Professor David Murphy
French
Personal statement
Personal statement
I took up my post at Strathclyde in January 2019 after 18 years at the University of Stirling. I have published widely on various aspects of modern and contemporary Francophone West African culture, including the monographs, Sembene: Imagining Alternatives in Film and Fiction (2000) and (with Patrick Williams), Postcolonial African Cinema (2007). I have also published numerous edited volumes, including (with Charles Forsdick), Postcolonial Thought in the French-Speaking World (2009) and The First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar 1966 (2016). I am currently writing a biography of the interwar Senegalese anti-colonial militant, Lamine Senghor.
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Publications
- Policing black anti-colonial activism in interwar France : the surveillance of Lamine Senghor in Frejus, Marseille and Bordeaux
- Murphy David
- Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the French-Speaking World From Nostalgia to Resistance (2024) (2024)
- [Book review] : Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa. Brian Valente-Quinn. Performance Works. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021. 208 pp.
- Murphy David
- French Studies Vol 77, pp. 149-150 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knac199
- From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean : Fréjus and Marseilles as alternative capitals of Black France?
- Murphy David
- Lieux de mémoire et océan géographie littéraire de la mémoire transatlantique aux XXe et XXIe siècles (2022) (2022)
- Pan-Africanism and Marxism in Interwar France : the case of Lamine Senghor
- Murphy David
- Revolutionary Lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917 (2022) (2022)
- White Thinking : Behind the Mask of Racial Identity
- Murphy David, Ní Loingsigh Aedîn, Johnston Cristina, Thuram Lilian
- (2021)
- French football legend Lilian Thuram tackles the scourge of white thinking in new book
- Murphy David
- (2021)
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Professional Activities
- Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Annual Conference
- Participant
- 15/11/2024
- A Conversation with Lilian Thuram on Race, Equality and Heritage
- Recipient
- 23/10/2024
- Scottish Global History Network
- Participant
- 27/9/2024
- EU Fundamental Rights Forum
- Recipient
- 11/3/2024
- The Nottingham Conference: Fighting Racism and Creating Gender Equity in European Football
- Recipient
- 30/1/2024
- Imagining Transnational Black Liberation in French West Africa (1924-66): from Lamine Senghor to Léopold Sédar Senghor
- Speaker
- 12/1/2024
Projects
- 'White Thinking' and the failed promise of diversity in Scottish heritage
- Mahn, Churnjeet (Principal Investigator) Murphy, David (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2024