Katie Murphy
@manymanyplies.bsky.social
Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Out in summer 2026: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.
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Deadline for abstracts for John Donne's Architecture is this Friday. Looking forward to reading them!
Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Deadline for abstracts for John Donne's Architecture is this Friday. Looking forward to reading them!
Maybe I'll get on board with this AI lark after all, if it starts claiming that I have coined 'key concepts in literary theory' when all I was up to was trying to find a link to an essay I wrote. Then again, as it says at the bottom, 'AI responses may include mistakes'.
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Maybe I'll get on board with this AI lark after all, if it starts claiming that I have coined 'key concepts in literary theory' when all I was up to was trying to find a link to an essay I wrote. Then again, as it says at the bottom, 'AI responses may include mistakes'.
My review of Andrew Graham-Dixon's new biography of Vermeer is out. I was charmed, intrigued, amused, and unconvinced.
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literaryreview.co.uk/a-devotion-t...
Kathryn Murphy - A Devotion to Art
Kathryn Murphy: A Devotion to Art - Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham-Dixon
literaryreview.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
My review of Andrew Graham-Dixon's new biography of Vermeer is out. I was charmed, intrigued, amused, and unconvinced.
literaryreview.co.uk/a-devotion-t...
literaryreview.co.uk/a-devotion-t...
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Excellent news for Oriel specifically, especially in our 700th year!
Today I joined a @churchofengland.org delegation to attend a Mass in St Peter’s Square, during which Saint John Henry Newman was declared the 38th Doctor of the Church. The second British person, after The Venerable Bede, to be conferred this special title.
youtu.be/BZNwSlSCEZA
youtu.be/BZNwSlSCEZA
John Henry Newman declared the 38th Doctor of the Church
YouTube video by Archbishop of York
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November 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Excellent news for Oriel specifically, especially in our 700th year!
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Exciting news from Cambridge, where a donation has funded a permanent lectureship (sorry, “Assistant Professorship”) in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400. The only explicit restriction is “not medicine”, but it is in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53305/
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400 - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400 in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Exciting news from Cambridge, where a donation has funded a permanent lectureship (sorry, “Assistant Professorship”) in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400. The only explicit restriction is “not medicine”, but it is in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53305/
Advice in a 1944 Colloquial Hungarian textbook; useful for the internet age.
October 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Advice in a 1944 Colloquial Hungarian textbook; useful for the internet age.
Obligatory Oxford-academic's-first-trip-to-the-Schwarzman photo.
October 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Obligatory Oxford-academic's-first-trip-to-the-Schwarzman photo.
Great Tew Circle redux! I will be giving a talk on *Saturday evening* at the parish church in the village of Great Tew, in the Cotswolds, under the title 'The Anxiety of Variety: Attention Crisis in the Seventeenth Century'. Come, if you can! www.charlbury.info/events/10338
The Great Tew Circle 2.0 | charlbury.info
www.charlbury.info
October 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Great Tew Circle redux! I will be giving a talk on *Saturday evening* at the parish church in the village of Great Tew, in the Cotswolds, under the title 'The Anxiety of Variety: Attention Crisis in the Seventeenth Century'. Come, if you can! www.charlbury.info/events/10338
This should be a blast! John Donne and architecture, cfp below.
Very excited to be running this conference with Paul Norris. Delighted to have @mcculloughp.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. We can't wait to hear your ideas! Please share widely
September 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This should be a blast! John Donne and architecture, cfp below.
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Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
Haven't followed Czech politics for ages, and now discover I have to get my head round parties and groupings called 'Motorists for Themselves', 'That was enough!', 'Stan' (acronym for 'Mayors and Independents'), and 'Together'. I already knew about 'YES' and the Pirates.
September 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Haven't followed Czech politics for ages, and now discover I have to get my head round parties and groupings called 'Motorists for Themselves', 'That was enough!', 'Stan' (acronym for 'Mayors and Independents'), and 'Together'. I already knew about 'YES' and the Pirates.
New Scottish poetry magazine, ed. by poets Tom Docherty and Molly Vogel, seeks submissions! First issue spring 2026. (Scottish in that the editors are based in Scotland; poems of all kinds & origins considered: short & long; in verse or prose; formal & less so.)
www.arderythhouse.com
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September 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
New Scottish poetry magazine, ed. by poets Tom Docherty and Molly Vogel, seeks submissions! First issue spring 2026. (Scottish in that the editors are based in Scotland; poems of all kinds & origins considered: short & long; in verse or prose; formal & less so.)
www.arderythhouse.com
www.arderythhouse.com
Okay maybe AI is great after all.
When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
September 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Okay maybe AI is great after all.
Long before 'cozzy livs' and 'platty jubes', Scots were suffering from the 'shakky trimmles'.
September 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Long before 'cozzy livs' and 'platty jubes', Scots were suffering from the 'shakky trimmles'.
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An opportunity of a lifetime for budding lichenologists. The National Trust and the Royal Botanics, Edinburgh are offering a PAID lichen traineeship in #Scotland! The work programme looks fascinating and a great opportunity to develop skills. Deadline: 3/10/2025. www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...
September 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
An opportunity of a lifetime for budding lichenologists. The National Trust and the Royal Botanics, Edinburgh are offering a PAID lichen traineeship in #Scotland! The work programme looks fascinating and a great opportunity to develop skills. Deadline: 3/10/2025. www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...
What do people who don't use Bible Gateway use as a first stop when they want to compare multiple translations of the Bible, across multiple languages? Because this has just flung a spanner into my afternoon:
September 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
What do people who don't use Bible Gateway use as a first stop when they want to compare multiple translations of the Bible, across multiple languages? Because this has just flung a spanner into my afternoon:
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Margareta de Heer, Still Life with Roses, 1651
(Amsterdam Museum)
(Amsterdam Museum)
September 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Margareta de Heer, Still Life with Roses, 1651
(Amsterdam Museum)
(Amsterdam Museum)
If only I'd thought of that, responds Keir Starmer.
September 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
If only I'd thought of that, responds Keir Starmer.
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Still life of flowers & vases By Orsola Maddalena Caccia [born Theodora], 1596-1676 an artist and Ursuline nun who ran a studio that supported an Ursuline convent at Moncalvo, where she was abbess. (Dorotheum/private collection)
September 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Still life of flowers & vases By Orsola Maddalena Caccia [born Theodora], 1596-1676 an artist and Ursuline nun who ran a studio that supported an Ursuline convent at Moncalvo, where she was abbess. (Dorotheum/private collection)
Thinking about the weight we put on underlinings and marks in the margin of early modern books, as I revisit a book unopened for 15 years on my shelves, and have no idea how to interpret the marks I made or what I thought significant.
September 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Thinking about the weight we put on underlinings and marks in the margin of early modern books, as I revisit a book unopened for 15 years on my shelves, and have no idea how to interpret the marks I made or what I thought significant.
I like this very much, except: aren't 'fragile' and 'expédier' words in French? Which raises the prospect that these are not accidental canonizations, but perfectly knowingly instantiated patrons of frangibility and haste...
September 1, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I like this very much, except: aren't 'fragile' and 'expédier' words in French? Which raises the prospect that these are not accidental canonizations, but perfectly knowingly instantiated patrons of frangibility and haste...
Ah, the seventeenth century, when the dream was not artificial but Human General Intelligence, revealed by art.
August 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Ah, the seventeenth century, when the dream was not artificial but Human General Intelligence, revealed by art.
Splitting; or, one of these is not like the others.
August 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Splitting; or, one of these is not like the others.
Reminding myself for the UMPTEENTH time today that so much of writing is holding one's nerve.
August 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Reminding myself for the UMPTEENTH time today that so much of writing is holding one's nerve.
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Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
www.oxforddnb.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️