Katharine Murphy
@katharinemurphy.bsky.social
PI for AHRC Reading Bodies project: https://readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk/ @readingbodies.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Exeter
Spanish Modernism, gender and the body, Medical Humanities
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Exeter
Spanish Modernism, gender and the body, Medical Humanities
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Thrilled that @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and my co-edited Special Issue is now out in the Journal of Romance Studies! 🎉 Huge thanks to our contributors across French, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese studies—showing the value of a multilingual approach to the Medical Humanities: tinyurl.com/mrxmznsm
Contents | Journal of Romance Studies 25, 3
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
Hot off the press! So happy to share our extended special issue of JRS on 'Reading bodies: narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s to 1960s and beyond)'. 🩺📖 @profstevenwilson.bsky.social @ryanlor.bsky.social @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
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Join us for the webinar: What languages can do for you: Opportunities across the globe. Dr Peter Haysom-Rodríguez will discuss how the study of #languahes and global cultures can help you stand out in the job market! Booking required: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/talk-...
#employability
#employability
October 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Join us for the webinar: What languages can do for you: Opportunities across the globe. Dr Peter Haysom-Rodríguez will discuss how the study of #languahes and global cultures can help you stand out in the job market! Booking required: leedscityoflanguages.leeds.ac.uk/events/talk-...
#employability
#employability
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@cforsdick.bsky.social concludes the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover and discusses how this project contributes to rethinking the medical humanities in ways that are simultaneously multilingual, transnational and translational.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/24/m...
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Multilingual, Transnational and Translational: Rethinking the Medical Humanities
Charles Forsdick concludes the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses how this project on historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contributes to rethinking the medical …
thepolyphony.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
@cforsdick.bsky.social concludes the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover and discusses how this project contributes to rethinking the medical humanities in ways that are simultaneously multilingual, transnational and translational.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/24/m...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/24/m...
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My post is up! Thanks to the editors of The Polyphony and to @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and @oliviaglaze.bsky.social for providing a space to discuss how past cultural narratives are shaping our present.
In Part 4 of the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover, @rocio.bsky.social discusses the colonial legacies of nineteenth-century medical metaphors and demonstrates their ongoing relevance for the present day.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/23/m...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/23/m...
How Medical Metaphors of the Past Are Shaping Our Future
In Part 4 of the Reading Bodies takeover, Rocío Rødtjer discusses the colonial legacies of nineteenth-century medical metaphors and demonstrates their ongoing relevance for the present day.
thepolyphony.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
My post is up! Thanks to the editors of The Polyphony and to @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and @oliviaglaze.bsky.social for providing a space to discuss how past cultural narratives are shaping our present.
Thanks for this fascinating contribution to our Reading Bodies takeover this week, @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social! 🩺👇
In Part 3 of the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover, Nicolás Fernández-Medina examines the Spanish avant-garde’s response to the biomedical sciences through the lens of Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s pioneering avant-gardism.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/22/b...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/22/b...
The Biomedical Sciences and the Spanish Avant-Garde
In Part 3 of the Reading Bodies takeover, Nicolás Fernández-Medina examines the Spanish avant-garde’s response to the biomedical sciences through the lens of Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s pioneering av…
thepolyphony.org
October 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Thanks for this fascinating contribution to our Reading Bodies takeover this week, @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social! 🩺👇
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In Part 2 of the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover, @oliviaglaze.bsky.social considers the policy and impact potential of research on languages, identity and culture within the medical humanities.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/21/l...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/21/l...
Languages, Medical Humanities and Policy: Intersections in Research and Practice
In Part 2 of the Reading Bodies takeover, Olivia Glaze considers the policy and impact potential of research on languages, identity and culture within the medical humanities.
thepolyphony.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In Part 2 of the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover, @oliviaglaze.bsky.social considers the policy and impact potential of research on languages, identity and culture within the medical humanities.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/21/l...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/21/l...
Enjoyed presenting my AHRC Reading Bodies project at the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Research Celebration last week at University of Exeter. In conversation here with historian Dr Ljubica Spaskovska on Medical Humanities research intersections. Poster by @oliviaglaze.bsky.social 🩺
October 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Enjoyed presenting my AHRC Reading Bodies project at the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Research Celebration last week at University of Exeter. In conversation here with historian Dr Ljubica Spaskovska on Medical Humanities research intersections. Poster by @oliviaglaze.bsky.social 🩺
Thanks to Jordan McCullough for editing this week's Reading Bodies takeover of @the-polyphony.bsky.social!
@katharinemurphy.bsky.social introduces the @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover and discusses what historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contribute to the medical humanities.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/20/h...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/20/h...
Historical Narratives of Illness in the Multilingual Medical Humanities
Katharine Murphy introduces the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses what historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contribute to the medical humanities.
thepolyphony.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Thanks to Jordan McCullough for editing this week's Reading Bodies takeover of @the-polyphony.bsky.social!
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Think Like a Linguist: It’s time for a national conversation about the value of languages
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/14/t...
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/14/t...
Think Like a Linguist: It’s time for a national conversation about the value of languages - HEPI
This guest blog was kindly authored by Dr Charlotte Ryland, Director of the Translation Exchange. ‘Languages are not just a skillset, they’re a mindset.’ I still remember where I was when a teacher ...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Think Like a Linguist: It’s time for a national conversation about the value of languages
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/14/t...
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/14/t...
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Pleased to have established the new *Global Cultures of Health and Illness* research centre at QUB.
Watch this space for future plans and do get in touch if you’d like to collaborate.
Watch this space for future plans and do get in touch if you’d like to collaborate.
October 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Pleased to have established the new *Global Cultures of Health and Illness* research centre at QUB.
Watch this space for future plans and do get in touch if you’d like to collaborate.
Watch this space for future plans and do get in touch if you’d like to collaborate.
Thank you @profstevenwilson.bsky.social for your fantastic contribution!
A treat to receive the hard copy of @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and @oliviaglaze.bsky.social’s special issue, ‘Reading bodies: Narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s-1960s&beyond)’. Looking forward to reading all the articles. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/jrs/25/3
October 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Thank you @profstevenwilson.bsky.social for your fantastic contribution!
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The latest JRS special issue explores multilingual & transcultural narratives of health and illness in European literatures (1870s–1960s+).
Read the introduction to the issue #OpenAccess.
➡️ bit.ly/JRS-Reading-Bodies
@ilcs.bsky.social @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @profstevenwilson.bsky.social
Read the introduction to the issue #OpenAccess.
➡️ bit.ly/JRS-Reading-Bodies
@ilcs.bsky.social @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @profstevenwilson.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The latest JRS special issue explores multilingual & transcultural narratives of health and illness in European literatures (1870s–1960s+).
Read the introduction to the issue #OpenAccess.
➡️ bit.ly/JRS-Reading-Bodies
@ilcs.bsky.social @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @profstevenwilson.bsky.social
Read the introduction to the issue #OpenAccess.
➡️ bit.ly/JRS-Reading-Bodies
@ilcs.bsky.social @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @profstevenwilson.bsky.social
Hot off the press! So happy to share our extended special issue of JRS on 'Reading bodies: narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s to 1960s and beyond)'. 🩺📖 @profstevenwilson.bsky.social @ryanlor.bsky.social @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
Thrilled that @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and my co-edited Special Issue is now out in the Journal of Romance Studies! 🎉 Huge thanks to our contributors across French, Spanish, Italian & Portuguese studies—showing the value of a multilingual approach to the Medical Humanities: tinyurl.com/mrxmznsm
Contents | Journal of Romance Studies 25, 3
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Hot off the press! So happy to share our extended special issue of JRS on 'Reading bodies: narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s to 1960s and beyond)'. 🩺📖 @profstevenwilson.bsky.social @ryanlor.bsky.social @nicolasfmedina.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
Delighted to share a news story about our Reading Bodies health resource, The Burnout Booklet, created with @oliviaglaze.bsky.social and illustrated by Hannah Mumby.
@readingbodies.bsky.social
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@readingbodies.bsky.social
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Language scholars produce illustrated health booklet on burnout
An illustrated booklet designed to help people talk about burnout and related feelings of stress and fatigue has been published by modern language scholars. The Burnout Booklet: A Health Resource for ...
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September 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Delighted to share a news story about our Reading Bodies health resource, The Burnout Booklet, created with @oliviaglaze.bsky.social and illustrated by Hannah Mumby.
@readingbodies.bsky.social
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@readingbodies.bsky.social
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An inspiring 3-day conference about Medical Humanities across languages and cultures! Very much enjoyed presenting my reflections on Reading Bodies at a panel on 'Medical Humanities and the Creative Arts', with a creative writing taster session by @oliviaglaze.bsky.social.
nnmh.org.uk/tongues/
nnmh.org.uk/tongues/
TONGUES: NNMHR Congress 2025 - Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research
TONGUES: Medical Humanities across linguistic and cultural frontiers NNMHR Congress, 21-23 May 2025 (online) Organisers: Benjamin Dalton, Alexander Wragge-Morley, and Stephanie Wright, Lancaster Unive...
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May 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
An inspiring 3-day conference about Medical Humanities across languages and cultures! Very much enjoyed presenting my reflections on Reading Bodies at a panel on 'Medical Humanities and the Creative Arts', with a creative writing taster session by @oliviaglaze.bsky.social.
nnmh.org.uk/tongues/
nnmh.org.uk/tongues/
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*Interdisciplinary Disease and Narrative Workshop!* Register below for this in-person event @unibirmingham.bsky.social in Arts 103 on Weds 18th June (5.00-7.15pm) hosted by @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & 19CC Bham to explore sensational tales of disease:
May 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
*Interdisciplinary Disease and Narrative Workshop!* Register below for this in-person event @unibirmingham.bsky.social in Arts 103 on Weds 18th June (5.00-7.15pm) hosted by @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & 19CC Bham to explore sensational tales of disease:
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Thank you so much to everyone who attended this event last week, and in particular Sarah Moss, @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and @laurasalisbury.bsky.social. If you couldn’t attend - fear not! - you can find a recording of the conversation on our website: readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk/2025/05/16/w...
May 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Thank you so much to everyone who attended this event last week, and in particular Sarah Moss, @katharinemurphy.bsky.social and @laurasalisbury.bsky.social. If you couldn’t attend - fear not! - you can find a recording of the conversation on our website: readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk/2025/05/16/w...
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The Centre for the Study of Women´s Writing will host this fantastic New Seminar Series on Female-authored science fiction in Spain. Book now.
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Convergencias literarias: género, narrativa y fandom en la literatura española contemporánea | Literary convergences: Gender, genre and fandom in contemporary Spanish literature
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May 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The Centre for the Study of Women´s Writing will host this fantastic New Seminar Series on Female-authored science fiction in Spain. Book now.
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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A reminder to join us online on 7 May for Writing Bodies: in Conversation with author Sarah Moss. Tickets free of charge via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-bo...
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@readingbodies.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social
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@readingbodies.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social
Renowned author Sarah Moss set for public talk on her writing and the human body
An acclaimed novelist whose work has regularly explored themes of health and the human body will give a public interview next month for an international research project. Sarah Moss – a three-time Wel...
news.exeter.ac.uk
April 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
A reminder to join us online on 7 May for Writing Bodies: in Conversation with author Sarah Moss. Tickets free of charge via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-bo...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
@readingbodies.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
@readingbodies.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social
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NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION:
TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz
TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz
TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers
Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online
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April 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION:
TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz
TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz
A reminder to join us online on 7 May for Writing Bodies: in Conversation with author Sarah Moss. Tickets free of charge via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-bo...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
@readingbodies.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
@readingbodies.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social
Renowned author Sarah Moss set for public talk on her writing and the human body
An acclaimed novelist whose work has regularly explored themes of health and the human body will give a public interview next month for an international research project. Sarah Moss – a three-time Wel...
news.exeter.ac.uk
April 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
A reminder to join us online on 7 May for Writing Bodies: in Conversation with author Sarah Moss. Tickets free of charge via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-bo...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
@readingbodies.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
@readingbodies.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exetercityoflit.bsky.social
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Join us for the final public event of the Reading Bodies project, where @katharinemurphy.bsky.social will be in conversation online with bestselling author Sarah Moss, discussing all things writing, health and the body. Our Q&A will be chaired by @laurasalisbury.bsky.social 📣💬 shorturl.at/eSnpY
April 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Join us for the final public event of the Reading Bodies project, where @katharinemurphy.bsky.social will be in conversation online with bestselling author Sarah Moss, discussing all things writing, health and the body. Our Q&A will be chaired by @laurasalisbury.bsky.social 📣💬 shorturl.at/eSnpY
Over the last 18 months, my AHRC-funded multilingual Reading Bodies project with @oliviaglaze.bsky.social has brought together research on literary and cultural representations of health and illness in Hispanic Studies, French, Portuguese, Italian and German:
readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk
readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk
Reading Bodies
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April 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Over the last 18 months, my AHRC-funded multilingual Reading Bodies project with @oliviaglaze.bsky.social has brought together research on literary and cultural representations of health and illness in Hispanic Studies, French, Portuguese, Italian and German:
readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk
readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk
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Looking forward to presenting alongside @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @petehr.bsky.social and Álvaro Gonzalez Montero for our panel 'Cultural Portrayals of Illnesses
and Disabilities in the Modern Luso-Hispanic World’. Taking place on April 8 @ 9.00 - come along! 💬🩺
and Disabilities in the Modern Luso-Hispanic World’. Taking place on April 8 @ 9.00 - come along! 💬🩺
The 70th Annual Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland will comprise of two face-to-face days at the University of Edinburgh (7-8 April 2025) and one day fully online (10 April 2025). The conference will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh.
March 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Looking forward to presenting alongside @katharinemurphy.bsky.social @petehr.bsky.social and Álvaro Gonzalez Montero for our panel 'Cultural Portrayals of Illnesses
and Disabilities in the Modern Luso-Hispanic World’. Taking place on April 8 @ 9.00 - come along! 💬🩺
and Disabilities in the Modern Luso-Hispanic World’. Taking place on April 8 @ 9.00 - come along! 💬🩺
Reposted by Katharine Murphy
The 70th Annual Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland will comprise of two face-to-face days at the University of Edinburgh (7-8 April 2025) and one day fully online (10 April 2025). The conference will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh.
March 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The 70th Annual Conference of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland will comprise of two face-to-face days at the University of Edinburgh (7-8 April 2025) and one day fully online (10 April 2025). The conference will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh.
Reposted by Katharine Murphy
🌍 ICYMI! Our Global Medical Humanities Roundtable is now available to watch online for anyone who couldn't make it. Featuring talks from leading experts in the UK, Switzerland, USA, China, Ghana & Australia! #DUGlobalweek
ICYMI: Global Medical Humanities Roundtable
If you missed our Global Medical Humanities Roundtable earlier this month, catch up now by watching the recording.
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March 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🌍 ICYMI! Our Global Medical Humanities Roundtable is now available to watch online for anyone who couldn't make it. Featuring talks from leading experts in the UK, Switzerland, USA, China, Ghana & Australia! #DUGlobalweek