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Ph.D., English - University of Rhode Island
MA, English - Harvard University
BA, English - Catholic University of America
John Murray is a professor of English and has served as co-chair of the Humanities Division and coordinator of the Department of English at Curry. He teaches courses in British literature and film and novel. His research interests include nineteenth-century British literature and culture, history of the novel, media and technology studies, and visual culture. He received his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in English from the Catholic University of America, Harvard University, and the University of Rhode Island, respectively.
He published Technologies of Power in the Victorian Period (Cambria, 2010), as well as numerous articles and reviews in the Journal of Literature and Science, the Journal of Contemporary Thought, Nineteenth Century Studies, and The British Society for Literature and Science Book Reviews. He was recently appointed to serve as assistant book reviews editor for The British Society for Literature and Science website. He also presented papers and chaired sessions at various annual conferences for the North American Victorian Studies Association, College English Association, the Victorians Institute, the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association, The Dickens Society, and the Literature/Film Association.
Publications:
Book:
2010
Technologies of Power in the Victorian Period: Print Culture, Human Labor, and New Modes of Critique in Charles Dickens’s Hard Times, Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley, and George Eliot’s Felix Holt. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.
Articles and Chapter:
2019
“The Consumer Has Been Added to Your Video Queue.” 2011; Reprinted with changes in Netflix Nostalgia: Streaming the Past on Demand. Lanham: Lexington Books [in press].
2011
“The Consumer Has Been Added to Your Video Queue.” The Journal of Contemporary Thought 33 (Summer): 153-170.
2011
“Nationalism, Patriotism, and New Subjects of Ideological Hegemony.” Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 6.14 (Spring 2011): 29-42.
2010
“Refocusing the Gendered Gaze: Role-Playing, Performance and Multiple-Identity in Defoe’s Moll Flanders.” The AnaChronisT 15 (2010): 43-59.
2010
“Self-Determination or Solidarity?: Franklin and Habermas on Choosing Enlightenment.” Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism 18.1 (2010): 17-31.
Reviews:
2018
Review of David Shackleton, “H.G. Wells, Geology, and the Ruins of Time.” Victorian Literature and Culture 45.4 (2017): 839-855, in Journal of Literature and Science 11.2 (November).
2018
Review of Kate Holterhoff, “Egyptology and Darwinian Evolution in Conan Doyle and H. Rider Haggard: The Scientific Imagination.” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. 60.3 (June 2017): 314-340, in Journal of Literature and Science 11.2 (November).
2018
Review of Stella Pratt-Smith, Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science. Farnham: Ashgate, 2016, in The British Society for Literature and Science (October).
2018
Review of Benjamin Morgan, The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017, in Nineteenth Century Studies (September), http://english.selu.edu/ncs/.
2018
Review of Michael Tondre, The Physics of Possibility: Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, in The British Society for Literature and Science (September), https://www.bsls.ac.uk/?s=%22John+c+murray%22.
2018
Review of Gowan Dawson, “Dickens, Dinosaurs, and Design.” Victorian Literature and Culture 44.4 (2016): 761-778, in Journal of Literature and Science 11.1 (June): 126-127, http://www.literatureandscience.org/volume-11-issue-1-2018.
2018
Review of Jason D. Hall, Nineteenth-Century Verse and Technology: Machines of Meter. Cham: Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, in The British Society for Literature and Science (May), https://www.bsls.ac.uk/?s=%22John+c+murray%22.
2018
Review of Peter Merchant and Catherine Waters, eds. Dickens and the Imagined Child. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015, in The British Society for Literature and Science (February), https://www.bsls.ac.uk/?s=%22John+c+murray%22.