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Daniel Murphy

Education:

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

M.A., Western Washington University

B.A., University of Washington

Publications and Selected Scholarship

Presentation, “Ecocannibalism at the Borderlands in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and Fernando Flores’s Tears of the Truffle Pig.” Conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) and Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS), Portland, Oregon, July 2023.

Plenary speaker, “Teaching Peace: Arts-Based Peacebuilding,” Professional Development Colloquium, Catholic Diocese of Arlington, February 2020.

“Print Culture and Technophilia in The Post.” Post45, 2019.

“Critique in the Trump Era” (with Thomas Dolan). Post45, 2019.

“An American Futurism? Corporeal History in O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape (1922) and Santell’s Film Adaptation (1944).” Eugene O’Neill Review Spring Issue: 2018.

“Jessica Jones and Gendered Ways of Seeing.” Features, PopMatters.com, March 2016.

“Is or Are: The ‘United States’ in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture” (with Matthew Wilkens and Bryan Santin). American Quarterly March 68.1 (2016), pp. 101-124.

Guest speaker, “Media and Arts for Peace: Conflict Transformation in Practice,” Alexandria Rotary Club Consortium, October 2019.

Presentation, “Rescuing Futurism: Rachel Kushner, Technophilia, and Feminist Technics,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Arizona State University. November 2017.

Plenary lecture, “Of Apes and Men of Steel: Corporeality and Historiography in The Hairy Ape.” Eugene O’Neill Society Conference, National University Ireland Galway, Ireland, July 2017.

Speaker, Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies: “Media-Intensive Detection in DeLillo’s Libra and Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty.” Princeton University, June 2016.

Research interests

Headshot of Daniel Murphy in blue shirt and gray blazer and glasses in front of Sale Theatre.

Contact Info

Name:
Daniel Murphy
Title:
Assistant Professor of English & Director of the Writing Center