📢 OA @openlibhums special issue for those interested in literature, languages, and the body 📢 The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine #ModLangs #MedHums #Literature

New publication in open access 📢 Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film "How do we engage with our metamorphic bodies and brains in ways which resist social and political violences [...]?"

alice wong introduced me to the 10 principles of disability justice and i think they are vital to the continued existence of the human race so i am sharing them

Poet John Keats (1795-1821) once considered a career in medicine, apprenticing at the age of 14 to the family doctor. Although he later abandoned this idea, he drew on his physician’s vision to interpret the nature and meaning of life. Medical elements emerge in his poem “Ode to

Happy to share the latest recorded lecture: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒: 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨-𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: https://t.co/O7CKKWfGtl #CSMBR #Astrology

Charles Forsdick concludes the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses how this project contributes to rethinking the medical humanities in ways that are simultaneously multilingual, transnational and translational. https://t.co/cmST4vXLm4

In Part 4 of the Reading Bodies takeover, Rocío Rødtjer discusses the colonial legacies of nineteenth-century medical metaphors and demonstrates their ongoing relevance for the present day. https://t.co/uPUOZdyLvr

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 avant-gardism. https://t.co/ps4Of0z6ND

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. https://t.co/xQ1bxd8UEl

Katharine Murphy introduces the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses what historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contribute to the medical humanities. https://t.co/sZbbQo23b8

A treat to receive the hard copy of Katharine Murphy and Olivia Glaze’s special issue, ‘Reading bodies: Narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s-1960s & beyond)’. Looking forward to reading all the articles. https://t.co/D0K66YLCqW

Shu Yang reports on the latest developments in understanding diseases and disorders in the Chinese context from a gender perspective in medicine.

New publication: ‘Colonial epidemiology: The poetics and politics of incommunicability in Sartre’s Typhus (1944)’, in Journal of Romance Studies special issue on Reading bodies: Narrating illness in European literatures and cultures (1870s-1960s & beyond)

The special issue is part of a much bigger project about bodies and minds in European literatures and cultures. See the project website #ModLangs #MedHums #Literature @ExeterModLangs https://t.co/qMRbkrkzfZ

📢 The current issue of Journal of Romance Studies (25:3) is out! 'Reading Bodies: Narrating Illness in European Literatures and Cultures (1870s to 1960s and Beyond)', ed. by Prof. Katharine Murphy and Dr Olivia Glaze The introduction is OA https://t.co/zAtwMVyacP

"Body, Again -- SF Anthology of Chinese & Korean Female Writers" is officially launched in China, after its successful launch in Korea! Newly written stories on "body" from Kim Choyeop, Cheon Seonran, Kim Cheonggyul, Cheng Jingbo, Zhouwen, and me🥳🤩😃

Grace Cooke, Lorenzo Meira-Gobel and Rory Hankins ask: what might it mean to approach English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teaching through the lens of the medical humanities? https://t.co/EWTCGGI578

Last year, while still at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, I recorded a YouTube mini-lecture and wrote a guide for teaching critical race theory and intersectionality through the medium of modern & contemporary literature. Here it is! https://t.co/L2isZyMFxc

Plagues, Power, and Public Health, an interview with @jacobinoire https://t.co/TMQZRG2PCR

https://t.co/Bgp0kpQfKG 📣📣 My book, "Alfred Döblin: Monsters, Cyborgs and Berliners, 1900-1933", one of the very first English-language monographs on this sui generis pioneer of German modernism, is available in paperback at £12.99 / $15.99 / €15.99! 📣📣 1/2

The Vagina Museum is just one month away from closing. Forever. A perfect storm of circumstances means that we may have to close our doors permanently and cease all digital activities. But we're not going to go down without a fight. Save the Vagina Museum.