Daniel Murphy, Ph.D.

Daniel Murphy, Ph.D., is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Notre Dame where he teaches 20th and 21st century literature, film and television, and media studies. His work has appeared in American Quarterly and he has contributed to PopMatters ("Jessica Jones and Gendered Forms of Seeing" , March 2016). Murphy's forthcoming book project, The Technics of Realism: Media and Social Reportage in Narrative Art After 1965, looks at media-intensive docudramas in contemporary American fiction, film, and television.
American Basement: Race and Horror in the Architectural Imaginary

American Basement: Race and Horror in the Architectural Imaginary

Why is it that exploitative home-based prisons set in the homes of white men feature largely in the social imaginary these days?