Susan Murray

Susan Dorrit Murray She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she got a BA in journalism in 1989; The New School for Social Research, where she got a MA in media studies in 1994; and the University of Texas at Austin, where she got a PhD in radio, television, and film in 1999. Her doctoral dissertation "Hitch your antenna to the stars!": early television and the renegotiation of broadcast stardom was supervised by Janet Staiger.

As a historian, Murray specializes in television studies. In 2004, she and Laurie Ouellette co-edited a volume on reality television, Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture. She won the 2019 Katherine Singer Kovács Society for Cinema and Media Studies Book Award and the 2019 International Association for Media and History-Michael Nelson Book Prize for Bright Signals, a 2018 history book on color television. In 2021, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Film, Video, & New Media Studies.

Murray has two children.