Mary Kaitlin M Murphy
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- School: University of Arizona
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- Department: Spanish & Portuguese
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1509 E Helen St
Tucson, AZ - 85719 - Dates at University of Arizona: September 2014 - May 2019
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Murphy is smart but she will not listen and learn from her students. She is a white women who shuts off ideas/experiences of the people of color. She is mean and arrogant. Avoid her class.
Biography
University of Arizona - Spanish & Portuguese
Researcher | Professor | Curator | Consultant
Higher Education
Kaitlin
M. Murphy
Tucson, Arizona
Kaitlin M. Murphy is an interdisciplinary researcher, professor, curator, and consultant. Her areas of expertise include culture and politics, visual culture, performance, human rights, memory, violence and conflict, atrocity prevention, and public thought.
She received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies and M.A. in Visual Culture, both from New York University. She has published numerous chapters and articles, including in the Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and Human Rights Review. Her book, Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas, was released with Fordham University Press in Fall 2018.
Murphy is chair of the Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Graduate Interdisciplinary Program, assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, faculty in the Human Rights Practice graduate program, and affiliated faculty in Latin American Studies and the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona. She is on the Executive Committee of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, a committee member of the Hemispheric Studies Forum of the MLA, and co-chair of the Memory and Trauma working group of the Memory Studies Association.
Murphy also works as a freelance researcher, editor, and writer, leading workshops and trainings, and in program evaluation and development.
Prior to joining academia, Murphy worked in public policy. She was program director at Performing Arts Workshop, a Bay Area nonprofit helping young people develop critical thinking, creative expression, and essential learning skills through the arts, and program specialist at the National Economic Development and Law Center, a national research, consulting, and legal organization dedicated to building economic health in vulnerable communities.
https://kaitlinmcnallymurphy.com/
Experience
New York University
Graduate Research Assistant
Mary Kaitlin M worked at New York University as a Graduate Research Assistant
The University of Arizona
Professor
Mary Kaitlin M worked at The University of Arizona as a Professor
Performing Arts Workshop
Program Director
Mary Kaitlin M worked at Performing Arts Workshop as a Program Director
National Economic Development and Law Center
Program Specialist
Mary Kaitlin M worked at National Economic Development and Law Center as a Program Specialist
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz
Bachelor's degree
Community Studies
New York University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Performance Studies
New York University
Master's degree
Visual Culture
New York University
Graduate Research Assistant
Publications
MAPPING MEMORY: VISUALITY, AFFECT, AND EMBODIED POLITICS IN THE AMERICAS
MAPPING MEMORY: VISUALITY, AFFECT, AND EMBODIED POLITICS IN THE AMERICAS/Fordham University Press
In Mapping Memory, Kaitlin M. Murphy investigates the use of memory as a means of contemporary sociopolitical intervention. Mapping Memory focuses specifically on visual case studies, including documentary film, photography, performance, new media, and physical places of memory, from sites ranging from the Southern Cone to Central America and the U.S.–Mexican borderlands. Murphy develops new frameworks for analyzing how visual culture performs as an embodied agent of memory and witnessing, arguing that visuality is inherently performative. By analyzing the performative elements, or strategies, of visual texts—such as embodiment, reenactment, haunting, and the performance of material objects and places—Murphy elucidates how memory is both anchored in and extracted from specific bodies, objects, and places. Drawing together diverse theoretical strands, Murphy originates the theory of “memory mapping,” which tends to the ways in which memory is strategically deployed in order to challenge official narratives that often neglect or designate as transgressive certain memories or experiences. Ultimately, Murphy argues, memory mapping is a visual strategy to ask, and to challenge, why certain lives are rendered visible and thus grievable and others not.
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