Rate My Professor Kerry Murphy

Murphy's research focuses on 19th-century French music and music criticism, colonial Australian music history, reception studies, and opera. Key publications include her book Hector Berlioz and the Development of French Music Criticism (1988), co-edited Berlioz and Debussy: Sources, Contexts and Legacies (2007), and Pursuit of the New: Louise Hanson-Dyer (2024, with Jennifer Hill). With over 149 citations on Google Scholar, her scholarship has influenced the field through supervision of fourteen PhDs—four resulting in books—substantial grants, conference convenings such as the 2001 Musicological Society of Australia national conference and a 2004 international symposium on 19th-century French music, and roles including founding member of the UK AHRC Francophone Music Criticism Network (1789–1914), Honorary Associate of CHOMBEC, and artistic advisory board member for Victorian Opera Company. Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) in 2008, she continues to contribute through public lectures and editorial work.