LitSciPod: The Literature and Science Podcast

Episode 3 - Outbreak: A Two Cultures Pinch-Point

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Produced by: Catherine Charlwood (@DrCharlwood) and Laura Ludtke (@lady_electric). Music composed and performed by Gareth Jones.

Laura and Catherine are joined by a special guest: Dr Emilie Taylor-Pirie (@DrETaylorPirie, née Taylor-Brown), an Early Career Academic specialising in the intersections between literature, science and culture. Millie discusses nineteenth-century responses to malaria and how scientists couched their work in imaginative language; how studying a joint honours in English Literature and Biology set her up for an interdisciplinary career; the importance of being prepared for a zombie apocalypse; and much more! At the end of the episode, you can hear Millie read an extract from Henry Seton Merriman’s imperial romance novel With Edged Tools (1894): ‘The Accursed Camp’

Introduction:

  • Kari Nixon, ‘The way we talk about coronavirus matters’, 3 March 2020, CNN.com
  • Alice Bennett (@AlicePonderland), ‘A lot of people …’, Twitter, 20 March 2020
  • Adrian Bott (@Cavalorn), ‘For those who didn't know …’, Twitter, 20 March 2020
  • Susannah Walker (@QuadRoyal), ‘Full evisceration here: …’ Twitter, 20 Mar 2020
  • Bex Lewis, Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster (2017)
  • Angus Calder, The People’s War: Britain 1939–1945 (1992)
  • Museum of Healthcare at Kingston (Ontario), ‘Midwifery basin,’ From the Collection
  • Amy Davidson Sorkin, ‘The Fever Room: Epidemics and Social Distancing in Bleak House and Jane Eyre’, New Yorker, 20 March 2020
  • Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853)
  • ‘Typhus Epidemic’, Evening News (17th Dec 1896), p. 3, Welsh Newspapers Online

    • Interview:

    • Emilie Taylor-Brown, ‘(Re)Constructing the Knights of Science: Parasitologists and their Literary Imaginations’, Journal of Literature and Science 7.2 (2014) pp.62-79
    • M. Easter-Ross, ‘Biblical Physics’, John O'Groat Journal, 30 December 1842, p.4
    • Sydney Whiting, Memoirs of a Stomach (1853)
    • F. P. Maynard, ‘Notes on the Examination of Malarial Blood’, Indian Medical Gazette 30.11 (1895) pp.412-20 (p.420)
    • Ronald Ross, ‘Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Cervantes', Science Progress, 11.41 (1916), pp.137-40 (p.137)
    • Emilie Taylor-Brown, ‘Death, Disease, and Discontent: The Monstrous Reign of the Supervirus’, in Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity: the Birth of the Monster in Literature, Media, and Film eds. Andrea Wood and Brandy Schillace (2014) pp.133-158
    • Emilie Taylor-Pirie, 'The Art and Science of COVID-19', 16 March 2020, LinkedIn 
    • Center for Preparedness and Response, 'Zombie Preparedness', (page last reviewed Oct 2018), CDC
    • https://washyourlyrics.com
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