Morgan Lundy
PhD Student
School of Information Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign
PhD Diversity Committee Representative
Adviser Jessie Chin
she/they
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Graduate Teaching Assistant
Social Aspects of Information Technology
Introduction to Information Sciences
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MA in English, MLIS, BA - University of South Carolina
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social health informatics, digital medical humanities, research as activism, community-engaged design, micro-video platforms, patient expertise, storytelling, voice user interface conversation agents
melundy2@illinois.edu
What does my research look like?
I use qualitative and quantitative methods to study Online Health Communities (OHCs), health information sharing and health support on social media. My most current research is in image and micro-video based platforms, investigating how people in disabled and LGBTQ+/femme communities leverage patient expertise, social support, and health information sharing when traditional health institutions are unhelpful. I also study how health (mis)information spreads in new kinds of platforms. Ultimately I would like to evaluate how storytelling and platform-use can be used as self-efficacy tools for better health outcomes!
EDUCATION, FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
Ph.D. in Information Sciences
expected May 2025
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
#1 Ranked Program (U.S. News & World Report)
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent
GPA: 4.0
M.A in English Literature
May 2020
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Digital Humanities Fellowship ($12,800)
Graduate Civic Scholar ($500)
Smith-Reed Graduate Fellowship ($16,226)
Conference Travel Grants ($2,000)
GPA: 4.0
Master of Library and Information Science
May 2020
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
GPA: 4.0
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship 2017
MALAYSIA
​US Embassy Grant for Kota Bharu District Camp ($1,398)
B.A. in English Literature
May 2016
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
South Carolina Honors College
Summa cum laude with Leadership Distinction in Professional & Civic Engagement, Community Service and Global Learning
Steven Swanger Award, highest university award for leadership ($500) McNair Full Academic Scholarship ($144,000)
Travel & Community Service Ambassador Grants ($5,000)
Sophomore, Junior & Senior Department Awards ($1,500)
GPA: 3.99
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Twitter and research: a systematic literature review through text mining
A Karami, M Lundy, F Webb, YK Dwivedi
IEEE Access 8, 67698-67717. (2020)
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A Karami, M Lundy, F Webb, G Turner-McGrievy, BW McKeever, ...
International journal of environmental research and public health 18 (4), 2159 (2021)
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Automatic Categorization of LGBT User Profiles on Twitter with Machine Learning
A Karami, M Lundy, F Webb, HR Boyajieff, M Zhu, D Lee
Electronics 10 (15), 1822 (2021)
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Text Mining Contemporary Popular Fiction: Natural Language Processing-Derived Themes
Across over 1,000 New York Times Bestsellers and Genre Fiction Novels (Master's Thesis, 2020)
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Tik Tok and Health: Misinformation Spread,
Casual Information Encounters and Emerging Health Communities
Conference Papers
Othello: The Net[work Analysis] that shall enmesh them all SaMLA 2018.
Cross-Dressing Onstage: Gender Subversion and Tragic Reassertion. NeMLA 2019.
Naomi Mitchison, Writing Women into the Future. 2019.
Motherly Girls: the Ship-Wrecked Gendered Home.
ChLA (National) 2019.
CURRENT PROJECTS
COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on Tik Tok: new forms of spread, topics,
and emerging logical fallacies.
Social sensing health information: an exploration of women’s health
information sharing on Tik Tok.
with Abhinav Choudhry and Alex Rosenberger
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Painfully funny, painfully true: Distilling themes and support types through
qualitative image analysis of posts to the subreddit r/Fibromyalgia
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Identifying unmet health needs in LGBTQ+ communities using text mining,
semantic modeling and community-informed Twitter data characterization.
with Amir Karami.
NEW PROJECTS
Tik Tok, observational learning, social support, and health storytelling: Tools for increasing health
self-efficacy in disabled and chronic illness populations. (planning phase)
Designing conversational agents (CAs) as lifelong everyday health learning and decision-making partners:
a longitudinal study. assisting Smit Apurva Desai and Jessie Chin (experiment phase)
PAST PROJECTS
Queer Cola Oral Histories & Digital Archive
Graduate Civic Scholar 2019-20
University Libraries Digital Collections Graduate Assistant, 2018
Moving Image Research Collections Graduate Assistant, 2018​
Archiving South Carolina Women
Graduate Student Metadata Team, 2018​
Broadening Access to Text Analysis by Describing Uncertainty: OCR and Logistic Regression
Research Assistant 2020-21
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, First Year English
University of South Carolina, 2018-2019
ENGL 101: Critical Reading and Composition
Syllabus, Calendar
ENGL 102: Rhetoric and Composition
Syllabus, Calendar
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign
IS 202: Social Aspects of Information Technology 2021-2022
IS 101: Introduction to Information Sciences
2022
University of South Carolina, 2016
ENGL 282: Special Topics in Fiction, Coming of Age
Huijia International School, Beijing
Lead English Teacher, Kindergarten, 2016
TESL Certificate
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SMK Panji, Kota Bharu, Malyasia
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, 2017
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