[1] Dunphy is a professor of translation at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt.
[1] His work focuses primarily on German world chronicles, such as the Annolied, Kaiserchronik, Jans der Enikel, Christherre-Chronik, and Rudolf von Ems, among others.
[citation needed] He has also worked on German Baroque literature (Martin Opitz and Melchior Goldast) and modern migrant literature (Meera Syal, Rafik Schami, Sevtap Baycılı, Halil Gür, Şinasi Dikmen, and Django Asül).
[citation needed] Dunphy serves as the president of the Medieval Chronicle Society.
[3] He is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle and The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies.