Biography
Dr. Laura Kremmel is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at 欧美视频. She comes to NU with over a decade of teaching experience and previously taught humanities, literature, and writing courses at Brandeis University, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, and Lehigh University.
Focus of Teaching
Dr. Kremmel primary teaches 18th- and 19th-century British literature courses. Her courses so far include 110: Literary Perspectives (Mad Science/Mad Scientist, and Sickness & Health), 202: Studies in British & Commonwealth Literature (The Frankenstein Network), 320: British Gothic Literature, 409: American Gothic Literature, and 410: History of the English Novel, among others.
Her teaching topics draw on a background in British Romanticism, Gothic and Horror Studies, Health Humanities, and History of Medicine. She leads students to enter the “world of the text” through historical context and media. Her pedagogy draws on experiences teaching writing and communication to create a decentralized classroom through student discussion, workshops, and hands-on projects. She also draws on training in a Literature and Social Justice department to help students use literature to access diverse perspectives and to rethink their understanding of the world and their places in it. She encourages students to rediscover enjoyment in reading and is invested in the eighteenth-century notion that reading for pleasure can be a revolutionary act.
Current Research
Dr. Kremmel’s research is focused on creating conversations between Gothic Studies and the Health Humanities across a range of time periods, with particular focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature. Her recent publications and projects have expanded to include the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as COVID-19 introduced renewed interests and anxieties in public health and medicine. Her approach is interdisciplinary and also includes Disability Studies, Death Studies, Horror Film, and Ecocriticism, with a leaning towards New Historicism.
Publications
Books:
- 听(University of Wales Press, 2022), which was a runner-up for the British Society for Romantic Studies First Book Prize and a Finalist for the International Gothic Association Andrew Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for Best Monograph
- , Co-edited with Kevin Corstorphine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
Articles/Chapters:
- 鈥淕othic Disability.鈥澨�The Oxford Handbook of Disability and Literatures in English: 1700-1900. Ed. Essaka Joshua. Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2025.
- 鈥淪acred Consumption: An Ecocritical Reading of Gothic Cannibalism.鈥澨�Religious Horror and the Ecogothic. Ed. Kathleen Hudson and Mary Going. Lexington Books, 2024.
- 鈥淢edical Gothic: Organ Harvesting and the Red Market.鈥澨�. Ed. Rebecca Duncan and Justin Edwards. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
- 鈥淢edical Humanities and the Gothic.”听. Eds. Sorcha N铆 Fhlainn and Bernice Murphy. Edinburgh University Press, 2022
- 鈥淩ot and Recycle: Gothic Eco-Burial.鈥澨�. Eds. Justin Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan H枚glund. Minnesota University Press, 2022
- 听Studies in Gothic Fiction. vol. 6. no.1, 2018, pp. 42-52.
- 听European Romantic Review. vol. 27. no. 5, 2016, pp.639-658.
Work in progress includes a book on the Gothic and dementia for Cambridge University Press. She also occasionally writes for听, an academic horror film blog.
Educational Background
- PhD in English, Lehigh University
- MLitt in Gothic Studies, University of Stirling
- MA in English, Lehigh University
- BA in English (minors in History, Religious Studies, Studio Art), Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)