Laura Kremmel
Assistant Professor: Medical Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Humanities, History of Medicine, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies (2022)
- Looking forward to attending my first @thebsls.bsky.social conference this Spring! Still on my Gothic dementia and eldercare thing.
- Reposted by Laura KremmelIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
- Suggestions to replace Headspace (but don't use AI)? I really miss it in the dark days of winter?
- More snow today, and I am slowly losing the will to live... so, of course, I'm watching Schitt's Creek for comfort. Thanks, Catherine. 💔
- Just learned that @officialpanera.bsky.social was involved in a major security breach: names, emails, phone, address, all of it. I have just deleted my account. They have not alerted customers.
- Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Early Modern Witch Trials Religions of India Feminist Science Fiction Robert Louis Stevenson Color and 2-D Design
- Reposted by Laura KremmelI don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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- Reposted by Laura KremmelThis is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
- First day stack! 4 classes but only 2 preps, so it's smaller than usual.
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- Abstracts due in 10 days! Reposting partially to remind myself!
- The next IGA conference will be at the University of Hull, England on 28-31 July 2026! You can find the CFP and more information at hullgothic.wordpress.com
- Someone PLEASE help me turn off "help me write" in gmail. My head has never felt so close to exploding.
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- First day of school tomorrow= first snow day. This is why we should just start in February.
- Slowly trying to resurrect art Sundays for my mental health. 🐌
- Reposted by Laura Kremmel📚💙🩸 Since I'm seeing a bunch of posts about the importance of buying & supporting indies... Let me remind you that I have both a Starter Pack and Feed list of indie horror publishers who ALSO have confirmed NO AI/LLM policies: Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/UwgWqLc Feed list: bsky.app/profile/did:...at://did:plc:tcvpjkdcsdotgvcgdf6epyoe/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l2sa7s2ael24
- Reposted by Laura KremmelGetting an academic job following our PhDs is looking scarily slim right now in the UK. So, in the spirit of our rec lists, let's put together a resource list of non-uni based jobs where a Gothic, arts or humanities PhD is still desired! Leave your suggestions below and share this post!
- Reposted by Laura KremmelIt is time to eradicate AI from all educational environments. Find another way. Maybe teach kids about AI like when we learned about drugs in middle school. “The risks of AI outweigh the benefits” - new report about AI in elementary schools.
- Reposted by Laura KremmelSaint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
- Reposted by Laura Kremmelhello friends & enemies of bsky. could use some extra freelance work if anybody has any good leads. any website or magazine writing, or perhaps developmental and copy editing. I'm experienced in both areas! hit me up. maxboothiii@gmail.com
- I'm constantly revising my list of reasons why we don't use AI in my class. This one is specific to a first-year writing intensive. Free to borrow/adapt! 🙂
- Every time I design a new course, I mourn the loss of all those great @britishlibrary.bsky.social teaching resources. You can see their reach-- lots of dead links on other blogs and projects.
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- Me writing syllabi: oh, look, a Friday the 13th coming up!
- Recirculating this shameless plug in the context of #MLA29 #MLA2026 since I presented on some bits and pieces from the cutting room floor. Look for it in March/April!
- Coming soon! Got a spot on the website! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- Goths are fancy! Was sorry to miss so many Gothic panels and plans, though. Too much going on at once! #MLA26 #MLA2026
- Reposted by Laura KremmelCopy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them
- Reposted by Laura KremmelI had to send an email to my kid's teacher. Thankfully they weren't having the kids interact with it directly but I was still furious
- I ended up drafting an email that didn't really lean on research specific to grade school education, but expressed my concerns in the most basic terms. I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful: bit.ly/TeacherEmail...
- This is heartbreaking. I was a Sesame Street, Mister Rogers, Reading Rainbow kid. I can't imagine growing up without them.
- Reposted by Laura KremmelThis is the inspiration I needed today 💚
- Reading day. Because it is cold and snowy and depressing, and I cannot cope with anymore news this weekend.
- Not for the first time, I'm thinking about how low we've sunk and how much we've lost in just a year's time. It's only been a year. 🤕
- New Year's resolution: say yes to some things instead of yes to all things. The coping mechanism of taking on too much to distract myself from political upheaval is not sustainable if this is going to last (and I am going to last). I am very proud of the work but very tired.
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- Looking forward to MLA and already decided I have no qualms about presenting in heavy winter boots. No one should expect real professionalism in January.
- This whole thing is wild... 😬
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- The fact that @barnesandnoble.com only gives you 15 minutes to change or cancel a shipping address means that I will probably never order from them again. Totally unreasonable to deny cancellation if requested within 30 minutes. They'll sit on the order for a week before sending it anyway. Livid.
- @americanair.bsky.social are kicking 5 people off a flight in Philly because they overbooked the flight. They did NOT volunteer. Happy fucking holidays. And they waited until we were already late to do this. Shameful.
- Things that have been watched: A Muppet Christmas Carol, Gremlins, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (failing to get my 3yo nephew interested in it), Muppet Family Christmas, and Diehard (the Kremmel tradition while decorating the tree). Some traditional gaps, but not too shabby for a chaotic year.
- Reposted by Laura KremmelThe actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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- Reposted by Laura Kremmel"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
- Coming soon! Got a spot on the website! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- Reposted by Laura KremmelIt's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
- A new list of faculty workshops encouraging AI usage in the classroom. A new massive data center approved close-ish to where I grew up. It's all just so disheartening.
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- Reposted by Laura KremmelIn case you have never seen this.
- Reposted by Laura KremmelWOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
- Reposted by Laura KremmelNEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors. The full requirements will end tourism in the United States. Below is the full, mind-blowing list. 🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨 1/
- Reposted by Laura Kremmellet’s normalize telling people you love their work, y’all. life’s too short; no point pretending you’re not a fan if you are. 💜
- Reposted by Laura KremmelI guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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- This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!
- Child services... stand by 😬 Lack of imagination is THE problem.
- If you have an iphone, do not do the update! I mistook it for a routine security update and have spent too much of today trying to undo as much as possible. It appears to be increasingly designed by airhead preteens. How do I sign up for the adult version?
- Reposted by Laura KremmelI love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more
- Reposted by Laura KremmelI can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
- Really happy to blurb this book! A terrific read! And that cover! 😍 @katalves18c.bsky.social
- Last week of the semester. What? How?
- I've finally seen Frankenstein and loved it as much as I hoped I would. I've heard Guillermo del Toro wax lyrical about the novel and believe he treats it and all its network of texts as sacred texts. And his movies are true tactile works of art.
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- Resist
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- Commercials for weight-loss drugs during The Substance is... something, HBO. 😬
