Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social Cat-obsessed doctrix of medieval history working in humanities communications; alt-ac/post-ac/union advocate; humanist; cute critters, nature, baking, crafts, art, nerdom, politics.
📍Cville
Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social Teacher, Latinist, Thought Follower. Neither the son of true believers nor of good reputation. Once translated Marcus Aurelius, but I don't speak for him. (Neither of us speaks for UVA.) Minor outlying island. Can serve briefly as a boat. He/him.
Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social trying to figure out what's going on here, co-chair @livablecville.bsky.social
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Victor Luftig @vl1959.bsky.social he/him. English professor, Democrat (but I can't bear the DCCC), Mets fan. Views expressed are my own and not those of my employer or David Stearns, Steve Cohen, or the late M. Donald Grant. "'We’ll see if it is,' said Rivera."
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
T. Kenny Fountain @tkennyfountain.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, UVA. Scholar of rhetoric (old & current), studying conspiracy theory belief, disinformation, extremism, and visual media. Writing a book, Imagining Conspiracy Theories.
Phineas Dowling, PhD, FML, LMNOP @pwdowling.bsky.social Scholar of 18th-century literature and culture.
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 for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org We keep each other safe
YIMBY Co-chair @livablecville.bsky.social 🏘️ 🚲🚶🏽🧑🏽🦽🌎
More at: https://stevenljohnson.org
Disclaimer: Personal account. Does not reflect my employer
Austin J. Benson @austinbenson.bsky.social Medieval Literature at Colgate University. Dad. Philologist. Language collector. Mediocre chess player.
Multilingualism in medieval Britain. Lyric studies. Scribes and manuscripts.
Charles Mathewes @ctmathewes.bsky.social I teach religion & ethics @ UVa
I'm mostly here to find books & articles I don't yet know about
Sometimes also interested in opinions, but not as often as many of you seem to believe
The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social A magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining.
thepointmag.com 
The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com A nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of experts with the public, in accessible, trustworthy articles drawing on their research.
Free to read, without paywalls or ads.
Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social Environmental Humanities, Energy, Oceans | Assoc Prof, English, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | RENDERED OBSOLETE: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling, UNC Press https://uncpress.org/book/9781469674827/rendered-obsolete
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Creighton Coleman @creightoncoleman.bsky.social Writing about Pentecostalism and politics. Working @UVA.
Dr. Anca Wilkening @historianca.bsky.social Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Queer Studies in Early America. UPenn Postdoc on Lenapehoking. Archival and Mushroom Nerd. Chronic Former Gifted Kid.
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Early American Literature @early-am-lit.bsky.social Founded in 1965, Early American Literature is the official journal of both the Society of Early Americanists and the MLA’s Forum on Early American Literature.
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
no choice but action @nochoicebutaction.bsky.social “Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.” - Shakespeare
📱Pokémon GO Level 80 | 🏃🏻♀️ runner
💗 identical twin, mom, wife
🌈 agoodgroup.org
👯 twinsrun.com
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
Appalachian Voices @appvoices.org A leading force in Appalachia’s shift from fossil fuels to clean energy, healthy communities and 21st-century local economies.
https://linktr.ee/appalachianvoices
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social I cry a lot but I am so productive! 
John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social C18 scholar. Director of Graduate Studies and Father Functions. Starting over. 
Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social andrewjacobs.org | Advising Fellow, virginia.edu | ed., Elements in Religion in Late Antiquity (bit.ly/cup-erla) | 👑🐝 = Queen Bee in NYT Spelling Bee
Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social Advisor and Lecturer @ UVA
Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine
Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️🌈 | http://chancebonar.com
Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk
Kelly Kaelin @kkaelin.bsky.social Advising Fellow and Lecturer @ UVA
Author of “Convert, Migrant, Missionary” 2025
Historian of gender, religion, and slavery in the early modern German world
Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social Abolitionist | anti-imperialist | academic
PhD in American Literature
Black Studies, Queer Studies, Carceral Studies
they/she 🏳️⚧️ | my views, not employer's |
book:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917890/abolition-time/
Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
Check out https://thecurrentowdm.substack.com
C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
C19 2026: Cincinnati, OH -- March 12-14
Theme: UNDERGROUND
c19society.org
Sarena T (田 玮 炜) @sarendipitous.bsky.social Educator, writer, and doctor (the PhD kind). Cinnamon roll with a chunk of salt in the middle.
Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social Critic in residency at the Institute of Impure Science. He/him. Failure wizard.
Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social Advising Director, Professional Problem Solver, Religious Studies Scholar, Organizational Entrepreneur. My views however misguided, are always my own. Wahoowa! 🧡💙
Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
Aminatou Sow @aminatou.bsky.social 10 mins late 💫
🌹 @currantgleam.bsky.social “Well, it is better that someone love them” —Frank O’Hara, “Ode on Necrophilia”
@katelynunterborn.bsky.social @katelynunterborn.bsky.social 
Sam Sanders @samsanders.bsky.social Lapsed journalist. L.A. based. Texan forever. Listen to The Sam Sanders Show, a radio show all about the things that entertain us. Twice a week wherever you get your pods, and on YouTube.
https://linktr.ee/samsanderspodcaster
Kelly Fleming @fleminist.bsky.social VAP, c18 literary historian, meme curator.
She/her.