Dr. Amy Tooth Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Oral History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her research interests include queer oral history theory and method, butch/femme identities and culture, post-war lesbian history and literature, and queer temporalities. Her current British Academy/Leverhulme-funded project, ‘Historicising Butch: Narrating Butch Lesbian Identity, 1950-Present’, is an examination of butch lived experience in the UK and US via oral history interviews. Amy is a Trustee of the Oral History Society, a co-founder and member of the OHS’s LGBTQ Special Interest Group, and a co-founder and editor of the peer-reviewed blog, Notches: (re)marks on the history of sexuality. She is co-editor of a special issue of Oral History on LGBTQ lives and identities (2020), and two edited collections: New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Desire (2022), and Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender, and Subjectivity (forthcoming, March 2024).