Derek Conrad Murray

Visual & Critical Studies Forum
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Derek Conrad Murray is an art historian and interdisciplinary theorist specializing in cultural, postcolonial, and globalization theories and the methodologies and ethics of art history and visual studies. Murray, who received his Ph.D. from the Department of History of Art, Cornell University in 2005, is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Critical Theory in the Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz. A contributor to many magazines and journals of contemporary art, Murray is currently completing a book-length manuscript entitled Obscene Jouissance: Contemporary Visual Art and the Politics of Recognition.