Timothy Murray
A Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Timothy Murray is Director of the Society for the
Humanities, Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, and co-moderator of the –empyrenew media listserv, and co-curator of CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA. A curator of new media art, and theorist
of the digital humanities and arts, he sits on the National Steering Committee of HASTAC, and is
currently working on a book, Immaterial Archives: Curatorial Instabilities @ New Media Art, which is a
sequel to Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Minnesota, 2008). His books include
Zonas de Contacto: el arte en CD-Rom (Centro de la Imagen, 1999), Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and
Sexuality in Performance, Video, Art (Routledge, 1997), Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen,
Camera, and Canvas (Routledge, 1993), Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius in XVIIth-Century
England and France (Oxford, 1987), ed. with Alan Smith, Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the
Phantasms of Early-Modern Culture (Minnesota, 1998), ed., Mimesis, Masochism and Mime: The Politics
of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought (Michigan, 1997). His research and teaching crosses the
boundaries of new media, film and video, visual studies, twentieth-century Continental philosophy,
psychoanalysis, critical theory, performance, and English and French early modern studies.