Biography

Maria Murphy is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Temple in GSWS. Her work examines the relationship between music technologies and body politics through multimedia performance art, American experimentalism, and aesthetic activism in the 20th and 21st centuries. She received her PhD in Musicology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 and has taught in music departments and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies programs on topics such as gender & globalization, queer cinema, music & politics, cyborgs & sound technologies, and Western art music.

Courses Taught

  • Border Crossings: Gendered Dimensions of Globalization
  • Gender in the Cinema
  • Love, Marriage, and Family