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B. Keith Murphy, Ph.D.
Keith and Mango
Born September 28, 1962
Grayson, Kentucky

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[edit] Biograph

B. Keith Murphy, Ph. D. (born September 28, 1969) is an American college professor, scholar, researcher, literary critic, historian, journalist, and author.

He was born in Grayson, Kentucky. After a brief stint as an “Air Force brat” Keith was raised on a tobacco farm in Eastern Kentucky. He received a BA in Radio-Television from Morehead State University, a MA in Speech Communication from Miami University (Ohio) and a doctorate in Rhetoric from Ohio University. Keith coached intercollegiate speech and debate for over 15 years. He taught for seven years at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne before heading south for warmer weather. He has spent the last ten years teaching Literature, Composition, Speech, Mass Communication and Philosophy for Fort Valley State University in Georgia where he is a full professor in the English Department. Along the way, Keith has taught at the college level for over 20 years, worked over ten years in radio, and he has worked as an actor, a magician, a webmaster, and a cave guide. As an author he has penned 5 book chapters, 11 articles for academic journals, 20 articles for academic presentations, 52 articles for reference books, 17 articles for popular magazines and writes as a stringer for arenafan.com. He and his wife Kathy run bunniwerks, a domestic rabbit rescue operation (http://www.bunniwerks.org) and currently care for 14 abandoned or abused buns. Keith has won numerous awards for teaching, having been named to “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers” 6 times. He received a faculty research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2003. In December of 2004, he was commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel. Murphy was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in the fall of 2003. (He also finds it difficult to write about himself in the third person.)

[edit] Writing Background

Writing Background: My writing background is both diverse and eclectic. I began writing for radio; writing commercials as well as scripts for news and sports casts as well as documentaries. From there I discovered the world of academic writing. I have been successful in that arena as well, beginning with a master’s thesis and a doctoral dissertation to book chapters and articles in academic journals and reference books. More recently I have been writing articles for popular publications and web-based periodicals. I have also served as an editor for both academic journals and a “web ‘zine” and, as a result, I am aware of the unique burdens and demands that are part and parcel of the editor’s life. I am proud to say that I have never missed a deadline and I am relatively ego-less about my work. In fact when a magazine editor got my last name wrong on an article I wrote, instead of exploding, I looked at the error as an opportunity to establish a pseudonym.

A complete list of publications is available, for academic pubs, click herefor free-lance pubs, click here.


[edit] Select Bibliography

Murphy's works include:

  • ---. “Little Green Secrets: The History of the Roswell Metonym.” The Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians. 2007.
  • ---. “Conspiracy Theories.” One Day In History: September 11: 2001. (NY: Harper Collins),2007.
  • ---. “Sayyid Qutb.” One Day In History: September 11: 2001. (NY: Harper Collins), 2007.
  • --. “Dick Cheney.” One Day In History: September 11: 2001. (NY: Harper Collins), 2007.
  • ---. and Oreta M. Samples. "Emergency Care of Rabbits: A Clinical Challenge." Veterinary Technician. Vol. 25 (5) (May, 2004), 336 - 341.
  • ---. "Revisionist Reality: Alpha Flight 106 and the Marvel Universe." Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians. (XX, 2000), 1-24.
  • --- and Jonathan Tankel . "Collecting Comic Books: A Study of the Fan and Curatorial Consumption." Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subculture, and Identity. Ed. Cheryl Harris and Alison Alexander. (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press). 55 - 68.
  • ---. "The New Verbum: Issues of Ethos and the World Wide Web." Proceedings of the 67th Annual Georgia Communication Association Conference . Ed. Jodeen Ducharme and Guy Warner (1998). 13-29.
  • ---. "Curt Flood and Baseball's Reserve Clause: An Examination of Symbolic Martyrdom." The Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians. (XVIII). 1997. 24-40.
  • ---. “Gulf War Syndrome.” The United States at War (Database). ABC-CLIO. In Press.
  • ---. “Truth, Sojourner.” The United States at War (Database). ABC-CLIO. In Press.
  • ---. “Nidal, Abu.” The United States at War (Database). ABC-CLIO. In Press.
  • ---. “Huxley, Aldous.” The United States at War (Database). ABC-CLIO. In Press.
  • ---. “Woodstock and the Vietnam War.” The United States at War (Database). ABC-CLIO. In Press.
  • ---. “Censorship in the Korean War.” The United States at War (Database). ABC-CLIO. In Press.
  • ---. “Bremmer, Paul.” The United States at War (Database). ABC-CLIO. In Press.
  • ---. “Comic Books.” The United States at War (Database). ABC-CLIO. In Press.
  • ---. “Radio (World War II).” The United States at War (Database). ABC-CLIO. In Press.
  • ---. “Nylon.” The United States at War (Database). ABC-CLIO. In Press.
  • ---. “Code of Wartime Practices for the American Press.” The United States at War (Database). ABC-CLIO. In Press.
  • ---. "Conspiracy Theory." The Encyclopedia of American Counterculture. M.E. Sharpe. In Press.
  • ---. "Acid Rock." The Encyclopedia of American Counterculture. M.E. Sharpe. In Press.
  • ---. "Jimi Hendrix." The Encyclopedia of American Counterculture. M.E. Sharpe. In Press.
  • ---. "Jim Morrison." The Encyclopedia of American Counterculture. M.E. Sharpe. In Press.
  • ---. "Frank Zappa." The Encyclopedia of American Counterculture. M.E. Sharpe. In Press.
  • ---. "Steambath (Bruce Jay Friedman, 1970)." Masterplots II: Drama Series Revised Edition. Ed. Christian H. Moe. (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.) 2003. 1454 - 1457.
  • ---. "Lyman Frank Baum: 1856-1919; U.S. Writer of Children's Books, including the Oz Books." Dictionary of World Biography. Ed. Frank Magill. (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1999) 154 - 156.
  • ---. "Idi Amin." Biographical Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century World Leaders. Ed. John Powell. (Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2000), 34 - 37.
  • ---. "Milton Obote." Biographical Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century World Leaders. Ed. John Powell. (Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2000), 1162 - 1164.
  • ---. "Pol Pot (Saloth Sar)."Biographical Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century World Leaders. Ed. John Powell. (Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2000), 1250 - 1252.
  • ---. and Hanif Stubbs. "Dr. Dre." Popular Musicians. Ed. Steve Hochman(Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1999). 322-323.
  • ---. and Nyawi Willis. "Beastie Boys." Popular Musicians. Ed. Steve Hochman (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1999). 67-69.
  • ---. "Queen." Popular Musicians. Ed. Steve Hochman (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1999). 871-873.
  • ---. "Echo and the Bunnymen." Popular Musicians. Ed. Steve Hochman (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1999) 358-360.
  • ---. "Devo." Popular Musicians. Ed. Steve Hochman (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1999). 302 - 304.
  • ---. "Ted Nugent."Popular Musicians. Ed. Steve Hochman (Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1999). 781.
  • complete bibliographic (both academic and popular) listing available HERE.

[edit] Select Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors Recent awards and Honors include the following: • Named to "Who's Who Among America's Teachers six times. • Received Faculty Research Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities. Grant comes from the "Extending the Reach Research Program for Faculty Research at Minority-Oriented Institutions." Research project: Collection and Analysis of Black Comic Strips: 1920 - 1960. Grant period 2002 – 2004. • Commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel by the Governor of Kentucky, December, 2004. • National Forensics Association Distinguished Service to Forensics Award. April, 2001. • Named to Directory of American Scholars (10th ed.) Published by Gale Group. 2000. • Georgia Intercollegiate Forensics Association Coach of the Year. 1999. • Annie R. Carthon Faculty Mentor Award. Fort Valley State College, May, 1996. • Indiana University - Purdue University Student Government Association. Student Service Award, April, 1995 and April 1994. • Indiana State Individual Events Association. Coach of the Year, February, 1995.

[edit] Trivia

  • Murphy appeared as a character in Dark Horse Comics's series Atlas, written and drawn by the multi-talented Bruce Zick and wrote back matter for the books. He was also a minor character who was killed in an one episode of Dark Horse's Grendel Tales comics as penned by Steven T. Seagle.

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