LOL my praxis

Louise Creechan and Alexandra Campbell
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Welcome to LOL, my praxis! The timely, interdisciplinary, and entirely un-REFable academic/comedy podcast! Striving for four star, world-leading excellence in terms of originality, significance, rigour, and sarcasm. The premise is simple: asking stupid questions to smart people. Each episode the highly distracted duo, Dr Alexandra Campbell and Dr Louise Creechan, attempt to understand the unapologetically niche research of our esteemed guests and make some sort of sense along the way. So, buckle up and brace for IMPACT

  1. 03/23/2023

    FLASH (aaah) Meme

    Episode Notes With more fans than Grumpy Cat (RIP), we're joined by the chronically online Dr Idil Galip, queen of memes and founder of the Meme Studies Research Network. Here to sort the evergreen content from the cancelled - repilcate to disseminate xoxo

    58 min

  2. 02/23/2023

    Got G-Earth at the AnthroBROcene.

    Episode Notes THIS IS NOT A DRILL. WE ARE BACK. WE HAVEN'T FOSSILISED. YET. But our guest, Professor David Farrier, is about to tell us about our bleak, trashy, fossilised futures via the temporalities of Cher, chicken-sized horses and horse-sized chickens and doing deep time in different voices. David is the author of 'Footprints' (2020) and 'Anthropocene Poetics' (2019), a publication timeline that makes us feel deeply inadequate. Shantih shantih shantih.

    1h 1m

  3. 11/28/2022

    Womb is Wet

    Episode Notes Did you miss us? We were observing the UCU industrial action. This is the only reason for our lateness. Promise. This week we're joined by New Generation Flake, Dr Joan Passey (or is it Passé?) and her creepy haunted cavern...Joan is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol, the editor of the British Library short story collection 'Cornish Horrors' and is a 2022 New Generation Thinker. She is salty AF.

    1h 2m

  4. 10/31/2022

    Squirting Spiritualists

    Episode Notes We’re back and this week we're getting spooky and ECTOGASMIC with Dr Emma Merkling. Emma is an Art Historian at the Courtauld specialising in in late C19th history of art, science and occultism. Emma is “Just a creepy weirdo who lik es creepy weird stuff”. In this episode we chat about racist ghosts, squirting spiritualists, and what it’s like to be a Spooky Terrifying Ect oplasm Mama (aka a woman in STEM). We consider the production of ectoplasm and/as the female orgasm, discuss the pros and cons of automatic writing for REF submissions, and question whether or not x-rays can be used for upskirting? Also as women in SHAPE we consider why orbs are so important for mediums. You can check out the podcast Emma co-hosts with LOL My Praxis superfan, Dr Christine Slobogin, here https://drawingbloodpod.wordpress.com/ or follow her @EmmaMerkling. If you fancy playing with stereographs you can come along to Emma’s event at the Courtauld on November 14th https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/science-in-the-seance-room-stereographs-medical-men-and-the-testing-of-margery-crandons-extraordinary-body-c-1925/

    52 min

  5. 10/12/2022

    Shiny Dead Things

    This episode we're talking about shiny dead things. Not Edward Cullen the Sparkle Vamp, but the intersections of jewellery and death with the world's first forensic jeweller Dr Maria Maclennan. Maria is the most tattooed academic we know and can often be found on BBC Crimewatch. We'll leave that one there. You can follow her @ForensicJewelery.

    59 min

  6. 09/30/2022

    The War on Praxis

    Episode Notes WERE BACK, BABY! Did you miss us? We’re celebrating our emergence from hot burn-out summer by speaking with Dr Arin Keeble about the literature of Terror and collective trauma. Arin is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, he has written on everything from hurricanes and punk rock to Stranger Things and contemporary literary TV studies. In this episode we talk about counternarratives to the War on Terror, what objects we would throw at War Criminal George W. Bush Jr., and conditions of radicalisation in relation to White Nationalism. We ask whether or not jet fuel can melt steel beams, if a Hurricane can be a terrorist, and whether or not narratives of Terror can, or should, be funny? You can follow Arin @KeebleArin and check out his work on New Literary Television here https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/new-literary-tv/

    50 min

  7. 05/25/2022

    Cotton-Art Joe

    Episode Notes WE'RE BACK!!! DID YOU MISS US?! This episode we're joined by Dr Anna Arabindan-Kesson to discuss visual art, visual culture, lenses, ways of seeing, the gaze, the critical eye, and Specsavers...in an entirely oral medium. Oooh, I get the shivers. Anna is an Assistant Professor of African American and Black Diasporic Art at Princeton University; she is the author of Black Bodies, White Gold Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World (2021) and the director of Art Hx, a digital humanities project and object database that addresses the intersections of art, race and medicine in the British empire.

    55 min

  8. 04/14/2022

    Georgian Spunk Dunk

    Episode Notes We're back and we're getting institutionally promiscuous with SUPER KEENO Rachel (Bynoth) Smith. Rachel is a PhD student based between all of the Universities in the South West and specialises in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century social, gender, and emotions history, particularly in relation to letter writing with a special focus on the Canning Family Network. Rachel BEGGED to come on the podcast and we finally gave in. In this episode we discuss overlaps between C18th anxieties and the life of contemporary academia, that the Canning family Letters were as spicy as Bridgerton Season 1, and whether or not writing over 1000 letters to your mother is normal. We play a quick round of Georgian Familial Anxiety Bingo and somehow end up speaking about spunk. A lot. Also, Louise and Alex record in the same place for the first time ever. Set phasers to CRUDE. You can follow Rachel @RachelBynoth and get involved in the IHR History Lab seminars here https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/history-lab

    48 min
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Welcome to LOL, my praxis! The timely, interdisciplinary, and entirely un-REFable academic/comedy podcast! Striving for four star, world-leading excellence in terms of originality, significance, rigour, and sarcasm. The premise is simple: asking stupid questions to smart people. Each episode the highly distracted duo, Dr Alexandra Campbell and Dr Louise Creechan, attempt to understand the unapologetically niche research of our esteemed guests and make some sort of sense along the way. So, buckle up and brace for IMPACT

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  • Creator
    Louise Creechan and Alexandra Campbell
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodes
    40
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026
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