The second academic workshop for this project will be held at the University of Exeter on 23 May 2024. All are welcome to attend – please reserve your place here. For more information about the programme, visit our events page.
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On the benefits of reading for wellbeing and bibliotherapy in the community, take a look at Exeter City of Literature’s Bibliotherapy Skills programme. Their website includes a literature review on bibliotherapy produced by the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health.
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Reading Bodies Research Network
The Reading Bodies Research Network has met regularly since November 2023 to discuss our project research questions, updates on our chosen topics, and development of shared interests which are grouped into 3 themes: gender and the body; society, illness and representation; transnational and decolonial perspectives. For more information, please visit our Network and People pages.
The first academic workshop for this project will be held at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies in Senate House, London on 26 April 2024. Registration is free and all are welcome to attend. For more information and a link to reserve your place, please visit our events page.
By Katharine Murphy, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Exeter, and AHRC Principal Investigator for the ‘Reading Bodies’ project.
Prof. Katharine Murphy has published an invited piece on ‘Reading Bodies in European Literatures and Cultures’ in the Multilingual Medical Humanities series of The Polyphony, hosted by the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University.