Michelle Murphy

Biography

Michelle Murphy is a feminist technoscience studies scholar and historian of the recent past who theorizes and researches about the politics of technoscience; sexed,raced, and queer life; environmental politics; biopolitics and necropolitics; and critiques of capitalism particularly in contemporary, cold war, and postcolonial conjunctures associated with the United States.  She is co-organizer of Technoscience Salon and Director of the Technoscience Research Unit. She supervises graduate students interested in technoscience and new media; critical, feminist, and queer theory; reproductive politics, biopolitics, and necropolitics; environmental studies and political ecology; critical development studies;  affect, materiality, and living-being; and marxian theory, political economy, and governmentality. Michelle Murphy is a feminist technoscience studies scholar and historian of the recent past who theorizes and researches about the politics of technoscience; sexed,raced, and queer life; environmental politics; biopolitics and necropolitics; and critiques of capitalism particularly in contemporary, cold war, and postcolonial conjunctures associated with the United States.  She is co-organizer of Technoscience Salon and Director of the Technoscience Research Unit. She supervises graduate students interested in technoscience and new media; critical, feminist, and queer theory; reproductive politics, biopolitics, and necropolitics; environmental studies and political ecology; critical development studies;  affect, materiality, and living-being; and marxian theory, political economy, and governmentality.

Research Interest

Biopolitics, Critical development studies, Critical race studies, Environmental studies, Feminist theory, neo-Marxism, Political ecology, Queer theory, Reproductive politics, Technoscience