Peter F. Murphy
216 Lake Point Lane
New Concord, KY 42076
(270) 809-7064 (w)
(270) 436-6284 (h)
peter.murphy@murraystate.edu

 

EDUCATION
Ph.D., English Literature, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, 1987
M.A., English Literature, SUNY at Buffalo, 1985
M.A., Political Economy, University of Toronto, 1975
B.A., Political Science, State University College at Potsdam, 1973
Attended State University Agricultural and Technical College at Morrisville,  NY, 1969-1971

DISSERTATION
"John Hawkes: Toward a Radical Theory of Male Heterosexuality"
            Director: Professor Neil Schmitz

PRESENT POSITION
Chair and Professor, Department of English and Philosophy, Murray State University, Murray, KY 42071, 1998-present

ACADEMIC HONORS
Presidential Research Fellowship, Murray State University, 2003 – 2004

Faculty Internationalization Award, Murray State University, 2003 - 2004

Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau. Topics: “The Discourse of Male Bonding” and “Feminism and Masculinity,” 2000-present

Imperatore Community Forum Scholar (Empire State College/SUNY), “Academic Needs of the Adult Native American in Western New York,” 1994-1996

Modern Language Association, Delegate Assembly, Regional Representative (NY), 1994-1996

Adjunct Professor, Department of American Studies, SUNY at Buffalo, 1988-1995.
Courses Taught: Graduate seminar on Gender Studies

Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of Journalism, State University Agricultural and Technical College at Morrisville, NY, 1994

Fulbright Teaching Fellow, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Spring 1991

New York State/United University Professionals Excellence Award, 1990

SUNY Speakers Bureau on Women's Studies and Issues. Topic: “Feminism and Masculinity,” 1988-1996

Graduate Research and Development (GRAD) Grant to write on "The 'Tapestry of Love' as a Feminist Motif in the Recent Novels of John Hawkes," Graduate Student Association, SUNY at Buffalo, Spring, 1987 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor of English, Murray State University, 2001- present

Associate Professor of English, Murray State University, 1998 - 2001
Courses Taught: Humanities 211; American Literature II, 1890-present; The 1930s American Novel; American Fiction: 1920 to the present; The Short Story; Comedy; Introduction to Multicultural, Class and Gender Studies; Senior Seminar

Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies, Empire State College/SUNY, 1994-1996;
Assistant Professor, 1987-1994
Courses Taught: American Literature; Contemporary American Novel; Expository Writing; American Short Story; Sociology of Literature; Gender Studies;  Literature, Science and Society

Teaching Assistant, Department of English, SUNY at Buffalo, 1986-1987
Courses Taught: Introductory and Advanced Composition

Teaching Assistant, Tolstoy College, SUNY at Buffalo, 1983-1985
Courses Taught: Gender Studies; Literature and Popular Culture; Literature and Society

Lecturer, Tolstoy College, SUNY at Buffalo, 1978-1983
Courses Taught: Literature, Pornography and Censorship; Journalism Internship; Mass Media, Popular Culture, and Literature; The Novels of George Orwell; William Morris and the Utopian Tradition; Nineteenth Century Social Theory

AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE
19th and 20th Century American Literature; Contemporary American Novel; The Short Story; Comedy; Gender Studies; Literature and Society; Men and Masculinities; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Gay and Lesbian Literature

ADMINISTRATIVE AND JOB-RELATED EXPERIENCE
Dean for Academic Affairs, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT, 1996-1998

Assistant Dean, Empire State College /SUNY, 1987-1996

Executive Board, Native America SUNY: Western Consortium, 1994-1996

Editorial Board, Studies in American Humor, 1994-present

Advisory Board, National Center for Adult Learning, Empire State College/SUNY, 1989-1991

Board of Directors, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, 1990-1993

Academic Coordinator, Tolstoy College, SUNY at Buffalo, 1980-1981; Senior Staff Member, Tolstoy College,
1978-1985

Field Researcher, Center for the Study of North Country Folklife, Agricultural and Technical College at Canton, SUNY, 1976-1978

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Monographs
Feminism and Masculinities, ed. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press), 2004 [a volume in the “Oxford Readings in Feminism” book series].

Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By, (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press), 2001.

Fictions of Masculinity: Crossing Cultures, Crossing Sexualities, ed. (New York: New York University Press), 1994.

Writings By and About Georg Lukacs: A Bibliography of English References, (New York: American Institute for Marxist Studies), 1976.

Articles
“Living By His Wits: The Buffoon and Male Survival,” Signs [summer 2006]

“Men, Masculinities, and Feminism,” in The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, eds. Judith Kegan Gardiner, et. al., London: Routledge, [forthcoming, 2006].

“Insidious Humor and the Construction of Masculinity,” Mattoid (Australian), special international issue on “Examining/Experiencing Masculinities,” (1999), 61-73.
 
"'To Write What Cannot Be Written': The Woman Writer and Male Authority in John Hawkes's Virginie: Her Two Lives," in Men Writing the Feminine, ed. Thaïs Morgan (State University of New York Press), 1994. 77-88.

"Cultural Studies as Praxis." College Literature, (June 1992), 31-43.

"Male Heterosexuality in John Hawkes's The Passion Artist," Twentieth Century Literature, (Winter 1991), 403-418.

"The Art of Pool," The Buffalo News, 13 December 1985, 3+.

"Sid Patterson: St. Lawrence River Rat," Rootdrinker: A Journal of the St. Lawrence Border Country (Spring 1978), 4+.
"Ice Fishing Traditions in St. Lawrence County," Studies in Traditional American Crafts (Oneida, NY: Madison County Historical Society) 1978.

Reviews
“A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism by John Dudley,” a review, South Atlantic Review, [forthcoming winter, 2006].

“Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb by Bernard Lefkowitz,” a review, Men and Masculinities, (July, 1998), 103-105

“Clint Eastwood: A Cultural Production by Paul Smith,” a review, Modern Fiction Studies, (Summer, 1995), 407-409

"Iron John:  A Book About Men," by Robert Bly, a review, Changing Men (Fall/Winter 1991), 51.

"Toward a Feminist Masculinity: A Review Essay," Feminist Studies  (Summer 1989), 351-361.

"Whistlejacket by John Hawkes," a review, Review of Contemporary Fiction (Fall 1988), 164-165.

"Working Knowledge," a review of Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop by Douglas Harper,  The Oral History Review (Fall 1988), 157-159.

"John Hawkes Scholarship," a review of John Hawkes: A Research Guide by Carol Hryciw-Wing, Bulletin of Bibliographies (September 1988), 213-214.

"Fathers and Daughters," a review of Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade, by John Hawkes, American Book Review 8 (January-February, 1986), 16.

Reviews for Telos: A Journal of Social Thought, 1975-1981 (4-5 per issue).

PRESENTATIONS
“The Buffoon, Masculinity, and Men’s Roles,” Trans/portations: A Conference on Feminist Inquiry in Transition, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, April 7 -9, 2005

Invited presentations on my book: Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By, for:
            "Gender Seminar Inaugural Lecture," Women's Studies Program, Loyola University, Chicago, May 11th, 2006
            Refuge House (battered women’s shelter), Tallahassee, FL, October 2005 [first male to be invited as a keynote                        speaker in their annual event]
            Men Against Sexual Assault and Rape (MASAR), Haverford College, February 2004, The Kirkland Project for the                     Study of Gender, Society and Culture, (featured speaker)
            Hamilton College, April 2003
            Gender Studies Program, Berea College, March 2003
            Women Studies Program, East Tennessee State University, March 2003
            Women’s Studies Program, College of Charleston, November 2002
            Gender Studies Program, Georgia Southern University, October 2002
            Gender Studies Program, St. Lawrence University, October 2001
            Gender Studies Program, Vanderbilt University, October 2001

 “Living By His Wits: The Buffoon and Male Survival,” College English Association Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 4-6, 2002

“The Buffoon as Outsider and Male Survival,” The Image of the Outsider in Literature, Media and Society, University of Southern Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, February 28-March 2, 2002

“Living By His Wits: Falstaff as Buffoon and the Struggle for Male Survival,” Eighth Annual Citadel Conference, “Icons or Change: Word and Image in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Charleston, SC, February 7-9, 2002

“Male Heterosexuality and the Discourse of Male Bonding,” Associated Writing Programs Conference, Palm Springs, CA, April 18-21, 2001

“Sex as Work/Business: Metaphors Men Live By,” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D. C., December 27-30, 2000

“Male Heterosexuality as War and Conquest: Metaphors Men Live By,” The Rhetoric of Masculinity Conference, Seville, Spain, March 2-4, 2000

“Metaphors of Male Heterosexuality,” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 27-30, 1999

“Sex as Machine: Metaphors Men Live By,” Feminist Literature: Global Outlook on Gender Issues Conference, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand, 7-9 January 1999

“Sex as Sports in the Discourse of Male Bonding,” Gendering the Millennium International Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK,11-13 September 1998

“Metaphors Men Live By,” Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender Conference, University of Loyola, Chicago, IL, 16-19 October 1997 (abstract requested for publication in Women and Language, Spring 1999)

“A Discourse of Male Bonding,” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December 27-30, 1996

“Insidious Humor and the Construction of Masculinity,” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, December 27-30 1995

“Discourses of Masculinity,” British Association of American Studies Conference, Cambridge University, United  Kingdom, April 1995

“Metaphors Men Live By,” Cultural Studies in Canada Conference, University of Toronto, May 1994

"The Praxis of Democratic Education," Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, 27-30 December 1992

"From Practice to Praxis: Critical Pedagogy and the American Academy," Northeastern Modern Language Association  Conference, Buffalo, NY, 3-5 April 1992

"Cultural Studies as Praxis: A Working Paper," Summer Institute on Culture and Society, University of Delaware, 17-23 June 1990

"Cultural Studies: Past, Present, Future," Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference, Toronto, Ontario, 5-7 April 1990

"The Woman Writer and Male Authority in John Hawkes's Virginie: Her Two Lives," Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, 22-24 February 1990

"John Hawkes: Toward a Radical Theory of Male Heterosexuality," Gender Studies Conference, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, 10-12 April 1989

"'the woman is not naturally a martyr; the man is not naturally a beast': John Hawkes's The Passion Artist," Northeastern Modern Language Association, Providence, RI, 24‑ 26 March 1988

"Toward a Feminist Masculinity," Fourth Annual Women's Studies Conference: Feminism and Its Translations, Princeton University, 28 March 1987

"Pornography: Not a Love Story," The Politics of Pornography Panel, SUNY at  Buffalo, Fall 1983

"Contemporary Anarchism," American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New York, 3-6 September 1981

"Anarchism and Marxism: Political Conflict in the First International," Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto, Spring 1979

CONFERENCES AND PANELS ORGANIZED, DIRECTED, AND CHAIRED
“Constructions of Masculinity: Past, Present and Future,” College English Association Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 4-6, 2002

"The Fiction of Masculinity: Images of Men in Modern Literature" (Special Session), Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 27-30 December 1990

"Contemporary American Writing: Creating and Decreating History" (panel chaired), Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, 23-25 February 1989

"Politics of Humor" (panel), SUNY at Buffalo, 10 October 1985

"Politics, Culture, and Sexuality: A Feminist Speakers Series" SUNY at  Buffalo, Spring 1984

"The Politics of Pornography" (panel), SUNY at Buffalo, Fall 1983

"Social Change in Buffalo: Spontaneous Movements or Grassroots Organizing" (panel), The Colleges of SUNY Buffalo Summer Program, 1982

"Anarchism" (panel), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New York, 3-6 September 1981

"The Buffalo Urban Environment: Decline and Revival in the Great Lakes Cities" (lecture series), The Colleges of SUNY Buffalo Summer Program, 1981

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Modern Language Association
American Studies Association
Fulbright Association
Academy of American Poets

 

References available upon request