Sara Wasson is Reader in Gothic Studies at Lancaster University. She specialises in medical and environmental humanities, slow violence, chronic pain, and critical plant studies. She is author of Transplantation Gothic (2020) and Urban Gothic of the Second World War (2010), both of which were honoured to win the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She leads the UK AHRC-funded interdisciplinary project Translating Chronic Pain. She has published extensively in Gothic studies and critical medical humanities, and is currently working on a monograph on Gothic’s writing of medicine and the body, and creative writing informed by Critical Plant Studies, honouring ancient temperate oakwood biomes of North Wales.