Maria Murphy
Maria Murphy
Associate Director, Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Trans Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Voicing the Clone: Laurie Anderson and Technologies of Reproduction,” in “Sonic Cyberfeminisms,” special issue, eds. Annie Goh, Marie Thompson, Ioana Szeman, Irene Gedalof and Sadie Wearing, Feminist Review 21, no.1 (March 2021). Winner of the 2022 IASPM-Canada Article Prize.

Book Chapters

“Electro-Pop as Trojan Horse: Hearing the Call to Arms in Anohni’s HOPELESSNESS,” in Popular Music and the Politics of Hope: Queer and Feminist Interventions, eds. Susan Fast and Craig Jennex (New York: Routledge 2019).

“Covering Trans Media: Temporal and Narrative Potential in Messy Musical Archives,” with Craig Jennex in The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music and Gender, ed. Stan Hawkins (New York: Routledge, 2017).

Works-in-Progress

Bio-Pop: Laurie Anderson, Technobodies, and Aesthetic Activism

“Vulnerable Listening: The Parents’ Music Resource Center, Karen Finley, and the Aurality of Pornography”

“Queer Kinship & the Ever-New Politics of Beverly Glenn-Copeland”

Other Publications:

Media Archaeology and the Cyborg,Sonic Circulations, December 6, 2018.

Interview with Jennifer Lynn Stoever, author of The Sonic Color Line” with Jennifer Lynn Stoever, on The International Society for the Study of Popular Music—US blog, December 1, 2017.

Interview: Joan La Barbara,Title Magazine, September 25, 2017.

Service Sound,” with Roksana Filipowska, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities: Ecologies of Data Part II, February 5, 2017.

President Trump, For two singers and two looper pedals with microphones, with Roksana Filipowska, Present Tense Pamphlets: Bloc Museum, 2016. Score.