An Ohio-native, born in 1985, Amanda Murphy has called Paris, France home since 2007. She is a Translator, Writer and Associate Professor of English, Translation Studies and Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. She holds a PhD in Comparartive Literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle, is the author of the monograph Écrire, lire, traduire: Défis et pratiques de la poétique multilingue (Classiques Garnier, 2023) and is the co-translator of Sandra Moussempès' Cassandra at point blank range (Dialogos/Lavender Ink, 2025). Some of her writing can be found on Substack.