Dr Emily Vincent is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield researching misinformation, disease epidemics, and occult healing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and media. Emily has a PhD from the University of Birmingham and her first monograph Spiritualism and Maternal Grief in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. As part of the AHRC/CHANSE-funded Media and Epidemics project, she co-wrote A British Literary Contagion: ‘Russian Flu’ and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle with Dr Melissa Dickson for the Social Histories of Medicine series, forthcoming with Manchester University Press, and compiled Summoned to the Séance: Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil for British Library Publishing. Emily has taught at Birmingham and the University of Oxford, alongside co-running the Gothica network and holding research and editor roles at Durham University’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International, and the journal Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.

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