Dr. Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb

Teri McMurtry-Chubb is the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development ; Professor of Law at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. She researches, teaches, and writes in the areas of critical rhetoric, discourse and genre analysis, critical race feminism, and legal history. McMurtry-Chubb is a leader in designing curricula to facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. She is the author of over 30 publications, including the books Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy (Rowman & Littlefield, May 2021) and Strategies and Techniques for Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into the Core Law Curriculum (Wolters Kluwer, August 2021), and is a contributor to Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (Cambridge University Press 2016). In 2019, Teri was awarded the 2018 Teresa Godwin Phelps Award for Scholarship in Legal Communication for her article The Rhetoric of Race, Redemption, and Will Contests: Inheritance as Reparations in John Grisham’s Sycamore Row, 48 Univ. Memphis L. Rev. 890 (2018). She is the recipient of the 2021 Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing – the first person of color and first Black woman to achieve this honor.