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Dr Chris Murray - Lecturer & Programme Convenor

Contact Details

E-Mail : C.Murray@dundee.ac.uk
Telephone: (01382) 38-4907
Room Location: 2.10, Tower Extension

Research Interests

Dr Murray's research interests are in comics, film and popular culture, specifically the theorisation of how popular visual culture relates to other discourses (literature, art, and politics).

Dr Murray has published on various aspects of comics, including:

Chris is editor (along with Dr Julia Round) of new peer-reviewed comics journal, Studies in Comics (Intellect Books). He is Secretary of the Scottish Word and Image Group, which researches aspects of the relationship between verbal and visual representation.

Find out more about comics at Dundee.

Publications

Books

Champions of the Oppressed: Superhero Comics, Propaganda and Popular Culture in America During World War Two (New Jersey, USA: Hampton Press, 2011).

Cover of Champions of the Oppressed

Articles & Book Chapters

“These are not our Promised Resurrections…” in Alan Moore and the Gothic Tradition, ed. by Matt Green (Forthcoming 2011, Manchester University Press).

“Denise Mina’s Hellblazer and the Triumph of Scottish Schadenfreude”, in Gothic Studies, Special Issue in Contemporary Scottish Gothic, ed. by Monica Germana (Forthcoming 2011, Manchester University Press).

“The Pleasures of Persuasion: Comics and Propaganda”, in Critical Approaches to Comics and Graphic Novels, ed. by Matthew Smith and Randy Duncan (Forthcoming 2011, Routledge).

“Signals from Airstrip One: The British Invasion of American Mainstream Comics” in The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and their Contexts ed. by Paul Williams and James Lyon (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2010), pp.31-45 (ISBN: 978-1-60473-792-9).

"Islands of Memory: The Science Fiction Films of Andrei Tarkovsky", in Alienation and Resistance ed. by Gordon Spark, Laura Findlay, Pauline MacPherson and Andrew Wood (Cambridge Scholar's Press, 2010), pp.96-114 (ISBN (10): 1-4438-1964-6, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-1964-0).

“Subverting the Sublime: Romantic Ideology in the Comics of Grant Morrison” in Sub/versions: Genre, Cultural Status and Critique , edited by Pauline MacPherson, Christopher Murray, Gordon Spark and Kevin Corstorphine ( Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), pp.34-51 (ISBN (10): 1-84718-372-7, ISBN (13): 9781847183729).

"Biff! Bam!! Crikey!!!: A Comics Conference in Dundee", in The International Journal of Comic Art, ed. by John Lent, 10:1 (2008)

“Thur’s a Man wi a Big Chin an’ a Dug in Thon City Centre: The Importance of Dundee ’s Comics”, in The Scottish Society for Art History Journal, Special Dundee Issue, ed. by Matthew Jarron (November 2006)

“Noble Enterprises: Strip for Me and The British Small Press”, in The International Journal of Comic Art, ed. by John Lent, 7:2 (2005)

“My Mouth is Quiet But My Mind is Noisy: The Work of John Watson”, with Joyce Walker and Douglas Webster, in The International Journal of Comic Art, ed. by John Lent, 5:2 (2003)

“Superman vs Imago: Superheroes, Lacan and Mediated Identity”, in The International Journal of Comic Art, ed. by John Lent, 4:2 (2002)

“Rhetoric and Response: Superheroes and World War Two”, in Comics and Culture, ed. by Anne Magnussen and Hans Christian Christiansen (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000).

Online Publications

"Holy Hypertexts! - The Pose of Post-modernity in Comics and Graphic Novels of the 1980s", in Reflections on Creativity, ed. by H van Koten (Dundee: Duncan of Jordanstone College, 2007).
[ISBN: 1 899837 56 6 <http://artanddesign.dundee.ac.uk/reflections/abstracts/ChrisMurray.htm>]

Debating the Difference: Essays on Gender, Representation and Self-Representation , ed. by Christopher Murray, Keith Williams, Rachel Jones and Hamid Van Koten (Dundee: Duncan of Jordanstone College, 2010).
[ISBN: 1 899 83760 4 <http://www.scottishwordimage.org/debatingdifference/>]

Encyclopedia Entries

Entry on Comics Theory for Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Cultural Theory, ed. by M. Keith Booker.

Entry on Comics and Graphic Novels for Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Various entries on comics for Greenwood’s Encyclopedia of Comics and Graphic Novels, ed. by M. Keith Booker.

Entry on Film Theory, with Brian Hoyle for Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Cultural Theory, ed. by M. Keith Booker.

Magazines

“Comics and Culture Conference”, in Comics Forum (London: Comics Creator's Guild, 1999)

Selected TV and Podcast Appearances

News and Online Articles

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