Joan Passey
@joanpassey.bsky.social
Gothic, horror | Victorian environments, coasts & seascapes 🌊 | Queer ecologies 🍄 | she/they 🏳️🌈 | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | English Lecturer | UCU Rep | Haunted Shores Network
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I'm doing a talk in Bath! Come and join me at Komedia on the 4th November 2025 for a whistlestop tour of women in the Gothic across four delirious centuries! It will be fast, furious, and hair raising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic...
September 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I'm doing a talk in Bath! Come and join me at Komedia on the 4th November 2025 for a whistlestop tour of women in the Gothic across four delirious centuries! It will be fast, furious, and hair raising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic...
Ahh yes, my favourite Jane Austen novels - The Schutzstaffel, Postage and Packaging, Member of Parliament, Electronic, Not Applicable and Phosphorous <3
August 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Ahh yes, my favourite Jane Austen novels - The Schutzstaffel, Postage and Packaging, Member of Parliament, Electronic, Not Applicable and Phosphorous <3
It's Gothic Crossroads time at Manchester Metropolitan University!!!!
June 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It's Gothic Crossroads time at Manchester Metropolitan University!!!!
Some sea noises from Writers Bloc ahead of their performance closing day one of #unquietshores2025 !!!
June 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Some sea noises from Writers Bloc ahead of their performance closing day one of #unquietshores2025 !!!
Karin telling us about a guy who got slapped to death by a ghost and I have tears in my eyes
June 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Karin telling us about a guy who got slapped to death by a ghost and I have tears in my eyes
This is a treat just for me!!! Karin Murray-Bergquist talking about maybe my favourite thing in the world - GHOST SHIPS
June 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is a treat just for me!!! Karin Murray-Bergquist talking about maybe my favourite thing in the world - GHOST SHIPS
Poetics of steamship travel writing! Musicality of the rolling motion of the ship!
June 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Poetics of steamship travel writing! Musicality of the rolling motion of the ship!
Maddy Potter on wet ecologies and tertium aliquid in Mariner! Landlocked perspectives made impossible! Nonhuman entanglements allow for imagining new ways of being!
June 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Maddy Potter on wet ecologies and tertium aliquid in Mariner! Landlocked perspectives made impossible! Nonhuman entanglements allow for imagining new ways of being!
Next panel!!! Boats!!!!
June 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Next panel!!! Boats!!!!
Elsa Bouet on The Beach House! Thick water! So many taps! Water invading domestic spaces via taps!
June 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Elsa Bouet on The Beach House! Thick water! So many taps! Water invading domestic spaces via taps!
Jamie Gorrod with more seals!! This time from 'Song to the Seals' by Granville Bantock (1930). So many engineers become folklorists and antiquaries! Well. Two that I know of - him and Robert Hunt.
June 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Jamie Gorrod with more seals!! This time from 'Song to the Seals' by Granville Bantock (1930). So many engineers become folklorists and antiquaries! Well. Two that I know of - him and Robert Hunt.
Monica Germana on selkies and seals in our second panel of the day at 'Unquiet Shores'!
June 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Monica Germana on selkies and seals in our second panel of the day at 'Unquiet Shores'!
okay what is your ham4ham dreamcast of actors currently on broadway
my sister and i have already imagined the implications of orville peck in every role
my sister and i have already imagined the implications of orville peck in every role
May 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
okay what is your ham4ham dreamcast of actors currently on broadway
my sister and i have already imagined the implications of orville peck in every role
my sister and i have already imagined the implications of orville peck in every role
PHANTOMS OF KERNOW: CLASSIC TALES OF HAUNTED CORNWALL (19th June 2025) has a cover!! Preorder!!!
May 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
PHANTOMS OF KERNOW: CLASSIC TALES OF HAUNTED CORNWALL (19th June 2025) has a cover!! Preorder!!!
margaret was an egyptologist and thus the inspiration for evie in the mummy and thus the source of all bisexuality (i can't evidence this either but LOOK AT HER)
May 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
margaret was an egyptologist and thus the inspiration for evie in the mummy and thus the source of all bisexuality (i can't evidence this either but LOOK AT HER)
anyway a c was no moustache slacker but in a moustache melee my money's on elgar
May 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
anyway a c was no moustache slacker but in a moustache melee my money's on elgar
oh my god it is elgar google is TRASH what is the POINT of an internet that cannot even give me PROPER MOUSTACHE ATTRIBUTION
May 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
oh my god it is elgar google is TRASH what is the POINT of an internet that cannot even give me PROPER MOUSTACHE ATTRIBUTION
margaret benson absolutely the inspiration for the book portrait in the portrait of a lady on fire (i have no way of substantiating this i'm just in love with her)
May 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
margaret benson absolutely the inspiration for the book portrait in the portrait of a lady on fire (i have no way of substantiating this i'm just in love with her)
saving the best benson for last because HOLY MOLY MARGARET
May 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
saving the best benson for last because HOLY MOLY MARGARET
a c benson had a moustache that kept all the bensons in line
May 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
a c benson had a moustache that kept all the bensons in line
robert hugh benson was adorable but in a way that suggested e f benson probably picked on him (this is me doing history)
May 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
robert hugh benson was adorable but in a way that suggested e f benson probably picked on him (this is me doing history)
e f benson is yet another skarsgaard pass it on (and fund my bill skarsgaard e f benson biopic)
May 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
e f benson is yet another skarsgaard pass it on (and fund my bill skarsgaard e f benson biopic)
In my head he's always looked like this but now I am forced to ask what else the little Edwardian moustaches have taken from us
May 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
In my head he's always looked like this but now I am forced to ask what else the little Edwardian moustaches have taken from us
E F Benson, writer of weird and superb Edwardian fiction, looked like THIS? And no one TOLD ME?
May 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
E F Benson, writer of weird and superb Edwardian fiction, looked like THIS? And no one TOLD ME?