Professor Laura Murray

PhD Cornell

Undergraduate Chair

Contact Information

Research/Teaching Office: Watson 534

Office Hours: By appointment

Extension: 74438

E-mail: laura.murray@queensu.ca

Website: http://www.faircopyright.ca/

Undergraduate Studies Office: Watson 409

Office Hours: Mon. 1:30–3:00

Extension: 74402

E-mail: ugrad.english@queensu.ca

E-mail queries about the undergraduate program in English should be addressed to this address or to Sherril Barr, Undergraduate Assistant (ext. 74446).

Research Interests

Copyright law and theory; American literature and culture, especially nineteenth-century; performance and oral culture; history of the book; literature of exploration and colonization; Aboriginal literature and culture.

Recent Publications

• “Reproductive Technologies: Flesh, Paint, Text,” No More Potlucks no. 4, June 2009 <http://www.nomorepotlucks.org/article/copie-no4/reproductive-technologies-flesh-paint-text>
• “See you in Court: Can Canadians Practice Parody?” with Craig Berggold, FUSE Magazine 32.2, March 2009: 12–17.
• Rev. of RiP: A Remix Manifesto, by Brett Gaylor, Culture Machine June 2009 <http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/372>.
• Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide, with Sam Trosow (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2007).
• “Copyright Talk: Patterns and Pitfalls in Canadian Policy Discourses,” In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, ed. Michael Geist (Toronto: Irwin, 2005).
• “Protecting Ourselves to Death: Canada, Copyright, and the Internet,” First Monday, October 2004 <http://firstmonday.org>.
• “Escaping from the Pirates: History, Literary Criticism, and American Copyright,” American Literary History 16.4 (2004).

Remarks

Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, Law & Society, New York University, 2006–7; Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, 2003–4. W. J. Barnes Teaching Excellence Award, 2002–3. Editor, To Do Good to My Indian Brethren: The Writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751–1776 (U of Massachusetts P, 1998); co-editor with Keren Rice, Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts (U of Toronto P, 1999). Professor Murray maintains a blog on Canadian copyright issues: http://www.faircopyright.ca.

Last modified on 05/09/2009