Pavla Araudo

F18 Pavla Araudo (UNI BA)

Pavla Araudo is a doctoral student at the University of Bamberg (Germany), where she is supervised by Professor Ingrid Bennewitz. She holds a double MA degree in Women’s and Gender Studies (Erasmus Mundus GEMMA) from the University of Hull, UK, and the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her main research interests include the impact of the exclusion of women from medical research and healthcare. She is also deeply interested in the influence of myth and narrative on our perception of the world. Her research project, entitled Reframing the Myth of Female Healing in the 20th and 21st Century: Medieval Women Therapists and Wise-Woman Traditions, explores how women’s medicinal power and work have informed feminist theory and art that thematise women’s embodiment and healing traditions within the contemporary male-centred medical world.