Michael Lee @operapage.bsky.social Music writer; recovering former academic and broadcaster; civil servant; Lulliste; made in Aotearoa/NZ, living in Dublin
fannishwitch @fannishwitch.bsky.social 
Deborah Cartmell @deborahcartmell.bsky.social I publish in Adaptation Studies and am co-editor and founder of the journals, Adaptation (OUP) and Shakespeare (Routledge).
Sophie Franklin @sophiefranklin.bsky.social DOROTHY MSCA postdoc at UCD and University of Reading • Victorian literature, violence, health, contagion, afterlives • Associate Editor of Brontë Studies • 'Violence and the Brontës', out now with EUP • she/her
Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social Gothic scholar & writer | 19th C | Romanticism | Dracula | Fin de Siècle | Adaptation | Anti-racism | Equity | Access | active bystander of UK HE | one of Sara Ahmed’s little ghosts 🖤
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social Quondam Prof. English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
J. Isaac Gadient (they/them) @jisaacgadient.bsky.social Game Writer–Narrative Designer 📚🎮✍🏻
PORTFOLIO: http://jisaacgadient.com
LINKS: https://linktr.ee/jisaacgadient
josie w. @tvdoctor.bsky.social not that kind of doctor. tv & film academic in the netherlands / lecturing in arts & visual culture / researching tv costume and tv satire- H Hale Küçük @halekucuk.bsky.social
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social a grumpy melange of personality defects who gets paid to make people's writing better; or, failing that, to not make it appreciably worse.
Maria San Filippo @cinemariasf.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies~Emerson College
Scholar of feminist/queer screen media
Wellesley, NYU, UCLA, Fulbright alum
IUPress, WSUP & MQUP author / Lambda Literary Award winner
Boston-based itinerant cinephile
mariasanfilippo.net
WILDsound Podcast @wildsoundpodcast.bsky.social Daily podcast showcasing interviews with filmmakers, screenwriters, actors, and artists
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wildsound-the-film-podcast/id1406973270
www.wildsoundpodcast.com
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth @dr-b-i.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies
English Dept
TXST
John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social Knackered writer. Mr @leahmoore.bsky.social
Comics for DC, Dark Horse, 2000 AD etc, articles for Hellebore, Daily Grail, Fortean Times, etc, Weird Fiction... loads of stuff.
Haunted Book Club with @gavcross.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/haunted_bookclub
Emma Woodhouse @emmawbooks.bsky.social Writing, books, dogs and history!
The Prendergast Watch, Holand Press, 2025
Mary, Queen of the Forty, Havisham & Webb 2025
Simple Twists of Fate, Holand Press 2025
The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social A society for medievalist academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work.
Want to join the Guild? Take a look at our website: https://www.guildmedmak.com/
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Diana DPA @dianad.bsky.social
“Dispute not with her; she is lunatic.”
PhD Humanities.
Answers to Diana, Diane ... but mostly, Steven.
Dr Deborah Allison @deborahuk.bsky.social Cinema programmer and film writer. Latest books: ‘Film Title Sequences: A Critical Anthology’ (2021) | ‘The Films of Aleksandr Rou: Father of Soviet Fairy-Tale Cinema’ (2025)
Alice Payne @paynealice.bsky.social PhD student at De Montfort University, researching contemporary adaptations of Classical Greek mythology and literature.
Latest publication: ‘D’oh Brother Where Art Thou’: Homer’s Women in The Simpsons and Contemporary Screen Adaptations.
M. Mert Örsler @mmertorsler.bsky.social Dr. cand., Cinema Studies Institute (CSI), University of Toronto
• M.A. (Calgary), Comm. & Media Studies
• B.A. (Bilkent), summa cum laude
Kylie Sago @kyliesago.bsky.social Assistant Professor of French, Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Initiative at San Diego State University. Web Editor, H-France Forum. Author of "Revising Race through Literary Adaptation in the French Empire" (forthcoming with Liverpool UP in 2027).
Steve Purcell @stevetpurcell.bsky.social Academic, director, writer. Co-Artistic Director of The Pantaloons and Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. All views my own.
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
Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social Professor of English, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social Dragonboater, paddleboarder, Dartmoor walker, Aare-swimmer. Also editing Titus Andronicus and interested in all things Shakespeare, performance, theatre broadcasting, post-COVID-19 creative industries. Never able to see enough shows or read enough books.
Eva von C @evavonc.bsky.social Prof of English Literature incl. the Literatures of the Middle Ages at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Loves books and lists.
Kathleen Loock @kathleenloock.bsky.social American studies and media studies | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | New book: Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Shape Industry and Culture (UC Press, 2024) | Emmy Noether Research Group: Hollywood Memories
@catherellah.bsky.social @catherellah.bsky.social 
Joseph Oldham @paranoidstylist.bsky.social Historian of television, intelligence, conspiracy narratives. Currently working on a book about John le Carré adaptations on TV (1966 to 2018 and beyond...). Written things for Doctor Who Magazine. I am not a number, my views are my own!
Özlem Karadağ @ozlemkaradag.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of English @iuingilizdili ; former PhD Research Associate & Postdoc Fellow in Drama @QMULsed ; Dramaturg @buluTiyatro ; Contemporary Theatre&Theory.
Dr Michelle Anya Anjirbag-Reeve @anjirbaguette.bsky.social UK based. Disney/fairy tale adaptation/deep stories/literature/libraries/culture. she/her
same handle on the hellbirb; not sure how much I'll be here
Insta: @michelle_anya; www.michelleanjirbag.com
Ada Özduran @sailorjello.bsky.social Ada Özduran 🧜♀️ Wild Man Wizard 🧙♂️ Ambassador of the Nicolas Cage Collective🐣
You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social A podcast for expanding screen studies knowledge, one recommendation at a time. Available wherever you get fine audio.
#BilkentUniversity COMD
Hosts @cbkenkar.bsky.social @sailorjello.bsky.social & Wickham Flannagan
Producer: @taylanakil.bsky.social
Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social colour, photography & film researcher | convenor BAFTSS Colour & Film https://colourandfilm.com/cfps/ @BAFTSSColorFilm | ❤️ cycling & archives
James C. Taylor @jamesctaylor.bsky.social Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick's Film and TV Department. Wealth and fame I ignored, pursuing academia as my reward. He/him.
Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social Global Shakespeare, ethical AI, digital humanities, adaptations, Asian studies, film, theatre
Writer, educator, advocacy speaker
Ashley D. Polasek @sherlockphd.bsky.social PhD in Sherlock Holmes Adaptations. Executive Director, The Ken Ludwig Company. Teacher/Writer/Editor/Consultant. Swordfighter. Wheaten Terrier Mom. Hawksian Woman. She/Her.
[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social M.S. (2023): TX A&M| US Army (Retired)| Poet|Writer|kettlebells|running|books| watches|mlb|nfl| Michael Chabon fan|Pro-Democracy 🇺🇲
Beth Wyatt @wyattbeth.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Britain. PhD researcher in First World War studies. Interests including film and TV, gender, emotions, country houses. Also interested in Korean history and culture.
Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social. He/him
Jon Foster @jonfoster.bsky.social Spend my days reading Shakespeare and C19th literature, theatre-going and watching cricket (Middlesex CCC).
M. Lizbeth C. S. @lizbethcalvario.bsky.social EN/FR-SP literary translation & Translation Studies, Shakespearean, Early Modernist
Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM
Traducción & Literatura Hispánica - CELL/Colmex
Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
David McGowan @animatedstardom.bsky.social Author of Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts, out now from University of Texas Press. Reseach interests include animation, classic Hollywood, stardom, & home video/streaming. Lecturer at UAL. Views my own.
Sam Thomas @literarymetal.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Studies
Pynchon | Film & TV | Metal & Experimental Music | Genre & Franchise Culture | Political Violence | Star Wars
he/him
Views my own
Erika Hendra @ekh77.bsky.social Community college English Prof; Humanities/ LAS advocate, dog and cat mom; bookworm.
Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD @pcbryan.bsky.social Have PhD, will travel. Americanist by training, fan/media studies by trade. Scholar of fan studies, adaptation, Disney, comics - happy to talk intersections of translation/gender/disability. First book out; next book soon. He / him.
Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
Brunella Tedesco Barlocco @brunellatedesco.bsky.social She/Her. Film Studies/History professor at @escacub.bsky.social. Co-editor at @ComparativeCinema.bsky.social.
Writer at Sitges Film Festival.
My views are my own, and all that jazz.
🇺🇾 in 🇪🇸
Shahira Hathout, Ph.D. @shahirahathout.bsky.social Ph.D. in Cultural Studies. Interdisciplinary research, focusing on Posthumanism, New Materialism, decolonization, the Aesthetics, 18&19thC. English and World Literature, and the different Anthropocene discourses.
Philomena Wolf @philouw.bsky.social PhD candidate in English Lit @uni-freiburg.de Researching retellings of ancient and medieval literature in contemporary English fiction.
Julie Sanders @profjsanders.bsky.social Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Trustee of London Higher and Board member for Universities UK, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social We are AAS: scholars of adaptation, intertextuality, intermediality & all the disciplines that involve them. Arguably the best sidebar chat game in online aca-conferencing.
Join us! https://www.adaptation.uk.com/
YouTube: @associationofadaptationstu3160
Shyam Sundar Pal, PhD @shyam97.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Shobhit University
PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Indore
#adaptationstudies #Indiancinema #Bengalicinema #SatyajitRay
Zeynep Bilge @zeynepbilge.bsky.social Academic, book addict, translator, alto
The Tyrant Stalker @tyrantstalker247.bsky.social NOT SPAM!!! Virgo. Indp. Voter. Autistic. Cinephile. Agnostic w. Spiritual Values. Nature Lover. Artist-Activist-Explorer-Fighter. Target my Rights, I'll F%£€ Up Your Life! DOWN WITH TYRANNY!!!♂️✍️📸🎥📎 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇸🇯🇵🇭🇰🇹🇼🏞️🌄🌳🌊🐺🦅🐳🪄
IG @jeffrey_decristofaro_official
@safie-bn.bsky.social @safie-bn.bsky.social 
Faith on View @faithonview.com Informing the mind & enriching the soul by sharing news & commentary from broad Christian perspectives.
Website: FaithonView.com
Newsletter: FaithonView.com/daily-newsletter/
Founder: @rondallreynoso.bsky.social
Editor & Comms: Pamela @ faithonview.com
Rachel M. Hartnett, PhD @rmhartnett.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at the College of Coastal Georgia. Research includes postcolonialism, U.S. empire, popular culture, & adaptation studies. She/her/hers.
Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social Prof. English Literatures and Cultures@TU Braunschweig, Germany; Adaptation, Intermediality, Theatre, Neovictorianism, U/Dystopia, "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana."
Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead @ University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings
💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
Dr Marina Cano @drmarinacano.bsky.social Asst Prof English │ Long 19th C │ Writer │ Researcher
Theatrical Afterlives (OUP 2026), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/theatrical-afterlives-9780198992882?lang=en&cc=es
https://metode.academia.edu/MarinaCano
Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social Teaching film and writing at U Birmingham. Co-Convenor BAFTSS Adaptation SIG (https://bsky.app/profile/adaptationsig.bsky.social) and MHHRN (mhhrn.bham.ac.uk). Podcast: B Film Queer Pod 🏳️🌈(https://tinyurl.com/2bbw5ywd) 
Maria Juko @mariajuko.bsky.social 18th/19th ct and self-help lit, Neo-Victorian, adaptation studies, biofiction, and teacher (Eng/Bio) in Potsdam (Germany), she/her
Rebecca E. Raddatz @reraddatz.bsky.social PhD Student and Research Assistant in English Cultural and Media Studies @University of Passau | Editor @Adaptationtoday.bsky.social | Researching adaptations, intermediality, folk narratives & AI
Vicky Yan @vickyyan.bsky.social 
Sirui Xu @siruixu.bsky.social PhD student in Intermediality at the University of Edinburgh. Researching Adaptation, Intermediality, Biopic, Musical Theatre.
Eduard Cuelenaere @deduard.bsky.social Media & film scholar at Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel
www.eduardcuelenaere.com
Gracie Bain, PhD @drgbain.bsky.social 19th-century British lit, gender, adaptation
https://feeds.captivate.fm/ripperaturebuildingthemyth/
Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social A professor on sabbatical. Victorian literature & culture on screen and in translation, neo-Victorianism, postfeminism, the real and fake Sherlock Holmes, World Literature and periodical press. I also dabble in DH. 🌱 🧶 🧵 🗃🪡🎬.
Barbara Braid @dr-braid.bsky.social Period drama afficionado, mad for all things neo-Victorian and gothic
Ana Daniela Coelho @adcoelho.bsky.social PhD in Jane Austen and adaptation. Interesses range from digital media to comics and zombie studies. Independant scholar. Currently working in HE assessment and accreditation in Portugal.
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social Prof in Film History Uni of Exeter, UK | Research #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines #FilmSky 🗃️🎥🎞️🎬
PI: @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/
Dr. Benjamin Broadribb @benbroadribb.bsky.social Performance Reviews Editor for Shakespeare Bulletin | Shakespeare on screen(s) | Shakespop | metamodernism | performance | adaptation | cinema | theatre | he/him/his
Lissette Lopez Szwydky, PhD @lissettesz.bsky.social Professor, Consultant, Mom, 2x cancer survivor (endometrial and ovarian). 19c studies; transmedia adaptation; gothic monsters; gender studies; career education for arts & humanities students. Frankenstein Expert/AcaFan especially Frankenstein's Bride. 
nieves rosendo @nieves-rosendo.bsky.social Mis negras duquelas. On the old Twitter, I was @lectordebarthes.
Comparative Literature: Intermediality and adaptation. Transmedia researcher: Literature, comics, video games, TV series. University of Granada.
La imagen del gatito es de Sempé.
BAFTSS Adaptation SIG @adaptationsig.bsky.social The Bluesky account for the BAFTSS Adaptation SIG, convenor @stinaface.bsky.social 
Seda Öz @ssedaozz.bsky.social Film & Adaptation Scholar | Asst. Prof. @BilkentCOMD
Treasurer, Association of Adaptation Studies
Founding Editor, Adaptation Today
Kristen Haas Curtis @hellomizk.bsky.social Cartoonist, Chaucerian (Dr.!), pigeon enthusiast. Co-founder of @guildmedmak.bsky.social
a society for medievalist makers and creatives. Hi!
HeartbreakHaikus / Heartbreak Haiku LLC @heartbreakhaikus.bsky.social Unique gifts for divorce, breakups, and broken hearts.
www.HeartbreakHaikus.com
Angelina Del Balzo @adelbalzo.bsky.social Asst Prof of English @ Utah Valley U | Prev @ Bilkent U | UCLA PhD, Wellesley BA | 18th c Brit lit and drama, adaptation, imperialism, gender | lady detective | she/her 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko @drlkz.bsky.social academic | into adaptations, crime fiction, and neo-Victorianism | QAQV group coordinator [qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl] | Changing Narratives conferences organiser [changingnarratives.weebly.com] | bad at social media
Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social Kids media researcher and critic. Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University.
Have brain - will travel.
Dr Yeqi Zhu (Jessy) @yeqizhu.bsky.social Academic explorer of adaptation studies and Stanley Kubrick, film fan, lover of ghost stories
https://nbu.academia.edu/YeqiZhu
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention.
🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Bilkent COMD
Co-host @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social
Co-chair @adaptstudies.bsky.social
Dr Leslie Wong @wongznleslie.bsky.social Recent PhD graduate in Comparative Literature from King’s College London. Adaptation. Reception. Comics. Spec Fic. Video Games. Contemporary East and Southeast Asia.
Amanda Konkle @thekonk.bsky.social Pretty into cats, classical Hollywood, DVDs, and the beach. Currently writing on adaptations of Marilyn Monroe as a character. Author of _Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe_. Co-editor of _Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend_.
grossmjj @grossmjj.bsky.social Adaptation studies; Classical Hollywood; film noir; TV, musical theater