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)
Got to talk about Byron's skull cup today. I've been trying to find out who bought it at auction in 2017.
October 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Got to talk about Byron's skull cup today. I've been trying to find out who bought it at auction in 2017.
My British Abolition Literature students made zines for the Castellani Dignity exhibit
October 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
My British Abolition Literature students made zines for the Castellani Dignity exhibit
Also, hey, I know you! 📚👻
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Also, hey, I know you! 📚👻
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
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
October 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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
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
Eng 409, it's time.
September 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Eng 409, it's time.
Who's starting school today? Show us your books.
August 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Who's starting school today? Show us your books.
Last-day-of-summer waffles. It's the Sunday-est of Sundays.
August 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Last-day-of-summer waffles. It's the Sunday-est of Sundays.
Our next Morbidly Curious Book Club meeting!
July 31, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Our next Morbidly Curious Book Club meeting!
This bit from @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social's Butchering Art feels like something I've been tempted to say to current students: "John Abernethy frequently concluded his lectures by uttering bleakly, 'God help you all. What will become of you?'"
Morbidly Curious Book Club tomorrow!
Morbidly Curious Book Club tomorrow!
July 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This bit from @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social's Butchering Art feels like something I've been tempted to say to current students: "John Abernethy frequently concluded his lectures by uttering bleakly, 'God help you all. What will become of you?'"
Morbidly Curious Book Club tomorrow!
Morbidly Curious Book Club tomorrow!
I live where there are no bookstores, and I have been starved.
July 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I live where there are no bookstores, and I have been starved.
Revisiting an old friend
July 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Revisiting an old friend
Small but joyful showing at Niagara Falls! 250 protesters, maybe? Spoke to a woman who said she was 63, and this was her first protest. And what a gorgeous view!
June 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Small but joyful showing at Niagara Falls! 250 protesters, maybe? Spoke to a woman who said she was 63, and this was her first protest. And what a gorgeous view!
Just finished The Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer. Though it's probably my least favorite, the dedication is iconic.
June 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Just finished The Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer. Though it's probably my least favorite, the dedication is iconic.
In an attempt at fitness, I have purchased a jump rope. This is more serious than I'd expected. I am over 35! 😟
May 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
In an attempt at fitness, I have purchased a jump rope. This is more serious than I'd expected. I am over 35! 😟
One of the best parts of the job: getting dressed up and celebrating students!
May 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
One of the best parts of the job: getting dressed up and celebrating students!
Reading Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer. I've never seen a tiny secret page like this before!
May 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Reading Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer. I've never seen a tiny secret page like this before!
My students agreed to be guinea pigs for some experimental final presentation day baking. Almost all of them wrote projects on Dracula. 🦇
May 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
My students agreed to be guinea pigs for some experimental final presentation day baking. Almost all of them wrote projects on Dracula. 🦇
This book is wild. Why has it not been reprinted since the 1970s??
May 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This book is wild. Why has it not been reprinted since the 1970s??
A really fantastic Morbidly Curious Book Club discussion tonight! I really enjoyed it and this book! @morbidlycuriousbc.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
A really fantastic Morbidly Curious Book Club discussion tonight! I really enjoyed it and this book! @morbidlycuriousbc.bsky.social
Spending the weekend in my happy place obsessing over horror movies.
April 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Spending the weekend in my happy place obsessing over horror movies.
This is what it says about peer-review. Is this a thing in the STEM fields??
April 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is what it says about peer-review. Is this a thing in the STEM fields??
I can't teach Dracula without at least mentioning The Lair of the White Worm.
March 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I can't teach Dracula without at least mentioning The Lair of the White Worm.
Research Saturday
(Aka creating more knowledge for AI to pilfer 😩)
(Aka creating more knowledge for AI to pilfer 😩)
March 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Research Saturday
(Aka creating more knowledge for AI to pilfer 😩)
(Aka creating more knowledge for AI to pilfer 😩)