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.
October 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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.
"Anthropocene Ménage à Trois: Literature, Science, Nature", an essay about nexus of science and nature writing in character-driven fiction can now be downloaded (Catamaran, summer 2024) Lots of nerdy #bookrecs!
#LitSci #SciComm #naturewriting #envhum #FictionMeetsScience tinyurl.com/SciNatLit
#LitSci #SciComm #naturewriting #envhum #FictionMeetsScience tinyurl.com/SciNatLit
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November 22, 2024 at 11:21 AM
"Anthropocene Ménage à Trois: Literature, Science, Nature", an essay about nexus of science and nature writing in character-driven fiction can now be downloaded (Catamaran, summer 2024) Lots of nerdy #bookrecs!
#LitSci #SciComm #naturewriting #envhum #FictionMeetsScience tinyurl.com/SciNatLit
#LitSci #SciComm #naturewriting #envhum #FictionMeetsScience tinyurl.com/SciNatLit
Welcome, new followers. My tweets and retweets will mostly be about literature, especially modernist; literature in relation to science, especially poetry and science; history of science; cycling and traffic; the city of Oxford; obscure indie of the 80s and 90s.
#LitSci #LitSciMed
#LitSci #LitSciMed
November 9, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Welcome, new followers. My tweets and retweets will mostly be about literature, especially modernist; literature in relation to science, especially poetry and science; history of science; cycling and traffic; the city of Oxford; obscure indie of the 80s and 90s.
#LitSci #LitSciMed
#LitSci #LitSciMed
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...
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…
mediaepidemics.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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
February 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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
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
March 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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
My article on animals and automobiles in John Joseph Mathews's novel Sundown (1934) has just been published in a Special Issue of the European Journal of American Studies (open access)!
@greenhouseuis.bsky.social
#envhum #litsci
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@greenhouseuis.bsky.social
#envhum #litsci
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March 12, 2024 at 6:13 PM
My article on animals and automobiles in John Joseph Mathews's novel Sundown (1934) has just been published in a Special Issue of the European Journal of American Studies (open access)!
@greenhouseuis.bsky.social
#envhum #litsci
t.co/Iuj2uZibm9
@greenhouseuis.bsky.social
#envhum #litsci
t.co/Iuj2uZibm9
News just in for #LitSci people: the website for the joint conference of CoSciLit, BSLS and SLSAeu to be held at the University of Birmingham in April 2024 is now live.
CFP deadline: Friday 1 December 2023
CFP deadline: Friday 1 December 2023
International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science
The annual conferences of the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) and the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu), and the Commission on Science and Literature (Co...
www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 27, 2023 at 12:59 PM
News just in for #LitSci people: the website for the joint conference of CoSciLit, BSLS and SLSAeu to be held at the University of Birmingham in April 2024 is now live.
CFP deadline: Friday 1 December 2023
CFP deadline: Friday 1 December 2023
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
May 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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
Thrilled to have had the opportunity to present my research on early 19th ct children's educational literature to the #litsci crowd and grateful for thought-provoking questions (food for thought!) - now to enjoy the rest of the conference! #litsci3soc2024 #histsci #envhist
April 10, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Thrilled to have had the opportunity to present my research on early 19th ct children's educational literature to the #litsci crowd and grateful for thought-provoking questions (food for thought!) - now to enjoy the rest of the conference! #litsci3soc2024 #histsci #envhist
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
April 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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
May 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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: mediaepidemics.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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: mediaepidemics.com
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 🐡
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 🐡
October 12, 2023 at 2:04 PM
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 🐡
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 🐡
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
Media and Epidemics (MEDEP)
Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries
mediaepidemics.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Great to see that the Commission on Science and Literature have a new website. It's such a welcoming organisation - hopefully this increases its visibility. CFP currently open for the joint #litsci conference being hosted in Birmingham UK in April 2024. coscilit.gr
Commission on Science and Literature
The website of CoSciLit
coscilit.gr
October 31, 2023 at 3:39 PM
Great to see that the Commission on Science and Literature have a new website. It's such a welcoming organisation - hopefully this increases its visibility. CFP currently open for the joint #litsci conference being hosted in Birmingham UK in April 2024. coscilit.gr
This great collection is finally available! My chapter is on chivalry and horsepower in the narratives of Americans who volunteered to drive motorized ambulances in WWI - thanks to the editors and fellow contributors!
#envhum #litsci #modwrite
www.routledge.com/The-Ecopoeti...
#envhum #litsci #modwrite
www.routledge.com/The-Ecopoeti...
The Ecopoetics of War
The Ecopoetics of War explores the interrelationality of human and nonhuman entities in the context of conflict, as recorded in literature and culture. This collection of essays demonstrates the speci...
www.routledge.com
January 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This great collection is finally available! My chapter is on chivalry and horsepower in the narratives of Americans who volunteered to drive motorized ambulances in WWI - thanks to the editors and fellow contributors!
#envhum #litsci #modwrite
www.routledge.com/The-Ecopoeti...
#envhum #litsci #modwrite
www.routledge.com/The-Ecopoeti...
Some good news in between:
my second book "Reproduction and the Maternal Body", published in the series 'Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities', is *coming soon* 🤩 #MedHum #LitSci #Reproduction
my second book "Reproduction and the Maternal Body", published in the series 'Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities', is *coming soon* 🤩 #MedHum #LitSci #Reproduction
January 15, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Some good news in between:
my second book "Reproduction and the Maternal Body", published in the series 'Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities', is *coming soon* 🤩 #MedHum #LitSci #Reproduction
my second book "Reproduction and the Maternal Body", published in the series 'Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities', is *coming soon* 🤩 #MedHum #LitSci #Reproduction
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
www.torreyhouse.org/accidentals
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’...
www.torreyhouse.org
September 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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
www.torreyhouse.org/accidentals
*It's a contract*! 😱💪 My 2nd monograph will be published in the series 'Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities'. The is title 'Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture: Bodies of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1726-1818'. I am so, so happy. 🥲 #MedHum #LitSci
October 19, 2023 at 10:06 AM
The BSLS and The Journal of Literature and Science have announced the 2023 Early Career Essay Prize.
Essay submissions should be approx. 8,000 words and unpublished - submissions are due 31 January 2024.
The winner will be published in the JLS and awarded £100.
#LitSci
Essay submissions should be approx. 8,000 words and unpublished - submissions are due 31 January 2024.
The winner will be published in the JLS and awarded £100.
#LitSci
The British Society for Literature and Science · JLS/BSLS Early Career Essay Prize
www.bsls.ac.uk
October 5, 2023 at 6:40 AM
The BSLS and The Journal of Literature and Science have announced the 2023 Early Career Essay Prize.
Essay submissions should be approx. 8,000 words and unpublished - submissions are due 31 January 2024.
The winner will be published in the JLS and awarded £100.
#LitSci
Essay submissions should be approx. 8,000 words and unpublished - submissions are due 31 January 2024.
The winner will be published in the JLS and awarded £100.
#LitSci