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Dr. Jane Fisher’s article tracing how the 1918 flu has been remembered in advertising appeared in The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals.

The volume was recently awarded the 2024 Research Prize of the European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit). Dr. Fisher frequently draws on media images to discuss the 1918 flu in her classes English 365CA Core Capstone: Representing World War I and Honors 391: Imagining Medicine.

Pictured above is a Dixie Cup illustration ad from the World Ward II era.

Submitted by: Jane Fisher, PhD, associate professor, English