by Jane Fisher | Aug 7, 2024 | Staff
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
by Jane Fisher | Oct 12, 2022 | Faculty
On October 3, students from Dr. Jane Fisher’s English 309 Transatlantic Modernism course crossed the Canadian border to attend the Shaw Festival’s production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.
Students studied the comedy before planning this trip, which was generously funded by College of Arts & Sciences Dean Tom Chambers.
The fall weather was beautiful and class members explored Niagara-on-the Lake before the matinee. Afterwards, they compared favorite lines and characters from the play, such as the famous aphorism “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Submitted by: Jane Fisher, associate professor, English
