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.