Dr. Amy Tooth Murphy
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).