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 served on the Editorial Board of Art Journal (CAA) and is currently on the Editorial Advisory Board of Third Text and is is Co-Editor of Visual Studies; the official journal of the International Visual Sociology Association. He is the author of Mapplethorpe and the Flower: Radical Sexuality and the Limits of Control (Bloomsbury, 2020), Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights (I.B. Tauris, UK, 2016) and a forthcoming edited volume Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie (Routledge Press, 2020).
Professor Murray is accepting new graduate students for the 2021-2022 academic year.
2020-2021 Office Hours: By Appointment
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) https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/mapplethorpe-and-the-flower-9781788312516/
Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights (2015) I.B. Tauris (UK).