Brian Michael Murphy

Brian Michael Murphy is associate professor of American Studies at Williams College and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. His book We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World (University of North Carolina Press, 2022) received the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize from the New England American Studies Association, and his writing has appeared in the The Wall Street Journal, The Kenyon Review, Lapham’s Quarterly, Narrative, and in Italian translation in Ácoma, among other places. A Fulbright Scholar, Murphy also has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vermont Arts Council, and the Ohio Arts Council.