Peter Murphy (1956-) is Adjunct Professor in the Thesis Eleven Centre, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia, and Research Fellow at The Cairns Institute, James Cook University. He grew up in Brisbane. He was Professor of Arts and Society at James Cook University and held appointments at the New School for Social Research (NYC), the University of Ballarat (now Federation University, Australia), Baylor University (Texas), Victoria University Wellington (New Zealand) and Monash University (Melbourne). In 1998-2001, he worked at the internet start-up company Looksmart. He has been a visiting academic at Ohio State University, Panteion University in Athens, Ateneo de Manila University, Seoul National University, the University of Copenhagen and Goldsmiths College University of London.