Academic Career

 John Hume Scholarship Award 2006
NUI, Maynooth.

Taught Masters course degree, transferred to Doctorate, 2005-present.
NUI, Maynooth.

BA Arts, 2005.
NUI, Maynooth

Research Interests

My current PhD project focuses on the theme of music based social movements in Serbia. To date I have completed ten months of fieldwork in Serbia, mostly in Belgrade, during this time I have socialized, and lived with, musicians and fans of a style of music known as Slavic Pagan/Satanic Black Metal. The main focus of my thesis; is an exploration of the styles, codes and rituals of a Pan-Slavic music scene, which bears many similarities to an occult/volkish revival movement.
Therefore my main research interests are; youth subcultures (in particular, those possessing oppositional neo-tribal quasi-political affiliations), contemporary ethnicity, the anthropology of social thought, and the so-called ‘modern primitive’ movement.
I am also interested in extremist politics, nationalist movements, body politics, ethnomusicology, cyber-cultures and the history of ethnographic thought.
 

Publications

Irish Journal of Anthropology Vol. 10 (1) 2007. Research & Awards section p. 71.
 

Terrorizer Magazine (UK) Vol 171 May 2008. I was interviewed and my research was featured in a report on the Serbian Black Metal music scene.
 

Upcoming: Occasional Papers in Anthropology, NUIM.
 

Papers Delivered

 Anthropological Research Imperatives: The Next Generation. An Anthropological Association of Ireland Conference
National University of Ireland, Maynooth. 11th April 2008.
Title of paper:
‘The Gift and Collective Effervescence; Bloodletting and Drinking at a Black Metal Festival’.

CREOLE Intensive Program:
University of Vienna, Vienna, 28th July 2008.
Title of Paper:
‘Comunitas and Expectation; Violence, Reciprocity and Scene Making’.

EASA Biennial Conference 2008:
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana 29th August 2008.
Title of Poster:
‘Hate couture: The Deployment of the Spectacular in Live Performance’.

Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual:
Heidelberg, September 29th 2008.
Title of Paper:
‘Genre Leaking & Boundaries: Merging Subcultures Within Pan Slavic Black Metal Music Scenes’. (Delivered Electronically due to Illness).
 

Teaching

I am currently lecturing in the Kilkenny faculty of NUI Maynooth on ‘Nationalism, Identity and Language’ and I will be lecturing on the ‘History of Ethnographic Thought’ in 2009.
 

I have also taught a course at the Dublin Business School in 2008, which focused on the conceptualisation of Disability Studies.
 

This is my second year of tutoring for the Anthropology dept at NUI Maynooth.
 

Contact Details

Contact David Jo Murphy