Peter Murphy is Professor
of Creative Arts and Social Aesthetics and the Head of the School of Creative
Arts at James Cook University. He completed his PhD at La Trobe University
under the direction of the philosopher Agnes Heller. Before coming to James
Cook University, he held continuing appointments in the Master of Communication
Program at Victoria University, Wellington and in Communications and Media at
Monash University where he was Director of the Social Aesthetics Research Unit.
He has been a visiting academic in Philosophy at the New School For Social
Research in New York City, in the Hellenic Language and Literatures Program at
Ohio State University, in Communication, Media and Culture at Panteion
University, Athens, in Political Science at Baylor University, Texas, in
Philosophy at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, in Communications
and Media Studies at Seoul National University, in Arts and Cultural Studies at
the University of Copenhagen, and in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College,
University of London. Murphy’s major research interests concern the nature of
creativity and the imagination. He is the author of The Collective Imagination (2012) and Civic Justice (2001), the co-author of Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004), Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy
(2009), Global Creation (2010), and Imagination (2010), and the co-editor of
Philosophical and Cultural Theories of
Music (2010). He is also Coordinating Editor of the social theory journal Thesis Eleven (Sage Publications) and is
currently working with Professor Simon Marginson of the University of Melbourne
on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2012-2014) ‘Crucibles of
creativity? Australian universities and path-breaking intellectual work’.
