- Oxford, UK
Joan Passey
University of Exeter in Cornwall, English Literature, Graduate Student
- English Literature, Critical Theory, Social Media, Culture, Film Studies, 18th Century British Literature, and 30 moreFeminist Media Studies, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature, William Blake, Women's writing, Gothic Literature, British Romanticism, Eighteenth-Century literature, Scottish Literature, Media Literacy Education, Eighteenth-Century British History and Culture, Women's Literature, Cultural Studies (Communication), Sexuality And Culture, Victorian Studies, Physiognomy, British Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Eighteenth Century Print Culture, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, History of Sexuality, Literature And Science, British Literature, Media Anthropology, Miniature Books, Material Culture Studies, Eighteenth Century Studies, Death, Death Studies, History of Death & Dying, Blue Humanities, and Cornwalledit
- I completed my undergraduate degree in English Literature at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus in 2014, and m... moreI completed my undergraduate degree in English Literature at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus in 2014, and my Master of Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature at Oriel College, University of Oxford, in 2015 with a thesis that analysed the use of the sonic gothic and gothic soundscapes in the novels of Ann Radcliffe.
I am currently a PhD student between the University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, and the University of Bristol under the South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership. My research, entitled ‘"The West Barbary Barbarian": Identifying a Cornish Gothic in the late Nineteenth Century’ aims to identify a Celtic Gothic tradition specific to Cornwall in relation to existing models of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Gothic. This project uses travel narratives and tourist guidebooks alongside novels to establish what is Gothic about Cornwall, and what is Cornish about the Gothic.
Other research interests include soundscapes, Gothic podcasts, technology and the Gothic, it narratives, Egyptomania in the long nineteenth century, and women's book history.
I am a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, and sit on the committee for the Bristol Journal of English Studies. I am very interested in mental health in academia, and run peer support groups for postgraduates through the University of Bristol Student Union. When I'm not staring at a blank Word document, I enjoy trying to write Gothic fiction in a different blank Word document, cooking, journalling, folk music, and learning to code.edit
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Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novels are rich with visual imagery, but their use of sound is largely overlooked. While there is significant research into eighteenth century music, little has been said about Radcliffe’s use of atmospheric sound.... more
Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novels are rich with visual imagery, but their use of sound is largely overlooked. While there is significant research into eighteenth century music, little has been said about Radcliffe’s use of atmospheric sound. This article proposes that Radcliffe uses sound to generate terror in response to eighteenth century concepts of sensibility and permeability of the self. In Radcliffe’s novels sound has an obscurity image does not, and penetrates the body, representative of larger anxieties over the degeneration of society.
Research Interests: Women's Studies, Women's History, Eighteenth-Century literature, Eighteenth Century History, Enlightenment, and 19 moreEdmund Burke, Sound studies, Eighteenth-Century British History and Culture, Sound, Gothic Literature, Gothic Studies, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Gothic Fiction and the horror film, Gothic Fiction, Eighteenth-Century Music, Women and Culture, Sonic Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Female Gothic, Ann Radcliffe, Gothic, Political Thought of Edmund Burke, Eighteenth Century Gothic Fiction Ann Radcliffe, and The Italian Ann Radcliffe
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Presented at Animal Utterances at the University of Bristol, May 2017.
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, English Literature, Victorian Studies, Literature, Animal Studies, and 15 moreVictorian Literature, Gothic Literature, Gothic Studies, Victorian cultural studies, Victorian studies (Literature), Victorian poetry, Animals in Literature, Victorian novel, Animal Literary Criticism, Victorian periodicals, Victorian Literature and Culture, Animals, Rats and mice, Rats, and Literary Animal Studies
Presented at the North American Victorian Studies supernumerary conference at Florence, Italy, May 2017.
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, English Literature, Victorian Studies, Literature, Maritime History, and 19 moreSound studies, Victorian Literature, Victorian Children's Literature, Sound, Victorian cultural studies, Victorian studies (Literature), Seascape Ecology, Victorian novel, Charles Babbage, Seafarers, Wilkie Collins, Thomas De Quincey, Victorian Literature and Culture, Cornwall, Seascape, Maritime Cultural Landscape and Seascapes, Blue Humanities, Wilkie Collins, Gothic, and Wilkie Collins; 19th C Novel and History
Presented at BSLS 2017 at the University of Bristol.
Research Interests: Mining Engineering, Mythology And Folklore, Geology, Mineralogy, Folklore, and 19 moreEnglish Literature, Literature, Ghosts, Cultural History Of Ghosts, Gothic Literature, Gothic Studies, Science, Technology and Literature, Literature And Science, Gothic Fiction and the horror film, Folklore (Literature), Mining, History of Folklore Theory and Method, Gothic Fiction, Wilkie Collins, Cornwall, Monsters, Ghosts, Haunting, Supernatural Folklore, Wilkie Collins, Gothic, and Ghosts and Hauntings
Presented at the SWW DTP STEAM WIP conference at the University of Bristol, January 2017. Research into the Victorian period has recently taken a turn towards mobilities, or the significance of movement, motion, and transport throughout... more
Presented at the SWW DTP STEAM WIP conference at the University of Bristol, January 2017.
Research into the Victorian period has recently taken a turn towards mobilities, or the significance of movement, motion, and transport throughout the period, particularly in relation to social mobility and industrial economies. Charlotte Mathieson's work looks at the complicated relationship between advancements in transportation technologies and notions of nationhood and empire. Mathieson proposes that Victorian novels preoccupied with transportation "demonstrate a deep-seated engagement with the state of the nation, in an era in which imperialism and the globalising effects of capitalist modernity were reforming the idea of national identity. Underpinning these ideological questions was an accompanying preoccupation with the space of the nation: what the nation-place is, and where it is located within an expanding world order" (Mobility in the Victorian Novel, 2015). This paper will focus on the significance of transportation, mobility, and movement in Cornwall in response to the building of the Royal Albert Bridge in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Cornwall was one of the last counties to be connected to the rail network, towards the end of the railroad boom, and as such its culture of construction and reception was radically different from those which preceded it. Mathieson's work notably overlooks Cornwall's place in the Victorian transport revolution, and furthermore, ignores the significance of barbaric, monstrous, or terrifying travel in Gothic novels of this period. This paper will establish the significance of Cornwall and Cornish transport in the popular imagination in the nineteenth century through analysis of the representation of travel into and out of the county in Gothic novels, and in doing so, will locate Cornwall as a site of projection for larger anxieties surrounding the dissolution of identity in a transport age.
Research into the Victorian period has recently taken a turn towards mobilities, or the significance of movement, motion, and transport throughout the period, particularly in relation to social mobility and industrial economies. Charlotte Mathieson's work looks at the complicated relationship between advancements in transportation technologies and notions of nationhood and empire. Mathieson proposes that Victorian novels preoccupied with transportation "demonstrate a deep-seated engagement with the state of the nation, in an era in which imperialism and the globalising effects of capitalist modernity were reforming the idea of national identity. Underpinning these ideological questions was an accompanying preoccupation with the space of the nation: what the nation-place is, and where it is located within an expanding world order" (Mobility in the Victorian Novel, 2015). This paper will focus on the significance of transportation, mobility, and movement in Cornwall in response to the building of the Royal Albert Bridge in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Cornwall was one of the last counties to be connected to the rail network, towards the end of the railroad boom, and as such its culture of construction and reception was radically different from those which preceded it. Mathieson's work notably overlooks Cornwall's place in the Victorian transport revolution, and furthermore, ignores the significance of barbaric, monstrous, or terrifying travel in Gothic novels of this period. This paper will establish the significance of Cornwall and Cornish transport in the popular imagination in the nineteenth century through analysis of the representation of travel into and out of the county in Gothic novels, and in doing so, will locate Cornwall as a site of projection for larger anxieties surrounding the dissolution of identity in a transport age.
Research Interests: Victorian Studies, Cornish Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Mobility/Mobilities, Transportation Studies, and 20 moreVictorian Literature, Gothic Literature, Gothic Studies, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Victorian cultural studies, Gothic Fiction and the horror film, Nineteenth Century, Gothic Fiction, Victorian novel, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Cornish History, Horror Literature, Gothic, Horror, Cornwall, Cornwall, U.K., Victorian Gothic, Cornish Folk Tradition, The Duchy of Cornwall, and Traditional Folk Customs of Cornish
For Writing Remains 2017 at the University of Bristol. This paper offers a close-reading of the critically overlooked novel The Mummy! by Jane Loudon (1827), exploring how Loudon's work is responding not only to a burgeoning literary... more
For Writing Remains 2017 at the University of Bristol.
This paper offers a close-reading of the critically overlooked novel The Mummy! by Jane Loudon (1827), exploring how Loudon's work is responding not only to a burgeoning literary tradition of monstrosity, but with the way eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Egyptomania reflects anxieties surrounding the acquisition of knowledge. Loudon's work engages directly with Mary Shelley's The Last Man and Frankenstein, and precedes what is widely credited to be the first 'mummy horror novel', Bram Stoker's The Jewel of the Seven Stars, by 76 years. Loudon's dystopian future of a world where knowledge has lost all meaning, and intellectual pursuits are solely the territory of the lower and working classes, projects anxieties over the popularisation and commodification of knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment. The tale of an ancient mummy, Cheops, being reanimated by the galvanising forces of electricity by curious archaeologists is a response to the cultural fascination with ancient Egypt largely perpetuated by Napoleon's late eighteenth century invasion, the poetry of Byron, and the exploits of celebrity archaeologist, Belzoni. Set in a world in which Egypt has become 'Anglo-Egypt', Loudon imaginatively pursues the consequences of Empire upon knowledge and culture, and its relationship with travel writing, archaeology, and language. Ultimately, Loudon's complex critique of the interactions between class, education, and colonisation work as an analysis of the gatekeeping of information, taking the form of a work of embryonic science fiction, where Loudon uses the year 2126 as a playground to stretch the Age of Enlightenment to its most ridiculous possible consequence.
This paper offers a close-reading of the critically overlooked novel The Mummy! by Jane Loudon (1827), exploring how Loudon's work is responding not only to a burgeoning literary tradition of monstrosity, but with the way eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Egyptomania reflects anxieties surrounding the acquisition of knowledge. Loudon's work engages directly with Mary Shelley's The Last Man and Frankenstein, and precedes what is widely credited to be the first 'mummy horror novel', Bram Stoker's The Jewel of the Seven Stars, by 76 years. Loudon's dystopian future of a world where knowledge has lost all meaning, and intellectual pursuits are solely the territory of the lower and working classes, projects anxieties over the popularisation and commodification of knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment. The tale of an ancient mummy, Cheops, being reanimated by the galvanising forces of electricity by curious archaeologists is a response to the cultural fascination with ancient Egypt largely perpetuated by Napoleon's late eighteenth century invasion, the poetry of Byron, and the exploits of celebrity archaeologist, Belzoni. Set in a world in which Egypt has become 'Anglo-Egypt', Loudon imaginatively pursues the consequences of Empire upon knowledge and culture, and its relationship with travel writing, archaeology, and language. Ultimately, Loudon's complex critique of the interactions between class, education, and colonisation work as an analysis of the gatekeeping of information, taking the form of a work of embryonic science fiction, where Loudon uses the year 2126 as a playground to stretch the Age of Enlightenment to its most ridiculous possible consequence.
Research Interests: Egyptology, English Literature, Women's History, Nineteenth Century Studies, Women's writing, and 36 moreEighteenth-Century literature, Literature, Egyptian Archaeology, Eighteenth Century History, Enlightenment, Eighteenth-Century British History and Culture, Gothic Literature, Gothic Studies, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Eighteenth-Century French Studies, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Egypt, Gothic Fiction and the horror film, Nineteenth Century, Gothic Fiction, Antiquarianism, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Egyptomania, Ancient Egyptian History, Women and Culture, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Women and Gender Studies, Female Gothic, Ancient Egypt, Horror Literature, History of Antiquarianism, Women and the Gothic Era, Gothic Art, Gothic, History of Collecting and Antiquarianism, Mummies, Horror, Antiquarianism in the eighteenth century, Gothic and Sensation Fiction, Belzoni, and Jane Webb Loudon
Presented at the Transgression & the South West conference, Cornwall, UK, June 2016.
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Presented at the Festival of Food and Research, Bristol, UK, June 2016.
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Presented at the Reflected Shadows Folklore Society Conference in Surrey, UK, April 2016.
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Presented at the Monstrous Geographies and Apocalypse conference in Prague, Czech Republic, May 2016
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presented at the International Society of Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference at the University of Rotterdam, 2015.
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presented at 'The Age of Oddities Let Loose’: Eighteen Short Talks on the Long Eighteenth Century at the University of Oxford, 2015.
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presented at Radcliffe at 250 at the University of Sheffield, 2014.
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presented at Encounters, Affinities, Legacies: the Eighteenth Century in the Present Day at the University of York, 2013.
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Ran a workshop on masks and their history for visitors to the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership's 2017 Fun Palace in Bristol.
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Research Interests: American Literature, World Literatures, Comparative Literature, French Literature, Spanish Literature, and 55 moreMusic, Music Education, Music History, Music Theory, Musicology, Greek Literature, Latin Literature, English Literature, Music Technology, Sound and Image, Sound Anthropology, Medieval Literature, Arabic Literature, Popular Music, Film Sound, Literature, Radio And Sound Studies, Soundtrack Studies, Film Music And Sound, Literature and Music, Literature and cinema, Music Psychology, Sound Synthesis, Sound and Music Computing, Soundscape Studies, Sound studies, History of English Literature, Sound, Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism), Sound archives, Latin American literature, Architecture and sound, Soundscape Design, Postcolonial Literature, Psychoanalysis And Literature, Sound Design, Soundscape (Music), Soundscape composition, Music and Literature, Sound Art, Sound Perception and Speech Recognition, Sound Engineering, Sound and Noise, Soundscape, English language and literature, Sound Recording, Literature and Sound, Sound recordings, Sound symbolism, Anthropology of Music and Sound, Ambisonics & spatial audio sound fields, Musical Analysis, Film Sound and Music, Film Sound Theory, and Sound Spatialization
Research Interests: Contemporary British Theatre, Gothic Literature, Gothic Studies, Gothic Fiction and the horror film, Gothic Fiction, and 10 moreContemporary Gothic Fiction, Philip Ridley, Contemporary Theatre, Gothic Art, Gothic, British theatre, Gothic, female Gothic, Gothic in literature, the Gothic as a subculture, the fantastic, horror, the vampire figure in literature and film, the femme fatale, feminist readings of vampire narratives, Contemporary British Theatre especially the work of playwright Philip Ridley. Also interested in all theatre and its production. particularly in my role as a professional Stage Manager, Contemporary Gothic, and Gothic Theatre
Organiser of the interdisciplinary workshop, hosted at the University of Bristol on the 24th May 2017. Distinguished Professor of Music and Philosophy, Professor Rothenberg (Why Birds Sing, 2005; Berlin Bülbül, 2016) will discuss the... more
Organiser of the interdisciplinary workshop, hosted at the University of Bristol on the 24th May 2017.
Distinguished Professor of Music and Philosophy, Professor Rothenberg (Why Birds Sing, 2005; Berlin Bülbül, 2016) will discuss the different approaches through which human beings have attempted to understand the sounds and songs of other species. Examples range from sonogram recordings—which enabled scientists like William Thorpe to slow down and visually analyse the complex ‘patterning’ of a male chaffinch’s song—to rather less precise, though in some ways more evocative, renderings of birdsong in poetry and literature. Professor Rothenberg will be joined by the Experimental Psychologist, Nina Kazanina (University of Bristol), and Computational Neuroscientist, Dr. Conor Houghton (University of Bristol), who will introduce postgraduate in the Humanities to some of the groundbreaking research currently being conduction on non-human animal communication systems in her field.
Distinguished Professor of Music and Philosophy, Professor Rothenberg (Why Birds Sing, 2005; Berlin Bülbül, 2016) will discuss the different approaches through which human beings have attempted to understand the sounds and songs of other species. Examples range from sonogram recordings—which enabled scientists like William Thorpe to slow down and visually analyse the complex ‘patterning’ of a male chaffinch’s song—to rather less precise, though in some ways more evocative, renderings of birdsong in poetry and literature. Professor Rothenberg will be joined by the Experimental Psychologist, Nina Kazanina (University of Bristol), and Computational Neuroscientist, Dr. Conor Houghton (University of Bristol), who will introduce postgraduate in the Humanities to some of the groundbreaking research currently being conduction on non-human animal communication systems in her field.
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A workshop exploring monstrosity, its history, and many incarnations at the Brilliant Bodies Fun Palace, Bristol, 1st Oct 2016.
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Presented at the Bristol Festival of Arts and Humanities in January 2016.
Research Interests: Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature, Gothic Literature, Gothic Studies, Victorian cultural studies, and 11 moreVictorian studies (Literature), Gothic Fiction and the horror film, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Gothic Fiction, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy, Cultural materialism, British Victorian Period, Cornwall, Sabine Baring-Gould, and Poldark & The Allure of the 1780s
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This paper looks at how the New Woman is situated in Cornish Gothic fiction in the nineteenth century, using the specific example of 'The Phantom Hare', a short story published by an author known only as M. H. in The Argosy pulp fiction... more
This paper looks at how the New Woman is situated in Cornish Gothic fiction in the nineteenth century, using the specific example of 'The Phantom Hare', a short story published by an author known only as M. H. in The Argosy pulp fiction magazine in 1897, under the editorship of Mrs. Henry Wood. In looking at the way the Gothic story draws upon Cornish folklore, brought under popular scrutiny by the Victorian antiquarian revival, the tension between past and present is illuminated, and is emblematic of the tensions surrounding woman's progress in the period.
Research Interests: Victorian Studies, Cornish Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Victorian Literature, Gothic Literature, and 24 moreGothic Studies, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Feminism, Victorian cultural studies, Victorian studies (Literature), Gothic Fiction and the horror film, Fin de Siecle Literature & Culture, Short story (Literature), Nineteenth Century, Gothic Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Cornish History, Nineteenth Century Occultism, Female Gothic, Short story, Fin-de-Siècle Culture, Gothic, Cornwall, Short Stories, Female body, The Duchy of Cornwall, The New Woman, The New Woman and Fin de Siecle Magazine Stories, and Cornish Heritage
Presented at the 'Alien Within' panel at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution with Em Geen and Andrew Jones on the 30th September 2016.