Nassim Parvin @nassimparvin.bsky.social Prof. & Associate Dean of IDEAS at the iSchool, University of Washington | Design Justice, Feminist Philosophy, & Feminist STS | Recent book w/ Neda Atanasoski: “Technocreep & the Politics of Things Not Seen.” Ideas my own!
Jodi A Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social Chickasaw, Professor of Race, Diaspora, Indigeneity at U Chicago, author of Transit of Empire (Minnesota, 2011) and Indigenomicon (Duke, 2025)
Authors Alliance @authorsalliance.bsky.social Promoting authorship for the public good by supporting authors who write to be read. authorsalliance.org and authorsalliance.substack.com for updates.
Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Film, University of Amsterdam. Author of ANIMATED FILM & DISABILITY: CRIPPING SPECTATORSHIP (2023). Coeditor of TSQ Issue TOWARD A TRANS[]CRIP THEORY (2025). Newbie crocheter. Dog dad to 17yo Sasha.
Vernadette Gonzalez @vernadette.bsky.social Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley | Struggling gardener | Author of Securing Paradise & Empire’s Mistress | Co-editor of Detours: a Decolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi & Bangtan Remixed | posts represent my views only
michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social Prof of Geography (he/they) | Co-Direct Beyond Inhabitation Lab www.beyondinhabitation.org | For a Liberatory Politics of Home @DukePress | Editorial board @IJURResearch & EPD | Direct MSc Geography at UNITO | Doc http://ainceputploaia.com
Campaign for Southern Equality @southernequality.bsky.social The Campaign for Southern Equality works across the South for legal and lived LGBTQ equality. Join us: https://southernequality.org/pledge/ #lgbtqsouth
Lara Montesinos Coleman @laramonteco.bsky.social Professor of International Law, Ethics and Political Economy | Author Struggles for the Human (Duke 2024), lyrics and other writings | Moonlighting singer |
Evren Savcı @evrensavci.bsky.social Faculty at Yale WGSS. Writer. Thinker. Queer.
Patrice R. Green @readingrenae.bsky.social Curator. Librarian. Public historian.
Minding y’all’s business via archival collections.
David Jordan @nadrojdivad.bsky.social
C. Libby @libbylibby.bsky.social WGSS Penn State
Kate Mullen @cammamls.bsky.social Assistant Editor, Duke University Press | Ethnomusicology PhD | Popular music and community archives | Information studies | Eyes emoji enthusiast 👀 | she/her
Rebecca Wanzo @rawreader.bsky.social Professor at Washington University. Author of The Suffering Will Not Be Televised and The Content of Our Caricature. Black studies, Feminist Theory, Media Studies, Comics.
Susan Stryker @susanstryker.bsky.social Biological Boomer, GenX-identified, but sometimes I get passed as even younger because of my sassy attitude and tastes in music and film||I do trans stuff||susanstryker.net
Greg Seigworth @gregseigworth.bsky.social capacious | affect theory | imbricate!
Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social professor; writer; black feminist; mother; cookie monster; WBB fan; editorial director of @feministstudies.bsky.social
Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone
Samantha Pinto @samanthapinto.bsky.social Author. Books: Inside the Body of Black Feminism, Infamous Bodies, Difficult Diasporas. Editor of Black Feminism on the Edge series with Duke UP. I only rep myself.
Rebecca Oh @rebeccaoh.bsky.social Asst prof at U Illinois working on contemporary global South literature, environmental humanities, imagined states, lit and politics, utopia, apocalypse, genre, infrastructure
Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social Afro Latina. Professor at Princeton.
Author of Community as Rebellion.
Radically imagining a world where Haiti and Palestine are free, Black lives are centered, women and queer folx are safe and schools teach for freedom.
www.lorgiagarciapena.com
Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social Full-time Mum • Writer • Associate Professor @ CUNY (Grad Ctr + Hunter) • PhDJ • out now ⬇️ my book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday). Manhattanite. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/
www.taoleighgoffe.com
Thom van Dooren @thomvandooren.bsky.social Field philosopher and writer. Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Sydney. Author of "Flight Ways," "The Wake of Crows," and "A World in a Shell."
www.thomvandooren.org
Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social Book worker, University of Oklahoma Press. Personal account. andrewb@ou.edu
Alyosha Goldstein @alyoshagoldstein.bsky.social Author of This Colonial Present (forthcoming) & Poverty in Common; ed. of Formations of US Colonialism; co-ed. of For Antifascist Futures & Cambridge History of Colonialism and Decolonization, vol IV (in progress)
michelle n huang 🌱 @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social smöl professor of english and asian american studies @ northwestern, beach goth, lymphoma survivor-ing
Alan Thomas @agthomas.bsky.social Editorial Director, University of Chicago Press. On book publishing, literature, and photography. https://linktr.ee/alnthomas
Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social A global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. Read UP! https://aupresses.org/ Got a question about university press publishing? Ask UP! https://ask.up.hcommons.org/- A @anitra.bsky.social @anitra.bsky.social
Chad Shomura @hellochadcat.bsky.social Robot cephalopod failing to be human • Political theorist • Ethnic studies prof
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Cecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social publisher of books * mother of daughters * friend of the worker
publisher at cambridge university press focusing on US and Latin American history
hudson valley / nyc
Jecca Namakkal @jecca.bsky.social Editor at the Abusable Past, Radical History Review collective, professionally a historian, teaching at Duke. Film school dropout. Wrote *Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India* (Columbia UP, 2021) she/her
Anne Garland Mahler @annegarlandmahler.bsky.social “Anne Garland.” She/her. Author. Books with @Duke and @Routledge.
Wendy Queen @wendyqueen.bsky.social Chief Transformation Officer, Hopkins Press / Project MUSE
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Joanne Barker @joannebarker62.bsky.social Lenape (Delaware Tribe of Indians). Writer, artist, cat staffer, grumpy prof, anti-imperialist, sci-fi nerd. Rebellions are built on hope. Everything else requires tequila and chocolate. Art page: https://artofjoannebarker.squarespace.com
Rebecca M. Schreiber @rschreib.bsky.social Professor, American Studies Department, UNM. My research focuses on migration between Central America, Mexico and the U.S. through the lens of visual culture. https://www.rebeccamschreiber.com/
Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social Author of ‘Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom’ and ‘Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life’
Co-editor with Dr. J. Kameron Carter, Duke UP book series, ‘Black Outdoors: Innovations in Poetics of Study’
Views my own
Sara Smith @geogsara.bsky.social Love. Intimacy. Geopolitics. Political geographer at UNC-CH. Author of Intimate Geopolitics & Political Geography: a Critical Introduction. Insta @geogsara and @landbackabolition. Free 🇵🇸
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La Marr Jurelle Bruce @afromantic.bsky.social troublemaker, lovemaker, philosopher, fever dreamer, afromancer, black studies prof @uofmaryland, fellow @stanford. i'll teach you how to go mad without losing your mind. ✊🏾🌈
https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind
Lalaie @drlalaie.bsky.social Professor, Mom, Anti-hero
Maan Barua @maanbarua.bsky.social Politics, economies and governance of the living and material world | ERC #UrbanEcologies | Lecturer, University of Cambridge | #LivelyCities (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), #PlantationWorlds (Duke University Press, 2024) | Views own
Elizabeth Ault @lizault.bsky.social
Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social assistant prof of geography & Native studies. author of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic https://www.dukeupress.edu/ice-geographies
Hiʻi Hobart @hiokinai.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Native and Indigenous Studies, Yale University.
Derek McCormack @atmosphericthings.bsky.social Irish. Professor of Cultural Geography. University of Oxford. Mansfield College. Immigrant. Own(ish) views and images. He/him.
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.
Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social CathyDavidson.com. Active Learning ("New Education") advocate. CoDirector HASTAC.org. #IntelligentArtifice blog. Fall 2026, w Jody Greene, "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times." Lover of oceans. #SeaScrolling #Breathe
summer kim lee @summerkimlee.bsky.social
Jennifer Denbow @jennydenbow.bsky.social scholar and professor, cal poly, slo.
author, reproductive labor and innovation: against the tech fix in an era of hype (Duke UP 2024)
https://www.dukeupress.edu/reproductive-labor-and-innovation
Leigh Claire La Berge @lclaberge.bsky.social Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social Woods Weirdo // Professor at Farmer’s High// Author of Climbing, Side Affects, Trans Care, and Queer Embodiment
he/they if you insist
Shanon Fitzpatrick @styleandspine.bsky.social Developmental editor and intellectual consultant for scholars. Historian. True Story: How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media (Harvard, 2022); Body and Nation: The Global Realms of US Body Politics (Duke, 2014)
Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers.
Meredith Keffer @mkeffer.bsky.social Senior Editor, Anthropology & Sociology - Palgrave Macmillan (formerly OUP, DGB). Emotional support human for Murphy and Millie.
Jean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social assoc. prof of english at york | coauthor of negative life: the cinema of extinction (northwestern) | author of breathing aesthetics (duke) | https://jeanthomastremblay.carrd.co/
Maia Gil’Adí @maiagiladi.bsky.social Author of Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence (Duke University Press, 2025) | Assistant Prof. of Latinx studies, Johns Hopkins University | views my own | she/her/ella 🧟
Theoryish Podcast @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social Join Hannah Ayres and Paola Medina-Gonzalez as they try to understand theory.
For any business enquiries email us at, theoryishpodcast@gmail.com.
We are a Shakira Stan Account
Jason Weidemann @fiveoclockbot.bsky.social Writer, dog dad, Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press
Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social Editor in Chief at Cornell University Press acquiring in ancient, medieval, military, *and* European history. In a past life, completed a biology Ph.D. In this life, likes books, Criterion, rye, history, science, all the things in between, *and* donuts.
Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social Director of Publicity and Communications at UNC Press 📚📣
Currently reading: Fed Up: A History of Why You're So Stressed About What to Feed the Kids by Carla Cevasco (Spring 27, a W. Hodding Carter III book) and Maria, Maria by Jennifer Galvão (2/27, RHPG)
Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
Mahinder Kingra @mahinder.bsky.social I recently retired as Cornell University Press's Editorial Director. I remain a National Park obsessive (238 and counting), a cineaste, and aficionado of crime fiction.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe writer, musician, intellectual
www.leannesimpson.ca
Cameron M. Ludwick @cameronludwick.bsky.social Professional enthusiast. Associate Director for Books Marketing and Sales @DukePress and Publicity, Communications, Marketing for authors. Coauthor, @MyOldKyRoadtrip
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut
opinions mine. he/him
Anna Krzywoszynska @annakspeaking.bsky.social How we know (agri)natures & why it matters. More-than-humans (soil, microbes, funghi), agriculture (regenerative), food (local). Environmental social scientist, Associate Prof of Trandiscipl Human-Environment Relations at Univ of Oulu, Finland.
paikkaotus
Elspeth Iralu @elspethiralu.bsky.social Angami Naga. Assistant Professor of Indigenous Planning. @ACMEjournal editor. I write about Indigenous geographies, visual culture, and the aerial perspective.
🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓 @meredithalberta.bsky.social skarù•ręʔ by mother line at 6N | Asst Prof at UBuffalo in Geog and Indigenous Studies | (Indigenous) Geog PhD at Berkeley | MPH | writer | tall | lifter | she
Brian Halley @brianbhalley.bsky.social Executive Editor at University of Massachusetts Press, based at UMass Boston. Views here don’t reflect them. Feminist, progressive, 🏳️🌈, into books, dogs, ocean, print culture, lit studies, environmental studies/climate justice, and more.
Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social Author: Pollution is Colonialism (2020), Discard Studies (2021)
CLEAR lab at @clear-lab.bsky.social
Rachael Levay @rlevay.bsky.social Senior editor of sociology and anthropology at Princeton University Press. Cofounder Paths in Publishing. Running, books, kids, somewhere out west.
Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
Eric I Schwartz @eischwartz.bsky.social Director of NYU Press = From Downtown to the World
https://nyupress.org/
MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social Scholarly books from University Presses. News and info from across academia. Part of the Mare Nostrum Group. Based in Harrogate, UK.
Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social Executive editor @uncpress.bsky.social. I acquire books in: Lit studies, social sciences, trade, CNF, App Studies, music. Writer. Recovering Appalachian. He/Him.
Sara Jo Cohen @thunderrhoda.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Acquiring Editor for music, theater, performance studies, and dance at University of Michigan Press (@uofmpress.bsky.social). Mother, baker, cat person, slow lap swimmer.
Dana Luciano @danaluci.bsky.social Academic, queer crank, radical depressive. Partly enigmatic, partly fossil.
How The Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century America: https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-the-earth-feels
Marisol LeBrón @marisollebron.bsky.social Queer Latina | Professor | Policing Life & Death | Aftershocks of Disaster | Against Muerto Rico | PRsyllabus
David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social Professor, UCLA. Editor-in-Chief, American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Curator, settler on Tongva land, Digital Publisher, Science of the Paranormal, colonialisms, including extra-terrestrialilty. Www.davidshorter.com
Allison Van Deventer @allisonvandev.bsky.social Developmental editor for academic authors. Author: The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook (UChicago Press). Workshop facilitator. She/her. Comp lit PhD. https://www.allisonvandeventer.com/
Alison Syring @alisonsyring.bsky.social Acquisitions editor
Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚
Tips at newsletter.manuscriptworks.com & in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK and MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK (Princeton UP)
Courses + free resources at manuscriptworks.com
Knitter, 2X Jeopardy! champ 🤓
Micha Rahder @micharahder.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Writing coach | Indexer. Recovering academic, seeking new words and new worlds. Settler in Toronto. She/her.
www.micharahder.com for my writing and www.mlrediting.com for my work on other people's writing.
Jonathan Sterne @jonathansterne.bsky.social sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats --
Montreal
https://sterneworks.org
Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor WGSS Emory University | "A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: Foundations for Affect Theory" (with Adam Frank) UMinnesota Press | Co-editor differencesjournal.org
Current research: Valerie Solanas 🖤 bit.ly/valeriesolanas
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
Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social Editing and indexing agency helping interdisciplinary scholars write and publish awesome texts, enliven public conversations, and create more just worlds.
ideasonfire.net
Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social Editorial Director at @uncpress.bsky.social • acquiring books in history, Black studies, girlhood studies, carceral studies • H-Net's #FeedingTheElephant
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social I promote books at Duke University Press. Reader, cat lover, messy cook and lazy gardener. Will plunge into any nearby body of water.
Jennifer Doyle @fromaleftwing.bsky.social Sports crank, art writer, teacher. Author of Campus Sex/Campus Security, Sex Objects, Hold It Against Me. ACFC fan.
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
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social Professor: Political Theory & American Culture
Author: UGLY FREEDOMS (Duke) & Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Promise of Freedom (Duke)
Next Books: “Every Man a Sovereign” and “Going Low”
Libby to my pals
Web: https://tinyurl.com/Elisabeth-Anker
Ken Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.