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Dr Joan Passey

@joanpassey.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The public historian, author and creator of the You’re Dead to Me podcast Greg Jenner warned…”The arts and humanities are fundamental to the flourishing of our society; knowledge gathering, critical thinking and creativity should be defended as sacred things.”
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Gothic Studies @gothicstudies.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Gothic Studies is recruiting! We seek a new assistant editor 🧛‍♂️
Advert for assistant editor post
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Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Jesus Christ the world is being eaten alive by this self optimisation bullshit
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Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Account has been hacked (badly) urgh bear with me
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Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We need to bully these people, badly
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Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I think one of the reasons why people don't take the study of the humanities seriously is they think being a history buff = being a historian and reading a lot = being a literature scholar because there's still so little public understanding of what methodologies in those fields actually look like
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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
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Ashe Sass-Woodward @sassorcista.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
For my American horror homies this Thanksgiving: A great article to send a family member on why we love scary movies. www.bbc.com/future/artic... #horrorcommunity #horrormovies #anxiety
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'The paradox of horror': How scary films can soothe your anxiety
Jump scares and gore might not seem like the most soothing watching, but scary films can actually be the ideal therapy during anxious times.
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Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
My students said they love my rants on it. Taught The Time Machine. Told them OpenAI wants them to become Eloi.
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
it's the healthiest thing we can do for the internet!!! y'all can get started for free on neocities!! it's like geocities but now!!! neocities.org go get started!!!
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Neocities
Create and surf awesome websites for free.
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Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/education/20... the total lack of critical thinking in this article and obliviousness to the actual conditions of HE seems to suggest this writer would have benefited from exposure to a liberal arts course
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It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 25/11/2025
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
' ... a foundational contribution to regional gothic studies.' A brilliant review of 'Cornish Gothic' by @joanpassey.bsky.social in @victstudies.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... Discover more about this 'compelling' book here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/cornish...
Book cover which features a black and white photo of a sinking ship with the sails just above the surface, the ship itself already below the waves.
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I am genuinely dumbfounded that anybody, even for a nanosecond, might have thought that LLM simulations of human participants could provide novel insights on the human mind
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Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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...
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Glenside Hospital Museum @glensidehospmuseum.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Did Victorians believe heavy drinking caused spontaneous human combustion? Dr Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social is going to enlighten us on this rather unusual subject, on Thursday 16th October at Glenside Hospital Museum, and we can't wait! Tickets here: glensidemuseum.org.uk/introducing-...
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Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I love Amelia B Edwards, not least because 'A Thousand Miles Up the Nile' has so many euphemistic applications
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Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
absolutely gobsmacked to find red and white flags painted on zebra crossings and roundabouts in my little part of bristol, ST GEORGE.
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Roxanne Douglas @roxannedouglas.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Spotted @jendeavour.bsky.social and @joanpassey.bsky.social’s books in the wild (“the wild” being The Bodies in the Bookshop in Cambridge in this instance)
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Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Ahh yes, my favourite Jane Austen novels - The Schutzstaffel, Postage and Packaging, Member of Parliament, Electronic, Not Applicable and Phosphorous <3
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
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Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
it's been DAYS since i saw it but i still can't stop thinking of the GENIUS of casting Jacob Anderson as Daniel Hall
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Amanda Mason @amandajanemason.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
This is why I am sometimes grumpy when people tell me how lucky I am to live somewhere with limited public transport links and an economy built on on low paid seasonal work. Yes, it's beautiful, but that's not enough, particularly for the young. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Young people in England’s coastal towns three times more likely to have a mental health condition
They are suffering disproportionately and without help, say researchers, and unless they are given a voice, problems will continue to mount up
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The Ghoul Guides @ghoulguides.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I’m (Lauren) pleased to announce the safe arrival of my first child, ‘The Gothic at War’, weighing 75 pounds. It was a long and difficult birth but worth the effort. If you want to support my sweet child, why not order a copy for you library: www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-got... #AcademicChatter #Gothic
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Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I actually loved Thunderbolts. A profoundly on the nose reflection on self loathing and loneliness where a group hug saves the day but I'm a simple creature and I love a haunted house story with found family
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 04/07/2025
Did you know? 100 years ago today, the BBC broadcast the #ShippingForecast for the very first time, produced by the Met Office for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. More than just a lifesaver, it’s become a beloved part of Britain’s cultural identity. Learn more: bit.ly/4kg877D 🛳️🌊
Met Office graphic with the heading 'DID YOU KNOW?' and an illustration of a light bulb. Text reads: '100 years ago today, the BBC broadcast the very first Shipping Forecast, produced by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.' Includes the hashtag '#WhenItMatters'. On the right, a photo shows rough ocean waves under a cloudy sky.
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2025
For 30 years I've been experimenting with ways to see & use the online collections of libraries, archives & museums. I've made useful things, playful things, & weird things. Here's a big list of them for you to explore! wraggelabs.com #GLAM #histodons #digitalHumanities
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Wragge Labs
A compilation of things I've built over the last 30 years to help people see and use the online collections of libraries, archives, and museums.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
At this point I think I may be one of an incredibly small number of people to have read the second Sullivan report in detail. It is uniformly poor scholarship, containing flagrant fabrications and misrepresentations, calling into question Alice Sullivan's ability to conduct basic academic research
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
it’s hard to stress just how important it is for universities to provide tailored support for students for whom english is not a first language, and how counter-productive these proposed redundancies are www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @ucu.org.uk
bbc.co.uk
University of Bristol jobs at risk amid lower student numbers
The university says the number of applicants to the languages course has fallen in recent years.
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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Massive Attack via Instagram.
The first two paragraphs:

"Today, a hot day when 22 Palestinians (including journalists) sat in a seafront café were murdered by one Israeli bomb, various national media outlets have contacted us (again) to ask our view of something a musician said.

For 636 days now, unprecedented & insufferable horror has been recorded by the brutalised communities of Gaza and shown to us on our phone and television screens. It will not stop. No one, it seems, will stop it."The last two paragraphs (in part):

"As we all watch on aghast, every single day, shouting or typing into an echo chamber of complicity...

Given the total ban by Israel on international journalists reporting from Gaza, and the simultaneous murder of hundreds of journalists in Gaza by Israeli forces, Massive Attack would urge the BBC and other media outlets to redirect their considerable news resource to reporting the truth of what is happening, daily, to the people of Gaza, and critically, to explaining the corresponding inaction of western governments (such as the UK) to their viewers.”
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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Summer trips planned to a range of libraries and archives where I have some research time available. Let me know if you're in need of (paid) research in Cumbria, Yorkshire, Essex, London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Hereford, Devon, Cornwall or the West Midlands. 🗃️ www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
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Joe Saunders History
Here to help with any historical project including genealogy, property history, problem solving, archival photography and writing up research. Joe Saunders History
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bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Hello folks, I just wanted to give you an update on our crowdfunder campaign. We hit 18% of our target in the first 24 hours! Thank you so much for all your contributions, it means a lot. Thanks for all your messages of support as well!
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David Brown @davidebrown.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
BBC Four is bringing us some classic #Moviedrome intros to The Wicker Man and Don't Look Now before showings of the films themselves. Thursday 10 July is the date for your diary.
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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
You should always be reading trans fiction, but now feels like an even more important time to be reading our stories and supporting our art. Good thing 2025 has already served up some absolutely incredible novels by trans authors!
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7 New Trans Novels To Read This Summer
2025 has already amassed an absolutely stellar line-up of trans novels.
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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A trio of new Tales of the Weird visitors from @blpublishing.bsky.social and especially exciting to see new anthologies from @joanpassey.bsky.social and @kjsoar.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird #Horror #Weird #Fiction
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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
It's day two of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies ‘Gothic Crossroads’ conference! Are you feeling inspired by @joanpassey.bsky.social's session yesterday? Discover more in her brilliant book 'Cornish Gothic'. Find even more Gothic and Horror books on our stand in the Dalton Building 📚
Image shows many gothic and horror books on table covered in a blue tablecloth
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Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Have found out that this is legitimately actually a murder hotel
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Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It's Gothic Crossroads time at Manchester Metropolitan University!!!!
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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I need you to close your eyes… Huge thanks to @romgothsam.bsky.social and Romancing the Gothic for allowing me to revisit this topic. I had a lovely time talking about horrible things!
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Tabitha Stanmore @magicnotwitches.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This term, I had the joy of convening the new Past Magics MA unit at @Exeter.ac.uk. Part of the assessment was to make a podcast, and I'm so impressed with the results. Please enjoy these funny, creative and informative episodes! sites.exeter.ac.uk/magic/2025/0...
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History of Magic Podcasts
As part of the MA unit, Past Magics: Histories and Archaeologies of the Supernatural, students created podcasts on a range of themes about the history of the supernatural. The research, creativity…
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"
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BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
They’re here! Happy publication day to ‘Phantoms of Kernow’, a haunting new collection of ghostly Cornish tales from 1865 to 1952.🌊👻 Featuring rare Victorian chillers and eerie gems all edited together beautifully by @joanpassey.bsky.social Tap to shop: t.co/xQnKRPp2hK
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Okay! Here's the new MP letter template to push back on the trans-exclusionary Code the EHRC are trying to bring in. I'm timing this letter to bolster the @transsolidarity.bsky.social Mass Lobby Day (next Wednesday), creating a swell of protest before, during & after. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Template MP letter: 3 asks re the EHRC Code consultation
Letter for MPs. Find your MP here: https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP I also recommend that you copy your letter to the Minister for Women and Equalities, Bridget Philippson, via the Women and...
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Just FYI, my new kids book about the Stone Age AND series 10 of You’re Dead To Me, both launch in 2 weeks time! I’ll be in full promo mode, so apologies in advance for that, but also… if you are/know a journo or kids’ book person who might be interested in them, then please do get in touch 🤓📚🎙️🙏
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Núria Molines-Galarza @nuriamolines.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Thrilled to be presenting my research on (marine) hauntology and 'Rebecca' (Du Maurier) at the upcoming Unquiet Shores Conference in Edinburgh Napier, organised by @hauntedshores.bsky.social and @macabredanse.bsky.social. Check out the programme: tinyurl.com/5yf38hws
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Delegates_Ver2_DRAFT Unquiet Shores programme.docx
3rd DRAFT PROGRAMME (updated 13 May 2025) Wednesday 18th June Bus departs Bainfield:0930 Registration and coffee: 10.00 (main foyer) Playing in Room 1/17 (Riady) 1000-1530: Sarah Robyn Farrell, Echoe...
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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I’ll be talking about sound and music in this story at the upcoming Unquiet Shores conference!
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Haunted Shores @hauntedshores.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Check out the programme for Unquiet Shores here haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shor... You can join us online or in person. Register by 2 June 🌊👻
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Unquiet Shores 2025
A conference by Danse Macabre and Haunted Shores 18-20 June 2025, Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, and online Registration is now open here for Unquiet Shores until 2 June. You ca…
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ali maloney @alimaloney.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
If anyone is going to the Unquiet Shores conference this week, Writers' Bloc will be there on Wednesday with some watery gothic spoken weird & stand-up horror.
An Ableton live controller and laptop, surrounded by notebooks, coffee, and script pages.
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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My Tales of the Weird book subscription from @blpublishing.bsky.social comes with A5 art and info cards, so I’ve gathered them together and made a custom folder I’m sad that I didn’t sign up a couple of months sooner and get the ones I’m missing. Oh well 🩸📚💙 #booksky
Folder with title and moon rising over ruinsSeance art and a field Medusa and mushroom artPhantoms of Kernow art
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BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Kernow, as Cornwall is known in the Cornish tongue, is a land steeped in ghostly legends and uncanny folklore...🌊 Pre order Phantoms of Kernow: Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall now, out 19th June: tinyurl.com/PhantomsofKe...
A photo of a book titled 'Phantoms of Kernow: Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall.' The book features a dark cover with a blue-toned illustration of ghostly figures and a shipwreck. It lies on rustic fabric beside weathered wood planks. Below it is a torn piece of paper with "pre-order now" handwritten on it, alongside a vintage key and a silver locket on a chain.
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