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Paula Murphy

(she/her)
Assistant Professor, School of English, Dublin City University

I am an assistant Professor in the School of English in Dublin City University, specializing in popular film, especially film and technology, and Irish literature and film, with an emphasis on new and marginal voices.

I have just published a book on representations of artificial intelligence in film, AI in the Movies, with Edinburgh University Press, and a number of related journal articles:
- ‘"You Feel Real to Me, Samantha": The Matter of Technology in Spike Jonze's Her’. In Technoculture: An Online Journal of Technology in Society, Vol 7, 2018.
- ‘“Through the Looking Glass”: Bodies of Data in Alex Garland’s Ex-Machina’. Film International, 17.3: 79-85.
-‘‘Writers and Writers of Writers: Creativity and Authorship in the First AI Novel’. Kritikos: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text and Image. Vol 19, Fall/ Winter, 2023.

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor, School of English, Dublin City University

Education

  • 2005 
    University of Limerick, PhD in English