Associate Professor Peter Murphy

Background

Research: Peter Murphy is co-author of Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy (Peter Lang, 2009), Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (Continuum, 2004), author of Civic Justice: From Greek Antiquity to the Modern World (Prometheus/Humanity Books, 2001), editor of Agon, Logos, Polis (Franz Steiner, 2000), coeditor of The Left In Search Of A Center (University of Illinois Press, 1996), editor of a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke University Press, 1998) on friendship. His body of work also includes more than seventy journal articles and chapters in edited collections.

Professional: Murphy has been a Research Fellow and Visiting Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School For Social Research in New York City, a Visiting Scholar in the Hellenic Language and Literatures Program at The Ohio State University, a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Ballarat (Australia), a Visiting Scholar at Panteion University in Athens, a Visiting Professor in Political Science at Baylor University, Texas, Director of the Master of Communications Program at Victoria University of Wellington, Visiting Research Fellow in Philosophy at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, and a Visiting Professor in Communications and Media Studies, Seoul National University, and at the University of Copenhagen.

Journal Editor: He is also Coordinating Editor of the international critical theory and historical sociology journal Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology (Sage).

Industry: In 1998-2001, Murphy was employed as a Senior Editor and Senior Assigning Editor in the editorial division of the Internet search directory infrastructure provider and database publisher, Looksmart, Australia’s most successful Internet start-up company. During his time with the media company, he performed a wide variety of information architecture, strategic analysis, statistical, management, recruitment, database building, and editorial roles.

Research Interests

Murphy’s research interests include communication and social theory, socio-cultural and socio-aesthetic studies.

Selected Publications