Katharine Murphy lectures in Spanish at the University of Exeter. She completed her doctoral thesis on the subject of 'Pio Baroja and English Literature: A Comparative Approach to the Novels' in 1998. She was employed as a tutor and post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Exeter before being appointed a lecturer in 2001. Her research interests include Comparative Literature, particularly early twentieth-century Spanish and English literature, Pio Baroja and the 'Generation of 1898', European Modernism, and the engagements with painting and music in the Modernist novel.