Dr Louise Creechan

The capacity for this event has been increased (again!), so do register to join tomorrow if you are able. The Neurodivergent Humanities network includes strong representation from @durham.ac.uk, particularly through @louisecreechan.bsky.social

This is going to be awesome - so excited to share this free online symposium!!

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Why is an early-modernist downloading my thesis??

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📅 Join us on Monday 24 November for an online interdisciplinary symposium on Tourette Syndrome, imagining a future of Tourettic Studies that is looking beyond the syndrome, featuring Bridging Fellow @danielpjones.bsky.social.

Find out more & register here 👇
medhumsplatform.org/event/toward...

Between the Lines: A Research Cabaret Join us on Thursday 6 November at 7pm for an evening of live music, poetry, dance, and chaos to explore what it means to live between the lines – with researchers from the Durham Institute for Medical...

Tickets for this year's Research Cabaret #BetweentheLines are selling fast! 🎶 💃

Feat. performances from @louisecreechan.bsky.social, Ruben Verwaal, @danielpjones.bsky.social, Emily Davis & @georgiapunton.bsky.social

Get your tickets while you still can!
@beinghumanfest.bsky.social

1960s clipboard with Apgar Timer and paper showing Apgar measures.

New publication! Our v. own @beccajackson.bsky.social discusses the racial history of the Apgar Score – a score assigned to infants one minute after birth. Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/the-apgar-sc...

6th November and my Kate Bush impersonation is ready!!

We’re baaaaaaaaack!!

The set list is coming together and I am so ready to compere. We’ve got dance, poetry, music and a special commission from New Writing North all confirmed.

Red dress is in the post and my Kate Bush impersonation/research just needs an audience! Get your tickets below

My 2yo refers to milk as ‘babyccino’. We did this.

Critical Neurodiversity Studies This landmark volume for neurodiversity studies introduces a new, more inclusive field of scholarship for literary and cultural studies. Bringing together schol…

Another shout out for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies' in our med hums series, from @louisecreechan.bsky.social , Jenny Bergenmar and Anna Stenning. It's a foundational collection and one that will be very, very important for the field.
www.bloomsbury.com/critical-neu...

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A reference list citing Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s ‘conscious uncoupling’ post on Goop

I am very scholar.

Highly recommend this landmark book:

Happy publication day indeed, for what is a field-defining volume and a huge contribution to knowledge. Thanks to all involved for their hard work on this. I'm so proud to have published it on the list here!

Part of the Bloomsbury Critical Interventions in Medical and Health Humanities series! Many thanks to @bendoyle.bsky.social, series editors @literarti.bsky.social, and @durhamimh.bsky.social for supporting the initial workshop!

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO US!! So excited for this to be out in the world!

@annastenning.bsky.social @bergenmar.bsky.social @ainokash.bsky.social @alicehagopian.bsky.social and everyone not on BSky!

Ooh yes. I've gotten a bit silly and used 'conscious uncoupling' ref Paltrow as a term - I really need this chapter out of my life!

Asking for a friend...Is it acceptable to write 'is for the director's cut' rather than 'is beyond the scope of this chapter'?

Because, honestly, I'd prefer it

I have read this and it is a landmark book. Essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections between neurodiversity, literature, and literary studies - but also a really engaging, thought-provoking read!

Itinerant Relationality and Neurodivergent Community Praxis: Exploring Vagabond Belongings Christian Hanser describes relating via the traditional dwelling of the shepherd’s hut to spheres once inaccessible to him due to neuronormative standards in career development.

"itinerancy has become a way to craft an alternative to standardised work opportunities... largely engineered according to neurotypical models... which do not allow my neurodivergences to breathe within my professional identity." - @thewelcomehut.bsky.social

thepolyphony.org/2025/07/28/i...

I cannot wait to share all these incredible contributions with the wider research community! This volume aims to move literary scholarship on neurodiversity beyond discussions of representation and mimesis to identifying how neurodivergence operates at the level of text and/or praxis. SO EXCITED.

Three copies of Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture edited by Jenny Bergenmar, Louise Creechan, and Anna Stenning with a colourful abstract cover

HUGE DAY

My editor copies of 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' arrived!! I'm so excited for this to be out in the world (officially 7th Aug)

The volume asks 'what would a neurodivergent framework for literary studies look like'?

Aw thank you! Chapter coming out imminently!

Now @louisecreechan.bsky.social gives #BAVS2025 a truly fantastic paper arguing for critical neurodiversity studies to arrive in Victorian Studies.
L reads "The Lifted Veil" as neurodivergent: her voice recording of ideas echoes Latimer's self-conscious omniscient address to a future reader...

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Oh you guys!!! 🥺

a woman wearing a white hat and a dress is standing next to a tree . ALT: a woman wearing a white hat and a dress is standing next to a tree .

I’m at BAVS 2025 - lovely to be donning my Victorian Studies hat (bonnet) after some time only sporting my critical neurodiversity studies one!

I’ll be there on Saturday!