Reading Bodies Multilingual Network
@readingbodies.bsky.social
Multilingual research network connecting Medical Humanities research across different languages and cultures 🌏 💊💬 Led by @katharinemurphy.bsky.social & @oliviaglaze.bsky.social Connected to the AHRC-funded project https://readingbodies.exeter.ac.uk
To celebrate #DisabilityHistoryMonth, browse the LUP reading list and enjoy free access to selected disability studies journal articles across the next month. bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖 @davidbolt13.bsky.social
Celebrating Disability History Month 2025
To mark Disability History Month in the UK, we’ve collated a reading list from our books and journals that engage with ideas and narratives of disability, particularly our leading journal, Th…
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@katharinemurphy.bsky.social and I are very grateful to @cforsdick.bsky.social for wrapping up our takeover of @the-polyphony.bsky.social and for his generous words about the @readingbodies.bsky.social project 💙
The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 10mo ago@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...
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.
The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 10mo agoIn 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...
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...
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.
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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...
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…
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@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...
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.
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Happy to share that my piece - 'Languages, Medical Humanities and Policy: Intersections in Research and Practice’ - is out today on @the-polyphony.bsky.social as part of this week's @readingbodies.bsky.social takeover! 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.
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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
Olivia Glaze@oliviaglaze.bsky.social · 11mo agoThrilled 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
As part of our Special Issue, I wrote my first article engaging with Disability Studies & crip theory (eek) and discovered the brilliant work of @sunaura.bsky.social, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril & @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social, among others. I couldn’t recommend their work more! 🔗 tinyurl.com/2emhnz7w
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/.
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"Incredible Women: Chronic Pain, Credibility, and Gender Bias" 📆 Wednesday 17th Sept, 6.30pm on MS Teams 📢 Dr Eilidh Galbraith discusses the findings of her @abdndivinity.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk research project with a panel of guests. 🔗 DM me for event link or see poster for details!
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 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
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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So excited to share this open-access resource, shaped by real stories of burnout from our creative writing workshops & anthology. Hoping it shows how languages research can make a difference in healthcare spaces!
Katharine Murphy@katharinemurphy.bsky.social · 11mo agoDelighted 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 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
🚨JOB KLAXON🚨 We are recruiting five 5-year postdoctoral fellows to work with us. Each post will be attached to a specific case study on the project (Abortion Care, AI, Physician Associates and/or LGBTQ+ Health Activism). At:University of Edinburgh Starting: April 2026 Deadline: 2 October 2025
Publishing today - Feeling blue by @victoriabates.bsky.social 💙 The first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals, thinking expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt. Now #OpenAccess on manchesterhive.com 🔓 - from our @sshmedicine.bsky.social series. #histmed
🎙️ Elena Semino, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University joins host Dr. Joe Bianco to discuss the subtle and surprising ways that language 🗣️ and humor 😂 shape health experiences 💙.
Fantastic to have MADE For Health back on Lancaster University campus this week as part of the Social Enterprise in Residence scheme! MADE For Health are a company whose mission is to transform hospital architecture by putting patients and clinicians at the heart of the design process 🏥❤️
Join us at the British Academy on Tue 24 – Wed 25 June, for a conference exploring ethical and political issues that can arise in the context of communicating about health and health care, bringing together experts in philosophical ethics and health practice. Book your ticket: buff.ly/NsoFDd6
Join us next month in Fribourg for our conference Medical Spaces in Cultural Studies, Architecture, Literature: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, generously funded by the @snf-fns.ch. With presentations by @annmarieadams.bsky.social, @marcakeller.bsky.social, and many more!
I just received my copy of The Edinburgh Companion to Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, feat. a lengthy introduction my @drgavinmiller.bsky.social and I, and a chapter on pregnancy from me. #medicalhumanities #sf #sciencefiction #disabilitystudies
How could narrative medicine support healthcare professionals’ linguistic skills and sense of social belonging? Anna Ovaska and colleagues share their experiences of developing a new narrative medicine reading group model in Finland. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/29/m...
Toward Multilingual Narrative Medicine
How could narrative medicine support healthcare professionals’ linguistic skills and sense of social belonging? Anna Ovaska, Sonja Sulkava, Viola Parente-Čapková and Riitta Jytilä share their exper…
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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:
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...
Writing Bodies: In Conversation with Sarah Moss – Reading Bodies
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Olivia Glaze@oliviaglaze.bsky.social · last yr.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
@okhromeychuk.bsky.social 'We Are War: On Bearing Witness and Sharing Pain' talk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social 4 June, 5-5pm + reception and book signing @exetercityoflit.bsky.social @ukrinstitute.bsky.social
@okhromeychuk.bsky.social 'Trigger Warning: A Workshop on Writing Pain' @exeterphoenix.bsky.social 3 June 5-6.30pm @exetercityoflit.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @ukrinstitute.bsky.social
Registration for the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions is now open! 🗓️ 24-26 June 2025 (single day tickets available) 📍In-person at Durham University, or online 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-n...
For those very few remaining people who are not yet sick of listening me to talk about my book, I’ve sent in the final revised manuscript!! 📖Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity📖 FORTHCOMING with Edinburgh University Press early 2026!
Happening next Wednesday - everyone welcome!
Olivia Glaze@oliviaglaze.bsky.social · last yr.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
