“During the pandemic, fake news, hoax theories and pseudo-science ran rampant across social media…” See our latest blog post to meet Jess Levan who has been researching the impact of the #COVID19 pandemic in the UK: mediaepidemics.com/2024/07/19/mee…

Settling in for the weekend with my red pen, a pot of coffee, and the proofs of my manuscript Cambridge University Press on #19thC #sound and #acoustics #litsci #litmed #medhums

See the report from the Media and Epidemics conference in Bucharest that myself, Alyssa Nunnink and Melissa Dickson have written for H-Soz-Kult here: bit.ly/3WCE40q

MEDEP is represented by Dr Emily Vincent (dremilyvincent.bsky.social) at the ‘emotional, mental and physical wellbeing’ session of the CHANSE #DigiNetworks conference. We discuss studying the history of metaphorical language, media representations, and the human impact of pandemics during the MEDEP project

My book has a cover, and it will be out in the new year! #litsci #litmed #soundstudies #medhums

Melissa Dickson Ah! Do I appear?!

A very happy publication day to 'Summoned to the Séance: Spirit Tales from the Beyond the Veil' edited by Dr Emily Vincent (dremilyvincent.bsky.social). Available now from all good bookshops! (and on 3 for 2 British Library Shop)

Excited to be hosting the 2025 AVSA Conference UQ Communication & Arts @HASSUQ on 24-25 July. #CFP is out now: #19C #VictorianStudies

My book is out! Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines is out now with Oxford University Press. There's a discount of 30% this month. Or why not get your library to order it? academic.oup.com/book/58989?fbc…

Very exciting news for the Media and Epidemics project and the amazing Romanian team! 🎉

Delighted to receive my copy of “Summoned to the Seance”, a collection of chilling stories edited by Dr Emily Vincent (dremilyvincent.bsky.social) Can’t wait to get reading!

📢 CFP for a special issue on poisons and poisoning in C19th popular fiction, guest edited by Dr Manon Burz-Labrande and Sarah Frühwirth. Deadline for proposals is 30/04/2025. Please share widely - Full details: victorianpopularfiction.org/wp-content/upl…

From plagues to parasites, take a look at the range of research undertaken on the CHANSE Media and #epidemics project blog: 📰 💉 🔬 🦠 mediaepidemics.com/blog/

Don't forget to get your abstracts in for the upcoming AVSA conference by this Monday! #VictorianStudies #Litstudies #Victorianliterature

The Principal Investigator of our UK branch of the Media and Epidemics project Melissa Dickson is the opening speaker for this free online event. Register below ⬇️

Join our next Media and Epidemics research seminar on Tuesday 6th May at 10am (Central European Time) when Magdalena Zdrodowska will discuss ‘The Mediated Practices and Narratives of Care: Artists and Activists Under Lockdown’ about #COVID19 and #disabilitystudies. Scan QR code for link

You can read the latest Media and Epidemics blog post from Dr Tom White here. White discusses linguistics and conceptual #metaphortheory in the context of the #COVID19 pandemic: mediaepidemics.com/2025/04/28/whe…

The Media and Epidemics UK team Dr Emily Vincent (dremilyvincent.bsky.social) and Melissa Dickson are presenting their research on nineteenth- and twentieth-century influenza epidemics today and tomorrow at the The BSLS online conference #BSLS2025

Our S.W. Brooks Fellow this year is the wonderful Professor Sally Shuttleworth from Oxford. Make sure to register for her public lecture on Wednesday 30th July! UQ News UQ Communication & Arts UQ History #litmed #histmed #litsci #C19th communication-arts.uq.edu.au/event/8091/202…