Jane Traynor @jktraynor.bsky.social PhD candidate in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Research focus on kyōgen and transmission of and developments in the traditional theatre arts.
The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social https://digitalorientalist.com
Dedicated to discovering and sharing insights on digital humanities in an inclusive environment! Join us・انضم إلينا・参加しませんか・bize katıl・kasance tare damu. 🗃️ 🌐
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures @sainsbury-institute.org Promoting top research on Japanese visual culture | Affiliated with UEA | 🎖️ Japan Foundation Award 2024 | Art, history & culture
https://linktr.ee/Sainsbury_Institute
nobi_nak @nonak.bsky.social film art design interpreter cyclist gardener social justice + urban geography http://linktr.ee/nobi_nak
Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social International web-based community for medievalists working with digital media. 
Romeo Marcantuoni @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social Assistant Professor at GIS, Hosei University
Anoma van der Veere @anomav.bsky.social Correspondent NOS & NRC, senior (Japan) researcher Leiden Asia Centre. In Tokyo.
Yuewei Wang @yueweiwang.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia
I study medieval Japanese literature with a twist of environmental humanities and gender studies🦊
Elsa Chanez @sphax34.bsky.social Visiting Assistant Professor At the University of Rochester, Not really Twitting, Just trying to stay informed!/What I post here is my sole opinion.
WashU Alumni/UBC Alumni/ IUC Alumni/LPCUWC Alumni-She/Her-Hers
c a crowley @cacrowley.bsky.social Emory University ATL
Japanese Literature/俳諧
blm / compassion / poems / pictures / 仏画
Dr Thomas Baudinette @tbaudinette.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Global Cultures at Macquarie University; East-SE Asia (Kpop, BL, idols), esp. queer media; opinions my own
Yuxuan Tay 鄭宇軒 @yuxuantay.bsky.social PhD student in Buddhist Studies @ UCLA | history of state-religions r/s in medieval China (c.200-1200) | “see this island, every grain of sand” 🇸🇬
Asha Bardon MA x 2 (@ashabardon everywhere!) @ashabardon.bsky.social Anime/games/sci fi journo + manga adaptor. Queer bipolar AuDHDer. I have a BA in Religious Studies and MA's in Classics and Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies (w. Merit). Current novel projects: #foxandflower, #thedirectorareseries and #kalafia
Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social Glider in the night, dancer in the dark, lover of lost rivers and paths in the woods and libraries and half-open doors. Moonlights as a writer.
Images/poems mine unless credited. AI must be consensual.
https://ko-fi.com/helenmccarthy51
Dr. Acafanmom @acafanmom.bsky.social Asst Professor in perpetuity | researching fandom and popular culture |
RPs are sometimes bookmarks for myself | Osaka
David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Chinese, gamer, reader of books. Translator of Zhang Tianyi's The Pidgin Warrior and Mao Dun's Waverings among other things. Ex-98G.
He/him
Jake Adelstein @tokyovice.bsky.social Investigative journalist in Japan, paladin, priest, 禅僧, drinker of coffee and donut consumer. One good deed a day is my low-bar motto. 一日一善 Follow me on substack https://tokyopaladin.substack.com
Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com PhD student at Yale University. Studying Japanese video games in the EALL department. イェール大学博士課程、デジタルゲーム研究。🏳️🌈 lillianmcintyre.com
Joseph Henares @josephhenares.bsky.social ABD @Princeton. 外国人共同研究者 @UnivKyoto. Philosophy and intellectual history of modern Japan. 陳清風
Frank Mondelli @frankmondelli.bsky.social Cultural historian of technology, media, and disability in modern Japan. Assistant Professor and Chair of Japanese Studies at the University of Delaware.
雯出理フランク。日本の技術・メディア・障害史。 デラウェア大学の言語・文学・文化学部の日本語学科長。助教授 。
Dr. Emma Yasui @ponopls.bsky.social PhD, archaeology | Starch, foodways, Jomon | Pop culture & diaspora | Cultural consultant in TTRPGs | emmakeikoyasui at gmail dot com | she/her, 🇨🇦(mixed 🇯🇵)
Michael Watson @mgwatson.bsky.social Premodernist. Retired from teaching but not from research (nō drama, medieval Japanese prose writings). Living in Iwaki, Fukushima-ken, after 44 years in Yokohama and Tokyo.
Charlotte @chaciav.bsky.social working on the history of Japan and Korea, seaweeds, nomads, peasants, and merchant capitalism.
Shayne Dahl, PhD @sdahl.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Calgary. *Japan, religion, & counterculture. Forthcoming book, "The Secret World: An Ethnography of Shugendo in Northeastern Japan" w/ UNC Press slated for publication in Nov. 2025.
K4TCH @katch.bsky.social Professional Translator & Editor (mostly games)
Posting on Japan, food, and localization.
Currently, Tokyo. Still a bit of a US Midwesterner.
I mostly want to share goofy stuff & chat ^_^
Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social Japanese politics analyst; author of The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan; Chicago-born Cubs fan now living in DC; marathoner.
Substack: Observingjapan.substack.com.
Business: www.japanforesight.com
Andrea Horbinski @horbinski.bsky.social Anime + manga expert, PhD History and New Media (UC Berkeley), writer + researcher. Eisner Award winner MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY: HOW CREATORS AND FANS MADE JAPANESE COMICS, 1905-1989 available now!
日本語でOK She/her. Bay Area.
linktr.ee/ahorbinski
Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com Lesbian Icon, Yurijin, Speaker, Writer, Editor, Researcher. Always looking for opportunities.
By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga on sale now! https://yuricon.com/product/bys/
Julia C. Bullock @juliacbullock.bsky.social Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning at Emory University. Modern Japanese literature, history, gender and sexuality studies, film and media, translation. Beauvoir in Japan! Opinions mine.
Oleg Benesch @olegb.bsky.social History prof at the University of York. Most recently Research Partner for "Samurai" at the British Museum. Also working on castles, masculinity, drugs, sport, emotions, comics, medievalism, and public history. Too many hobbies.
www.olegbenesch.com
Koji Hirata @khirata.bsky.social Modern Chinese (as well as Japanese and Russian/Soviet) history. Monash University. Former Shanghai resident. 中国（及び日ソ・露）近現代史。モナシュ大学。元上海居民。
eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social @chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times.
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
周成蔭 #everynightapoem
Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social Associate Professor @tohoku_univ. 曩昔 @mpilhlt.bsky.social, @SinologieFAU, @UniHeidelberg, & @ceao_uam. 東亞政法史を硏鑽し、言語学についての豆知識を多く呟いとる。'Too much in love with my primary sources.'
Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities @yanaiinitiative.bsky.social Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities: UCLA & Waseda University reimagining the Japanese humanities for the world.
Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow @ Tampere University, currently studying the intersections of men, masculinity, and gaming.
Also into RPGs, miniatures, pirates, pro wrestling, and video games.
orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-684X
mikkomerilainen.com
Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social A collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day political, social, and cultural issues surrounding gender and medicine.
nursingclio.org
Dana Mirsalis @danamirsalis.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at Pacific University. Modern and contemporary Japanese religion (especially Shinto), history, and gender.
Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social Writing about platforms capitalisms, super apps, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Director of The Platform Lab.Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
Debra Occhi is @debraocchi.bsky.social Anthropology and linguistics of Japanese character culture, regionality, Pokémon tourism | qual research | consulting | 日本語OK
Brian Ruh @brianruh.bsky.social Independent scholar (that's what they call it when academia doesn't want you), PhD in communication and culture, occasional writer, always looking for a new project. I wrote a book on Mamoru Oshii’s films.
Benjamin Uchiyama @buchiyama.bsky.social Modern Japan historian. Ex-Aggie/RSEA alum/Jayhawk. Once and future Trojan. Recovering ramen addict. I also wrote a book! https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316899823
Patrick Terry @patrickterry.bsky.social Adjunct Assistant Professor - Portland State University School of Film, PhD - Japanese Film - ポートランド州立大学、映画学部、邦画、映画産業
Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social 
Robert Dahlberg-Sears @dahlbergsears.bsky.social PhD in Punk Stuff, Sendai dweller, ethno/musicology, folklore, and anthropology
Punk/alt. musics in Japan
he/him
Hannah Dahlberg❄️Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social Sociocultural linguist and digital/popular media studies human | 📍Tohoku University | 社会言語学・デジタル社会・メディア表象・役割語/キャラクター言語 | J-E translation 日英翻訳 | they/she | (発言は個人の見解です)
Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
Halle O'Neal @halleoneal.bsky.social Japanese art history, Co-Director of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies. Reuse/recycling, paper, palimpsests, fragments. Book: Word Embodied (Harvard 2018) Edited vol: Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose: The Afterlives of Japanese Material Culture (Ars Orientalis 2023)
Dr. Stephanie Santschi @stesantschi.bsky.social CONNECTING THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL.
Working on Hokusai publication. Postdoctoral Fellow, East Asian Art History, University of Zurich. Japanese arts, prints and digital humanities specialist.
Orion Klautau @orionklautau.bsky.social Associate Professor, Tohoku University (Japan). Buddhism & Historiography, Shotoku Taishi & Kamakura New Buddhism, the Occult & Japan.
Takashi Kawato @kawatotakashi.bsky.social Historian of Medieval Japan, Pre-modern Currency and Maritime Asia.
PhD. Prof. at Nagoya City University.
日本中世史、貨幣流通史、海域アジア史
Sara @saraelle.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Translator. PhD. Likes splatter-gore comedies, mismatched socks, colorful metaphors. Dislikes fascism and white supremacy. Strongly anti-GenAI. She/her
Britta @smilinghaniwa.bsky.social Archaeologist, Japanologist, cook, traveller, reader, gamer, hiker
PhD candidate at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.
Researching Kofun Period horse culture
https://britta-stein.net/
Yuta Hashimoto @yuta1984.bsky.social Digital Humanities scholar/developer. 歴史系プログラマ。
Brian Ruppert @brianruppert.bsky.social Professor, authority on premodern Japanese religion. Author of "Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan" (Harvard U. Asia Center) and co-author, "A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism" (Wiley-Blackwell).
Abigail MacBain @aimacbain.bsky.social Premodern Japan scholar at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in early Japanese overseas relations and Buddhism as a medium for global awareness. Not wholly sure how this side of social media works. Overshares dog pictures. 
Marjorie Burge @margiburge.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of Colorado Boulder; early Korea/early Japan.
百濟萬歳
Susan Dine @susandine.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Vanderbilt University. Art historian studying arts of Japan (medieval Buddhist works and 18th-19th century Ainu works). Museum Studies scholar.- M Marnie Anderson @msanders.bsky.social Historian of Modern Japan at Smith College
Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social Torontonian, historian of medieval Japan. Posts about cats, cooking, umami, gardening, and gin making. Sushi, too
Torquil Duthie @torquil.bsky.social Japanese literature at UCLA. Author of Man’yoshu and the Imperial Imagination, 万葉集と帝国的想像, The Kokinshu: Selected Poems. From Cádiz.
Corey Noxon @noxon.bsky.social R-GIRO Assistant Professor @ Ritsumeikan. Prehistoric archaeology, demography, mobility, & 3D applications in archaeology. Archaeology stories with a focus on Japan. He/him
ArchaeoJapan on that other app...
ama @amasugiru.bsky.social ★ art, comics, games, archaeology, heritage, & museums ★
research fellow at hokkaido university
all views are my own
Jonathan Lopez-Vera @jonathanlopezvera.com http://JonathanLopezVera.com / http://HistoriaJaponesa.com
Dr. en Història Japonesa, profe d'universitat, escric llibres, mato ninjes. Baixista punkrock jubilat. Faig crossfit regular. Variadito.
Kiyonori Nagasaki @knagasaki.bsky.social 永崎研宣/ Intl. Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan/ Professor of LIS in Keio University
Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social Santaku Dynamics tachi-class combat doll & Your Fave Historydyke (PhD UPitt '17). Public historian. She/彼女. 暴れん坊姫様. Anatolian altersex bimbo by Daoist praxis. BEY/PHL/SDJ->PGH. Byline@Unseen Japan. 八幡信者. Opinions mine.
➡️ http://riverside-wings.com
Jesse Drian @jdrian.bsky.social Japanese reference librarian. Scholar of premodern Japanese religions and literature. Dabbles in DH. This account reflects my private views and does not represent the views of my employer.
Dr. Kimberly Hassel @kimberly-hassel.bsky.social Dominican New Yorker. Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.
Anthropologist specializing in digital culture, youth culture, Japan, & Afro-Asia.
Princeton PhD | Dartmouth, MMUF, & IRT alum
Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social 🏛️ Archaeology PhD Candidate at Cambridge University
🗾 Daiwa Scholar in Japanese Studies 2022, researching translation/interpretation at Japanese WWII heritage sites
🎙️ #BeyondJapan podcast host
🌈 he/him
📚 Publications: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8397-2826
@harukisekiguchi.bsky.social @harukisekiguchi.bsky.social 
Tori @toguchi.bsky.social Previously a collections photographer at a museum. Currently an Okinawan Kenpi Student. From Hawaiʻi, living in Okinawa.
Laurent Van Cutsem 方洛杭 @vancutseml.bsky.social BOF Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent Univ. | Premodern Chan/Zen Buddhism (ca. 750-1050), Dunhuang manuscripts, DH (TEI editions and HSNA). http://laurentvancutsem.com | Tea, Nature, and Landscape Photography.
Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
K. Alexander 亞天恩 @thianun.bsky.social 台灣戰貓. Associate Professor of Chinese. Early modern popular religious literature and print history. Co-parent of CRTA.info. Book: Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (Michigan, August 2025). she/hers
Victor Seow @eastasiascitech.bsky.social Historian of technology, science, and industry @ Harvard. Author of CARBON TECHNOCRACY. Currently writing a history of industrial psychology in China. More about my work here: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow
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
縄文ドキドキ会 @jomondoki.com 縄文ドキドキ会は「縄文人のファン」アカウントです。縄文文化ってよくわかんないことばっかりだけど、それがいいよね。
Dr. Sven Kramer @kuramasuben.bsky.social Associate professor at Aichi Prefectural University. Historian. Municipal mergers in modern Japan and more.
愛知県立大学日本文化学部准教授。専門は日本近現代史です。
https://researchmap.jp/Kurama83?lang=en
Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social Interested in Linguistic Landscape, Ethnography, Foriegn Language Teacher Identity, Academic Publishing, Walking as a Methodology, and lots more!
a. pearl ✍️🏻 @apearlwrites.bsky.social Freelance Japan news & culture writer (on hiatus) • Existentialist SFF, horror, & speculative fiction déraciné quietly rotting in the PNW • she/her
Carrd: https://apearlwrites.carrd.co/
jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social Editor of academic books by trade. Hobbyist gamemaker. Lapsed Gundam scholar. Cat and Bird enjoyer. Watches Tora-san films. My views are my own and do not represent my employer or my god.
http://john.bombdotcom.net/
south salt lake, utah
すーのすけだよ @scma.bsky.social PhDing @ Zurich. History of agricultural science in modern East Asia (Japan, Taiwan); legacy of Confucian political thought. Polyglot and hapless cosmopolitan. Not a professional account. スイスでの某日本史研究者＊日常用＊高田馬場にて放牧中 Profile: https://scott-ma.com
Kelly Chan @kafkaesquekelly.bsky.social MA @ McGill East Asian Studies. BA @ UBC History. Interested in modern Japanese tourism, film and media studies, and post-WWII Japanese horror cinema.
Brandon Forys @brandonforys.com PhD, UBC Psychology (MCLab, BAR Lab). Incoming postdoc at University of Oxford (Exp. Psych). fMRI methods, choices and thoughts about cognitive effort. Opinions my own.
Andrea Mariucci @andreamariucci.bsky.social PhD Student, Asian and Media Studies!
Started out with games, now I work on media theory, computing, infrastructure, and Japan—some anthropology here and there. I would love to go more in detail, but I would end up confused about what I do
Dr. Kurtis Hanlon @kurtishanlon.bsky.social An assistant professor in premodern Japanese Language and Literature at Palacký University. Researching literature, especially waka, and its intersection with play. Former lecturer at Yale, UBC. Designated departmental baker (he/him)
History News Network @myhnn.bsky.social New perspectives on the many ways in which the past shapes the present. Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly deliveries of our original writing about history: http://hnn.us/newsletter
Powered by @bunkhistory.bsky.social at the University of Richmond.
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social Associate Prof of English and Digital Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center. Director @cunycommons @cunygcdi @cbox. Co-Editor @dhdebates. Co-PI @ManifoldScholar. http://mkgold.net
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
http://historians.org/join
ACH @ach.bsky.social Association for Computers and the Humanities, the US-based professional society for the digital humanities. #digitalhumanities
DH 2024 @dh2024.bsky.social Buongiorno, guten tag, bonjour, buenos días, hello. This is the official Twitter account for ADHO's DH 2024 conference, brought to you by
@RRCHNM.bsky.social
Conference website: https://dh2024.adho.org/
RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media leverages technology to democratize history.
https://rrchnm.org/- L lilian higashikata @lhigashikata.bsky.social Japanese Children's Literature | #digitalhumanities | Very Serious Academic Tweets™ | I turn women blue: @WikiWomenInRed | she/her
literally just made this account and don't know what's going on
文学通信 @bungakureport.bsky.social 日本語・日本文学の研究書を中心に人文学書全般を刊行する出版社、文学通信。webでも積極的に活動することで、多様な情報をつなげ、多くの「問い」を世に生み出していきます。
公式サイト
https://bungaku-report.com/
岩波書店 @iwanami.co.jp 1913年創業の総合出版社です。2023年5月開始。
Iwanami Shoten, Publishers. 
Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Arizona, director of UA Center for East Asian Studies
Author of Bandits in Print, available as a free download from Cornell University Press
Personal account; views are my own