Tim Murphy

Timothy S. Murphy was appointed the inaugural Houston-Truax-Wentz Professor of English in 2013, and named an Oklahoma State University Regents Professor in 2016. Educated at Cornell University, UCLA, and the College International de Philosophie in Paris, he taught at the University of Oklahoma for 15 years before coming to Oklahoma State. The author of three books--Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs (1998), Antonio Negri: Modernity and the Multitude (2012), and William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark (2023)--and over 30 journal articles and book chapters, he specializes in modern and contemporary US and world literature, especially experimental fiction and the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and weird fiction. He has co-edited two essay collections on Antonio Negri, edited or co-edited seven special journal issues on a wide range of topics, and translated or co-translated five books and many essays from French and Italian. From 2000 to 2013 he served as General Editor of the scholarly journal Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture and was one of the founding editors of the scholarly journal Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. He also teaches and researches in the fields of literary theory, political theory, Continental philosophy, science studies, and interdisciplinary methods.