Marta Arnaldi

Dr Marta Arnaldi is a Laming Junior Research Fellow at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, the author of an award-winning poetry collection, and a ballet dancer (RAD). Dr Arnaldi is trained in both comparative literature and medicine, and she is based at the Oxford Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. Since October 2019, she has been the PI of Translating Illness, an interdisciplinary research project exploring the interplay at work between translation and medicine. The project has been awarded a double research grant from Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund and John Fell Fund, Oxford.

Translating Illness

What do medicine and translation have in common? In what sense, and to what extent, is ...

Translation and Medical Humanities

This series of video podcasts highlights some of the key moments of the Translation and...

Title	Description	People	Date
Into the Translation Zone	Marta Arnaldi introduces the idea that medical humanities is a fundamentally translational field. This vision reshuffle, and invites us to rethink, our beliefs of what counts as science, practice, and/or knowledge.	Marta Arnaldi	4 January, 2024
Conversations Across the Translational Medical Humanities	The speakers outline the possibilities and implications catalysed by rethinking translation and medical humanities as continuous, ever-changing, and synergistic fields.	Marta Arnaldi, Charles Briggs, Charles Forsdick, John Ødemark	3 January, 2024
Translation and Medical Humanities: Personal Narratives, Scholarly Journeys, and Visions	The speakers share their disciplinary journeys (and crossings) by outlining the ways in which they came to research translation and medical humanities independently and collaboratively, as separate areas and as a unified field.	Marta Arnaldi, Eivind Engebretsen, Charles Forsdick, John Ødemark	3 January, 2024
Medical Humanities’ Translational Core: Remodeling the Field	Marta Arnaldi helps us imagine medical humanities as a fundamentally translational field. She envisions ways of thinking translationally about health and disease, while also pinpointing potential risks and likely areas of failure.	Marta Arnaldi	3 January, 2024
Cinematic Translations: Visualising the Invisible Path of Contagion	Marta Arnaldi (Oxford) talks with Kirsten Ostherr (Rice) in another episode of Translating Illness.	Marta Arnaldi, Kirsten Ostherr	26 August, 2020
Masks, Vaccine and Cure: Translating Medical Evidence During and After the Pandemic	Marta Arnaldi (Oxford) presents another Translating COVID-19 video conversation, with Eivind Engebretsen (Oslo).	Marta Arnaldi, Eivind Engebretsen	2 July, 2020
Global Healing: Towards a World Policy of Care	The third Translating COVID-19 video conversation, with Marta Arnaldi (Oxford) and Karen Thornber (Harvard).	Marta Arnaldi, Karen Thornber	17 June, 2020
Translating Cultures in an Age of Confinement	Marta Arnaldi (Oxford) in conversation with Charles Forsdick (Liverpool).	Marta Arnaldi, Charles Forsdick	29 May, 2020
Translating Illness: The Case of COVID-19	Marta Arnaldi (Principal Investigator, Translating Illness, Oxford) in conversation with author Nicola Gardini (Oxford).	Marta Arnaldi, Nicola Gardini	15 May, 2020
We Are Not Good at Translating Lab Science Into New Medicines for Patients	Inaugural lecture delivered by Chas Bountra, Professor of Translational Medicine at Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines, and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Innovation, University of Oxford	Chas Bountra, Marta Arnaldi, Magdalena Kubiak	22 January, 2020