Biography:

Michael Murray is a Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College, New York.

Murray received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1968, his M.A. from the University of Texas in 1965 and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1963. As Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College since 1970, Murray has specialized in Continental Philosophy (the work of Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida) with current interests in the philosophy of art, deconstruction, ethics and queer theory. He has also held visiting appointments at Yale University, the University of Turin (Italy) and Peking University.

Murray is the author of several books, including Heidegger: Critical Essays (editor and contributor), Modern Critical Theory and Recent Developments in Aesthetics: Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (in Chinese, and originally entitled Hermeneutics, Deconstruction and the Great Wall of China). In the 1980s, Murray lectured at Peking University on Western philosophy and curated one of the earliest exhibitions of experimental art from China, called Avant-Garde Chinese Art: Beijing/New York at the City Gallery in New York (1986).