Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
SonakshiS @sonakshis11.bsky.social https://www.sonakshisrivastava.com/
Reader, Writer, Translator, Zinester
Senior Writing Fellow @Ashoka University
Works @Usawa and @Asymptote
🔎 Discard Studies, Food, Ecocriticism, Reading Pedagogies, Critical Theory.
Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture & Organisation at University of Westminster
Wrote a book on the mundane work that makes Big Music work; do editorial bits at Journal of Cultural Economy; some other stuff...
https://tgpbennett.wordpress.com
Arbeitology @arbeitology.bsky.social arm the scroungers
Charlotte Thomas, MLS @caribouwireless.bsky.social She/Her at long last. Death before detransition.
Kellen Hoxworth @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University at Buffalo.
Transoceanic Blackface: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
“Blackface Geographies”: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204325101172
Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social Executive Director of the MLA. Book reader. Bike rider. Please renew your membership! www.mla.org/Membership/About-Membership
GRK 2806 »Literatur und Öffentlichkeit« @grk2806.bsky.social Research Training Group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures”
@fau.de
@dfg.de
On Duty: Anastasia Glawion & Antonia Villinger
www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de
The Blackstudies Podcast @blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social Podcasted conversations on the past and future of Black Studies, hosted by our editorial collective - Ashley Newby, Brie Gorrell, Olivia Blucker, and John E. Drabinski. Follow via links at linktr.ee/blstpodcast. Contact us at blackstudiespodcast@gmail.com
Evan Nicoll-Johnson @evnj.bsky.social Narrative, manuscript culture, environment & literature in early medieval China (3rd-8th centuries, or something)
Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social Environmental Humanities researcher. @LeedsUniEnglish @LeedsEnvHums
#Wordsworth #JohnClare #Romanticism
#walking #birdwatching #naturewriting
Ascending with the Earth 🌍.
Linda Hess @timeflieslike.bsky.social (she/her) American Studies. Based at U of Augsburg. Researches Environmental Comedy. Also active in aging studies and queer studies. Enjoys slowly improving skills in bouldering, chess, ping-pong, and Norwegian
Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social WFU English / WFU Humanities Institute / Melville's Democracy: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35599 / Leviathan: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/601 / Should be going for that run.
Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social Asst. Prof. /JProf. for American Literature & Culture @ U of Cologne; Poetry, Ecoriticism, Mobility Studies, Speculative Fiction, Gender Studies 🤓👩🏫🌄🎶📚🏳️🌈
Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social History editor
Dr Robyn Muir @drrobynmuir.bsky.social Lecturer in Media & Communication at University of Surrey researching Disney Princess Phenomenon and Influencer Culture 👑 Founder @DisNet 🏰 Founder
@IJDisneyStudies Views own 🌻
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.
Aca-Media @aca-media.bsky.social A podcast offering an academic perspective on media, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
https://aca-media.org/
Nicolle Lamerichs @nicolleness.bsky.social 🔸️Media studies scholar
🔸️Fan studies, cosplay, games & tech
🔸️Passionate senior lecturer at HU Utrecht
🔸️Gamer, fan artist & Trekker 🖖
https://linktr.ee/nicollelamerichs
Meredith Guthrie @meredithea.bsky.social Transplanted Texan. Media scholar at Pitt. Co-chair of Disability Studies and Disney Studies at MAPACA. Loves baseball, movies with explosions, and being contrary. She/her.
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
David Justice @davidjustice.bsky.social Historian & educator of US pop culture and diplomacy. First-gen. Husband & dog dad. Music & film aficionado. Not the baseball player.
Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social Professor, UCF T&T and English. Opinions mine. Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.
Jennifer Hessler @jenmhessler.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California
Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society
Views my own
Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL + PARASOCIAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social media studies professor, TV lover, feminist, mom
Kimberly Owczarski @kimbao.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media at TCU. Wolverine. Longhorn. New to Nova Nation. Lover of sharks. She/her.- F Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social PhD candidate, Sociology @ Stony Brook U. I study tech/AI, creative labor, and fandom. Writer, nerd, fangirl, gamer, frequent comic-con attendee, sometime artist. Views are mine
Jennifer O’Meara @jomeara.bsky.social Associate Prof. in Film Studies & Research Ireland Laureate, Trinity College Dublin. Digital theory, screen voices, sound, immersive tech and synthetic media.
Lesley Willard @lesleyawillard.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Emerson College. UT Austin alum. I spend my time yelling about platforms & capitalism. Unionize.
Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social Associate Prof. in Media Studies. Researching participatory culture e.g. fan cultures, digital play, extremism, and conspiracy theories online. University of Copenhagen. Co-coordinator of smidgeproject.eu. She/her. Obsessive knitter and yarn dyer.
Liz Ellcessor @trilliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Virginia.
Co-editor at JCMS:Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Emergency systems, disability, and media access.
Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social English & theatre & film & fandom. Fair use advocate. In the process of building something new.
K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social Assistant Prof at ASU. Research/Teach: Media studies, digital culture, and female desire in pop-media. (She/Her.) Views mine and not my employers.
Renée Middlemost (she/her) @reneemiddlemost.bsky.social Dr of cult movies| Communication and Media academic | researching celebrity, fans, film, and media audiences| pop culture nerd | coffee enthusiast | dog Ma | WSL/Matildas fan | views my own |
Brandy MP @brandymp.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication + Media Studies @ Fordham U; Scholar of Black popular media, contemporary television and film, digital culture, and celebrity
mesk @meesk.bsky.social TV, media industries, algorithmic brand culture, videographic criticism. Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies, Lewis & Clark College. She/her.
A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social academia | the #humanities | popular culture | other whims. Literally wrote the book on #Eurovision & Australia. I teach politics, IR, and pop culture but still identify as cultural studies. Proud cat lady. Views are her own.
https://linktr.ee/jesscarniel
Shanna Gilkeson @shannagilkeson.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Media, Cinema and Journalism at Eastern Michigan University. Fan studies scholar. Chair of Star Trek Studies and Fan Studies subject areas at MPCA. Post may be fannish, scholarly, or full of cats. Opinions are my own.
jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social creator culture expert @LeedsUniMedia.bsky.social
Assoc. editor, CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES
Writing PLATFORM HYGIENE (Duke UP)
Repped by Aevitas Creative Management
Hot takes are my own!
www.jessrauchberg.com
sarah edwards @seedwards.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies, North Central College. Feminist media studies // influencer industry // platforms // labor // tech. Formerly: UW-Madison Comm Arts, Social Media Collective. She/her.
https://sarahedwardsphd.com/
candice roberts @popmediaprof.bsky.social ▫️media studies & queer theory
▫️communication professor
▫️they/them
📍nyc (via philadelphia)
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Com and Media Studies @ Washington College | current Delawarean | I do work on gender, space, media, and belonging and also comedy studies | she/her
Maria K. Alberto, Ph.D (✍️🏼 book proposal!) @mariakalberto.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College || she/her 🏳️🌈 || 📚 canon, genre, analog games, fan studies, platforms || currently ✍️🏼 sword&sorcery + TSR novels, fans + TTRPGs || header: galxrax (Unsplash)
Alisa Perren @aperren.bsky.social Media studies prof. Director of Industry Relations for the Radio-Television-Film Department at UT-Austin. Opinions are my own.
@cecilecottenet.bsky.social @cecilecottenet.bsky.social Professor of American Studies in Provence, #bookhistory, US literature, #histoiredulivre 📚🇫🇷🇺🇸, literary agents
Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social English Literatures and Creative Communication Programme, Te Herenga Waka; curious about c19 and nonhuman worlds; co-director of dickensnotes.org
Mark Krotov @markkrotov.bsky.social coeditor/publisher, n+1. krotov at nplusonemag dot com.
Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of Literature at Bard College • fmr Harvard Society of Fellows • Victorian & South African Literature, Env. Humanities • THE ART OF UNCERTAINTY (Cambridge, 2024) • doi.org/10.1017/9781009436120 • www.danielbenjaminwilliams.com
Mike Young @mkeyoung.bsky.social Author of 📘 Social Media for Research Impact. Workshops for researchers & universities. Ex-University Post editor, Copenhagen.
Here mostly for #philosophy #history.
Website: https://mikeyoungacademy.dk/
Julia Lajta-Novak @julialajtanovak.bsky.social Assoc. Prof @univienna, poet, PI of
@PoetryOff_Page (FWF/ERC). #spokenword #biofiction #poetry #lifewriting #HistoricalFiction
julianovak.at
alexis pope @mysticpizzaroll.bsky.social part time poet / full time has been
Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social scholar of art/cinema/media
https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
dump truck aesthetics @timcarter.bsky.social Tim Carter. Director of Writing Workshops for the Writer's Voice of CNY, Syracuse, NY
THE PIGS (Dead Mall Press 2023)
REMAINS (Tiger Bark Press 2022)
www.thcarter.info
"Destiny is the root of all cruelty." 
Liz Bowen @lizbowen.bsky.social Poet / PhD / disability ethicist / running-pilled diabetic gremlin
Author of SUGARBLOOD (Metatron Press, 2017) and COMPASSION FOUNTAIN (Trembling Pillow Press, 2022)
The Bristol Poetry Institute @bristolpoetry.bsky.social Official account of the Bristol Poetry Institute at the University of Bristol. Blog https://poetry.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/. Insta @ thebristolpoetryinstitute. Events on #UoBrisBPILive
dr. kimberly ann @kimannjosouth.bsky.social 💚 poet, phd, professor, human, mama, aries, eagles/phl sports , ucw-cwa, she/her/hers 💚
rts ≠ always endorsements
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
noah warren @nowarwarren.bsky.social poetry & c19. asst prof @ UVM. Destroyer (2016), The Complete Stories (2021). 
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)
Lou Mach @louloumach.bsky.social Mancunian, Writer, Reader, Educator, UoM, Centre for New Writing. Collaborative pamphlet, The Words of Others are All We Have, Hedgehog Press, (2024). Collection, I Am Not Light, Black Bough Poetry (2025)
https://www.louisemachen.com
Katherine Fusco @fuscowrites.bsky.social English Professor and Writer. Struggling department chair and mom. New book: Hollywood's Other's: Love and Limitation in the Star System (Columbia UP). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/hollywoods-others/9780231220927/ Future book: Anita Loos bio.
Sue Landers @slanders.bsky.social Poet, pedestrian.
My book WHAT TO CARRY INTO THE FUTURE (Roof, 2025) emerged from riding every NYC subway end-to-end. A love letter to the city, it charts joy amidst catastrophe.
suelanders.com (she/her)
Gareth Prior @garethprior.bsky.social Poet. By day, Bursar at St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
David Leftwich @davidleftwich.bsky.social Dad/cook. 2025 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book winner: at dawn, the first of the first to sing, pubs Fall ‘27. Writer/editor covering Houston food: Houston Chronicle, Edible Houston, Houston Food Finder, Sugar&Rice, Cite. https://www.davidleftwich.net/
William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, Queens College/ CUNY Graduate Center. Latinx studies, comics and graphic narratives, queer studies.
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
annaeclark.com
Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social Literary Critic. Author, Beyond the Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism. Proprietor, The Reading Experience. https://www.readexperience.net
Paul Jaussen @pauljaussen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Literature, Lawrence Tech U. Writing in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital (CambridgeUP 2017) and A Companion to American Poetry (co-editor) (Wiley-Blackwell 2022). I wander.
Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com (He/him). I draw power lines and TVs and do urban landscape photography. Metro-Detroit.
Abolish police. Free Palestine. Trans rights.
Art store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com
Main art website: marcusjmerritt.com
Tips: https://ko-fi.com/marcusjmerritt
Bill(y) Fogarty @billfogarty.bsky.social Associate Professor, English, UCF. Author of Politics of Speech in Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-07889-7
Carrie Smith @carriesmith.bsky.social Senior Lecturer. Research poetry manuscripts/ BBC/ Poetry on the radio/poetry about assisted reproduction. Often found dying of thirst in archives. 🏳️🌈 new project - @repassistedrepro.bsky.social
Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ the University of Washington iSchool | formerly an Innovator in Residence @ Library of Congress | essays in WIRED, Gawker, The New Republic, Longreads, Current Affairs, etc.
🌐 www.bcglee.com
Tony Pennino @beatnikprof.bsky.social Associate Professor of Literature at Stevens Institute of Technology, which means I’ve taught everything from Spaceships to Shakespeare. I wrote a book on 1980s British subversive theatre. Am writing one on James Baldwin. Fulbright Scholar. Playwright.
Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
https://linktr.ee/brihughespoet
Matthew Scully @matthewscully.bsky.social Lecturer at the Université de Lausanne | C19 to C21 American literature, film, and visual art | Literary theory | First Book: Democratic Anarchy (Fordham UP, 2024)
https://people.unil.ch/matthewscully/
Xina @ciw.bsky.social Movies, modernism, art, politics, poetry. The usual social media ephemera of architecture, pets, food, flowers, clouds. Bay Area 📍 | Los Angeles ♥️
Randy Allain @bertrandallain.bsky.social Teacher, dad, and overthinker.
Host of Media/Lit: @media-lit.bsky.social
Writer/Podcaster @thepopbreak.bsky.social
Portfolio: http://randyallain.weebly.com/
Mathias Svalina @mathiassvalina.bsky.social Mathias Svalina.
linktr.ee/MathiasSvalina
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
miri @miriiiiiiiiiiii.bsky.social dabbling duck / loosened object
GARDEN PATH is out now with Community Mausoleum
https://www.communitymausoleum.org/books/p/garden-path
miriamkarraker.com
Kyle Parry @kyleparry.bsky.social author of Ways of Seeing After Dark, out Nov. 2026, https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517922146/ways-of-seeing-after-dark/
for my writing and such: kyleparry.info
Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak. Free Substack on queer pulps: https://nympholibrarian.substack.com/
Theo Chiotis @selfcoding.bsky.social Poetry person. Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis (Penned in the Margins). Screen (Paper Tigers Books). Limit.less_an assembly of the sick (Litmus). ed board [ΦΡΜΚ].
Some of my work here: http://www.greekpoetrynow.com/poet_poems_eng/chiotis_poems.html
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
Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈 @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
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…
Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo192110828.html
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/
Matt Broaddus @mattbroaddus.bsky.social I enjoy poems.
My new book is DEEPER THE TROPICS, available here: https://bunnypresse.org/product/bunny06-matt-broaddus-deeper-the-tropics-print-book/
My website: https://www.matt-broaddus.com/
Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social Director of Creative Writing Program, Assoc Prof, University of Georgia l Translator of five books l Harvard Radcliffe Fellow l NEA Fellow l How to Date a Fanatic (Harper Via 2026) www.arunikashyap.com l 🏳️🌈 He/Him l https://www.instagram.com/arunikashyap/
rachel milligan @rachelmilligan.bsky.social 🎬 https://letterboxd.com/rachelmilligan/
😈 rachelamilligan.com
steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social assistant professor of heathcliff the cat studies; writing about how books represent accumulation, growth, and their counterparts.
snackowski @snackowska.bsky.social environmental humanities, urban / spatial studies, American studies, post-1945 literature. president of an imaginary Raymond Williams Fan Club
Morten Hansen @mortenkhansen.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English. C20/21 American and Global Literature and Culture, Media, Sound, Space.
David Anderson @dranderson15.bsky.social I teach @UofLEnglish. I love to post on African American and American literature, music, sea writing, and history.
Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social Film/Media/Comm/Sound
MAKING STEREO FIT
www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/
Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Sondheim, Philip Roth, The Dark Tower, Twin Peaks, Pale Fire, Calvino, and Taylor Swift.
"The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza