Murray, Janet Horowitz

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MURRAY, Janet Horowitz

MURRAY, Janet Horowitz. American, b. 1946. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Women's studies and issues, Technology. Career: International Business Machines, systems programmer, 1967; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, teacher/researcher, 1971-, founding director, Laboratory for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, 1992-96, senior research scientist, MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, 1996-. Designer of educational software. Publications: Strong-Minded Women and Other Lost Voices from Nineteenth Century England, 1982; (ed. with M. Stark) Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions, 1866- 1910, 44 vols, 1984; Courtship and the English Novel: Feminist Readings in the Fiction of George Meredith, 1987; (author of intro) Miss Miles, or, a Tale of Yorkshire Life Sixty Years Ago by Mary Taylor, 1990; Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, 1997. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals. Developer of radio scripts for National Public Radio's Masterpiece Theater. Address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Building 9, Room 321, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.

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