Lorenzo Servitje
Biographic Data
| ID | 198425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorenzo Servitje |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Servitje |
| SIGNATURE | SERVITJE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1456-6307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
They Are Increasing
The dominant variant of pandemic literature is unquestionably viral. Relative to other pathogen plots, bacteria have been overshadowed. This elision of bacterial pandemic fiction mirrors the underappreciated hazard of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), often called the “invisible” or “silent” pandemic. This article historicizes the microgenre of bacteriological and AMR pandemic fiction. Documenting the general trends and tropes of the genre vis-à-vi…
The Poetic Dependencies of the Airborne Narrative: Subjunctive and Optative Possibilities
The Poetic Dependencies of the Airborne Narrative: Subjunctive and Optative Possibilities Lorenzo Servitje (bio) It is an interesting, frightening time for those who study health or practice medicine, especially related to infectious disease. While airborne has been in the common lexicon for several decades (reinforced by films like Outbreak [1995] and bioterrorism discourse surrounding 9/11), today fomites, aerosol, and droplets are matters of s…
Gaming the Apocalypse in the Time of Antibiotic Resistance
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, there has been an increasing number of articles in the popular press on antibiotic resistance, a great many of which present the phenomenon in the science-fictional language of the “post-antibiotic apocalypse.” In an effort to increase public awareness, the Longitude Prize, funded by the United Kingdom’s National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts (NESTA), created the mobile video game Supe…
Of Drugs and Droogs: Cultural Dynamics, Psychopharmacology, and Neuroscience in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is rarely considered in terms of psychopharmacology. Furthermore, the connection between the novel and the development of neuroscience-including the use of drugs that affect the brain-has yet to be considered. This essay explains the function and representation of drugs in the novel within the context of neuroscience's development during the 1960s. I argue that the novel engages the dynamics among psychopharma…
Erika Wright, Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Endemic: Essays in Contagion Theory
This book develops a new multimodal theoretical model of contagion for interdisciplinary scholars, featuring contributions from influential scholars spanning the fields of medical humanities, philosop
Triumphant Health”: Joseph Conrad and Tropical Medicine
“Triumphant Health”: Joseph Conrad and Tropical Medicine Lorenzo Servitje (bio) Without question, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) is plagued by the idea of sickness. With its images of dying natives and mad Europeans, it might be tempting to read Heart of Darkness as a warning against crossing the imperial threshold; this suggests that the dark jungle kingdom is beleaguered by some primordial miasma waiting to pollute the white body of t…
Gothic Devices
H5N1 for Angry Birds: Plague Inc., Mobile Games, and the Biopolitics of Outbreak Narratives
Keep Your Head in the Gutter: Engendering Empathy Through Participatory Delusion in Christian de Metter’s Graphic Adaptation of Shutter Island
Digital Mortification of Literary Flesh: Computational Logistics and Violences of Remediation in Visceral Games’ Dante’s Inferno
Since its release, Visceral Games Inferno has received much criticism in the popular press but little critical attention from game studies. The game’s transformation of the medieval poet into a crusader not only raises concerns about the intersections between video games and war, as Patrick Crogan has observed using other examples, but also asks us to consider the implications of remediating a canonical textual form into an interactive one. I exa…
Trepanning Fin-de-siècle Popular Fiction
H5N1 for Angry Birds: Plague Inc., Mobile Games, and the Biopolitics of Outbreak Narratives
Digital Mortification of Literary Flesh: Computational Logistics and Violences of Remediation in Visceral Games’ Dante’s Inferno
Since its release, Visceral Games Inferno has received much criticism in the popular press but little critical attention from game studies. The game’s transformation of the medieval poet into a crusader not only raises concerns about the intersections between video games and war, as Patrick Crogan has observed using other examples, but also asks us to consider the implications of remediating a canonical textual form into an interactive one. I exa…
Trepanning Fin-de-siècle Popular Fiction
Digital Mortification of Literary Flesh: Computational Logistics and Violences of Remediation in Visceral Games’ Dante’s Inferno
Since its release, Visceral Games Inferno has received much criticism in the popular press but little critical attention from game studies. The game’s transformation of the medieval poet into a crusader not only raises concerns about the intersections between video games and war, as Patrick Crogan has observed using other examples, but also asks us to consider the implications of remediating a canonical textual form into an interactive one. I exa…
Keep Your Head in the Gutter: Engendering Empathy Through Participatory Delusion in Christian de Metter’s Graphic Adaptation of Shutter Island
Endemic: Essays in Contagion Theory
This book develops a new multimodal theoretical model of contagion for interdisciplinary scholars, featuring contributions from influential scholars spanning the fields of medical humanities, philosop
Triumphant Health”: Joseph Conrad and Tropical Medicine
“Triumphant Health”: Joseph Conrad and Tropical Medicine Lorenzo Servitje (bio) Without question, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) is plagued by the idea of sickness. With its images of dying natives and mad Europeans, it might be tempting to read Heart of Darkness as a warning against crossing the imperial threshold; this suggests that the dark jungle kingdom is beleaguered by some primordial miasma waiting to pollute the white body of t…
Gothic Devices
H5N1 for Angry Birds: Plague Inc., Mobile Games, and the Biopolitics of Outbreak Narratives
Erika Wright, Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Of Drugs and Droogs: Cultural Dynamics, Psychopharmacology, and Neuroscience in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is rarely considered in terms of psychopharmacology. Furthermore, the connection between the novel and the development of neuroscience-including the use of drugs that affect the brain-has yet to be considered. This essay explains the function and representation of drugs in the novel within the context of neuroscience's development during the 1960s. I argue that the novel engages the dynamics among psychopharma…
Gaming the Apocalypse in the Time of Antibiotic Resistance
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, there has been an increasing number of articles in the popular press on antibiotic resistance, a great many of which present the phenomenon in the science-fictional language of the “post-antibiotic apocalypse.” In an effort to increase public awareness, the Longitude Prize, funded by the United Kingdom’s National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts (NESTA), created the mobile video game Supe…
The Poetic Dependencies of the Airborne Narrative: Subjunctive and Optative Possibilities
The Poetic Dependencies of the Airborne Narrative: Subjunctive and Optative Possibilities Lorenzo Servitje (bio) It is an interesting, frightening time for those who study health or practice medicine, especially related to infectious disease. While airborne has been in the common lexicon for several decades (reinforced by films like Outbreak [1995] and bioterrorism discourse surrounding 9/11), today fomites, aerosol, and droplets are matters of s…
They Are Increasing
The dominant variant of pandemic literature is unquestionably viral. Relative to other pathogen plots, bacteria have been overshadowed. This elision of bacterial pandemic fiction mirrors the underappreciated hazard of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), often called the “invisible” or “silent” pandemic. This article historicizes the microgenre of bacteriological and AMR pandemic fiction. Documenting the general trends and tropes of the genre vis-à-vi…
Art (8 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)