Derek Conrad Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory and criticism of contemporary art and visual culture. He works in contemporary aesthetic and cultural theory with a particular attention to technocultural engagements with identity and representation. He has contributed to leading magazines and journals such as American Art, Art in America, Parachute, Art Journal, Third Text, Consumption Markets & Culture and Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, where he currently serves as Associate Editor. Murray is also currently serving on the Editorial Board of Art Journal (CAA) and the Editorial Advisory Board of Third Text. Murray is the author of Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights (I.B. Tauris, UK, 2016). Murray is also the author of two forthcoming volumes: a single-authored book entitled, Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control (Bloomsbury, 2020); and an edited volume entitled, Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie (Routledge Press, 2020).
Murray is Co-Editor of Visual Studies; the official journal of the International Visual Sociology Association.
Winter Quarter 2019: Wednesdays: 2:00 - 4:00
Derek Conrad Murray, University of California at Santa Cruz, Porter Faculty Services, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Books:
Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie (Routledge Press, 2020 - Forthcoming).
Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control (Bloomsbury, 2020 - Forthcoming)
Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights (2015) I.B. Tauris (UK).