Tim Murray, Graduate Field

Tim Murray received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The Johns Hopkins University. Professor of Comparative Literature and English, and Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Video, his areas of research include new media, film and video, and visual studies, as well as seventeenth-century studies and literary theory, with strong interests in philosophy and psychoanalysis. He is the founding Curator of The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art in the Cornell Library, the Co-Curator of CTHEORY Multimedia, and curated the travelling exhibition, "Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom." He is the author of Zonas de Contacto: el arte en CD-Rom (1999); Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, Art (1997); Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas (1993); Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius In XVIIth-Century England and France (1987). He is editor of Mimesis, Masochism & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Though (1997) and , with Alan Smith, Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early-Modern Culture (1997). His is completing an edited collection, Digitality and the Memory of Cinema and a monography, Digital Intensities: Electronic Art, Baroque Vision, and Cultural Memory.

Selected Publications

Zonas de Contacto: el arte en CD-Rom, trans. Ana María Garcia and Mónica
Mayer (Mexico City: Centro de la Imagen, 1999).

Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, Art (London: Routledge, 1997).

Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas (London: Routledge, 1993).

Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius In XVIIth-Century England and France
(Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).

Ed. with Alan Smith, Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early- Modern Culture
(University of Minnesota Press, 1997).

Ed., Mimesis, Masochism & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Though (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).

With Teo Spiller, INFOS 2000 (Off-Line) "Net.Art" (CD-Rom), Supplement to M'ars: Magazine of the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 13, no 1-2, 2001.

Guest Editor, “Cinema, Video, New Media,” Sites: The Journal of 20th-Century/ Contemporary French Studies 4, No. 2 (Fall 2000).

Guest Editor, “Digitality and the Memory of Cinema,” Wide Angle 21, No. 1 (1999).

Research Interests:

Digital and New Media Art
Film and Video
Visual Studies
Contemporary French Thought: Theory of Representation, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
Seventeenth Century StudiesRecent Courses
Digital Bodies, Virtual Identities
Theorizing Film: Race, Nation, and Memory
New British and French Cinema
Baroque Perspectives: Theory's Return to the XVIIth Century
Electronic Art and Culture
French Film