Hi! My name is Nellie Murphy, and I am a junior studying Marketing here at SDSU! I am from Denver, Colorado, but I absolutely love it out here in SD. I plan to study abroad this upcoming spring semester in Milan, Italy! As a dual citizen of Europe, I would love to live and work abroad after college as well. I love to ski and skateboard, I really enjoy yoga, and I obsess over TV shows like Stranger Things, Lost, and The Office. I am very close with my sister Iris, who just graduated with a degree in environmental sciences, and I chose this class because it sounded like something she would like.

I am excited to be part of this really interesting class, and hope not only to expand my knowledge of mermaids, mermen, and ancient stories of hybrid “monsters” but also to improve my writing, close reading skills, and rhetorical strategies.