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Reading Bodies Creative Anthology with Riptide

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 06/12/2024
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We’re delighted to share our Reading Bodies: Burnout, Overload and Resilience creative anthology, published in collaboration with Riptide Journal (2024). You can read the digital version as a flipbook and via our website here.

The volume presents fiction, poetry and artwork inspired by our research themes and explores how creativity can unlock different perspectives on burnout and resilience. For more information about this initiative, please visit our blog post about the creative workshop we held in June 2024.

Tags Burnout, Creative Writing, Illness Narratives, Illustration, Literary Studies, Medical Humanities, Mental Health, Resilience

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Illustrations for Reading Bodies Creative Workshop

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 03/12/2024
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Local artist Molly Saunders has illustrated the themes of our Reading Bodies creative workshop in preparation for our forthcoming anthology with Riptide Journal. We’re pleased to share the series of images that have resulted from this collaboration below:

Molly took part in our creative workshop on 14 June 2024, producing live illustrations as the basis for the final images. You can find more details about her work here.

Tags Burnout, Illustration, Medical Humanities, Mental Health, Resilience

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Reading Bodies Illustration

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 27/08/2024
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Artist Katharine Howell has illustrated the Reading Bodies collaborative process with Riptide Journal, in preparation for our forthcoming anthology on Burnout, Overload and Resilience. We’re delighted to share her illustration below:

You can find more information about the artist here.

Tags Burnout, Illness and Society, Illness Narratives, Literary Studies, Medical Humanities, Mental Health, Resilience

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Reading Bodies Creative Writing Workshop: Burnout, Overload, and Resilience – 14 June 2024

Post author By Olivia Glaze
Post date 20/06/2024
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Thank you so much to our participants and speakers for joining our Creative Writing workshop on “Burnout, Overload, and Resilience,” held at the University of Exeter on June 14, 2024. The event was organised by Prof. Katharine Murphy (Principal Investigator for Reading Bodies), Dr. Sally Flint (Lecturer in Creative Writing), and Dr. Olivia Glaze (AHRC Postdoctoral Researcher) and we were thrilled to welcome such a diverse group to the event – which included teachers, entrepreneurs, NHS practitioners, yoga teachers, a live illustrator, academics, and postgraduate students.

Tags Burnout, Illness and Society, Illness Narratives, Medical Humanities, Mental Health, Overload, Resilience

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The Best Job in the World!: A Comic by Hannah Berry on Burnout and Resilience

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 06/06/2024
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Award-winning creator of graphic novels and former UK Comics Laureate 2019-21, Hannah Berry, has collaborated with Reading Bodies to illustrate our research theme of Burnout, Overload and Resilience.

Tags Burnout, Comics, Creative Industries, Medical Humanities, Mental Health, Resilience

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Burnout, Overload & Resilience: A Creative Writing Workshop, 14 June 2024

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 05/06/2024
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We are looking forward to the third in our series of project workshops for Reading Bodies, hosted by the University of Exeter on 14 June 2024. This creative writing workshop on the theme of Burnout, Overload and Resilience, will be introduced by researchers in Languages, Public Health and Psychology, and led by Dr Sally Flint, a specialist in Creative Writing. A reminder of practical information and what to bring can be found in our flyer below. We invite submissions of writing and illustrations for publication in Riptide Journal.

Tags Creative Writing, Illustrations, Literary Studies, Medical Humanities, Mental Health, Resilience

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Reading Bodies Workshop II, University of Exeter, 23 May 2024

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 31/05/2024
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Thanks to all our wonderful speakers from the Universities of Belfast, Boston (USA), Cambridge, Exeter, Kent, London and Sheffield, for our second international Reading Bodies workshop, hosted by the University of Exeter on 23 May 2024. The workshop was organised by Prof. Katharine Murphy (Principal Investigator for Reading Bodies) and Dr Olivia Glaze (AHRC Postdoctoral Researcher). Prof. Nicolás Fernández-Medina (Chair of Romance Studies at Boston University) delivered a brilliant keynote on Health, Disease, and Society in the Early Ramón Gómez de la Serna. The programme included specialists in Spanish, Portuguese, English, French and German, and a hybrid Roundtable on interdisciplinary approaches to Reading Bodies in Literatures and Cultures.

Tags 19th Century, Illness and Gender, Illness and Society, Illness Narratives, Literary Studies, Medical Humanities, Mental Illness

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Reading Bodies Exeter Workshop – 23 May 2024

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 10/05/2024
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We’re looking forward to our second international workshop, hosted by the University of Exeter on 23 May 2024. All are welcome to attend – please reserve your place here.

Highlights include speakers across 4 languages, a keynote by Prof. Nicolás Fernández-Medina (Chair of Romance Studies at Boston University), an interdisciplinary Reading Bodies Roundtable, and a Stage Rehearsal of Multilingual Medical Humanities (with Ants!). There will also be a short talk about Bibliotherapy by Exeter City of Literature. For more information about the programme, please visit our events page.

Tags 19th Century, Illness and Society, Illness Narratives, Literary Studies, Medical Humanities

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Reading Bodies Workshop at the ILCS, Senate House, 26 April 2024

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 29/04/2024
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Thanks to all our fantastic speakers, chairs, and Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalán (University of Kent) for a wonderful keynote lecture. Thanks also to members of the research network and all attendees who came along on 26 April 2024 to support our first academic workshop, contributing to stimulating conversations about Reading Bodies: Narrating Illness in Spanish and European Literatures and Cultures (1870s to 1960s). The workshop was organised by Prof. Katharine Murphy (Principal Investigator for Reading Bodies) and Dr Olivia Glaze (AHRC Postdoctoral Researcher). A recording of selected papers from the workshop is available on the ILCS website.

Tags Illness and Gender, Illness Narratives, Literary Studies, Medical Humanities, Multilingual Medical Humanities, Performance Art, Visual Studies

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Creative Writing Workshop on Burnout, Overload and Resilience – 14 June 2024

Post author By Katharine Murphy
Post date 26/03/2024
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We are hosting a Creative Writing Workshop on Burnout, Overload and Resilience on 14 June – you can find more information on our events page and below.