Dr Naoise Murphy

My research and teaching interests are in queer and trans studies, gender and sexuality, modern and contemporary literature and postcolonial studies. I am currently working on my first book, about queerness, gender, space and time in twentieth-century Ireland, focusing on the fiction of Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Molly Keane and Dorothy Macardle. I am developing a second project on lesbian and transmasculine representation in mid-twentieth-century English ‘middlebrow’ fiction.

I am interested in queer and radical histories, as well as oral history and site-specific methodologies. I have worked on collaborative and community research projects investigating queer history and colonial legacies in Cambridge, gendered experiences in higher education and radical history in London.