Sarah Jane Murray is an Irish-born academic and

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-nominated filmmaker who works in the United States. She teaches great books, creative writing, film making, interactive storytelling (AR, VR, XR, story for game design), and the ethics of storytelling at

Baylor University Baylor University is a Private university, private Baptist research university in Waco, Texas, United States. It was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Te ...

as a Professor of Great Texts and Creative Writing. Born in Ireland, she graduated from

Auburn University Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 26,800 undergraduate students, over 6,100 post-graduate students, and a tota ...

with a BA in French and Philosophy, and studied at the

École normale supérieure de lettres et sciences humaines The (ENS LSH) was an elite French ''grande école'' specialising in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Founded in 1987 in Paris as the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, it changed its name to ENS LSH in 2000 when it mov ...

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

while also earning her MA and PhD from

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. She is the author of ''From Plato to Lancelot: A Preface to Chrétien de Troyes'' (Syracuse UP, 2008). And the first translation of the 14th-century ''Ovide Moralisé'' (D.S. Brewer, 2023). She is also the author of ''Basics of Story Design: Twenty Steps to an Insanely Great Screenplay'' (AnderEd, 2017), and a children’s book, ''Ralph’s Christmas Quest'' (CatSpring, 2019). In 2014, she was nominated for an Emmy (as the writer) for ''Primary Concern'', a documentary film about the primary care crisis in the United States, that was presented by GA Public Television and aired nationally on PBS. In 2018, she was recognized as one of the fifty women changing the entertainment and media industry, and most likely to help bring about gender parity in Hollywood. In 2023, she founded The Greats Story Lab at the intersection of film, education, and emerging technologies. Courtney Smith joined her as co-founder in 2024.

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Sarah Jane Murray
at the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion *�
Hardwired for Story
” by Sarah-Jane Murray at TEDx San Antonio *�
Write or Wrong
” by Sarah-Jane Murray at TEDx Santa Cruz
The Greats Story Lab
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