About

Andrew Murphy is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. He received his PhD in 2017 from Leipzig University and has previously worked at the universities of Chicago, Leipzig, Göttingen, and Potsdam. His research interests encompass syntactic theory and issues at the interfaces to syntax, including morphology, phonology, and semantics. Murphy is particularly interested in how understudied languages and phenomena can inform linguistic theory, focusing on questions such as the abstractness of linguistic representations, the division of labor between different modules of grammar, the organization of grammar (e.g., derivational vs. declarative), and the nature of grammatical constraints (e.g., violable vs. absolute). His work covers a range of linguistic topics, including movement, agreement, ellipsis, nominalization, Optimality Theory, and inflectional morphology.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Gender studies
• History
• Art
• Visual arts
• Anthropology

Selected publications

• In search of queer composure

  Routledge eBooks · 2022 · 1 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Sociology
  • Art
  • Sociology

  In this chapter the author draws on the work of queer theorists Elizabeth Freeman and José Esteban Muñoz to draw attention to the role of queer temporality in queer oral history, and to propose the concept of “queer composure”. Through a consideration of an interview where they and the narrator got “lost in queer time”, the author argues for a focus on “trans-temporal intimacies” and affect as routes to queer oral history practices that privilege and value queer lives and queer experience. Moving on to a discussion of “queer joy”, the author proposes that such affective connections in queer oral histories have the radical power to counter and destabilise normative expectations for the structuring themes and experiences of queer life. Arguing that queer oral history encounters have within them an inherent guiding and grounding logic of queer time, the author proposes we can channel that inherent potentiality. First, we can nurture the creation of a queer temporal moment in which the interview takes place. Second, we can attend to the ways in which queer time has shaped the queer lives of our narrators, and, by extension, adopt interviewing approaches that privilege non-hegemonic narratives through a centring of queer time.

  DOI

• New Directions in Queer Oral History

  Routledge eBooks · 2022 · 8 citations

  • Sociology
  • History
  • Sociology
  DOI

• 10. Arena Three Magazine and the Construction of the Middlebrow Lesbian Reader

  Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2020 · 2 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Sociology
  • Art
  • Gender studies
  DOI

Frequent coauthors

• Graham Smith

  2 shared

• Róisín Ryan-Flood

  2 shared

• Shelley Trower

  University of Roehampton

  2 shared

• Emma Vickers

  2 shared

• Clare Summerskill

  2 shared

• Toby Butler

  Royal Holloway University of London

  1 shared

• Susan Turner

  1 shared

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