Staff Profile

Tom currently teaches the following modules:

• HMP2005: Researching Trends in Hair, Make-up and Prosthetics
• MED1084: Media and Creative Industries
• MED2121: Fan Cultures

Tom completed their PhD at Lancaster University in 2023. The thesis, Dragging the Gothic, performed a novel queer analysis of Gothic works using drag performance as a fulcrum for critical analysis. Alongside this, he has published work on Gothic and horror aesthetics in contemporary queer cultures, camp in the Gothic, and representations of queerness on screen.

Tom’s research interests focus on intersections of Gothic and queerness as they play out in contemporary popular culture. He is more broadly interested in Gothic and horror, femininities and gender play, queerness, and popular culture.

For publications, projects, datasets, research interests and activities, view Tom Brassington’s research profile on Pure, the University of Northampton’s Research Explorer.

Forthcoming:

Brassington, T., ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’: Feminist Gothic Camp, in: Comic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, eds. Avril Horner & Sue Zlosnik. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

New Queer Television: from Marginalisation to Mainstreamification, eds. Thomas Brassington, Debra Ferreday and Dany Girard. Bristol: Intellect

Brassington, T., Ferreday, D., Girard, D., ‘Introduction: The Evolving Landscape of Queer Television’, in: New Queer Television: From Marginalisation to Mainstreamification, eds. Thomas Brassington, Debra Ferreday and Dany Girard. Bristol: Intellect

Brassington, T., Ferreday D., Girard D., ‘Coda’, New Queer Television: From Marginalisation to Mainstreamification, eds. Thomas Brassington, Debra Ferreday and Danielle Girard. Bristol: Intellect

2023:

Brassington, T., 2023, ‘Tarting up ideas in costume jewellery’: in Contemporary Gothic Camp. in A Haefele-Thomas (ed.), Queer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. 1st edn, Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 97-114. <https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-gothic.html>

Brassington, T., 2023, ‘Hello Uglies’: Nosferatu’s Queer Legacy in the 21st Century. in S Bacon (ed.), Nosferatu in the 21st Century: A Critical Study. 1st edn, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, pp. 111-126. 

2022:

Brassington, T., Ferreday, D., & Girard, D., 2022, ‘Rethinking marginality in new queer television’, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 3-7. 

Brassington, T., 2022, ‘Show gay people for the often-awful people they are’: Reframing queer monstrosity’, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 27-40.