Sinéad Murphy

Sinéad Murphy is a part-time PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Comparative Literature in King’s College, London. Her research is an AHRC LAHP-funded project on contemporary Arab speculative fiction in English. She also works at the LSE's Middle East Centre, where she is the conference coordinator for the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES). She completed her BA and MA degrees in University College Dublin, Ireland.

Her work has been published in Science Fiction Studies, Strange Horizons, the Postcolonial Studies Association newsletter, arablit.org, and other venues. She was the administrator for the Kings Fantastic Talks series organised by Dr Rhys Williams, and the organiser of the Speculations seminar series. Her primary research interests include science and speculative fiction, contemporary Middle Eastern literature, postcolonial theory, and theories of comparative and world literature.

Twitter: @S1nead_Murphy
E-mail: sinead.murphy@kcl.ac.uk
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