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Ruth Murphy is a Post-Doctoral Associate in the School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Sheffield, working on the Life Worth Living project with Dr. Casey Strine and Dr. Joshua Forstenzer. This project, affiliated with the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, focuses on interdisciplinary ethical inquiry through philosophical and religious traditions. She is completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, titled From experience to ethics: Primo Levi's grey zone and Hannah Arendt's banality of evil, supervised by Professor Robert Gordon. Her research explores how ethical concepts emerge from historical events, particularly those related to the Holocaust.
Education: BA, Trinity College Dublin; MPhil, University of Cambridge.
Research Interests: Ethical responses to historical trauma, the interplay between literature and philosophy, and a hybrid writing style termed 'bifocal'—combining testimony, journalism, and philosophy. Her work analyzes texts like Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man and James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, emphasizing their material and stylistic contexts.
Publications include articles on moral philosophy, Italian literature, and feminist thought. She has contributed peer-reviewed analyses for digital commentaries on Primo Levi’s works.
Collaborations: Life Worth Living project, interdisciplinary pedagogical initiatives, and digital humanities collaborations.
