All Outputs (14)

Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control. (2015)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S. (2015). Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control. In J. Edwards (Ed.), Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics (99-112). Routledge

The Gothic has long been interested in failed communities, the snapping or violating of ties between kin or neighbours. As the Gothic mutates into new forms today, it is increasingly characterising texts which depict whole societies as wounded in the... Read More about Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control..

Scalpel and Metaphor: The Ceremony of Organ Harvest in Gothic Science Fiction (2015)
Journal Article
Wasson, S. (2015). Scalpel and Metaphor: The Ceremony of Organ Harvest in Gothic Science Fiction. Gothic Studies, 17(1), 104-123. https://doi.org/10.7227/GS.17.1.8

In organ transfer, tissue moves through a web of language. Metaphors reclassify the tissue to enable its redeployment, framing the process for practitioners and public. The process of marking off tissue as transferrable in legal and cultural terms pa... Read More about Scalpel and Metaphor: The Ceremony of Organ Harvest in Gothic Science Fiction.

Gothic Cities and Suburbs, 1880-present. (2014)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S. (2014). Gothic Cities and Suburbs, 1880-present. In G. Byron, & D. Townshend (Eds.), The Gothic World (132-142). Routledge

Gothic Science Fiction 1980 - 2010 (2011)
Book
Wasson, S., & Alder, E. (2011). Gothic Science Fiction 1980 - 2010. Liverpool University Press

Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S. (2011, August). Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman. Paper presented at Gothic limits / Gothic Ltd.’: 10th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association. 2-5 August 20

The International Gothic Association facilitates dissemination of research in Gothic and horror from the eighteenth century to the present, and the Conference is held once every two years. This year, the conference is entitled ‘Gothic Limits’ and con... Read More about Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman..

Olalla's legacy: twentieth century vampire fiction and genetic previvorship (2010)
Journal Article
Wasson, S. (2010). Olalla's legacy: twentieth century vampire fiction and genetic previvorship. Journal of Stevenson Studies, 7, 55-81

Although Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story ‘Olalla’ does not use the word ‘vampire’ at any point, it contains a cluster of motifs that have led critics to identify it as a vampire tale: specifically, a character addicted to drinking human blood an... Read More about Olalla's legacy: twentieth century vampire fiction and genetic previvorship.

“Half-Masonry, Half Pain”: death and nation in Mervyn Peake’s poetry of Second-World-War London. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S. (2010, April). “Half-Masonry, Half Pain”: death and nation in Mervyn Peake’s poetry of Second-World-War London. Paper presented at Urban Gothic: Haunted Cities, Spectral Traces Conference

The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S., & Artt, S. (2010, April). The Twilight Saga and the pleasures of spectatorship: the broken body and the shining body. Paper presented at Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture

Cannibal doubles: organ harvesting and the grotesque double in gothic science fiction. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S. (2009, July). Cannibal doubles: organ harvesting and the grotesque double in gothic science fiction. Paper presented at International Gothic Association Biannual Conference

One grows strange behind Barbed Wire: nationhood and British Internment of Aliens in the Second World War. (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S. (2009). One grows strange behind Barbed Wire: nationhood and British Internment of Aliens in the Second World War.

Recalcitrant copies and vulnerable bodies: literary engagements with human cloning. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S. (2007). Recalcitrant copies and vulnerable bodies: literary engagements with human cloning.

The South African truth and reconciliation commission and its archive of Human Rights violations. (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S. (2007). The South African truth and reconciliation commission and its archive of Human Rights violations.

Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship. (2004)
Journal Article
Wasson, S. (2004). Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship. Extrapolation, 45, 130-144

This article presents a discussion on science fiction related to cloning. Science fiction has long played with the notion of the doubled self, and the speculative potential of the double was extended when the term "human cloning" entered cultural par... Read More about Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship..

A network of inscrutable canyons: wartime London’s sensory landscapes. (2003)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S. (2003). A network of inscrutable canyons: wartime London’s sensory landscapes. In L. Phillips (Ed.), The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London (77-95). Rodopi

Sensory abundance has always been a hallmark of cities, but with the onset of World War II London’s sensory geography was transformed. The resulting city lacked many of the hallmarks of cities before or since, and novels, photographs, and even card... Read More about A network of inscrutable canyons: wartime London’s sensory landscapes..