Podcast interviews

• Dr. Greg Kaster, Learning for Life, Gustavus Adolphus College, interview completed, in-production.
• “What About COVID Now?,” Lani Parker Pierce, Determining Our Future Podcast, March 14, 2022.
• John Goodwin and Joe Poe, The Expert’s List, MTSU, interview completed, in-production.
• Matt Cybulsky and Reid Maclellan, The Voice of Healthcare Twitter Livestream, August 6, 2021.
• “COVID, Vaccines and the Media,” Lani Parker Pierce, Determining Our Future Podcast, April 26, 2021.
• “The Media’s Roles in a Pandemic,” Samantha Lushtak, COVID-19 Podcast, January 24, 2021.
• “Epidemics, Media, and Culture,” Bob Trumpbour, Media and Culture, December 22, 2020.
• “Public Health and the Media,” Jason Martin, Open Stacks: A Podcast of the James E. Walker Library, November 18, 2020.
• “Epidemics, the Media, and Collective Memory,” Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordecai, Infectious Historians, November 15, 2020.
• “News, Media, and Society,” Pagutharivu Podcast, November 2, 2020.
• “Dr. Katie Foss, Author/Professor,” Chris Bacon, The Sports Gig Podcast, October 8, 2020.
• “Publishing Research on Epidemics During a Pandemic,” Pandemic Professors (Podcast), Kelli Boling and Carol Pardun, June 11, 2020.
• “The History of American Epidemics,” Nick Hirshon, Journalism History, May 20, 2020.
• “‘That’s not a beer bong, it’s a breastpump!’ a podcast interview about breastfeeding on TV.” August 13, 2013. 

Television & live-streaming interviews

• “Disinformation on Social Media,” Carrie Sharp, Openline (hour-long, call-in news program), News Channel 5+, March 21, 2022.
• “MTSU Joins President Biden’s Vaccine Challenge,” Justina Latimer, News Channel 4, Nashville, June 14, 2021.
• “Birth Rates Decline Across the Country, But Not in the Chattanooga Area,” Sabrina Maggiore, News Channel 9, Chattanooga, May 7, 2021.
• “Experts Say Flood of Social Media Posts Could Encourage Others to get COVID-19 Vaccine,” Eric Hilt, News Channel 5, Nashville, March 26, 2021.
• “College Professors are Excluded from the COVID-19 Phases in TN, KY,” Chris Davis, News Channel 5, Nashville, February 24, 2021.
• “Happy (Half) Hour Live,” Susy Schultz, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago. February 23, 2021.
• “Media and the Pandemic,” Scott Knowles, COVID Calls, January 29, 2021.
• MTSU Out of the Blue (TV), Andrew Oppmann, June 11, 2020.
• “Local Woman Sues FOX News,” News 4 Nashville, September 19, 2017.
• “Pink Tax Costing Women Extra Money on Common Items,” Alexandria Adams, July 30, 2018.
• MTSU Out of the Blue (TV),  Andrew Oppmann, May 1, 2018.

Radio interviews

• “Children and Media,” Gina Logue, MTSU On the Record, January 25, 2022. 
• “As in the Past, Media’s ‘Heroes and Villains within This Pandemic’ Leave Some Voices Unheard,” Carrie Healy, New England Public Radio, April 7, 2021.
• “1937 Experiment in Remote Learning by Radio Holds Lessons for Today,” Darien Lamen, Reclaiming the Narrative, WXIR Community Radio, February 12, 2021.
• Action Line, Bart Walker, WGNS radio in Murfreesboro, TN, July 20, 2020.
• “Why Is Isolation Difficult During COVID-19?” Mason Vera Paine, Mason Vera Paine Show, April 7, 2020.
• “Covid-19 Coverage Through a Historical Lens,” Gina Logue, MTSU On the Record, March 24, 2020.
• “The Big House,” Gina Logue, MTSU On the Record, August 14, 2018.
• “Nursing the Media,” Gina Logue, MTSU On the Record, June 4, 2013.

Other interviews about my work

• “In the Spotlight,” Alison Gorman, MTSU Magazine, Allison Gorman, Winter 2022.
• “MTSU Professor Katie Foss to Discuss History of Epidemics and Media,” Gary Estwick, Daily News Journal, October 11, 2021.
• “Covid-19 Coverage, an International Perspective,” Cristina Gonzalez Ros, Wissenschafts Kommunikation (online, Germany), June 10, 2020.
• “Typhoid Mary, the asymptomatic cook who infected patrons,” Jackie Vandinther, CTV News (online, Canada), May 19, 2020.
• “MTSU Journalism Professor Tackles Media Perception of Breastfeeding in Book,” Sabrina Tyson, Sidelines, December 20, 2017.
• “MTSU Professor’s Research Sheds New Light on Media Depictions of Breastfeeding,” Gina Logue, MTSU News, November 7, 2017.
• “Foss Publishes About Media Breastfeeding Depictions,” MTSU Leading Edge, August 2017.
• Pappas, Stephanie.  “TV Treats Breast-Feeding as Comic Fodder.” Livescience.com. July 6, 2012.  Appeared on Yahoo!, Fox News, NBC News, Hollywood Health and Society, and other websites

Speaking Engagements, Book Talks, and Panels

• Speaker, “Transitioning our Field’s Largest Conference Virtually during COVID-19,” Event Planning course, University of Mississippi (virtual), February 2022.
• Speaker, “Online Event: How Lawrence Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic,” Watkins Museum of History (Lawrence, KS), November 2021.
• Speaker, “Wacky remedies & ‘cures’: The press and pandemics, past and present,” MTSU Honors Lecture Series. Middle TN State University, October 2021.
• Speaker, “Constructing outbreaks in Tennessee: How disease shaped the Volunteer state,” Tennessee State Museum (Nashville, TN), October 2021.
• Speaker, “The forgotten and overlooked: Women of past epidemics,” Health Leadership Series. Salem College (Salem, NC), October 2021.
• Speaker, “Fact from fake?: Unraveling (mis)information in the Digital Age,” Education Summit, Destination Marketing Association of the West (Vancouver, WA), September 2021.
• Panelist, Coping with COVID on campus, Middle TN State University, September 2021.
• “COVID-19 A Year Out Community Journalism and Scholarship in a Pandemic World” (panel),  COMJIG Brown Bag, March 26, 2021.
• “Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media & Collective Memory,” AEJMC’s CSW Book Talk, Commission on the Status of Women, March 18, 2021.
• “Forgotten Heroes: Women of Past Epidemics,” Women and Gender Studies Research Series, Middle Tennessee State University, September 17, 2020. 

Quoted in news stories

• “Blackman Academy Sophomores Gain Insight from Many MTSU Sources,” Randy Weiler, MTSU News, March 21, 2022.
• “Do Hit Shows like Inventing Anna on Netflix Mean We’re Sharing Cultural Experiences Again?. Greg Beaubien, Moresby Press, March 6, 2022.
• “Colleges Unlikely to Require COVID Vaccine Booster Shots,” Dean Golembeski, Best Colleges, December 2, 2021.
• “The Fall From Grace for Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 Vaccine,” Lisa Krieger, Mercury News, May 20, 2021.
• “Mother and Health Comms Professor Sounds Alarm Over Rutherford Co. School’s Quarantine Policy,” Chris Davis, News Channel 5, August 19, 2021.
• “Disabilities Advocates Cite Unequal Access to COVID-19 Vaccine, Ponder Remedies,” Andy Marso, Youth Today, May 10, 2021.
• “Culture Panic? Why People Freak Out Over ‘Canceling of Pepé Le Pew, Dr. Seuss Books, and Old Disney Movies,” Amy Kuperinsky, NJ Star-Ledger, March 16, 2021.
• “As Teachers Get Vaccinated, College Professors Wonder, ‘Why Not Us?'” Brett Kelman, The Tennessean, February 23, 2021.
• “How Stadiums and Amusement Parks are Converted into COVID-19 Vaccination Sites,” Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, February 17, 2021.
• “Positive Takeaways from 2020 as the Year Draws to a Close,” Karen Gilchrist, CNN.com, December 30, 2020.
• “COVID-19 travel: What to do if your travel seatmate flouts the rules and won’t mask up?” Christopher Elliott, USA Today, December 4, 2020.
• “Remembrance of Pandemics Past,” David Lynch, The Medical Independent, November 12, 2020.
• “How the Flu Pandemic Changed Halloween in 1918,” Becky Little, October 2020.
• “Is This Fake News? The BUST Guide to Media Literacy,” BUST Magazine, Fall 2020.
• “100 Years of Broadcast,” Middle TN News, Fall 2020.
• “Parents weigh in on having each other’s backs,” Heather E. Schwartz, National Geographic Family,  August 20, 2020.
• “Fact or fake? How to help kids (and adults) spot misinformation online,” Children and Screens, August 13, 2020.
• “Women in masks, men in denial: Why some say they won’t cover up to fight COVID-19,” Amy Kuperinsky, Star Ledger, August 9, 2020.
• “Cartoon Ads Do Promote Vaping,” Robert Calandra, Medical Daily, July 28, 2020.
• “5 Advances That Followed Pandemics,” Glenn McDonald, History.com,  July 15, 2020.
• “We need to talk about rape on Outlander,” Lynette Rice, Entertainment Weekly, May 10, 2020.
• “Snicker if you want, but I plant to wear a facemask until the coronavirus pandemic has subsided,” Jenice Armstrong, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 1, 2020. 
• “Night Shift: Inside Late-Night TV’s Coronavirus Chaos,” Brian Steinberg, Variety, March 30, 2020.
• “Why We’re Drawn to ‘Contagion’ and Zombie Flicks Right Now,” Ashlie D. Stevens, Salon.com, March 21, 2020.
• “How Coronavirus is already being viewed through a partisan lens,” Jack Healy, Campbell Robertson, & Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times, March 1, 2020.
• “How the Global Media Covers the Coronavirus,” U.S. News and World Report, Sintia Radu, February 7, 2020.
• “Vaccine Resistance,” Jackson A. Thomas, Community Health (and other outlets), February 1, 2020.
• “Why Stay-at-Home Moms Feel so Sad,” Rosemary Black, PSYCOM, January 23, 2020.
• “Should you take Fenugreek for low milk supply,” Wendy Wisner, Motherlove, September 24, 2019.
• “Why Friends feels outdated in 2019,”  Elise Solé, Yahoo Entertainment, September 20, 2019.
• “How to Teach Kids to Spot Fake News,” Maressa Brown, Parents magazine, August 22, 2019.
• “More Anti-Vaxxers: How U.S. Newsrooms, Health Disparities, and Pharmaceutical Companies Contribute to Declining Vaccination Rates,” Emily Rose Thorne, Step Up Magazine, June 27, 2019.
• “Here’s why you want questionable characters like Diary of a Wimpy Kid’s Greg in books,” Kelsey Kloss, Scholastic Parents, March 5, 2019.
• “From Penny Press to Snapchat: Parents Fret Through the Ages,” Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press News,  September 3, 2018, appeared in The Washington Post, Miami Herald and other news outlets.
• “The Unspoken Reason Christine Blasey Ford may be Viewed Differently Than Anita Hill,” John Blake, CNN, September 18, 2018.
• “MTSU Moms have a New, Comfortable Place to Nurse Their Little Ones,” Gina Logue, MTSU News, February 9, 2018. 
• “The Short-Lived Normalization of Breastfeeding on Television,” Mayukh Sen, Hazlitt Magazine, January 22, 2018.
• “Global Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative,” World Health Organization.
• Listed in the “Weekly Book List,” Chronicle of Higher Education, July 6, 2018.

Additional Coverage

“Booby Traps Series: From ‘Ew, gross’ to ‘Isn’t that too old?’ TV and film depictions of breastfeeding.” Best for Babes. September 26, 2013.

Other interviews:

Depictions of Disabilities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGSKG1BflG0