CDHI is excited to welcome Dr. Emily Christina Murphy as our first Visiting Scholar in Residence (2024-25). Dr. Murphy is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, English, and Cultural Studies at UBC Okanagan.
Dr. Murphy is PI of the ReMedia Infrastructure for Research and Creation, a state of the art facility funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the British Columbia Knowledge Development Foundation, and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBCO. ReMedia supports creative and critical projects in multimedia cultural memory, remediation, and embodiment.
Dr. Murphy brings her research program in multimedia cultural memory, exploring what we remember about past cultures, how media and technology shape and remake that memory, and how to study these new and changing technologies. Dr. Murphy’s research at the CDHI will focus on her current book project Iconic Biography: Modernist Celebrity, Media, and the Rise of Graphic Biographies, which traces the emergence of the new genre of graphic biographies over the last 20 years, using literary, image-text, historical, and computational lenses to understand the way that technologized markets shape this new genre.
In Winter 2025, Dr. Murphy will also share her recently completed co-edited book on digital storytelling platform, Twine, at a CDHI Lightning Lunch on digital storytelling.
To learn more about Dr. Murphy’s research and creative work, explore her ReMedia research space, and see work by her students, please visit her website.