Robinson Murphy
Robinson MurphyAssistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Joined faculty in 2018
PhD, English, University of Notre Dame
MA, English, Boston College
BA, English and Philosophy, Boston College
Contact Information
Scholarly Interest
Environmental Humanities
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Courses Taught
ENV 400: Capstone ENV 360: Environmental AfrofuturismENV 345: Decolonial EnvironmentalismsENV 202: Environmental HumanitiesENV 110: Global Climate ChangeFSEM 078: Sustainable Living and Learning Community
GSIJ 100: Introduction to Gender, Sexuality and Intersectional Justice (taught through an environmental lens)MGMT 501: Management Strategies for a Changing World (co-taught with Tom Drennen)
Publications
Book
Castration Desire: Less Is More in Global Anglophone Fiction. Bloomsbury, 2024.
Recent Journal Articles
“Queer Child, Decolonial Child: Beasts of the Southern Wild Revisited through an Ecocritical Lens.” Journal of Film and Video 75.4 (2023): 32-44.
“The Death-Driven Eco-Ethics of David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021) and Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! (2017).” Quarterly Review of Film and Video (2023),DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2023.2264147.
“Climate Change and the Death Drive.”
Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism
27.2: 206-218.
"Castration Desire: Less Is More in Emma Donoghue’s Room." College Literature 49.1 (2022): 53-79.
"'Pain Comes in Waves': Eroding Bodies in Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 62.5 (2021): 552-563.
“Castration Desire: Less Is More in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.” English Studies 102.6 (2021): 759-777.
"Trans* Thinking in Irish Television and Film." Journal of Popular Film and Television 49.1 (2021): 52-61.
"Castration Desire: Less Is More in Ondaatje’s Caravaggio." Forum for Modern Language Studies 55.2 (2019): 187-208.
Review Essay
“Christianity and Climate Change.” Religion and the Arts 25.3 (2021): 311–326.
Book Manuscript Being Shopped
King of the Kids: A Novel