints. By examining reader engagement with the online personas of Margaret Atwood, John Green, Gary Shteyngart, David Foster Wallace, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and even Jonathan Franzen, among others, Murray reveals the dynamic interrelationship of print and digital technologies.

'Drawing on approaches from literary studies, media and cultural studies, book history, cultural policy, and the digital humanities, this book asks: What is the significance of authors communicating directly to readers via social media? How does digital media reframe the "live" author-reader encounter? And does the growing army of reader-reviewers signal an overdue democratizing of literary culture or the atomizing of cultural authority? In exploring these questions, The Digital Literary Sphere takes stock of epochal changes in the book industry while probing books' and digital media's complex contemporary coexistence.'  (Publication summary)

2019 longlisted ASAL Awards Walter McRae Russell Award
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