November 2, 2020
How the 1918 Flu Inspired Your Zombie Costume
English professor Elizabeth Outka is quoted.
Pandemic Literature
Elizabeth Outka, professor of English, researches late 19th and early 20th century literature and culture. Her latest book investigates how one of history's deadliest plagues in history - the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic - silently reshaped the modernist era.
"One hundred years ago, 1919 saw the end of one of the worst plagues in human history: the deadly 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. The pandemic was a true horror show, with 50-100 million people dying and millions more infected. The United States alone lost more people in the pandemic than it lost in all the 20th- and 21st-century wars, combined."
Contact urnews2use@richmond.edu to connect with Outka.
