Brian Michael Murphy
Writer & Media Studies Prof
Bennington College
Photo: Emma Fricke Nelson
Bio
Brian Michael Murphy is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" in Italy, where he is teaching in the graduate program in American Literature. He is Dean of the College and Director of the MFA in Public Action at Bennington College in Vermont. His book, We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2022. He has published essays and poems in Narrative, Waxwing, Kenyon Review, Mississippi Review, Media-N, Fairy Tale Review, Kweli, and in Italian translation in Ácoma. His work has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant, and awards from the Tinker Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council. He holds a PhD in Comparative Studies from The Ohio State University, where he was a Presidential Fellow. In spring 2020, he helped relaunch Northwest Review, where he is the Managing and Nonfiction Editor, and in the summers he serves as Curriculum Director for the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop.
Photo: Emma Fricke Nelson