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Paula Murphy

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Paula Murphy is a lecturer in the School of English in DCU, teaching and researching in the areas of literary theory, film and modern Irish literature. Paula is currently researching representations of artificial intelligence in film.

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2019 Paula Murphy (2019) ''Through the Looking Glass': Bodies of Data in Alex Garland's Ex-Machina'. Film International, (3).
2020 Murphy, Paula (2020) 'The taste of a name'. Short Film Studies, 10 (1). [DOI]
2013 Murphy, Paula (2013) ''Marooned men in foreign cities': encounters with the Other in Dermot Bolger's The Ballymun Trilogy'. LITERARY VISIONS OF MULTICULTURAL IRELAND: THE IMMIGRANT IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH LITERATURE, .

Other Journal

Year Publication
2023 Paula Murphy (2023) 'Writers and Writers of Writers: Creativity and Authorship in the First AI Novel' Kritikos: A Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text and Image, Fall/ Winter 2022/ 2023 (Vol. 19) . [Link]
2019 Paula Murphy (2019) '‘”Locked Out”: Representing the Housing Crisis in Roddy Doyle’s Rosie’' 11 (Winter 2019) :64-68.
2019 Paula Murphy (2019) ''The Taste of A Name': Stephanie Morgenstern's Remembrance' .
2018 Paula Murphy (2018) 'You Feel Real to Me, Samantha: The Matter of Technology in Spike Jonze's Her' . [Link]
2017 Paula Murphy (2017) 'Postmodern Dislocation in Lost in Translation' 14 . [Link]
2010 Paula Murphy (2010) 'Beyond the Pale: Transgressing Boundaries in Heaney’s Translations' .
2009 Paula Murphy (2009) 'The Irish Phone Home: Reflections of Ireland in Jim Sheridan's In America' .
2008 Paula Murphy (2008) 'Louis Le Brocquy's Philosophical Navagatio' 1 (1) :27-41. [Link]
2008 Paula Murphy (2008) 'The Simulacra of Global Conflict' .
2006 Paula Murphy (2006) 'Staging Histories in Marina Carr’s Midlands Plays' .
2006 Paula Murphy (2006) 'The Hermeneutics of Heredity: Billy Roche’s Wexford Trilogy' .
2004 Paula Murphy (2004) '‘A Prison of the Mind’: The Magdalen Laundries in Popular Culture' .

Online Article

Year Publication
2019 Paula Murphy (2019) How Irish Oscar Nominee Late Afternoon Bucks Many Trends. ELEA [Link]
2018 Paula Murphy (2018) Spike Jonze and the Short Film. ELEA [Link]
2015 Paula Murphy (2015) Roddy Doyle's The Van. ELEA [Link]

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2020 Paula Murphy (2020) 'Ken Bruen' In: Twenty-first Century Irish Fiction Writers. Farmingon Hills, USA : Gale.
2014 Paula Murphy (2014) ''Marooned Men in Foreign Cities': Encounters with the Other in Dermot Bolger's The Ballymun Trilogy' In: Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature. Manchester : Manchester University Press.
2010 Paula Murphy (2010) 'No Country for Willie Dunne: Revolution and Nation in Sebastian Barry's A Long, Long Way' In: War of the Words: Literary Rebellion in France and Ireland. Rennes : TIR.
2010 Paula Murphy (2010) ''Scattering Us Like Seed': Dermot Bolger's Postnationalist Ireland' In: Redefinitions of Irish Identity: A Postnationalist Approach. Switzerland : Peter Lang.
2009 Paula Murphy (2009) '‘From Ferry to Flight: Globalising and Secularising the Irish Woman’' In: Issues of Secularisation and Globalisation in Ireland and France. Switzerland : Peter Lang.
2009 Paula Murphy (2009) 'Passages through a Two-Way Mirror: Billy Roche’s The Cavalcaders and Amphibians' In: Passages: Movements and Moments in Text and Theory. Cambridge : Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2008 Paula Murphy (2008) ''Paradise Lost': The Destruction of Utopia in The Beach' In: Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice. Switzerland : Peter Lang.
2008 Paula Murphy (2008) 'From Ballymun to Brazil: Dermot Bolger’s Postmodern Ireland' In: Modernity and Postmodernity in a Franco-Irish Context. Switzerland : Peter Lang.
2007 Paula Murphy (2007) 'Spec(tac)ular Society: French Theory and Irish Theatre on the Hinterland of Modernity' In: France and the Struggle against Globalisation: Essays on the Role of France in the World. Switzerland : Peter Lang.

Book

Year Publication
2024 (2024) AI in the Movies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Link]
2008 Paula Murphy (2008) The Shattered Mirror: Irish Literature and Film 1990-2005. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press Newcastle.

Edited Book

Year Publication
2007 Paula Murphy, Cathy McGlynn (Ed.). (2007) New Voices in Irish Literary Criticism: Ireland in Theory. New York: Edwin Mellen Press,

Book Review

Year Publication
2022 Paula Murphy (2022) Uncanny Sonic Novum: Liz Faber's The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri. BREV [Link]

Editorial

Year Publication
2021 Murphy, Paula (2021) Humour in the Midst of Darkness. ED
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Research Interests

Research interests include literary theory, especially postmodernism and posthumanism; Irish literature and film post 1990; film and technology and short film.

Modules Coordinated

Term Title Subject
2022 Lit&Value:What Makes Great Books Great EL106
2022 Modernism EL307
2022 Postmodernism EL401
2022 Irish Writing: then & now, local & the global EL303