Valentina Romanzi @tinanovels.bsky.social American, utopian, animal, video game & pop studies. EnvHum @UniTorino. Author of American Nightmares https://bit.ly/3euW4Ho. Editor at @Iperstoria. She/her
James @jamesdraney.bsky.social VAP in the Writing Program at Haverford College. Working on a book about the novel, interiority, and big data. https://tinyurl.com/yc6jdn9z
Oskar S. @qualitativresidual.bsky.social PhD student @ Sciences Po CEE. Institutions, infrastructures, instruments, and imaginaries of environmental politics.
CARAA Center @caraacenter.bsky.social 🔬 Centre d'Analyses et de Recherche en Art et Archéologie
La science au service de l’Art
📍 at Paris & Le Mans
Grégoire Lits @glits.bsky.social Prof. of (media) sociology at UCLouvain (Belgium) - Studying Science-Media-Society interface. #DigitalSociety #SciComm #DiversityInMedia
Working at UCLouvain Observatory for Research on Media and Journalism (ORM) https://sites.uclouvain.be/orm/
Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social I'm an education-focussed academic & Head of School, Culture & Communication, at the Uni of Melbourne. Talk to me about decolonising education, inclusive pedagogy, workload models, process mapping, and management as praxis. Views mine not my employer's.
Nathaniel Rivers @handle.invalid Professor of English Saint Louis University | Rhetoric, Media, Environment | After the Post.Human | he/him | Banner image by Will Rivers
sophist.monster
Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English (modernism/poetry) at ULethbridge, critic (often in The Nation), ghostwriter of Tár On Tár
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social Assoc. Professor, GEM, University of Waterloo. Economic and cultural geography of work through Marxist, feminist, queer, and affect theory. Mostly I'll post about books and stuff. (he/him) 🏳️🌈
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=6HzsgfsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=
Natalia Reyes @nataliareyes.bsky.social PhD candidate at Penn. Writer of fictions, studying brownness.
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Daniel Wyche @danielwyche.bsky.social Professor of religious studies, Musician, Curator, and other stuff. Mostly here to talk about records.
Academics: https://danielwyche.weebly.com/
Arts: www.wyche.org
aid*n @henribergson666.bsky.social bad modernist at the permanent carnival of fetishized interiority / 'very gentle and decent'
snackowski @snackowska.bsky.social environmental humanities, urban / spatial studies, American studies, post-1945 literature. president of an imaginary Raymond Williams Fan Club
James Green @jamesrbgreen.bsky.social Teaching & research into joyce & medievalism, based in cardiff, hello - jamesrbgreen.co.uk
Nik Gunn @nikgunn.bsky.social Medievalist and longbowman.
Views mine.
https://nikolasgunn.co.uk/
Christopher Zorn @prisonrodeo.bsky.social He/him. Nebraska-born #firstgen, Truman State alum, proud dad, GenX prof at Penn State + GSERM. Courts, stats, 🎸. #COYS since ‘95. Pros: Oxford comma, 0-dep, Miles Davis. Antis: MAGA, "causal inference," Woolwich.
Michael O'Bryan @michaelobryan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Writing and English at Washington University in St. Louis - I guess this is a chance to wipe the slate clean of my overly earnest political opinions and bad basketball takes, but who are we kidding
Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social C18th studies. Academic worker. Instructional professor of English/Humanities. SEIU Local 73 steward. He/him. Cohost, @betterreadpod.bsky.social
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-read-than-dead-literature-from-a-left-perspective/id1472577259
Centre de recherche du château de Versailles @crcversailles.bsky.social Le GIP - Centre de recherche du château de Versailles a pour objet la #recherche et la #formation sur les lieux et expressions du pouvoir au château Versailles et en Europe
Site web, portail de ressources, réseaux sociaux ▶ https://linktr.ee/crcversailles
Fabian Hofmann (he/him) @fhofmann.bsky.social Ph.D. Student, Technology and Governance (TaG) @ethz.ch
"Securing Urban Peace" Project, SNSF Doc.CH Grant: https://bit.ly/SecuringUrbanPeace
Communications Officer @jird-jour.bsky.social
Junior Organiser @ipsswitzerland.bsky.social
David O'Brien @david-obrien.bsky.social "We are a primitive people," confessed a third emigrant, "wandering widely in a strange land."
History grad student - @SalemState MA
Vincent Haddad @vincenthaddad.bsky.social Scholar of literature and popular culture.
Author of The Detroit Genre (Lever Press, 2024) and Next Time on Dragon Ball (U Minn Press, 2026)
Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies surveillance, tech, platforms. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society.
https://www.torinmonahan.com/
L.G. @loafergazer.bsky.social I never said I was a genius.
Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social I spend a lot of time talking, writing, and teaching about LGBTQ history, identities, and communities. Ask me about Dead Lesbian Syndrome.
Rebecca H. Hogue @rhhogue.bsky.social Writing about militarization, empire & environment in Oceania. She/they. Aloha ʻĀina.
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 دبس وطحينة.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Neel Gupta @neel2112.bsky.social PhD Student at UW iSchool researching cultural analytics.
https://neelgupta2112.github.io/
Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social Prof of History & Material Culture Studies. Associate Dean for Research @lcflondon.bsky.social. The Victorian Hand Project funded by AHRC. Happily married to @medhistoryman.bsky.social
Marius @mariusbax.bsky.social Norwegian film and cultural industries researcher who cares more about distribution than most people. Looking for work.
Rides bikes, plays hockey and tabletoprpgs.
Non-academic toots in Norwegian.- M @mattyjmo.bsky.social @mattyjmo.bsky.social
Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social Writes about media, sound, technology & democracy
Book:`Danger Sound Klaxon: The Horn that Changed History' https://tinyurl.com/47k7hft5
Director: newsliteracy.psu.edu
Exec Producer doc series: huminfocus.psu.edu
Clair Richards @tellyclair.bsky.social telly, film and media obsessive. writer by trade
Slow Moving Pictures @lewisbeerblog.bsky.social A film blog: I spent 2025 analysing Red Desert. www.slowmovingpictures.org
chiara carboni @chiarboni.bsky.social postdoc in AI, health and digital cultures at TU Dresden. interested in the datafication of more-than-human bodies, computational sensing and biopolitics.
she/her
steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social assistant professor of heathcliff the cat studies; writing about how books represent accumulation, growth, and their counterparts.
Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social English Prof at UNF (Jacksonville, FL). Co-author, The Teaching Archive (U Chicago Press, 2021). Working lately w Jax archivists, historians, writers, and students.
Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film & Media and German, UC Berkeley | Book: Historical Turns (UC Press, 2024) | Edited Volumes: Technics (Amsterdam UP, 2024), Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019), The Promise of Cinema (UC Press, 2016)
Karin Westman @westmank.bsky.social Professor of English, Kansas State University- N David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon. Film, popular music, literature. All opinions are my own.
Corbin Hiday @chiday.bsky.social teacher, writer, reader • Chicago
Julia Chan @juliachan.bsky.social Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Film at University of Calgary.
Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today
She/They
amygaeta.com
professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social wrote OIL BEACH (Chicago)| LOW POWER TO THE PEOPLE (MIT) | HACKING DIVERSITY (PUP)
Minnesotan glooming in SoCal gloaming | envirotech media infrastructure dross | #AAUP ✊🏻 | pers acct. she/they/guy. typos. posts ≠ endorsements | pfp/banner: oil extraction
contentlessness @contentlessness.bsky.social weird media scholar > reluctant songwriter > inevitable omahan > alt text existentialist
Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
MatthewGuariglia.com
@parapraxismag.bsky.social @parapraxismag.bsky.social
Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social asst. prof. @uwsjmc.bsky.social rossdahlke.com
Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social Sociologist of mobilities, nationalism, racism, and state power at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, sharing her own thoughts.
Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press)
Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press)
#NoBorders
nanditasharma.net
Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social Senior researcher @IFSHHamburg | Critical security and resilience, climate change and the Anthropocene, technology and surveillance. Views my own
Michelle Ho @michellehsho.bsky.social Assistant professor of feminist and queer cultural studies at National University of Singapore, PI of @casmidaproject.bsky.social @queermeninsg.bsky.social @cleansportssg.bsky.social, & Author of #EmergentGenders @dukepress.bsky.social (use code: E25MHSHO)
Charmaine Chua @charmainechua.bsky.social Prof @ Berkeley Geography writing a book on the history of the "logistics counterrevolution.” Geography, political economy, labor studies. www.charmainechua.com
Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
Shirin Sinnar @ssinnar.bsky.social Law professor researching civil rights, political violence, racial justice, and national security
Emory Center for Digital Scholarship @ecds-emory.bsky.social ECDS is a collaborative research center that creates innovative, sustainable models of digital scholarship and publication for public and academic use. Learn more about us at ecds.emory.edu
Derek Nystrom @dereknystrom.bsky.social Indolence capable of energies. I teach and write about various things, mostly stuff on screens. McGill, English. He/him.
Alex Moskowitz @amoskowitz.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College | Early + C19 American Literature | Political Economy of Slavery | Literary Form | Sensory Perception
Azadeh Akbari @azadehakbari.bsky.social Prof. Critical Data & Technology Studies @ Goethe University Frankfurt / digital authoritarianism, surveillance, smart cities/
Co-Director @Survstudiesnet.bsky.social /
Founder @surveillancemw.bsky.social
*personal account*
Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social Critic. Thoreau’s Axe (2023), Haunted Convict (2016), The Oracle & the Curse (2013), The Prison & the American Imagination (2009). Writing about Foucault & the legacies of theory for WW Norton. Tending my garden.
https://campuspress.yale.edu/calebsmith/
Claudette Lauzon @claudettelauzon.bsky.social Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History @ Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Critical visual studies / Military technocultures / Surveillance / A.I. / Art that thinks
Also an avid roller derby mom.
Michael Richardson @richardsonma.bsky.social Associate Professor. Drones, AI, war, culture, affect, witnessing. UNSW. Media Futures Hub. ADMS Centre. He/him. Nonhuman Witnessing with @dukepress.bsky.social https://t.ly/cQW5N
Laura Davulis @davulis.bsky.social Order muppet, with regret. History editor, JHU Press. Got a book idea? Get in touch: davulis@jhu.edu. (I do not speak for my employer here, etc etc.)
Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social Media studies researcher, Penn State professor, past and future television blogger.
Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social feminisms, projects, popular cultures 📚
| Literary Tour of the US, The Great Courses
| 12 Stories by American Women, Penguin Classics
| Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures, NYU
| Writing Against Reform, UMass
Prof @ UWyo 🏔️ views own
👐www.ArielleZibrak.com👐
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
Miranda Joseph @mirandadj.bsky.social 💻 UMN GWSS & American Studies
📚 Author of Against the Romance of Community and Debt to Society
🌲 Stanford MTL PhD
Wendy Sung @yupwendyaf.bsky.social Assistant professor of race, media, digital culture @UCLA
MT @madiha.bsky.social Antifascist. Asst Prof @ Yale. Personal acct. Writing book on digital war, drones, & empire w/ view from the Global South. Former journo & filmmaker. Interests: tech, militarism, anticolonial, anti-imperial praxis, transnatl solidarities.Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
Julie Turnock @julieturnock.bsky.social Professor of Media and Cinema Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana. Film Scholar, s/vfx. Author of Plastic Reality and The Empire of Effects. Inaugural Director, Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies, UIUC.
Kate Henne @k8henne.bsky.social Prof at Australian National University studying how science, tech, + inequality affect the governance of health + wellbeing. Recent book: Violent Impacts https://www.ucpress.edu/books/violent-impacts/paper
katehenne.com
Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country // President @aussts.bsky.social
Will Schultz @drwjschultz.bsky.social Day job: Assistant professor of Criminology at MacEwan University (Alberta, Canada), prison researcher with the University of Alberta Prisons Project, and proud dad.
Night job: angsty hockey fan and indifferent beer league hockey player.
Bryce Newell @bcnewell.bsky.social Petrone Fellow and Associate Professor, University of Oregon. Author of "Police Visibility": https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382909/police-visibility | Dialogue Editor, Surveillance & Society | Co-Director, Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)
Dr Abigail Boucher @drabigailboucher.bsky.social Senior lecturer in English at Aston University. Scholar of nineteenth-century literature and genre fiction. One half of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
No DMs
Kristin J. Jacobson @drkj.bsky.social (She/Her) Professor of American literature, American studies, and women’s, gender and sexuality studies. Author of *Neodomestic American Fiction* and *The American Adrenaline Narrative.* Working on a book about regional cli-fi.
Charles Tung @nativetung.bsky.social Professor of English, Seattle University. Modernism and Time Machines, EUP 2019. Media Sewershed Epidemiology. All ur views are belong to us.
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Shelby McKelvey-Petro, PhD @shelbywhippetphd.bsky.social queer disability animal historian. future Guggenheim recipient. famously has "the hips of a six year old" (i'm 77). the most popular academic whippet account you've never heard of.
Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social Historian, SUNY Brockport
Editor, The Carryall thecarryall.org
Cultural criticism, culturerover.net
The Republic of Rock (OUP, 2013), republicofrock.net
Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, bfmf.net
Union, uupinfo.org
More, michaeljkramer.net
Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick mayhem, and suggestive gender play. https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/
https://kinolorber.com/product/cinemas-fi
Colleen Derkatch @colleenderkatch.bsky.social Professor/grump. Rhetoric of health & medicine. Books: Why Wellness Sells (Johns Hopkins); Bounding Biomedicine (Chicago). Co-Editor, Johns Hopkins Health Humanities (book series)
Mark McGurl @markmcgurl.bsky.social
M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social Philosophy, Computation, Technoscience. Associate Professor at the University of Sussex (UK). Author of “Contingent Computation” (2018).
University page
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
Matt Moore @mattmo-washu.bsky.social Writer and PhD student in American Lit at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Interested in labor and affect in American realism, regionalism, and naturalism. MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University.
matthewmo.com- J @jedesty.bsky.social @jedesty.bsky.social
Alyssa MacLean @alyssamaclean.bsky.social Asst Prof in English at Western U, habitual overuser of dashes, occasional book thief.
Alison Shonkwiler @asho.bsky.social Knows too much.
Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social English professor in Miami. British-American. London > Bishop's Stortford > Brighton > Brooklyn > Miami. Subtropical gardener. Florida Mangos: A Cultural History, forthcoming from U of Florida Press. Posts are my own and do not represent my employer.
Katherine D. Johnston @katherinejohnston.bsky.social Assistant Professor English, Writing, and Rhetoric at SUNY Stony Brook. Contemporary American Literature, Surveillance Studies
https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/profiles-and-plotlines
Zane Austin Willard 🏳️🌈 (is on the job market 😄) @zaneawillard.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ USF Communication | Cultural Studies | Media | Surveillance | Pop Culture | Public Policy | Sexuality | Race & Ethnicity | Queerness
📍Chicago