Now our mega #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness thread is complete.
Treat yourself and explore the full double special issue!
Treat yourself and explore the full double special issue!
It is publication day for Configurations of Creepiness. More to come over the next few days, but for now, enjoy this sneak peek at our Foreword.
Read the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...
Read the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...
September 25, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Now our mega #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness thread is complete.
Treat yourself and explore the full double special issue!
Treat yourself and explore the full double special issue!
... 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
#CreepStudies
September 24, 2026 at 7:42 AM
... 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
#CreepStudies
🎨 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
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
September 24, 2026 at 7:24 AM
🎨 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
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
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
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
CREEP-ONOMIES
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 31, No. 3-4, 2026)
doi.org
September 23, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
⛰️ 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
Lara Choksey
How and when does hostility become belonging? What happens when ecological longing gives way to communal misanthropy?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
September 23, 2026 at 6:15 AM
⛰️ 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
Lara Choksey
How and when does hostility become belonging? What happens when ecological longing gives way to communal misanthropy?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
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
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #DarkAcademia #QueerEcology #WeridPoetry
MAKING CREEPINESS
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 31, No. 3-4, 2026)
doi.org
September 24, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #DarkAcademia #QueerEcology #WeridPoetry
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
Come creep with us.
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read the full issue here www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
Angelaki
Creepiness. Guest editors: Laura E. Ludtke, Joshua Phillips & Mar A. Rodda. Volume 31, Issue 3-4 of Angelaki
www.tandfonline.com
September 25, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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
Come creep with us.
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read the full issue here www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
🕷️ 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
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
September 25, 2026 at 8:32 AM
🕷️ 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
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
Over the course of this week, we will take you through the special issue, piece by piece, contributor by contributor, to showcase how and why Configurations of Creepiness is breaking new ground.
Come creep with us. 🪲🕺🪲💃🪲
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #QueerEcology #Ecocriticism
Come creep with us. 🪲🕺🪲💃🪲
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #QueerEcology #Ecocriticism
It is publication day for Configurations of Creepiness. More to come over the next few days, but for now, enjoy this sneak peek at our Foreword.
Read the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...
Read the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...
September 8, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Over the course of this week, we will take you through the special issue, piece by piece, contributor by contributor, to showcase how and why Configurations of Creepiness is breaking new ground.
Come creep with us. 🪲🕺🪲💃🪲
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #QueerEcology #Ecocriticism
Come creep with us. 🪲🕺🪲💃🪲
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #QueerEcology #Ecocriticism
👯♀️ Creep-onomies: On Creepy Play and the Creepy Reveal
Laura E. Ludtke
“I was a creepy child.”
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #AutoTheory #ArchiveStudies
Laura E. Ludtke
“I was a creepy child.”
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #AutoTheory #ArchiveStudies
September 23, 2026 at 6:19 AM
👯♀️ Creep-onomies: On Creepy Play and the Creepy Reveal
Laura E. Ludtke
“I was a creepy child.”
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #AutoTheory #ArchiveStudies
Laura E. Ludtke
“I was a creepy child.”
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #AutoTheory #ArchiveStudies
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
What happens when your creepy archive begins to read you before you can read yourself?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #AutoTheory
September 23, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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
What happens when your creepy archive begins to read you before you can read yourself?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #AutoTheory
More posts to this #CreepStudies and #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness mega thread today! Featuring @lejhouston.bsky.social and K Angel.
It is publication day for Configurations of Creepiness. More to come over the next few days, but for now, enjoy this sneak peek at our Foreword.
Read the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...
Read the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...
September 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
More posts to this #CreepStudies and #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness mega thread today! Featuring @lejhouston.bsky.social and K Angel.
Oldham’s meditation on Barnes’s Nightwood explores collecting, intimacy, animation, and the uncanny through an unfinished catalogue of creepy dolls.
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
September 14, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Oldham’s meditation on Barnes’s Nightwood explores collecting, intimacy, animation, and the uncanny through an unfinished catalogue of creepy dolls.
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
🕸️ 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
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
September 24, 2026 at 7:42 AM
🕸️ 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
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
”Creepy Methods” lays the groundwork for Creep Studies.
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #CreepyMethods
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #CreepyMethods
CREEPY METHODS
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 31, No. 3-4, 2026)
doi.org
September 24, 2026 at 7:42 AM
”Creepy Methods” lays the groundwork for Creep Studies.
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #CreepyMethods
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #CreepyMethods
📱 “The Erotic Hauntology of Autocorrect”
Isabella Streffen @minxmarple.bsky.social
What if autocorrect wasn’t correcting you, but haunting you?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #ArtWriting #text_art #hauntology #DeadMedia #MediaArchaeology #NewMediaArt #PracticeResearch
Isabella Streffen @minxmarple.bsky.social
What if autocorrect wasn’t correcting you, but haunting you?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #ArtWriting #text_art #hauntology #DeadMedia #MediaArchaeology #NewMediaArt #PracticeResearch
September 11, 2026 at 10:56 AM
📱 “The Erotic Hauntology of Autocorrect”
Isabella Streffen @minxmarple.bsky.social
What if autocorrect wasn’t correcting you, but haunting you?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #ArtWriting #text_art #hauntology #DeadMedia #MediaArchaeology #NewMediaArt #PracticeResearch
Isabella Streffen @minxmarple.bsky.social
What if autocorrect wasn’t correcting you, but haunting you?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #ArtWriting #text_art #hauntology #DeadMedia #MediaArchaeology #NewMediaArt #PracticeResearch
We propose creepiness not simply as an object of study but as a critical method.
Rather than defining creepiness, we follow where it creeps, bringing together affect theory, queer ecology, phenomenology, media studies, disability studies, and environmental humanities in Creep Studies.
#CreepStudies
Rather than defining creepiness, we follow where it creeps, bringing together affect theory, queer ecology, phenomenology, media studies, disability studies, and environmental humanities in Creep Studies.
#CreepStudies
September 9, 2026 at 11:40 AM
We propose creepiness not simply as an object of study but as a critical method.
Rather than defining creepiness, we follow where it creeps, bringing together affect theory, queer ecology, phenomenology, media studies, disability studies, and environmental humanities in Creep Studies.
#CreepStudies
Rather than defining creepiness, we follow where it creeps, bringing together affect theory, queer ecology, phenomenology, media studies, disability studies, and environmental humanities in Creep Studies.
#CreepStudies
☿ 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
Joshua Phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social
“The moment runs like quicksilver…” What happens when perception itself refuses to stand still?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #WoolfStudies
September 16, 2026 at 8:40 AM
☿ 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
Joshua Phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social
“The moment runs like quicksilver…” What happens when perception itself refuses to stand still?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #WoolfStudies
🎶 Psychopathic Hymn for the Creeps: Neuroqueering Creepiness from the Inside
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston & K Angel
What if “creep” wasn’t a label but an assignment to embrace?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #NeuroQueer
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston & K Angel
What if “creep” wasn’t a label but an assignment to embrace?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #NeuroQueer
September 10, 2026 at 10:05 AM
🎶 Psychopathic Hymn for the Creeps: Neuroqueering Creepiness from the Inside
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston & K Angel
What if “creep” wasn’t a label but an assignment to embrace?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #NeuroQueer
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston & K Angel
What if “creep” wasn’t a label but an assignment to embrace?
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #NeuroQueer
Reading S. Ansky's The Dybbuk, Lyman explores creepiness as supernatural, bodily, gendered, playful, and profoundly relational.
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
#JudeoCreepy #Demonology #DarkPlay
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
#JudeoCreepy #Demonology #DarkPlay
September 14, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Reading S. Ansky's The Dybbuk, Lyman explores creepiness as supernatural, bodily, gendered, playful, and profoundly relational.
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
#JudeoCreepy #Demonology #DarkPlay
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
#JudeoCreepy #Demonology #DarkPlay
.... 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
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
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 ...
doi.org
September 23, 2026 at 6:15 AM
.... 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
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
Reading Love Lies Bleeding through queer ecology, Friars and Cameron argue that the film models “a form of bodily bonding between women that is fluid, if not ‘creepy,’ in its efforts to disturb and dissolve boundaries between bodies and their environments.”
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
September 10, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Reading Love Lies Bleeding through queer ecology, Friars and Cameron argue that the film models “a form of bodily bonding between women that is fluid, if not ‘creepy,’ in its efforts to disturb and dissolve boundaries between bodies and their environments.”
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
🪆 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
Julyan Oldham
What is more unsettling than one creepy doll? An unfinished collection.
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
September 14, 2026 at 11:07 AM
🪆 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
Julyan Oldham
What is more unsettling than one creepy doll? An unfinished collection.
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
What happens when monstrous bodies refuse to stay bounded?
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
“AU NATUREL, BABY!”
Rose Glass’s Love Lies Bleeding (A24, 2024) draws its horror and violence from unsettling and creepy elements, placing its characters in the interstitial space between fantasy and reality, self and...
doi.org
September 10, 2026 at 11:05 AM
What happens when monstrous bodies refuse to stay bounded?
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology
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
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
THE EROTIC HAUNTOLOGY OF AUTOCORRECT
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 31, No. 3-4, 2026)
doi.org
September 11, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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
🪲 Configurations of Creepiness
📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
#CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness