@joanpassey.bsky.social - Dr Joan Passey

04 Jan 2026 11:57 +0000

Jesus Christ the world is being eaten alive by this self optimisation bullshit [contains quote post or other embedded content]

01 Jan 2026 16:07 +0000

Account has been hacked (badly) urgh bear with me

19 Dec 2025 19:02 +0000

We need to bully these people, badly [contains quote post or other embedded content]

19 Dec 2025 18:46 +0000

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 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

26 Nov 2025 07:23 +0000

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/25/its-time-to-stop-worshipping-the-liberal-arts 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

23 Sep 2025 11:38 +0000

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! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fiction-the-female-writer-from-jane-eyre-to-the-haunting-of-hill-tickets-1702769111249?utm_source=Venue_speaker&utm_medium=Venue_speaker&utm_campaign=na&utm_content=na

27 Aug 2025 16:21 +0000

I love Amelia B Edwards, not least because 'A Thousand Miles Up the Nile' has so many euphemistic applications

27 Aug 2025 14:46 +0000

absolutely gobsmacked to find red and white flags painted on zebra crossings and roundabouts in my little part of bristol, ST GEORGE.

27 Aug 2025 14:42 +0000

Ahh yes, my favourite Jane Austen novels - The Schutzstaffel, Postage and Packaging, Member of Parliament, Electronic, Not Applicable and Phosphorous <3

12 Aug 2025 12:41 +0000

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

04 Jul 2025 18:49 +0000

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