Alexander Murphy

Assistant Professor, Language, Literature & Culture

AlMurphy@clarku.edu

Alexander Murphy received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2022. His research centers on modern Japan with a focus on the relationship between sound, language, and the body across literature, media, and performance. In these settings, he is attentive to how aurality enlivens subject formation and social life in transmedial and border-crossing practice, and how the study of voice and sound can be brought to bear on matters of race, gender, and mobility. This concern also animates a range of teaching interests including transpacific cultural production, modernism and the global jazz age, popular and avant-garde performance, and media theory from the 1920s to the present.

Murphy’s current book project explores the aesthetics and politics of the voice in interwar Japan at the intersection of music, poetry and public speech. He is also a musician and translator of Japanese literature and criticism.
Degrees
- Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 2022
- M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, 2014
- B.A. in International Studies and Japanese Language, Kenyon College, 2010
Affiliated Department(s)
- Language, Literature & Culture
Scholarly and Creative Works
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- Article in Refereed Journal
  
  The Voice of a Stranger: Rumor, Radio, and the Aurality of Difference in Interwar Japan
  
  Published in Journal of Japanese Studies
  
  Winter
  
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  2024
  
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  Vol. 50
  
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  Issue #1
  
  Alexander Murphy
- Article in Refereed Journal
  
  Transpacific Im/Mobilities: Two Movements in Nisei Musical Practice
  
  Published in American Music
  
  Spring
  
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  2023
  
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  Vol. 41
  
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  Issue #1
  
  Alexander Murphy

Alexander Murphy

Degrees

Affiliated Department(s)

Scholarly and Creative Works