Michael J. Murphy, PhD

MICHAEL J. MURPHY, PhD
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Washington University

Introduction

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching

-Masculinities
-Global Masculinities
-Sex, Gender, Popular Culture
-American Visual Culture
-American Material Culture
-Women and Textiles
-Fashioning American Manliness
-Gender and Visual Culture

Resources

Women, Gender and
Sexuality Studies Program
Campus Box 1078
216 McMillan Hall
Washington University
St. Louis MO 63130-2119 USA
(314) 935-5102-office
(314) 935-8678-fax
mjmurphy@wustl.edu

Introduction ::

I am currently a lecturer in the Women and Gender Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. My teaching and research interests are in U.S. visual and material culture, and the history and theory of gender and sexuality, especially critical men's/masculinity studies and GLBTQ studies. I am formally trained as an art historian with a speciality in the arts of the United States but my work has engaged a wide range of visual cultural practices including painting, photography, advertising, fashion, film, and comics.

My dissertation research investigated the historical role of white linen undergarments in the socio-cultural production of the normative male body in America. Before I turn to my next major research project on the visual culture of U.S. gender justice movements, I plan to publish two or three articles from the dissertation research. I would also like to publish my master's research on stereo-photography and Childe Hassam's 1885 painting Rainy Day, Boston, and other research I've conducted on gay liberation comics in the 1960s and homosocial male subcultures among antique collectors during the American Colonial Revival.

MICHAEL J. MURPHY, PhD Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Washington University
Introduction Curriculum Vitae Teaching -Masculinities -Global Masculinities -Sex, Gender, Popular Culture -American Visual Culture -American Material Culture -Women and Textiles -Fashioning American Manliness -Gender and Visual Culture Resources Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Campus Box 1078 216 McMillan Hall Washington University St. Louis MO 63130-2119 USA (314) 935-5102-office (314) 935-8678-fax mjmurphy@wustl.edu	Introduction :: I am currently a lecturer in the Women and Gender Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. My teaching and research interests are in U.S. visual and material culture, and the history and theory of gender and sexuality, especially critical men's/masculinity studies and GLBTQ studies. I am formally trained as an art historian with a speciality in the arts of the United States but my work has engaged a wide range of visual cultural practices including painting, photography, advertising, fashion, film, and comics. My dissertation research investigated the historical role of white linen undergarments in the socio-cultural production of the normative male body in America. Before I turn to my next major research project on the visual culture of U.S. gender justice movements, I plan to publish two or three articles from the dissertation research. I would also like to publish my master's research on stereo-photography and Childe Hassam's 1885 painting Rainy Day, Boston, and other research I've conducted on gay liberation comics in the 1960s and homosocial male subcultures among antique collectors during the American Colonial Revival.
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