My doctoral thesis on Dreams and Visions in Victorian Psychology Fantastic Literature established the latter as primary medium to digest and communicate new scientific knowledge, its societal and epistemological implications. Moving on from Oxford, I joined the Department of Sociology at the University of York to work on Science and Narratives, and scrutinized Covid-19 narratives, especially those constructing it as war and conflict, and how they shaped public understandings and behaviours (read more
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I have taught for universities in the US, UK and Germany, and several Oxford Colleges, specialising in 19th & 20th century literature, Literature, Science and Religion, Children’s and Fantastic Literature, Science Fiction and Visual Culture. Besides my academic work, I am an active science communicator, working with national and interantional media, as well as with museums and schools. I have been involved in a broad variety of school outreach projects, from media literacy, AI, climate change, to journalism, and English Literature.