Laura Kremmel
@lkremmel.bsky.social
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)
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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The 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.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The 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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The real task for me as a teacher (and human being) is to make sure that I keep my eyes on the real villain in the whole AI debacle--capital and its captains.
It is not my students.
And I won't let this mess turn me into a cop.
It is not my students.
And I won't let this mess turn me into a cop.
December 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The real task for me as a teacher (and human being) is to make sure that I keep my eyes on the real villain in the whole AI debacle--capital and its captains.
It is not my students.
And I won't let this mess turn me into a cop.
It is not my students.
And I won't let this mess turn me into a cop.
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"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...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"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...
"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...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Gothic Dementia
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Gothic Dementia
www.cambridge.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Coming soon! Got a spot on the website!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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It'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...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020
doi.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It'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...
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.
December 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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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Really thinking someone would make a fortune if they made creative / other daily flow tools that worked with no AI. Someone please do that.
December 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Really thinking someone would make a fortune if they made creative / other daily flow tools that worked with no AI. Someone please do that.
Same
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Same
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In case you have never seen this.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In case you have never seen this.
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WOW. @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.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @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.
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NEW: 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.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
NEW: 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/
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
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let’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. 💜
December 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
let’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. 💜
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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December 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Child services... stand by 😬
Lack of imagination is THE problem.
Lack of imagination is THE problem.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Child services... stand by 😬
Lack of imagination is THE problem.
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?
December 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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?
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I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more
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I 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.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I 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
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Really happy to blurb this book! A terrific read! And that cover! 😍 @katalves18c.bsky.social
Last week of the semester. What? How?
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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.
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
Resist
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Resist
