Javier Padilla @jpadillar.bsky.social Assoc. Professor @ Colgate Univ. interested in poetry, postcolonial, Irish, and Latin American Literatures.
Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at @bristoluni.bsky.social. Working on Shakespeare biography and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social Darby Fellow (Simon and June Li) in English Literature at Lincoln College, Ox. Interested in the medieval Ovid, forgeries, exile, Chaucer, Gower, medievalism.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
laurabmcgrath.substack.com
Debra Rae Cohen @debraraecohen.bsky.social Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, Modernism/modernity. Modernism and media, especially the BBC; women's writing in war and crisis. Fuck ICE and all its works. Eat the rich. Protect your neighbors. 🍉
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social I teach music, modernism, psychoanalysis @ University of Chicago, direct Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, and am mostly unconscious. Stuff: http://bit.ly/3JMupgJ
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social prof at UNC
⚽️getting REALLY into professional women's soccer ⚽️
Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social English prof, mama & wife, reader/writer, 18C, pop culture, progressive, cyclist, hiker, yoga. NC. My views are my own. She/her
Rose Casey @rosecasey.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at WVU.
Views are my own and don't represent my employer.
Author of Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style https://fordhampress.com/aesthetic-impropriety-hb-9781531510626.html
Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs.
Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
Emily Ogden @emily-ogden.bsky.social Essayist, critic, and 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. New book on Edgar Allan Poe, DARKNESS BECOMES BRIGHT, out from Viking Books on Sept. 29.
Nicholas Dames @njdames.bsky.social Professor @ Columbia • co-EIC Public Books • writer/critic elsewhere, on the novel then and now • most recent book THE CHAPTER (Princeton UP)
Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about the War on Terror and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own.
https://www.jayshelat.com
Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social Professor of English at Lehigh University. Anglophone Postcolonial; Modernism; African American Literature; Digital Humanities.
https://www.electrostani.com/
Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social Associate Professor of English & WGS, IU NW / Author of Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism (Cornell UP, 2020) / Opinions my own (she/her)
Emily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social assoc prof of English at Penn (c19 British lit, novel theory, mass politics, labor, history of science), author of Populating the Novel
Michelle Chihara @thisblue.bsky.social Los Angeles since 2003. Media Studies, Critical Finance; power ballads; history of this wild city Find me at michellechihara.com
Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone
Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social Associate Prof of English; author of Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (OUP, 2022) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/crafting-feminism-from-literary-modernism-to-the-multimedia-present-9780192857835?cc=us&lang=en& 🌈
Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social English prof, easily distracted Victorianist
Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own. 
Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/
Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social English Professor with focus on ecology, race, and aesthetics. Latest book is Climate Lyricism (Duke UP), which is also open access:
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2985/Climate-Lyricism. Viewpoints my own and not my employer’s.
Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social Professor at NC State University. Wandering between worlds of C19th British lit, comparative media studies, critical data literacies. Book *Digital Victorians* https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians
Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social Lit Professor at Georgetown. 20-21 c Anglophone.
Arresting Ecologies: Global Literature across Air, Land, and Sea, 1926-2014: https://academic.oup.com/book/62701?searchresult=1
Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social professor @ Wesleyan, editor @ History & Theory and Norton Anthology of English Literature, mother @ home, lover of poetry and tv and good cheese @ all the times…
Thomas S. Davis @thomassdavis.bsky.social English/Env Hum/Analog Hum/Prof at Ohio State. The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism & Everyday Life (Columbia 2016). Forming Attachments: Aesthetic Education & Ecological Crisis (out for review!). www.thomassdavis.net
Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto. The novel, literature and philosophy, gender and sexuality.
THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=37186
GREAT EXPECTATIONS https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324046721
Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social Scholar of Japanese literature, media, cultural analytics. Now working on platforms, television, cultural AI. "The Values in Numbers" (2021). Offline: cooking, ceramics, watercolor. Professor at University of Chicago.
https://hoytlong.github.io
Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Emory. Victorian lit, legal & political theory, novels.
Amy Elias @amyjelias.bsky.social Humanities advocate; narrative, time/history, contemporary arts. Gardener. Dog lover. Latest book: https://www.dukeupress.edu/speculative-light
Will not curb my enthusiasm.
Erik Fredner @fredner.org Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Literature
Oregon State University
https://fredner.org
Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social Cornell Professor, climate activist
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan.
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.
Anthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social Beautiful to strangers. Writer, critic, and other things.
Black illumination, Black imagination, Black poetics, Black listening.
Most Recent Book: Soundworks: Race, Sound and Poetry in Production http://dukeupress.edu/soundworks
Rachel Trousdale @rvtrousdale.bsky.social Poetry, criticism, tomfoolery, rabble-rousing. She/her. Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry (criticism, Oxford University Press); Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem (poetry, Wesleyan University Press)
Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social UC Berkeley & InterpretAI
Editor of the Artificial Humanities series
www.ninabegus.com
Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social Quite 80s, pretty nice.
Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social Social-media user.
Charlotte Sussman @charlottesussman.bsky.social Chair, Duke English. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Migration Studies, Blue Humanities. Author of PEOPLING THE WORLD: REPRESENTING HUMAN MOBILITY FROM MILTON TO MALTHUS. Remembering the Middle Passage Project. Knitting, running, hopeful cook.
Sean DiLeonardi @sdileonardi.bsky.social Writer, literary critic, Pittsburgher, professor, director of the Center for Digital Studies (he/him)
https://www.seandileonardi.com/
Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social Global + postcolonial + comp lit, theory; translator. Assoc. prof. Views/prons: his. Books (@uminnpress.bsky.social): Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent / Ed. Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
Paul Nadal @paulnadal.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at Princeton. REMITTANCES, LITERARY & ECONOMIC -- forthcoming from U Chicago Press
Zach Samalin @zachsamalin.bsky.social antediluvian new yorker; english prof at nyu; writing about anticolonial theories of civilization; censorship; the “Controversial Discussions”; organizing w aaup-nyu
Sarah Allison @sarahdallison.bsky.social English & DH in New Orleans--
new book out on celebrity authorship, 19C print culture, antislavery:
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-rise-of-celebrity-authorship/9780231209717/
Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social Asst Prof, American Studies @ JFK Institute, FU Berlin - knowledge cultures, book studies, literary institutions, AmLit C19-C21
Lily Saint @lilysaint.bsky.social "you're not much of a saint are you"--Ms. Kelvin class 5
Magalí Armillas Tiseyra @magarmtis.bsky.social Comparing the literatures, &c.| www.magaliarmillastiseyra.com
Scott Selisker @sselisker.bsky.social literature prof at U of Arizona. books: HUMAN PROGRAMMING (on metaphors for ideology), CHARACTER NETWORKS (on social networks in recent US fiction and history, out October 2026). he, suh-LISK-er, views mine, sporadically present here.
Jesse Schotter @schotter.bsky.social Modernism, film, fiction. Professor. Views my own.
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social ars longa, vita brevis
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/faculty/jr75399
Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social Associate Professor in UCD School of English, Drama, Film & Creative Writing.
Research Ireland, Starting Laureate: Imperial Minerals. She/her. Views mine.
Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen + Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo @cgrbravo.bsky.social Latin American literature & cinema | human rights & memory | Environmental humanities | Politics of affects/ emotions | Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton | Egresado de UConn, UNal., Caro & Cuervo. 👉🏽 https://www.carlosgardeazabalbravo.com
Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com Victorianist • Utopianist • Environmentalist • Essayist • 100% AI-Free
Links to All the Things: linktr.ee/doctorwafflewrites
Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social Public historian, editor, & literary critic. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Popular Film & Television. Associate Editor, The Complete Letters of Henry James @ctrhjstudies.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social.
Dr Barbara Franchi @barbarafranchi.bsky.social Contemporary literature scholar, feminist, wannabe eco-criticist. Career Development Fellow in Postcolonial and World Literatures at Durham University. she/her
Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social Professor of English. _Melodramatic Imperial Writing from the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes_ (2014). Current project on cosmic romance. Books, TV, running, biking, 🦖, 🏳️🌈
Pavel Andrade @pavelandrade.com Form & space c20-21 Mexican & LatAm lit, theory of the novel, world literature, architectural humanities, peripheral modernism | pavelandrade.com
Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social Victorianist, English prof, Dickens Notes co-editor, novel fiend, Brit.
Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social Researching modernism, queer networks, literature and silent cinema 📚🎞️ writing about the POOL group 🌊 teaching film and poetry. She/her.
Dr Chiara Bullen @chiarab.bsky.social ✨🏔️ THE INN AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT VENGEANCE IS OUT NOW 🏔️✨
sometimes author, sometimes academic. always anxious.
glasgow.
rep: Jessica Mileo
contact me buy my books etc: https://linktr.ee/chiarabullen
Diane Drouin @dianedrouin.bsky.social PhD from Sorbonne Université and Teaching Fellow / PRAG. Paris.
Mina Loy, modernism, surrealism, avant-gardes, autobiography, gender studies.
Dr Bill Hughes (William the Bloody) @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Gothic fairies, vampires and paranormal romance; co-organiser Open Graves, Open Minds Project @ogomproject.bsky.social
https://hcommons.org/members/billhughes/
www.opengravesopenminds.com
Erin Templeton @eetempleton.bsky.social Dean & English professor, runner, Steeler fan, avid reader, dog walker, cat food dispenser. Always up for pizza.
Academically: literary modernism, F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night possibly forever.
Robert Higney @roberthigney.bsky.social english @ cuny | VP @moderniststudies.bsky.social | modernism, cold war, contemporary lit, media, the novel | INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER, uva press (https://bit.ly/inst-char)
Meredith Mackworth-Praed @meredithpraed.bsky.social Comfort cat. Rarely seen on social media. Author of The Future King series.
Josh @josh.aguayo.ca I'm an artist living in Calgary. (He/Him)
Author of 'Cybernetic Mages': A cyberpunk/fantasy adventure novel about depression, drugs and fighting mega-corporations.
Available at: https://tinyurl.com/CyberneticM
Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor of Popular Literature and Culture at Falmouth University
Dr Aliette Ventéjoux @aliettev.bsky.social MCF UnivRennes 2, docteure litté US contemporaine, écriture de la catastrophe, post-9/11 littérature, soundstudies, writing the city
Associate prof @univrennes2.bsky.social (France), US contemporary literature, post-9/11 litt, soundstudies
Bookworm
Turbo🧶
Alvaro @medievalalvaro.bsky.social Medievalista. PhD Cornell U. Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at W&M.
Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social Here for US &/or Modern fiction & poetry, critical theory, crime fiction & speculative fiction. Author of How to Interpret Literature & books on US & Native American literature. Emerging fiction writer.
https://rparker1648.wixsite.com/robert-dale-parker
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Washington, Information School. PhD in English from WashU in St. Louis.
I’m interested in books, data, social media, & digital humanities.
They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court. 🏀
https://melaniewalsh.org/
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social (he/him/his) Associate Professor, Crip Queer Poet: c18/c19 British Literature and Culture / Disability Studies / Health Humanities / History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)
travisclau.com
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social English and Cultural Studies prof; poet; editor of @ecfjournal.bsky.social. Thinking in semiotic squares and cosmological circles. she/they/we
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social Writer
My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World – is out now!
"The most intellectually stimulating book I read this year.” John Banville
She/Her
https://linktr.ee/eherring
Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social Associate Prof of English at Duke. My new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature (Columbia UP) comes out Summer 2026! More about me here: https://aarthivadde.com
Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social Digital literary and cultural studies, modernism, psychoanalysis, horror. Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies. New book: Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities http://bit.ly/4ftBuUV
Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social First gen professor of disability studies, poverty and working class studies, novel criticism and theory. Currently Emeritus Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 
Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social she/her. English literature, medievalist, singer in the band, recovering indoor cat. In both research and life, resisting being reductive about religion. I don’t speak for my institution, and it doesn’t speak for me. Expect posts about academic freedom.
Andrew Michael Gorin @andrewgorin.bsky.social writer, assistant professor of poetics, media, public sphere andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org
Dr Julia Dallaway @juliadallaway.bsky.social Literary critic, researching life-writing, essays, memory & place. Research Assistant at Oxford Centre for Life-Writing & Study Mentor at Exeter College, Oxford. Book reviews in Times Literary Supplement, Modernism/modernity, Critical Quarterly, etc.
Chuggaaconroy @chuggaaconroy.bsky.social That loud guy who talks to himself about video games as if someone is listening!
Anthony 🦇 @robintony.bsky.social “Till all are one”•🇵🇷•Multfandom•DC Comics•Transformers•Mortal Kombat•
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