Dr Louise Creechan is a Lecturer in the Literary Medical Humanities at Durham University and a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Her research focuses broadly on Victorian literature with specific interests in neurodiversity, disability, and the history of (not) reading – with a side hustle in neo-Victorian musical theatre. Her first monograph, Unwriting Victorian Illiteracy: Questioning the Primacy of Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, is currently under-review. She is the PI of Neurodivergent Humanities, co-editor of Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities  in Literature and Culture (Bloomsbury, 2025), and an advocate for accessible research practice. She is the co-host of the academic/comedy podcast, LOL My Praxis.