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Coleclough, Sharon; Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske eds. (2024). Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Dixon, Izabela; Doran, Selina E.M. and Michael, Bethan eds. (2016). There's More to Fear than Fear Itself: Fears and Anxieties in the 21st Century. Oxford and Leiden: Inter-Disciplinary Press and Brill.

Michael-Fox, Beth (2024). The future is ash: Climate emergency and human responsibility in The Fades. In: Bacon, Simon ed. Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture: Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Zombie in the 21st Century. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing (In Press), pp. 178–190.

Michael-Fox, Bethan (2024). Exploiting Opportunities and Exposing Inequalities: Telling Covid-19 Stories in Host (2020), Mythic Quest (2020–) and For Life (2020-2021). In: Bernardi, Verena; Giammanco, Amanda D. and Mißler, Heike eds. Covid-19 in film and television: watching the pandemic. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske (2024). Mrs Death Misses Death (Salena Godden, 2021) – Death as a Black Woman. In: Bronk-Bacon, Katarzyna and Bacon, Simon eds. Death in the 21st Century: A Companion. Genre Fiction and Film Companions, 12. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang Group AG, pp. 215–222.

Sharon, Coleclough; Michael-Fox, Bethan and Renske, Visser (2024). Conclusion to Difficult Death, Dying, and the Dead in Media and Culture. In: Michael-Fox, Bethan; Sharon, Coleclough and Renske, Visser eds. Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 265–275.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan; Coleclough, Sharon and Visser, Renske (2024). Introduction to Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. In: Coleclough, Sharon; Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske eds. Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 1–22.

Michael-Fox, Bethan (2024). Troubling Entanglements: Death, Loss and the Dead in and on Television. In: Peterson, Jesse D.; Dekker, Natashe Lemos and Olson, Philip R. eds. Death's Social and Material Meaning Beyond the Human. Death and Culture. Bristol University Press.

Michael-Fox, Bethan (2023). (Un)Dead Together: Hospitality, Hauntology and the ‘Happily Ever After’ in American Horror Story. In: Hand, Richard and O'Thomas, Mark eds. American Horror Story and Cult Television: Narratives, Histories and Discourses. Anthem Series on Television Studies. London: Anthem Press, pp. 129–142.

Michael-Fox, Bethan and Calver, Kay (2023). Dark Comedies/Dark Universities: Negotiating the Neoliberal Institution in British Satirical Comedies The History Man (1981), A Very Peculiar Practice (1986-1988) and Campus (2011). In: Harmes, Marcus K. and Scully, Richard eds. Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture. Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture (PSSPC). Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 197–214.

Michael-Fox, Bethan (2022). Practising Creative and Autobiographical Writing: Writing, Death and the Self. In: Richard, Povall and Mat, Osmond eds. Borrowed Time: on death, dying & change. Dartington: Art.Earth, pp. 325–338.

Michael-Fox, Bethan and Coward-Gibbs, Matt (2021). Sexual Encounters Between the Living and the (Un) dead in Popular Culture. In: Gibson, Rebecca and Vanderveen, James M. eds. Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death Monstrous Males/Fatal Females. New York: Rowman and Littlefield.

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Calver, Kay and Michael-Fox, Bethan (2021). Constructing the university student in British documentary television. In: Brooks, Rachel and O'Shea, Sarah eds. Reimagining the Higher Education Student: Constructing and Contesting Identities. London: Routledge, pp. 151–168.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2020). Dead Chatty: The Rise of the Articulate Undead in Popular Culture. In: Coward-Gibbs, Matt ed. Death, Culture & Leisure: Playing Dead. Emerald Studies in Death and Culture. Bingley: Emerald, pp. 111–124.

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Michael, Bethan (2019). The Return of the Dead: Fears and Anxieties Surrounding the Return of the Dead in Late Postmodern Culture. In: Michael-Fox, Bethan; Dixon, Izabela and Doran, Selina E.M. eds. There's More to Fear than Fear Itself: Fears and Anxieties in the 21st Century. Oxford and Leiden: Inter-Disciplinary Press and Brill, pp. 31–45.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2013). Social media, identity and democracy. In: Charles, Alec ed. Media/Democracy: A Comparative Study. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Michael-Fox, Bethan (2024). [Book Review] Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past by Merlin Coverley. Mortality, 29(2) pp. 361–362.

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Green, Richard and Michael-Fox, Bethan (2023). Mortality, moral regulation, and (im)moral entrepreneurship in My Favorite Murder. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 37(2) pp. 237–247.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske (2022). Death for Young Adult Audiences: Complexity, Complicity and Critique in Pretty Little Liars. Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural(8) pp. 20–46.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2022). [Book Review] Death in Contemporary Popular Culture edited by Adriana Teodorescu and Michael Hviid Jacobsen. Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural, 8 pp. 422–424.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2022). [Review] HEAR ME… Voices from a Care Home during the Covid 19 Pandemic by Anna Mankee-Williams and Ruth Heholt. The Revenant, 8 pp. 425–429.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2022). [Book Review] Man-Eating Monsters: Anthropocentrism and Popular Culture by Dina Khapaeva (Editor). Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural(8) pp. 430–432.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske (2022). Death and the Screen: Editors’ Introduction. Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural(8) pp. 7–19.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2022). [Book Review] Navigating miscarriage: social, medical and conceptual perspectives edited by Susie Kilshaw and Katie Berg. Mortality, 27(1) pp. 126–127.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2022). [Book Review] Mediated Death by Johanna Sumiala, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2022. Mortality, 27(4) pp. 519–520.

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Calver, Kay and Michael-Fox, Bethan (2021). Under pressure: representations of student suicide in British documentary television. Mortality, 26(4) pp. 376–393.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2020). What Do You Want? New Formations(100) pp. 214–217.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2019). [Book Review] Death, the Dead and Popular Culture, by Ruth Penfold-Mounce. Mortality, 24(4) pp. 488–489.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan and Jarrett-Kerr, Adele (2019). Breastfeeding Beyond Infancy: An Autoethnographic Dialogue Between Two Women. CULTIVATE The Feminist Journal of the Centre for Women's Studies(2) pp. 31–42.

Michael-Fox, Bethan and Hayden, Nikita (2018). Transforming the Community, Transforming the Self: Young People, Social Action and community Leadership. The Sheffield Student Journal for Sociology(2), article no. 7.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan (2024). Five books to help if you are dealing with death and bereavement.

Michael-Fox, Bethan (2024). My favourite fictional academic.

Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske (2022). Death and the Screen [Special Issue]. In: Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske eds. Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural. Issue 8: Death and the Screen.

Michael-Fox, Bethan (2022). Michael-Fox on Caswell, 'Dying Alone: Challenging Assumptions'.

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Michael-Fox, Bethan and Visser, Renske (2021). The Death Studies Podcast [Podcast].