Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social โฝ๏ธ๐ฐ๐ Co-author Football's Secret Trade| NYT Global Sports Correspondent| โ๏ธtariq.panja@nytimes.com |tariq.panja@protonmail.com|
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
University of Hertfordshire UCU @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social UCU branch of the University of Hertfordshire
https://www.ucuherts.org.uk/
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Department of Film Studies @ King's @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social ๐ฌ We offer unparalleled critical, historical and theoretical tools to understand and appreciate the creative potential of cinematic and electronic images and their social, cultural, political, and economic importance in our world: kcl.ac.uk/film-studies
jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social Professor, cinephile, treehugger ๐ฑ๐ชต๐ชฒ๐ฆฌ
Matthew Bruce @mattbruce007.bsky.social PhD in French (Film) Studies student @LCAHM_UoB looking at comedy cinema. PGTA @unibirmingham. SEA @pg_cal. PGR Rep for @baftss. Views are my own.
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 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐(https://tinyurl.com/2bbw5ywd)
Jordan S. Carroll ๐น @jordanscarroll.bsky.social Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
Opinions my own, find me at https://jordansmithcarroll.com/
Kristen Fuhs @kristenfuhs.bsky.social Professor and Chair of the Media Arts department @ Woodbury University. Co-editor of Docalogue
Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor and University Fellow at the University of Salford
// media, forensics, human rights, law + doc/spatial/political theory // orcid.org/0000-0002-0391-7549
Taj Ali @tajali1.bsky.social Journalist and Historian | Royal Society of Literature award-winning writer and Orwell Prize finalist 2026
Christine Grandy @christinegrandy.bsky.social Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of online experiences; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators
Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social Professor of Cinema History at University of Roehampton, London. Author of Jean-Luc Godardโs Unmade and Abandoned Projects (2025) and Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian (2013). https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/michael-witt
Dr Ellen Wright ๐ฌ @drellenwright.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Cinema & TV History. I specialise in material culture of film, classical era Hollywood & representations of gender, class & sexuality.
I love old Hollywood movies, cabaret, drag, cocktails & having adventures.
Available for media work.
Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social Professor Film and Lit, Author of Chicago and the Making of American Modernism (Bloomsbury Academic, Historicizing Modernism Series), coeditor Refocus: The Films of John Waters and Refocus: The Films of Paul Schrader (EUP).
meson press @mesonpress.bsky.social meson press publishes research on digital cultures and networked media. Our publications challenge contemporary theories and advance key debates in the humanities of today.
Dedicated to #openaccess since 2015.
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORYโS SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Lilly Markaki @dustbreeding.bsky.social Proceeding in brokenness.
Free ููุณุทูู.
sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social critic and cultural historian of genre fantasies / senior acquiring editor @leverpress.bsky.social / associate editor of sf @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social / read more: seanguynes.com
Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social Lever Press is a collaborative #openaccess scholarly publisher driven by the values, ambitions, and imagination of the top liberal arts colleges.
leverpress.org
Dr Ellie Tomsett @ellietomsett.bsky.social Comedy academic. Author of Stand Up
Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms (2023), co-founder of Mixed Bill research network. Book reviews editor for Comedy Studies. Views/cats my own. She/her
Poppy Wilde @poppywilde.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication at Birmingham City University. Author of Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities. Researcher in #posthumanism #posthuman #subjectivity #digital #cultures #media #games #gamestudies #zombies.
Cristina Formenti @drcriformenti.bsky.social Lecturer & Researcher in Film Studies @University of Groningen. President of the Society for Animation Studies. Author of The Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution (Bloomsbury 2022) and Il mockumentary (Mimesis 2013)
Jairo I. Fรบnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social https://www.insurgentthoughts.com
Dr Eve Benhamou @evebenhamou.bsky.social She/her. Senior Lecturer / Maitresse de confรฉrences, Universitรฉ Bordeaux Montaigne. Teaches & researches contemporary American cinema & anglophone animation. University of Bristol alumni
Book on Disney animation published by EUP (2022)
Phoebe Anson โข ๐ฌ๐โ๏ธ @phoebejanson.bsky.social PGR, University of Sheffield: surrealism, world cinema, horror, doc ๐ฌ // poet & editor of literary magazine, Twisted Ink โ๏ธ // art & lit enthusiast ๐
If found without a tea in her hand, please support her by sticking the kettle on โ
Pratibha Parmar @pratibha.bsky.social Writer. Director Film & TV (feature docs: My Name Is Andrea, Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth - T.V.- Queen Sugar, Law&Order: SVU
pratibhaparmar.com
Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social Queer vegan of colour academic. Committed to decolonial inquiry. Postcolonial, Queer Studies. Universitรฉ Paris Citรฉ. He, they.
https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/bakshi-sandeep-fr/
http://decolonizingsexualities.org
https://instagram.com/sandeep.bak/
Dr Luke Buckmaster @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social Guardian Australia's film critic, chief critic of Flicks.com.au and "The VR Critic" (thevrcritic.com). PHD in virtual reality. Creator of Nicolas Cage fan site The Cage Gauge: https://www.flicks.com.au/cagegauge/
Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social Lawyer. Writer. Artist. PhD: Creative & Critical Writing: The Hybrid Aesthetic as Decolonial Practice
Winner of Queen Mary Wasafiri Prize 2023. Co Ediitor: Gathering (2024). Nasiasarwarskuse.com
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social Your Party MP for Coventry South ๐น
coventrysouth@parliament.uk
Promoted by Zarah Sultana at CWU South Midlands, Coventry, CV1 3EG- M @mstauff.bsky.social @mstauff.bsky.social Media scholar University of Amsterdam. Interests: media and governmentality, visual culture of media sports, theories of media change, infrastructures (e.g. of cycling). Editorial board @krisisjournal.bsky.social
Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social asst. professor of film, media, & culture at University of Amsterdam | author of ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐น๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ (Duke U.P.) | bisexual saboteur | he/his
https://linktr.ee/jacob.engelberg
Petr Szczepanik @petrszczepanik.bsky.social Media industries in East Central Europe | streaming platforms | production studies | Assoc. Prof. at Charles University, Prague
Gary Needham (they/them) @garyneedham.bsky.social website: www.gary-needham.com Film and Screen Media, University of Liverpool & currently writing 'Sex, Guys, and Videotape: American Independent Cinema and the AIDS Crisis' and co-authoring the Queer Film Classic on 'Buddies' (1985)
LB @lukasbrasiskis.bsky.social โ๏ธ ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ง๐ช๐ญ๐ฎ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ @e_flux โ๏ธ ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฆ-๐ง๐ญ๐ถ๐น ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด โ๏ธ ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ ๐ โ๏ธ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ซ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ค๐ต ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ง๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ต ๐๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ช๐ข ๐ โ๏ธ
hieyoon kim @0absentia.bsky.social write and teach about cinema, media, and politics; author of Celluloid Democracy (UC Press, 2023); prof at Brown
Melanie Bell ๐ @feministbell.bsky.social Feminist Historian of British film ๐ฅ working with oral history, print ephemera, moving image
wanda strauven @wandastrauven.bsky.social
Paula Albuquerque @paalbuquerque.bsky.social Artist and researcher working on film archives, decoloniality and surveillance.
J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer
๐ Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
๐Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
iniva @iniva-arts.bsky.social Institute of International Visual Arts is an evolving visual arts organisation. Est. 1994.
Stuart Hall Library
16 John Islip St, London
Open Tuesdays to Fridays, 10am to 5pm.
www.iniva.org
https://linktr.ee/iniva_arts
Max Rushden @maxrushden.bsky.social
Troy Townsend MBE @towno10.bsky.social Riding solo!!
Educator - Moderator - Keynote Speaker and so much more!
Nicky Bandini @nickybandini.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster and presenter. The Guardian, ESPN, BBC & more.
Jonathan Wilson @jonawils.bsky.social Author of Inverting the Pyramid, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Names Heard Long Ago and Two Brothers. Editor of the Blizzard. Journalist for the Guardian. Co-host of It Was What It Was: the Football History Podcast.
www.jonawils.com
Daniel Storey @danielstorey85.bsky.social Chief Football Writer, The i Paper
Read all my work: https://inews.co.uk/author/daniel-storey
Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social 100% pure nuance.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathan-liew
Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
Extreme Right Research Network @errnetwork.bsky.social The Extreme Right Research Network is dedicated to understanding the extreme right of today by understanding its past, and using that to inform future intervention and engagement. Part of the Centre for Historical Studies at the University of Northampton.
Pablo Gรณmez @pablogomezm.bsky.social Film Studies & Science Fiction. Lecturer in English, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). Member of the @spacescinema.bsky.social research project
Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social Filmmaker: Hyperobject Industries/Yellow Dot Studios
Climate & societal collapse with some sports and movie talk. And yes, the mixture is disorienting.
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
https://linktr.ee/wasafiri
CSTonline @cstonline.bsky.social We are a website devoted to TV studies in Europe, North America, and beyond. Feedback and submissions welcome. Come find us at https://cstonline.net/
Ilona Jurkonytฤ @ilonajurkonyte.bsky.social Film Curator, Film and Environmental Media Researcher Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow | Cinema Studies Institute | University of Toronto
Nuclear coloniality, cinema's military industrial complex, space botany
Daniel Garrett @mistergarrett.bsky.social WRITER.
https://offscreen.com/contributors/view/daniel-garrett ...
https://compulsivereader.com/category/music-reviews/ ...
http://cinetext.phl.univie.ac.at/magazine/garrett/shakespeare-behind-bars/shakespeare-behind-bars.html
LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies @lgbtqscreenstudies.bsky.social The @baftss.bsky.social special interest group for LGBTQIA+ Screen Studies. Message us or email lgbtqscreenstudies@gmail.com
Campbell X - Stud Life, (Untitled)2025, SMOKE @campbellx.bsky.social Award-winning filmmaker, writer, theatre director
Low Rider - road trip feature film set in South Africa w/ Black dual heritage ancestral healing, screening in film UK festivals now.
(Untitled)2025 also screens in global festivals
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Albert Sharra @albertsharra.bsky.social Digital Culture, Media, Politics and Society researcher at University of Witwatersrand and University of Edinburgh.
Laura Staab @laurastaab.bsky.social writer and editor // writing @ Another Gaze, FIDback, MUBI/Notebook, RE:VOIR, Sight & Sound, etc. // laurastaab.xyz
Tim Coleman @fatscoleman.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Social Work, University of Warwick ๐
Host of @top100pod.bsky.social ๐๏ธ
Bylines in Second Sight Films, Fangoria, the BFI, Total Film (RIP) & others ๐ฌ
Screenwriter ๐๏ธ
Views own ๐ง
@iainrobertsmith.bsky.social @iainrobertsmith.bsky.social
Richard Dhillon @drricharddhillon.bsky.social Sessional Tutor, Film and Television Studies, Warwick. British/queer television and film histories. ๐บ he/him
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/film/staff/dhillon/
BAFTSS Conference 2025 @baftss2025.bsky.social Official account for the BAFTSS conference 2025, held at the University of Warwick on 26-28 March 2025. #BAFTSS2025
Melis Behlil @melisbehlil.bsky.social Film scholar / critic based in Istanbul. Aรงฤฑk Radyo, Kadir Has University, NECS, etc.
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com your horror nonna
dr / filmmaker / film critic / author of 10 books on cult, horror + exploitation cinema
in Venice award-winning doc CHAIN REACTIONS + Shudder's 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR based on my book
Naarm/Australia
she/her
https://horrornonna.com
Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social Professor.
Author of Talking Back to the West.
ICA & NCA Best Book Award recipient.
dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social Children's horror doctor, rabbit film studies connoisseur and intermittent gremlin.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/catherine-lester/
Golden M. Owens @goldenowens.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema & Media Studies at UW Seattle. Writing on Black women, housework, and AI, and trying to stay sane while doing it.
https://cinema.washington.edu/people/golden-m-owens
https://www.goldenmowens.com
Cslmn @rapsacnomlas.bsky.social Writer, beauty queen, haver of takes. "A tiny man" - John Cleese
Diversifying and Decolonising the University @ddtupodcast.bsky.social Podcast produced by staff and students at the University of Hertfordshire. Find us on Podverse, Apple, Spotify, Pocket Casts... Subscribe, like, and get in touch: ddtu@herts.ac.uk
BAFTSS @baftss.bsky.social British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies #BAFTSS2026
Jinhee Choi @jinheechoi-kcl.bsky.social professor of film studies at KCL; a philosopher and home cook at philosopher_s_kitchen
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/jinhee-choi
Feminist Media Studies @femmediastudies.bsky.social Feminist Media Studies is a transdisciplinary, transnational journal publishing peer-reviewed scholarship + commentary & book reviews. Posts by @krystenstein.bsky.social
Florian Stadtler ๐ฆ @flostadt.bsky.social Associate Prof at Bristol Uni, researching British South Asian history, film, literature and Indian popular cinema; world lit and postcolonial studies | trustee Wasafiri magazine | love all things theatre ๐ญ |black cat magnet ๐โโฌ
Yuriko Furuhata @underground259.bsky.social Environmental media studies, cinema, architecture, art, weather control. Recent book: Climatic Media. Views personal
Eszter M Polonyi @empolonyi.bsky.social historian of art, film, and media
Tim Lindemann @timlinfilm.bsky.social
Lecturer in Film Studies @ University of Portsmouth / Freier Autor fรผr Der Freitag, epd Film etc. Aus Dortmund. My monograph "New Rural Cinema - Landscape, Community and Poverty in Recent US Indie Films" is available now @ DeGruyter
https://boxd.it/1oWaL
Selmin Kara @selminimal.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Documentary Media @ UCSC. Interested in eco-cinema, environmental humanities, migration, and sound. Lover of birds, pollinator gardens, and rewilding.- K Nikolaus Perneczky @kinolaus.bsky.social Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. Currently working on postdoc project "Restitution and the Moving Image" (Leverhulme EC Fellowship) & monograph "Against Development: African Cinema as Worldmaking" (Oxford UP).
Jakob A. Nilsson @janilsson.bsky.social Associate professor of Film & Media Studies @ รrebro University. Author of "Cinecepts, Deleuze, and Godard-Miรฉville. Developing Philosophy through Audiovisual Media": https://tinyurl.com/35hfke4x
Other writings: https://tinyurl.com/22h8pk2n
Views mine.
Ashley R. Smith-Campbell @ashleyrsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College | PhD in Screen Cultures from Northwestern | Writing on horror, culture, race, and gender | True crime & media trash lover | Opinions are mine | Formerly @thehorrorfemme on Twitter
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obamaโs summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE ๐๐, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth ๐, horse girl ๐ด, roopikarisam.com
kate j russell @serialmummy.bsky.social PhD in Cinema Studies, cult cinema, gross out comedy, horror
Nick Hall @nickhall.bsky.social I am not Mog. I am a historian of film, TV, media at Royal Holloway Uni of London, UK
Books: The Zoom (2018), Hands on Media History (2019). New stuff coming on indie TV production and (separately) TV transmitters.
http://tinyurl.com/nickhallrhul
Iqra Shagufta Cheema @cheema.bsky.social ๐: The Other MeToos + ReFocus: Films of Annemarie Jacir
Ji-Hyun Ahn @jihyunahn.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Global Media Studies @ U. of Washington Tacoma | Author of Mixed-Race Politics and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korean Media (2018) | Currently writing a book about anti-Korean sentiment in postcolonial East Asia | she/her
Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social Official account of the research project 'Performing Space / Spatializating Performance: Space and Performance in 21st Century Cinema' at the University of Zaragoza
https://transnationalspacesinthecinema.wordpress.com/
https://shorturl.at/ws9S8
david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social indiewire film critic.
Maryse Elliott @maryzen.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor @amsterdamupress.bsky.social, passionate about publishing cutting-edge research in #filmstudies, #mediastudies and #communicationstudies. Happy to connect and discuss your new academic book project!
Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social Jordan T. Camp is Assoc. Prof. of American Studies at Trinity College, author of Incarcerating the Crisis, co-editor of Policing the Planet, and co-host of the Conjuncture podcast and web series: trinitysocialjustice.com/conjuncture-podcast/. Posts my own.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land