Kourtney Murray

Kourtney Murray finagled her way into UCSD at some point in the mid-nineteen-nineties CE and has devised numerous ways to stick around ever since. Some of her longer-term commitments have included pursuing her undergraduate degree in Classics from the UCSD Literature Department and (later, after a gap year(s) in which she developed a program of pop culture immersion with an emphasis in yoga) her PhD from the UC Tri-Campus Graduate Program in Classics; she currently is locked in a long-term battle with Google’s auto-correct function concerning the finer points of Latin grammar and ancient Greek spelling. More academically, she has had the privilege of teaching both lower- and upper-division Greek and Latin courses and taking philosophers to task over their non-philological approaches to ancient texts. Her interests include uncovering the vocabulary of women hidden in ancient tragedy, learning about more obscure mythological traditions, and developing responsible yet practical pedagogical attitudes towards AI-based tools for learning and reading ancient languages. She spends her free time drinking bad coffee, listening to podcasts about either European history or Sephora products, and serving as the continuatrix of the legendary “A History of Dawdling.”

Pronouns: She/her/hers

Languages: Ancient Greek, Latin

• Ph.D. in Classics, University of California, Irvine (Tri-Campus Classics Program), 2012
• M. A. in Classics, University of California, Irvine (Tri-Campus Classics Program, 2010
• B. A. in Classics, University of California, San Diego, 2000