Jonathan Greenaway has a BA in English Studies and a Masters degree in Gothic Literature. He completed a PhD at the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies in 2017 and is an expert on the intersections of horror, politics, and theology.
He is the co-editor of the book Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race and Sexuality, published by UWP in 2019 and shortlisted for the Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Award by the Horror Writers Association.
In 2021 he published Theology, Horror and Fiction, A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century with Bloomsbury Academic Press. The book was longlisted for the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for the best monograph awarded by the International Gothic Association
From October 2020 to September 2022 he was a research fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Chester on a two-year post-doctoral project funded by the Templeton Religious Trust. The pioneering project investigated how horror fans think about the theological implications of the form through ethnographic interviews and qualitative data collection.
He is also the author of A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: An Introduction to The Work of Ernst Bloch from Zer0 Books and the author of Capitalism: A Horror Story from Repeater Books, both published in 2024.
He has taught courses on genre film, horror from 1786 to the present, critical and cultural theory, nineteenth-century literature, literary and critical theory, and media studies.
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