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Timothy Murray
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Overview
A Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Timothy Murray is Director of the Society for the Humanities, Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, and co-moderator of the -empyre- new media listserv, and co-curator of CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA. A curator of new media art, and theorist of the digital humanities and arts, he sits on the National Steering Committee of HASTAC, and is currently working on a book, Immaterial Archives: Curatorial Instabilities @ New Media Art, which is a sequel to Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Minnesota, 2008). His books include Zonas de Contacto: el arte en CD-Rom (Centro de la Imagen, 1999), Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, Art (Routledge, 1997), Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas (Routledge, 1993), Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius In XVIIth-Century England and France (Oxford, 1987), ed. with Alan Smith, Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early-Modern Culture (Minnesota, 1998), ed., Mimesis, Masochism Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought (Michigan, 1997).
His research and teaching crosses the boundaries of new media, film and video, visual studies, twentieth-century Continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical theory, performance, and English and French early modern studies.
Departments/Programs
- Comparative Literature
- English
Graduate Fields
- Comparative Literature
- English Language and Literature
- Film and Video Studies
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender studies
- Romance Studies
- Theatre Arts
Affiliations
- French Studies Program
- Society for the Humanities
Research
- English and French Renaissance studies
- Theatre and performance
- Film and video
- Psychoanalysis
- Aesthetics
- Cultural studies
- Lesbian, bisexual, and gay literary studies
- Digital Arts and Humanities
- Film and Video, Theory and History
- Continental Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
- Visual Studies
- Performance
- French Studies
- Early Modern Studies
Courses
Spring 2021
- ENGL 3115 : Video and New Media: Art, Theory, Politics
- ENGL 4930 : Honors Essay Tutorial I
- ENGL 4940 : Honors Essay Tutorial II
- ENGL 4950 : Independent Study
- ENGL 7940 : Directed Study
- ENGL 7950 : Group Study