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Laura Kremmel

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Assistant Professor: 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)

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello, new friends! I'm a teacher of gothic lit, 18th/19th-c Brit lit, health humanities, and generally weird, upsetting, important stuff. Working on the gothic & dementia at the moment. Newly moved to WNY and frequent UK visitor. There will be horror movie, cemetery, academic, and art content here.

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 15h

Got to talk about Byron's skull cup today. I've been trying to find out who bought it at auction in 2017.

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 15h

Thomas Laqueur's The Work of the Dead is only $14. Sharing because I already have it!

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 20h

🚨 Just ONE day left of our biggest sale of the season! 🚨

Today is the final day to save 70% on thousands of select titles & editions across subjects!

Explore the books on sale and refresh your shelves this autumn: press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off

#ReadUP

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 20h

Behind a paywall, but maybe someone out there can read it.

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 21h

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

www.nytimes.com

Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 1d

Teaching Byron's "Darkness" tomorrow. This reading almost always brings me to tears. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uN5...

"Darkness" by Lord Byron (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

YouTube video by SpokenVerse

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 4d

Behind schedule already this morning because I had to dig out my ice scraper. I hate everything about this.

Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 6d

I'm over winter already.

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 6d

This is true! We weren't allowed backpacks, either. You carried everything.

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · Jul 5

Millennials at last have their own "we walked to school in the snow/we drank from the garden hose" style meme.

Post in r/stupidquestions

My mom told me that back in the day kids weren't allowed to bring a water bottle with them into the classroom and they only drank a few sips from the water fountain in the middle of the day and that's it. How were schools not getting busted for child abuse for forcing kids to be dehydrated?

Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 7d

The closest cinema playing it is in another country. 😩

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 8d

I'm pretty disappointed that Frankenstein's not playing near me. I strongly believe that del Toro is best enjoyed on the big screen. Stupid Netflix. 😞

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 8d

My British Abolition Literature students made zines for the Castellani Dignity exhibit

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 8d

As a former ghost walk guide, I can authoritatively say that ghosts get angriest during major building construction.

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 9d

It really is a shame that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is never available anywhere for free. I teach it all the time, and it gets harder to get students to actually watch it instead of just looking up a summary when there are barriers and fees.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 10d

Same reason why everything has to have an app. Sweet sweet consumer data, to be sold to ad brokers.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10d

Quick question. Why does literally everything require you to have an account.

Everything.

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 10d

I can tell I'm getting burnt out when all I want to do is make art... but I haven't been able to find time to do it since March. 🫩

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HB 👻 @heebiebeebies.bsky.social · 14d

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 15d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 11d

Canvas is down anyway!

Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 11d

It's supposed to rain all week. What if we all just stay home and read?

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 14d

Had the pleasure of overhearing a heated conversation among education majors in my class about how much they HATE being forced to use AI to make lesson plans and worksheets in their education classes. Because they want to be able to do it themselves. ❤️❤️❤️

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 14d

Sorry, I should have said British Victorian literature!

Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 14d

I'm posting this once more because my book order is overdue... as usual! And I am indecisive.

Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 14d

I'm designing a new course on Victorian Literature and Medicine next semester. I'd love any suggestions for texts to include (books and shorter things). It's a 300-level, so mostly Juniors and Seniors, but some Sophomores. Mostly English-Ed majors. Already got J&H!

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 16d

Also, hey, I know you! 📚👻

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 16d

Next week! It's our one-year anniversary!

Also, I'm loving this book not just because I love ghosts but also because it's such an excellent example of how to write literary criticism/history for a popular audience, which I have struggled with! Highly recommended! @colindickey.com

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 18d

New Yorkers! The New York State Teachers Union has created an easy way for you to tell Governor Hochul to sign the right to read law.

Tell Gov. Hochul to sign the Freedom to Read Act!

Tell Governor Hochul to stand up for free access to books and ideas—urge her to sign S.1099/A.7777 to protect New York’s school and public libraries from censorship.

mac.nysut.org

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 21d

BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174

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