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Laura Ludtke

@ladyelectric.bsky.social
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Light, politics, aesthetics, & gender in the city, sexology and creepiness. Canadian in Oxford (ish). Come for the typos, stay for the wit.

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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
CfP: BSLS 2026/27 Winter Symposium 'Occult Science: Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment, and the Persistence of Wonder' 29 January 2027 - Online More Info: www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/09/bsls...
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BSLS 2026/27 Winter Symposium Call for Papers – The British Society for Literature and Science
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now our mega #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness thread is complete. Treat yourself and explore the full double special issue!
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To study creepiness is to share a commitment to creeping methodically and to the ethics, aesthetics, and collaborations such methods demand. Come creep with us. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read the full issue here www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
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Angelaki
Creepiness. Guest editors: Laura E. Ludtke, Joshua Phillips & Mar A. Rodda. Volume 31, Issue 3-4 of Angelaki
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🕷️ What is Creep Studies? As a discipline, Creep Studies makes itself at home with discomfort. Creep Studies begins when we research, read, create, and think together from a position of proximity to creep. #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
80 hours of embroidery! This aerial landscape is directly inspired by Dartmoor and I'd say I have another 30-ish hours to go? I'm now starting to fill in the fields for the sheep, the tor area will be done last as I'm still deciding whether I want a slope or not 😅 I hope you like it! #art
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial-view landscape. It depicts a moorland scene in a range of green shades, about 70% completed.
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
”Creepy Methods” lays the groundwork for Creep Studies. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #CreepyMethods
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CREEPY METHODS
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 31, No. 3-4, 2026)
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
... a collaborative roundtable featuring @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @mostlyvoids.bsky.social @lejhouston.bsky.social @madeleinerose.bsky.social @sholtonbradley.bsky.social, asks what happens when creepiness becomes a way of researching, reading, creating, and thinking together. #CreepStudies
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🕸️ Creepy Methods Laura E. Ludtke, Lloyd Meadhbh Houston, K Angel, Madeleine Rose, Samuel Bradley, Mar A. Rodda & Caleb Parkin How can we creep methodically? In the final contribution of this special issue ... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #CreepyMethods
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Poetry, prose, visual art, and creative practice exploring what creepiness can generate in flesh, fluid, suture, and scar. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #DarkAcademia #QueerEcology #WeridPoetry
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MAKING CREEPINESS
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 31, No. 3-4, 2026)
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🎨 Making Creepiness: Creative Contributions Featuring work by @kmeehan.bsky.social, Damianos Nikolaou, Faris Al-Ali, L E Ludtke, @jmmc.bsky.social, & Ollie Musson What happens when we make creepiness? #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #DarkAcademia #QueerEcology #WeridPoetry
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have a read of this report by @jennyrichards.bsky.social on a groundbreaking workshop that took place earlier this year - take a look at the 5 action areas outlined … #humanities #stem #thinkingforwards #collaboration #connectivity #futurefacing www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/event-r...
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Event report: ‘Humanities and STEM: Skills/competencies workshop’ - CRASSH
Professor Jenny Richards reflects on the 'Humanities and STEM: Skills/competencies workshop' which she convened on 6 May 2026.
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In “Creep-onomies”, Ludtke reflects on creepy play, queer childhood, and the importance of reading for the patterns we feel long before we can account for them. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
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CREEP-ONOMIES
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Part memoir. Part archive. Part autotheory. What happens when your creepy archive begins to read you before you can read yourself? #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #AutoTheory
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
👯‍♀️ Creep-onomies: On Creepy Play and the Creepy Reveal Laura E. Ludtke “I was a creepy child.” #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #AutoTheory #ArchiveStudies
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
.... R. L. Stevenson alongside contemporary ecological and ethnonationalist politics. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
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LOST ON A DARK MOUNTAIN
This essay reads contemporary fascist performances in Britain, including protests at the Bell Hotel in Epping Forest and the ethnonationalist Woodlander Initiative in Wales, alongside Robert Louis ...
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To explore how communal misanthropy displaces hostility onto substitute objects while binding people together through shared experiences of euphoria, aggression, antipathy, and longing, Choksey reads ...
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
⛰️ Lost on a Dark Mountain: Communal Misanthropy on the Untrodden Ways Lara Choksey How and when does hostility become belonging? What happens when ecological longing gives way to communal misanthropy? #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sorry for the inadvertent hiatus in sharing contributions from the Special Issue. We were distracted by shiny things on other parts of the internet!
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Iridescent Geode Rock
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Parkin's ecopoetic exploration of mimicry, birdsong, and queerness asks what it means to creep after another voice. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #EcoPoetry #AfterPoem
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CREEPING AFTER
In the context of a declining avian soundscape, this research investigates poetic mimicry as a species-specific method of sympoiesis, or making-with, the Eurasian jay. The work emerges at the inter...
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🐦 Creeping After: Jays, Gays, and Copycats Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social What happens when a poet “Awakens as Jayself” or makes “acorns from spores”? #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #EcoPoetry #TechnoCreep #AfterPoems
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For Rose, Charlotte Mew's poetry becomes a site for thinking about bodily entanglement, spillage, and modernist creepiness. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read Open Access here: : doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
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“crimson haunts you everywhere”
This article examines the creepy poetic potential of the spillage. Corporeal spillages can encroach and stain, signal the threatening vulnerability of the body, and challenge normative boundaries. ...
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🩸 ‘“Crimson haunts you everywhere’: Spilling Blood and Unsettling Bodies in Charlotte Mew’s Poetry” Madeleine Rose @madeleinerose.bsky.social When blood spills, seeps, and stains, it refuses the body’s containment. #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s a stunning piece and we are so grateful for it!
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
FYI, I wrote a biography of the French philosopher Henri Bergson which the NYT described as “lively and deft”, and which John Banville called “the most intellectually stimulating book I read this year” (in 2024). I am biased, but I think you should read it.
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Smith’s ‘zine invites us to look again at what we think we recognise – tree, insect, camouflage, threat – and ask how entangled life hides, adapts, and quietly creeps into view. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🌿 Hidden Messages Immy Smith (@lycomorpha.bsky.social) “When you go into the woods today, you’re in for a creaturely surprise.” Forests, lichens, camouflage, mimicry. N.b., Immy’s work doubles as our cover image! #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yes @woolfianjosh.bsky.social is the GOAT for this piece.
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For Phillips, quicksilver becomes the medium through which creepy motion and unstable perception become thinkable. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #WoolfStudies
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WOOLFIAN QUICKSILVER
Is Virginia Woolf creepy? If so, how does she creep? In what ways or directions do her works creep? Is this creepiness a transitive property – a creeping-out? Creepiness, or, perhaps the creepy, be...
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
☿ Woolfian Quicksilver Joshua Phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social “The moment runs like quicksilver…” What happens when perception itself refuses to stand still? #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #WoolfStudies
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #TransModernism
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MARGIN OR MORASS?
This article proposes a reading of Vita Sackville-West’s writing through a binary trans ecological poetics, focusing on her posthumously published memoir “Portrait of a Marriage” (1921) and The Lan...
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reading Vita Sackville-West through queer ecology, Scoones and Ludtke develop the idea of binary trans ecological poetics explore a creepiness that registers as an embodied, affective instability, where distinctions between native and alien, natural and unnatural, self and other are also a morass.
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Snake's Head. A Sullen Lady. A Leper's Bell. What is so unsettling about the fritillary – a flower where gender, ecology, and creepiness converge? #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #TransModernism #QueerEcology
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🌾 Margin or Morass? Reading Binary Trans Ecological Poetics in Vita Sackville-West’s The Land (1926) and ‘Portrait of a Marriage’ (1921) Jenny Scoones & Laura E. Ludtke @jennyscoones.bsky.social #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #TransModernism #QueerEcology
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Now on to Part Two of this very special double issue ...
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Through Darkest Dungeon, Cugini, Hardwick, and Rodda rethink the ecological entanglement or horror, where flesh refuses to stay bounded and life keeps creeping. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🩸 ‘Fusing itself together in the darkness’: Queer Flesh and Inheritance Horror in Darkest Dungeon @mostlyvoids.bsky.social Elia Cugini, Alecto Hardwick & Mar A. Rodda What happens when inheritance horror is also queer ecology? #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Well this looks fantastic AND relevant!
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🎨 Featuring original illustrations by Imogen Foxell and Shari E. Ross. @imogenfoxell.bsky.social 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #JudeoCreepy #Demonology #DarkPlay
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“A DYBBUK HAS ENTERED THE BODY OF THE BRIDE”
This paper is a field guide to the haunted shtetl. I analyse S. Ansky’s stage play The Dybbuk and the religio-social phenomenon of spirit possession in early modern Judaism through the lens of Cree...
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Reading S. Ansky's The Dybbuk, Lyman explores creepiness as supernatural, bodily, gendered, playful, and profoundly relational. #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #JudeoCreepy #Demonology #DarkPlay
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
👰 ‘A Dybbuk Has Entered the Body of the Bride’: Creepiness-as-Affect in S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk Lyman Gamberton “What’s creepy about a dybbuk?” It transgresses every boundary it can find. #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #JudeoCreepy #Demonology #DarkPlay
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Broken doll. Buried doll. Dummy. Frau Mann. Kate-the-Doll. The Last… “What is this article-in-doll's-clothing for?” 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read Open Access here: https:// doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2026.2698992 #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
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DJUNA BARNES’S NIGHTWOOD AND THE CREEPY DOLL
This article examines the creepiness of the doll as a figure in modern literature and culture. It focuses on Djuna Barnes’s 1936 novel Nightwood and relevant intertexts because they pre-date a wide...
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oldham’s meditation on Barnes’s Nightwood explores collecting, intimacy, animation, and the uncanny through an unfinished catalogue of creepy dolls. #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🪆 Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and the Creepy Doll: A Collection Julyan Oldham What is more unsettling than one creepy doll? An unfinished collection. #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Your words are creepily kind. I’ve been impatient to share “The Hauntology of Autocorrect” since you first teased it to us.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
the true form of the whale was unknown
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Anyone can read. It is an academic journal, not specifically a scientific one.
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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Genuinely so stoked to be part of this incredible, tentacular, gleefully bizarre venture. Huge congratulations to our amazing editors and to all involved. Run, don't walk, to read it.
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's the best and I love reading and teaching it.
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Congratulations. Time to order a library copy!
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In this arresting lyrical essay, Streffen reimagines autocorrect as an uncanny companion, exploring digital intimacy, desire, and the ghosts that linger in our everyday technologies. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
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THE EROTIC HAUNTOLOGY OF AUTOCORRECT
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