Joan Passey

Joan Passey is an academic, writer, and broadcaster.

Joan is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. She regularly appears on BBC radio and has edited anthologies for the British Library. Their research focuses on how Gothic motifs and narratives are used to express cultural anxieties.

Joan specialises in:

  • Gothic and horror literature, television, and cinema
  • Coasts and seascapes
  • Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier and Wilkie Collins
  • Cornwall and regional literature
  • Dark tourism

Contact

joan.passey@bristol.ac.uk

Joan is represented by Richard Pike at C&W.