By situating literary texts alongside periodical culture, medical journalism, and spiritualist media, we examine #epidemic media cultures, #influenza and 19C medicine, while highlighting contemporary debates in the #medicalhumanities #medhums #litsci #hstm #histmed #19C #pandemicpreparedness 🦠

The book looks at William Empson, Laura Riding, Charles Olson, W.B. Yeats, and Michael Roberts — I’m looking forward to reading this version #LitSci

Media and Epidemics (MEDEP) Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Visit our blog page for a range of posts on #medhums #histmed #hstm #litsci topics around technologies of communication and epidemic disease over time: mediaepidemics.com/blog/

Cover of first edition of the book

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published OTD in 1979.

Douglas Adams: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

#litsci 🐡 #BookSky

I'm grateful to @bavs-uk.bsky.social @vpfa.bsky.social @issegyptomania.bsky.social bsls.ac.uk @incsa.bsky.social @thebsls.bsky.social & so many individuals within the #Victorian #Gothic #Egyptomania #LitSci #PreRaphaeilite communities for friendship & support during my Research Fellowships.

Epidemics in Word and Imagination: Ukrainian Literature Between Folklore, the Press, and Science “…epidemics are never only about pathogens. They are also filtered through the words of newspapers, proclamations, and popular accounts — words that, like folk tales, provided framework…

We have an insightful new blog post from Dmytro Yesypenko about the role of folklore and epidemics in nineteenth-century #Ukranian literature #hstm #histmed #litsci #medhums: mediaepidemics.com/2025/08/29/e...

Torrey House Press | ACCIDENTALS by Susan M Gaines When Gabriel’s mother decides to repatriate to her native Uruguay after thirty years in California, he takes a break from his uninspiring desk job to accompany her. At first, Gabe observes his mother’...

Hey, if you’re here because of #birds #naturewriting #naturalhistory #litsci #environment… or #democracy, pls order ACCIDENTALS directly from Torrey House Press, a non-profit environmental & literary press, holding its own in trying times
www.torreyhouse.org/accidentals

I’m looking forward to presenting our findings on historic epidemics and technologies of communication on behalf of @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social at the @euchanse.bsky.social conference in Kraków on Monday! 🇵🇱 #hstm #histsci #litsci #epidemics #pandemic #medhums

The Media and Epidemics team are presenting all week (in person and virtually) at the International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Dunedin, NZ. Looking forward to discussing epidemics, technologies of communication, and media from the 19th century to today! #ichst #hstm #litsci

Our interdisciplinary workshop on Wednesday @unibirmingham.bsky.social will explore how, from the nineteenth century onwards, dubious tales of #disease have been distorted and sensationalised through print and digital media and literature #litsci #hstm #histsci

Morphium & Literatur 🤩 #medhum #litsci

May I introduce – my second book.
#habilitation #medhum #litsci

You can visit our blog page below for many #openaccess posts about #medhums #histmed #litsci all focused around epidemic disease and media from the nineteenth century to now ⬇️

Our UK Team Principal Investigator Dr Melissa Dickson has opened today’s @cncsi.bsky.social conference on Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century with an examination of the ‘influenza fiend’, epidemic diseases of the 1890s, & the looming presence of influenza in Dracula #litsci

Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture Bodies of Knowledge, 1726-1818, by Jennifer S. Henke This book examines a selection of texts to discuss how midwifery, obstetrics and women’s bodies were viewed during the long eighteenth century, and how these material-discursive entanglements between science, medicine, literature and culture have shaped society's views of pregnancy, childbirth and reproduction. Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture is an innovative and interdisciplinary contribution to the medical humanities and feminist philosophy of science, and will interest scholars from a range of backgrounds, including literature and cultural studies, midwifery, medicine and history.

Hello fellow #medhum & #litsci peeps! Check out the flyer for my new book on #reproduction & the maternal body in 18th/19th-c British literature & culture. Feel free to pre-order for ur university libraries (or for yourself,of course). Bonus: the book also features images. 🤩 Get in touch any time! ✍️

Enjoying a productive few days at #BSLS2025. currently enjoying Sydney Padua’s incredible illustrations & animations of c19th census data & naturalist texts! #litsci

a man in a suit and tie is standing in a field of flowers ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a field of flowers

Just made it to Lancaster for #BSLS20 (25) after my flight was cancelled a few hours before it was meant to leave....

Missed the talks but on time for the dinner!

#litsci #literarystudies

Have you visited the open-access Media and Epidemics project blog? We cover pandemics to parasites to examine how epidemic disease narratives have been shaped by media, literature, and politics from the late nineteenth century to today. Find it here: mediaepidemics.com/blog/ #histmed #hstm #litsci

Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century - CNCSI Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century Free and Online One-Day Interdisciplinary Workshop Thursday 1 May, 9.00am – 5.00pm (Central European Time) Registration is required. Sign-up here....

Register ⬇️ for a free
online @cncsi.bsky.social event ‘Contagion & Contamination in the Nineteenth Century’ with #hstm & #litsci speakers on:
🧛Vampires & influenza
🦠Imperialism & germs
🇮🇳Cholera in India
🌊Contamined waterways
🌳Ecology & microbes
🏛️Curation of #19C exhibits
cn-csi.com/event/contag...

Proud to be part of this important companion to Science Fiction & the Medical Humanities, with chapters on pregnancy, sleep, disability, bioethics, trauma, scicomm & more… #medhums #litsci #histmed

Media and Epidemics (MEDEP) Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries

From influenza to parasites to #COVID19, the Media and Epidemics blog posts explore a range of ways in which discourses of #disease have been represented in media and literature from the nineteenth century to now. You can read them all here: mediaepidemics.com/blog/ #histmed #hstm #litsci

Our latest research blog examines how gendered nineteenth-century periodicals aimed at children represented issues of #publichealth during the 1890s #influenza #epidemic. You can read this and other project blogs here: mediaepidemics.com/2025/03/10/f... #litsci #histsci #hstm

Take a look on our project blog to see all the great #litsci research going on (especially relating to influenza #epidemics)! ⬇️🦠🤧

The Media and Epidemics project research is interested in analysing the intersections between literary and media discourse, #publichealth, social reform, political policy, and epidemic disease. Our latest blog post from Ching Chi Chan covers this and more: mediaepidemics.com/2025/03/07/g... #litsci

MEDEP PI Dr Melissa Dickson will be opening this online event on Thursday 1st May with her paper on ‘“The Nineteenth Century up-to-date with a Vengeance”: Spreading Vampirism and Russian Influenza across Bram Stoker’s Britain’. Register below ⬇️ #litsci #histsci #hstm

You can find our insightful new #histsci #litsci blog on the Media and Epidemics site. In it, Lily Burke explores ‘Infection Within the Ranks’ examining how #conspiracytheories complicate public responses to #pandemics like the 1889 influenza epidemic & #COVID19: mediaepidemics.com/2025/03/03/i...

Today I am going down the rabbit hole of anti-vax histories.... if anyone has any recommendations send them my way! #antivax #histmed #litsci

Did you know that, in the late 19th century, #influenza used to be (incorrectly) known as ‘Pfeiffer’s bacillus’? Ching Chi Chan’s latest blog post explores how the literature of novelists like George Gissing represented this ‘bacillus’: mediaepidemics.com/2025/02/20/m... #litsci #hstm #histsci

Interested in research on #media #epidemics #histsci #litsci or #medhums? Then welcome to Media and Epidemics! Our international, interdisciplinary project seeks to understand the role of media and technologies of communication in the making and management of epidemic outbreaks⬇️