Associate Professor Peter Murphy
PhD (La Trobe University), BA, Hons (La Trobe University)
Peter Murphy curriculum vitae [
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Biography
I have been research fellow and visiting professor of philosophy in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City; visiting scholar in the Hellenic language and literatures programme at the Ohio State University; visiting scholar at Panteion University in Athens, Greece; visiting professor in political science at Baylor University, Texas; director of the master of communications programme at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; visiting research fellow in philosophy at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines; visiting professor in communications and media studies at Seoul National University, South Korea; visiting professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. I am coordinating editor of Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology (Sage), and from 1998 to 2001 I worked in a number of senior editorial roles for Australia’s most successful Internet start-up company, Looksmart.
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Research interests
Socio-Cultural studies
Focusing on the study of imagination and creativity and social aesthetics (the aesthetic dimension of economic, social and political life).
Theory/Philosophy
Focusing on aesthetics, social philosophy, cultural and political theory.
Communications
With particular interests in political and social communication, knowledge and information economies, creative economies and communications, and medium theory.
Selected publications
- Murphy, P., Marginson, S., and Peters, M. (2010) Imagination: Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy. New York, Peter Lang.
- Marginson, S., Murphy, P., and Peters, M. (2010) Global Creation: Space, Mobility and Synchrony in the Age of the Knowledge Economy New York, Peter Lang.
- Marginson, S., Murphy, P., and Peters, M. (2009) Creativity and the global knowledge economy. New York, Peter Lang.
- Murphy, P., and Roberts, D. (2004) Dialectic of romanticism : a critique of modernism. London, and New York, Continuum.
- Murphy, P., (2001) Civic justice : from Greek antiquity to the modern world. Amherst, Humanity Books.