Joan Passey

Maritime Gothic

This project reflects on watery horrors from the eighteenth-century to the present day across different types of media.

Wellness: A Horror Story

This book will be the first to identify ‘wellness Gothic’, moving from eighteenth-century health resorts to twenty-first-century biohacking.

Queer Ecologies of the Gothic

This project identifies overlaps between queer theory, ecocriticism, and four centuries of Gothic literature and criticism.

Abyss

This book will provide a cultural history of the ways we fear the sea, and how these fears shape British identity, for better or worse.