
Dr Ros Murray
Senior Lecturer in French
Research interests
- Culture
- Languages
- Media
Biography
I am a graduate of King's College London, where I completed a PhD on the work of Antonin Artaud. I held research posts in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester, and in the department of Film at Queen Mary University of London, where I taught on film and French modules. I came back to King's as a lecturer in 2016.
Research Interests and PhD Supervision
- Documentary, avant-garde and experimental film cultures in France and Spain
- Feminism and queer theory
- Antonin Artaud
My first book, Antonin Artaud: The Scum of the Soul, was published with Palgrave McMilllan in 2014. My current book, on the work of the video activist Carole Roussopoulos, is under contract with Punctum books. I have published on the work of Chantal Akerman, queer French and Spanish film, as well as on the work of Artaud. I am on the editorial board at MAI journal.
I welcome PhD applications in film and visual culture, in particular related to avant-garde, experimental, queer and feminist work.
For more details, please see her full research profile.
Teaching
I teach on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules, including modules on French Cinema, literature and translation.
Selected publications
- Antonin Artaud: The Scum of the Soul 01 January 2014
- Raised Fists: Politics, Technology, and Embodiment in 1970s French Feminist Video Collectives 01 January 2016
- Revisiting Jeanne Dielman: Autour de Jeanne Dielman (2004), Woman Sitting After Killing (2001), and Akerman's 'cinéma de ressassement' 01 September 2019
- The Radical Politics of Possibility: Towards a Queer Existential Phenomenology Through Chantal Akerman's Je tu il elle (1975) 14 June 2016
- Activism, Affect, Identification: Trans Documentary in France and Spain and its Reception 01 January 2014
Expertise and public engagement
I am co-founder with Azadeh Fatehrad of the research network Herstoriographies. I have introduced films and spoken at public events on film at BFI Southbank, Ciné Lumière at Institut Français, the ICA and Open City Documentary film festival. I would be happy to speak to the media about any aspect of my work.
NIRE AMAREN ETXEA: TRACING FEMINIST GENEALOGIES IN LA MARCHE DES FEMMES À HENDAYE, MANIFESTATION À HENDAYE AND LES MÈRES ESPAGNOLES
Murray, R. & Santesteban, A., 25 Nov 2021, In: ZINE. 02, p. 5-39 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Revisiting Jeanne Dielman: Autour de Jeanne Dielman (2004), Woman Sitting After Killing (2001), and Akerman's 'cinéma de ressassement'
Murray, R., 1 Sept 2019, In: Moving Image Review and Art Journal. 8, 1-2, p. 54-66 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Cruel time in Artaud's film scenarios
Murray, R., 2 Jan 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Image [&] Narrative. 17, 5, p. 6-16 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
French Film in Britain
Murray, R. J., 2014, In: Journal Of British Cinema And Television.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
The Radical Politics of Possibility: Towards a Queer Existential Phenomenology Through Chantal Akerman’s Je tu il elle (1975)
Murray, R. J., 14 Jun 2016, In: Feral Feminisms. 5, p. 44-55Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Raised Fists: Politics, Technology, and Embodiment in 1970s French Feminist Video Collectives
Murray, R., 1 May 2016, In: CAMERA OBSCURA. 31, 1 (91), p. 93-121Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activism, Affect, Identification: Trans Documentary in France and Spain and its Reception
Murray, R. J., 2014, In: Studies in European Cinema. 11, 3, p. 170-180Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Troubling transformations: Pedro Almodóvar's La piel que habito / The Skin I Live In (2011) and its reception
Murray, R. J. & Waldron, D., May 2014, In: Transnational Cinemas. 5, 1, p. 57-72Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Des corps qui agissent: Langage et magie dans les sorts d'Antonin Artaud
Translated title of the contribution: Performing Bodies: Language and Magic in Antonin Artaud's SortsMurray, R. J., 2013, Écritures du corps: Nouvelles perspectives. Zoberman, P., Tomiche, A. & Spurlin, W. J. (eds.). Classiques Garnier, p. 113-128Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
'Du cinéma gay et lesbien aux films queer et trans'
Murray, R. J. & Perriam, C., 2014, Le Cinéma espagnol: Histoire et culture. Feenstra, P. & Sánchez-Biosca, V. (eds.). Armand Colin, p. 103-115Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
‘The Epidermis of Reality’: Artaud, the Material Body and Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc
Murray, R. J., 2013, In: Film-Philosophy. 17, 1, p. 445-460Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Alice de l’autre côté des intestins: Lewis Carroll adapté par Antonin Artaud
Murray, R. J., 2011, In: La Lecture littéraire. 11, p. 157-169Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Antonin Artaud: The Scum of the Soul
Murray, R., 2014, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 190 p. (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research

Queer@King's
Centre for research and teaching in gender and sexuality studies and a hub for collaborative work with queer activists, artists, and communities.

Textual Representation: Poetics/Fiction/Rhetoric
Researchers within the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Culture at King’s College London are dedicated to exploring literary texts in multilingual contexts.

Visual Culture
The Visual Culture research group is a network of scholars within King’s College London working across a diverse historical range of film, art, and performance.

LGBTQ+ policymaking in the UK
Establishing an interdisciplinary network of academic, policymaking, and civil society stakeholders to address the policy needs of the UK’s LGBTQ+ population.
Project status: Ongoing
Events

Migration and/as Translation: Negotiations of New Forms of Sexual Dissidence in Contemporary Franco-Maghrebi Autofictional Writing
Professor William J Spurlin explores representations of queer migration in recent Francophone literature from the Maghreb.
Please note: this event has passed.

Chantal Akerman Symposium
A deep dive into Chantal Akerman’s work through a series of talks and discussions.
Please note: this event has passed.
NIRE AMAREN ETXEA: TRACING FEMINIST GENEALOGIES IN LA MARCHE DES FEMMES À HENDAYE, MANIFESTATION À HENDAYE AND LES MÈRES ESPAGNOLES
Murray, R. & Santesteban, A., 25 Nov 2021, In: ZINE. 02, p. 5-39 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Revisiting Jeanne Dielman: Autour de Jeanne Dielman (2004), Woman Sitting After Killing (2001), and Akerman's 'cinéma de ressassement'
Murray, R., 1 Sept 2019, In: Moving Image Review and Art Journal. 8, 1-2, p. 54-66 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Cruel time in Artaud's film scenarios
Murray, R., 2 Jan 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Image [&] Narrative. 17, 5, p. 6-16 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
French Film in Britain
Murray, R. J., 2014, In: Journal Of British Cinema And Television.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
The Radical Politics of Possibility: Towards a Queer Existential Phenomenology Through Chantal Akerman’s Je tu il elle (1975)
Murray, R. J., 14 Jun 2016, In: Feral Feminisms. 5, p. 44-55Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Raised Fists: Politics, Technology, and Embodiment in 1970s French Feminist Video Collectives
Murray, R., 1 May 2016, In: CAMERA OBSCURA. 31, 1 (91), p. 93-121Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activism, Affect, Identification: Trans Documentary in France and Spain and its Reception
Murray, R. J., 2014, In: Studies in European Cinema. 11, 3, p. 170-180Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Troubling transformations: Pedro Almodóvar's La piel que habito / The Skin I Live In (2011) and its reception
Murray, R. J. & Waldron, D., May 2014, In: Transnational Cinemas. 5, 1, p. 57-72Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Des corps qui agissent: Langage et magie dans les sorts d'Antonin Artaud
Translated title of the contribution: Performing Bodies: Language and Magic in Antonin Artaud's SortsMurray, R. J., 2013, Écritures du corps: Nouvelles perspectives. Zoberman, P., Tomiche, A. & Spurlin, W. J. (eds.). Classiques Garnier, p. 113-128Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
'Du cinéma gay et lesbien aux films queer et trans'
Murray, R. J. & Perriam, C., 2014, Le Cinéma espagnol: Histoire et culture. Feenstra, P. & Sánchez-Biosca, V. (eds.). Armand Colin, p. 103-115Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
‘The Epidermis of Reality’: Artaud, the Material Body and Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc
Murray, R. J., 2013, In: Film-Philosophy. 17, 1, p. 445-460Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Alice de l’autre côté des intestins: Lewis Carroll adapté par Antonin Artaud
Murray, R. J., 2011, In: La Lecture littéraire. 11, p. 157-169Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Antonin Artaud: The Scum of the Soul
Murray, R., 2014, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 190 p. (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research

Queer@King's
Centre for research and teaching in gender and sexuality studies and a hub for collaborative work with queer activists, artists, and communities.

Textual Representation: Poetics/Fiction/Rhetoric
Researchers within the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Culture at King’s College London are dedicated to exploring literary texts in multilingual contexts.

Visual Culture
The Visual Culture research group is a network of scholars within King’s College London working across a diverse historical range of film, art, and performance.

LGBTQ+ policymaking in the UK
Establishing an interdisciplinary network of academic, policymaking, and civil society stakeholders to address the policy needs of the UK’s LGBTQ+ population.
Project status: Ongoing
Events

Migration and/as Translation: Negotiations of New Forms of Sexual Dissidence in Contemporary Franco-Maghrebi Autofictional Writing
Professor William J Spurlin explores representations of queer migration in recent Francophone literature from the Maghreb.
Please note: this event has passed.

Chantal Akerman Symposium
A deep dive into Chantal Akerman’s work through a series of talks and discussions.
Please note: this event has passed.