Professor Katharine Murphy

Principal Investigator

Katharine Murphy is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies, University of Exeter. She is a specialist in early twentieth-century Spanish fiction, and author of Bodies of Disorder: Gender and Degeneration in Baroja and Blasco Ibáñez (Legenda, 2017) and Re-reading Pío Baroja and English Literature (Peter Lang, 2004). Her recent research includes an article on ‘Abulia and the Language of Pathology in Baroja’s Early Fiction’, published by Hispanic Review (2023). She is an affiliate member of the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health.