Brian Michael Murphy is dean at Bennington College, and the author of We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World (The University of North Carolina Press, 2022). His poems and essays have been published in Narrative, Kenyon Review, Fairy Tale Review, Kweli, Media-N, Mississippi Review, and in Italian translation in Ácoma. He is the Managing and Nonfiction Editor of Northwest Review, and co-editor, with Kris Paulsen, of a special issue of Media-N titled “Afterlives of Data.” He has held a number of faculty positions, including Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies at Miami University, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Champlain College, and Faculty Member in Media Studies at Bennington. In the Fall of 2021, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” in Italy, teaching in the graduate program in American Literature. In the summers, he directs the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, where he previously taught for several years. His recent publications include an essay on the digitization of lynching images, which will appear in the edited volume The Expanded Field of Conservation (Yale University Press, 2022), and a short story published as liner notes for Spectacular Diagnostics’ album Ancient Methods, on the Amsterdam-based label Rucksack Records. He writes, "I earned my M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Studies, a radically interdisciplinary department at The Ohio State University, where graduate students are required to take courses both within and outside the department and customize their coursework according to their line of inquiry. It was difficult, and exhilarating, to create my own pathway through multiple fields of scholarship. It required rigor, creativity, humility, and a sense of adventure to take part in seminars on Feminist and Queer Narrative Theory, Disability Studies, Performance Theory, the History of Photography, and Geographies of Power. At the same time, I was able to apply my knowledge in the courses I taught, thus concretizing my understanding of various scholarly fields and how they related to my research." https://www.brianmichaelmurphy.com/
