Publications
Brian Murray鈥檚 books include H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens, which the distinguished literary critic and Dickens scholar Edward Wagenknecht called 鈥渁n able, stimulating, and at times exciting book,鈥� that 鈥渉as met the challenge of one of the greatest of all novelists fairly and squarely upon his own ground.鈥� David Castronovo called Brian Murray鈥檚 2009 illustrated Bedside Guide to Dickens (Continuum/Bloomsbury) 鈥渁 deeply satisfying way to visit and revisit the Dickens World.鈥�
Brian Murray has also been an advisor and contributor to the Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century and the Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature. He has also written about D.H. Lawrence, Bram Stoker, H.G. Wells and other figures for several volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. His books and critical essays have been reprinted or excerpted in The Concise DLB, Modern Mystery, Fantasy and Science Fiction Writers, Contemporary Literary Criticism and Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (forthcoming).
Brian Murray鈥檚 essays and reviews have also appeared in various print and online publications including Studies in Short Fiction, First Things, the Weekly Standard, the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Times and the Library of Law and Liberty, and have been cited or linked on Arts and Letters Daily, Arts Journal, the Huffington Post and the online editions of Reason and Forbes, among other places.
Other more recent publications include 鈥淔ellini inesplorato: il significato de La Dolce Vita in Nuova Corvina (Instituto Italiano di Cultura) and 鈥淩eading Artie Shaw鈥� in The Reader (UK).
His biographical essay on the television writer Rod Serling appears in the Winter 2016 volume of the New Atlantis.
Courses
At Loyola Brian Murray has taught in the Writing Department, the Honors Program and the graduate program in Liberal Studies, where he has offered a wide variety of courses related to modern literature, contemporary culture and film, including 鈥淭he American Bestseller 1950-70,鈥� and 鈥淭he 1970s: Ideas Have Consequences.鈥� He has also team-taught 鈥淭he 1980s: Fiction, Film and Philosophy鈥� (with Graham Macaleer, Department of Philosophy).