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2023
Invited speaker, Queen Mary, University of London. Paper title: ‘Medical Gothic: Strange Times and Affective Transgression in Illness, Intervention and Aftermath’.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
15/11/2023
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Invited speaker, Bristol University’s Centre for Environmental Humanities. Paper title: ‘Writing Extinction as the Memory of Loves: Flash writing of interconnections in ancient Celtic Oakwood Biomes’.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
2/11/2023
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Writing for Wellbeing Workshops with The Birchall Trust
Lambert, Z. (Speaker) & Wasson, S. (Speaker)
30/09/2023
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
‘Representing chronic pain with ‘flash’ short form writing’
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
23/05/2023
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
‘Torn Wings and Exorcism: Gothic Representations of Chronic Pain.’
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
23/01/2023
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
2022
‘ “Undeath” or the Dreams of Plants? The Svalbard Global Seed vault, Human Melancholy and Lively Matter.”
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
26/07/2022 → 29/07/2022
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
2021
‘Waiting, Strange: Temporality in Life Writing by Transplant Recipients.’ British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) Conference, April 2021.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
05/2021
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
2020
Public reading/talk as part of the book launch for Uncanny Bodies (Luna Press, 2020), to which I contributed a chapter titled ‘Pain’s Uncanny’.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
11/2020
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Invited speaker at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Paper title: ‘Making room for stories that don’t sound like stories: nuanced resilience in narratives of pain’.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
6/10/2020
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
2019
Placements to Enhance Employability in English, and Motivated vs. Transferable Skills
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
16/09/2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Plenary speaker at the international conference Embodying Fantastika. Paper title: ‘Slow Lacerations: Time in Tissue Transfer Fantastika.’
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
10/08/2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Plenary speaker at the Medical Humanities and the Fantastic international Symposium, Liverpool University. Paper title: ‘Spectrality, Strangeness and Stigmaphilia: Chronic Pain and the Fantastic’.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
19/07/2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Invited speaker at Linnaeus University, Sweden, for a workshop on Gothic and the Anthropocene (June 2019). My paper title: ‘An Erotics of Nonhuman Encounter: Caitlín R. Kiernan and Queering the Weird’.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
06/2019
Activity: Other activity types › Other
'Translating Chronic Pain', Podcast with pain charity Pain Concern
Wasson, S. (Speaker) & Lambert, Z. (Speaker)
15/05/2019
Activity: Other activity types › Other
Interviewed for an article on fan theories, '‘The Impossible Problems and Endless Opportunities of Fan Theories’
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
1/05/2019
Activity: Other activity types › Other
‘Interrogating Medicine: A Podcast on Humanities and Pain’
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
05/2019
Activity: Other activity types › Other
Served on the Judging Panel for a poetry competition for the charity Our Minds Leeds.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
05/2019
Activity: Other activity types › Other
2018
Guardian interview. ‘Twilight forever: how superfans kept the vampire critics at bay’
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
11/2018
Activity: Other activity types › Other
‘“Flash” future? The Potential of Fragments and Short-Form Writing in the project Translating Chronic Pain’
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
20/09/2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
‘“Flash” future? The Potential of Fragments and Short-Form Writing in the project Translating Chronic Pain’. NNMHR: Northern Network Medical Humanities conference (NNMHR), at the University of Leeds. This is an annual conference with international reach
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
20/09/2018 → 21/09/2018
Activity: Other activity types › Other
‘Transplantation Metaphors and “Future”-Making in State Discourse and Science Fictions Of Vulnerable Donors’. Northern Network Medical Humanities conference (NNMHR), at the University of Leeds.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
20/09/2018
Activity: Other activity types › Other
Transplantation Metaphors and “Future”-Making in State Discourse and Science Fictions Of Vulnerable Donors
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
20/09/2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Pain as Fragment, Moment, Glimpse: Flash Illness Writing
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
17/08/2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Representing Pain: Narrative and Fragments
Wasson, S. (Organiser)
17/08/2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
‘Pain as Fragment, Moment, Glimpse: Flash Illness Writing’. Presented at Representing Pain: Narrative & Fragments, AHRC-Funded Symposium at Lancaster University.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
08/2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
‘Clinical Labour in the Grey Zone: the biopolitics of transplant horror in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest’
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
31/07/2018 → 3/08/2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
14th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
31/07/2018 → 3/08/2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Narrative and the Uncanny
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
17/07/2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Clinical Necropoetics: Cadaveric Donation in Medical Writing
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
18/06/2018 → 19/06/2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
‘Before Narrative’: podcast for the British Medical Journal BMJ Blog.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
5/06/2018
Activity: Other activity types › Other
workshop on writing about pain
Lambert, Z. (Speaker) & Wasson, S. (Organiser)
1/03/2018
Activity: Other activity types › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
Led an AHRC-funded Creative Writing Workshop in Manchester
Wasson, S. (Organiser) & Lambert, Z. (Speaker)
24/02/2018
Activity: Other activity types › Other
2017
Creative Summit
Wasson, S. (Organiser)
21/10/2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Creative Summit
Lambert, Z. (Speaker) & Wasson, S. (Speaker)
21/10/2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
13th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
31/07/2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
‘Vulnerable Bodies: Literary Fantasies of Organ Procurement and Economic Precarity’. International Gothic Association Conference, ‘Gothic Traditions and Departures’. Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) in Cholula, Mexico.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
18/07/2017 → 21/07/2017
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Plenary speaker at the University Santiago de Compostela in Spain, international conference The Discourse of Identity II, held by the Faculty of Philology. Paper title: ‘Haunted Selves, Fractured Identities: Writing Chronic Pain in the Gothic Mode’.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
07/2017
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Complex Chaos: Temporality in Representations of Chronic Pain
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
30/06/2017
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Critical Stories: Annual Conference of the Association of Medical Humanities
Wasson, S. (Participant)
30/06/2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Gothic and the Biomedical Imaginary
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
26/06/2017
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
II International Conference: The Discourse of Identity
Wasson, S. (Keynote/plenary speaker)
8/06/2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Plenary speaker. Paper title: ‘The National Work of Ghost Fiction on the Second World War British Home Front’
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
5/06/2017
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Seventh Annual Gothic Postgraduate Conference and Research Training Day
Wasson, S. (Keynote/plenary speaker)
5/06/2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Bringing Conflict Home_ University of York
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
11/05/2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Invited speaker, Manchester Metropolitan University, Centre for Gothic Studies, March 2017. Invited to speak about my research on Gothic and medical humanities. Paper titled: ‘Narrative Disruption: Literature of Chronic Pain’ in the Gothic Mode’.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
8/03/2017
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Collaboration with Museum of London: Perspectives of Destruction
Wasson, S. (Contributor)
27/01/2017 → 15/05/2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition/Concert
‘Restless Ghosts: Fantasies of the Combatant Dead on the Second World War British Home Front’. University of York, ‘Bringing Conflict Home’ Conference.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
2017
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
'Complex Chaos: Temporality in Representations of Chronic Pain’. Association of Medical Humanities Annual Conference, ‘Critical Stories’, Keele University.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
2017
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
International Gothic Association: Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize (Event)
Wasson, S. (Member)
2017
Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
2013
Recalcitrant Flesh: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control in Text and Film
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
6/08/2013
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
‘Recalcitrant Flesh: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control in Text and Film’, Gothic Technologies/Gothic Techniques, Eleventh Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association, University of Surrey.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
08/2013
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
2012
Dark Ate the Outlines of the House”: Elizabeth Bowen’s Wartime Fiction and Gender Identity in British Interiors
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
29/06/2012
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
‘“Tombstones or Crouching Things”: The Politics of Vampire Fiction on The British World War II Home Front
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
13/04/2012
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
2011
Medical Gothic: Organ Harvesting and Medicalised Abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
3/08/2011
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Sentient Ruins and the Ventriloquised Dead: Mervyn Peake’s Wartime Poetry
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
16/07/2011
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
‘Crying with Phantom Tongue’: the Politics of Lamentation in Mervyn Peake’s Wartime Poetry’
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
8/07/2011
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
‘Nurturing Student Confidence in Teaching Literary and Cultural Theory
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
7/01/2011
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
2010
Science Fiction and Contemporary Organ Transplant Practice
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
24/09/2010
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Plenary speaker at the international conference Embodying Fantastika (2019). Paper title: ‘Slow Lacerations: Time in Tissue Transfer Fantastika’.
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
31/08/2010
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Ghostly Authorities & Vampire Fangs: Myths of Englishness revised in Anna Kavan’s Fiction
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
16/07/2010
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
The Twilight Saga and the Pleasures of Spectatorship: The Broken Body and the Shining Body
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
30/04/2010
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
‘“Half-Masonry, Half Pain”: Death and Nation in Mervyn Peake’s Poetry of Second World War London
Wasson, S. (Speaker)
24/04/2010
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation