The International Journal of Disney Studies @ijdisneystudies.bsky.social A peer-reviewed journal drawing from a variety of academic and industrial methods to examine the Walt Disney Company (not affiliated with the Disney company).
intellectbooks.com/ijds
dr victoria ✨ @cvetman.bsky.social fka colleen • not that kinda doctor • pop culture enthusiast • sometimes scholar • dog mom/demon supervisor • perpetually tired • disabled • queer • 33 • she/her • "glorious bitch" according to my therapist
Rebecca Rowe @drbecca.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Texas A&M Commerce. Children's lit and media scholar. Lover of Disney, animation, adaptation, musicals, and fairy tales.
Dr Robyn Muir @drrobynmuir.bsky.social Lecturer in Media & Communication at University of Surrey researching Disney Princess Phenomenon and Influencer Culture 👑 Founder @DisNet 🏰 Founder
@IJDisneyStudies Views own 🌻
Dr. Rebecca Gibson @drrgibsongirl.bsky.social Corset scholar; bioanth PhD; chaotic neutral--harlequin aspect; bibliophile; tattooed; advocate 4 the dead; cyborg/transhuman/robot lover; bad example 4 hire.
amazon.com/author/rebeccagibsonbioanthro
Rebecca Frost @rebeccafrostwrites.com Knitter, writer, teacher, PhD. Ask me about serial killers, true crime, and Stephen King. https://rebeccafrostwrites.com/links/
Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demons • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social Public historian, editor, & literary critic. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Popular Film & Television. Associate Editor, The Complete Letters of Henry James @ctrhjstudies.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social.
Nicolle Lamerichs @nicolleness.bsky.social 🔸️Media studies scholar
🔸️Fan studies, cosplay, games & tech
🔸️Passionate senior lecturer at HU Utrecht
🔸️Gamer, fan artist & Trekker 🖖
https://linktr.ee/nicollelamerichs
Meredith Guthrie @meredithea.bsky.social Transplanted Texan. Media scholar at Pitt. Co-chair of Disability Studies and Disney Studies at MAPACA. Loves baseball, movies with explosions, and being contrary. She/her.
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
Dr. Lisa Duffy @lisawithans.bsky.social Not Liza with a Z | Doctor of Hollywood Musicals
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
charlotte durham @charlottedurham.bsky.social phd-ing @ university of leeds, uk | disnet exec member | bodies, space, disney + the everyday hypermediated environment ✨ | she/her
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/pgr/5805/charlotte-durham
Jennifer Begakis @jenbegakis.bsky.social Begakis is fun to say. PhD Historian of Capitalism & Disney
Laura Penning @laurapenning.bsky.social #FirstGenAcademic│Queer Kinship in SFF │Probably in the middle of rewatching You've got mail for the 300th time │she/her 🌈🌹
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Sarah Wagner @sarahwagner13.bsky.social transatlantic european | us politics & pop culture | deputy director + podcast 'Amerikas Verfassung' at @atlantakademie.bsky.social |
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social Associate Professor iSchool University of Illinois; Asian American Youth Lit; Asian American Studies; Critical Adoption Studies; RDYL co-editor #VeryKorean #VeryAsian sarahpark.com
Cover art: Nancy So Miller
Agent: Tricia Toney Lawrence (Aevitas CM)
Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social Early&19th-Century U.S. Literary Historian at the U of Incarnate Word. Girlhood Studies. Children’s Lit. Transatlanticism. Women’s Writing&Religion. 💜Catholicism&Caffeine.
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Archive Stan. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
David Justice @davidjustice.bsky.social Historian & educator of US pop culture and diplomacy. First-gen. Husband & dog dad. Music & film aficionado. Not the baseball player.
Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social Coffee enthusiast. Gothic & eco-horror, Biocultural archaeology (mummies), Nuclear & Cold War culture. Audio stuff. Probably knitting.
Header: a S central FL swamp. trees, reflections in water, mist
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
Alex Pointon @alexpointypen.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 PhD Student in Media and Communications at the University of Wolverhampton - Writing about American Children's Animation, Disney and everything Gaming - all views fully my own!
Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social lambda poetry fellow 👸 disney and nintendo studies 🏰 perpetually sleepy 💤 she/her 🏳️⚧️
jennessahester.com
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social Film and TV critic. Co-host of the Overinvested movie podcast, co-editor of the Rec Center newsletter.
Bylines: TV Guide, Inverse, Vulture, Boston Globe, Atlas Obscura, Empire, etc. she/her
Jennifer Hessler @jenmhessler.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California
Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society
Views my own
Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL + PARASOCIAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social media studies professor, TV lover, feminist, mom
Kimberly Owczarski @kimbao.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media at TCU. Wolverine. Longhorn. New to Nova Nation. Lover of sharks. She/her.
Shannon Sweeney @shannonsweeney.bsky.social University of Iowa Media Studies PhD candidate. I study the TV industry. MFA in film/tv studies from Boston University. she/her- F Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
Irissa🌌 @nerdyphd.bsky.social PhD candidate, Sociology @ Stony Brook U. I study tech/AI, creative labor, and fandom. Writer, nerd, fangirl, gamer, frequent comic-con attendee, sometime artist. Views are mine
Jennifer O’Meara @jomeara.bsky.social Associate Prof. in Film Studies & Research Ireland Laureate, Trinity College Dublin. Digital theory, screen voices, sound, immersive tech and synthetic media.
Lesley Willard @lesleyawillard.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Emerson College. UT Austin alum. I spend my time yelling about platforms & capitalism. Unionize.
Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social Digital literary and cultural studies, modernism, psychoanalysis, horror. Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies. New book: Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities http://bit.ly/4ftBuUV
Katharina @katharinah.bsky.social Researching Transcultural Fandom and Manga. Sometimes Gender Representation, Video Games and Horror, too. Love Gardening and Reading. She/Her 💗💜💙 http://icon.hhu.de
Shannon Sauro @shansauro.bsky.social She/ her. Applied linguist | teacher educator |runner | fan. Researching fan practices for language learning in the digital wilds and the L2 classroom, virtual exchange, & computer-assisted language learning. This is an Ilya Rozanov stan account
Kyle Meikle @kylemeikle.bsky.social associate prof, u of baltimore; adaptations, franchises, animation, etc. 
Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social Associate Prof. in Media Studies. Researching participatory culture e.g. fan cultures, digital play, extremism, and conspiracy theories online. University of Copenhagen. Co-coordinator of smidgeproject.eu. She/her. Obsessive knitter and yarn dyer.
Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social At FSNNA we're working to create a supportive, welcoming community for developing & sharing research in the interdisciplinary field of fan studies.
Sign up for our newsletter! https://share.google/0eVsE74dUlNnBlrtQ
Website: https://fsn-northamerica.org/
Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies @UIUC; Author of PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES: HOW FILM DISTRIBUTION MADE THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM (University of Texas Press, 2024)
Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social English & theatre & film & fandom. Fair use advocate. In the process of building something new.
Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.
Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a non-profit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms.
JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com just another poet with a tabby cat | ersatz researcher, masterless ronin, island dweller, winter sparrow | we must hurry if we are going to dance | jsalowe.com
Meredith Rose @mrose.ink Grumpy feminist lawyer. Writer with ADHD. Senior Policy Counsel, @publicknowledge.bsky.social . Copyright, tech, music, AI, fandom. I talk about stuff.
Negate the gods -- raise rocks.
She/her 🏳️🌈
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social Kids media researcher and critic. Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University.
Have brain - will travel.
Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social Digital communities, books, and fandom. Editor of Fansplaining & co-curator of The Rec Center ✨
elizabethminkel.com // fansplaining.com // https://buttondown.email/the-rec-center
Padre Florecita @flourishklink.com Assistant Priest at Christ & St Stephen's (Upper West Side, NYC). Formerly of @fansplaining.bsky.social. They/them 🏳️⚧️.
Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social An independent, subscriber-supported publication of reporting, criticism, and more—all by, for, and about fandom. 🎉 fansplaining.com
(Plus 9 years as a podcast: 250+ episodes in our back catalog!)
Brandy MP @brandymp.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication + Media Studies @ Fordham U; Scholar of Black popular media, contemporary television and film, digital culture, and celebrity
mesk @meesk.bsky.social TV, media industries, algorithmic brand culture, videographic criticism. Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies, Lewis & Clark College. She/her.
A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social academia | the #humanities | popular culture | other whims. Literally wrote the book on #Eurovision & Australia. I teach politics, IR, and pop culture but still identify as cultural studies. Proud cat lady. Views are her own.
https://linktr.ee/jesscarniel
Shanna Gilkeson @shannagilkeson.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Media, Cinema and Journalism at Eastern Michigan University. Fan studies scholar. Chair of Star Trek Studies and Fan Studies subject areas at MPCA. Post may be fannish, scholarly, or full of cats. Opinions are my own.
sarah edwards @seedwards.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Media Studies, North Central College. Feminist media studies // influencer industry // platforms // labor // tech. Formerly: UW-Madison Comm Arts, Social Media Collective. She/her.
https://sarahedwardsphd.com/
Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social Film/Media/Comm/Sound
MAKING STEREO FIT
www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/
Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Sondheim, Philip Roth, The Dark Tower, Twin Peaks, Pale Fire, Calvino, and Taylor Swift.
"The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza
candice roberts @popmediaprof.bsky.social ▫️media studies & queer theory
▫️communication professor
▫️they/them
📍nyc (via philadelphia)
Dr. Julia (Largent) Kuttler (she/her) @juliakuttler.bsky.social Acafan who studies #documentaries & #fanstudies. Alumna of Manchester University (in Indiana), Ball State University, and Bowling Green State University. Associate Professor of Communication and College Student Media Adviser at McPherson College in Kansas.
Maria K. Alberto, Ph.D (✍️🏼 book proposal!) @mariakalberto.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College || she/her 🏳️🌈 || 📚 canon, genre, analog games, fan studies, platforms || currently ✍️🏼 sword&sorcery + TSR novels, fans + TTRPGs || header: galxrax (Unsplash)
Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social Historian. Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio (UNC, 2023); Dollars for Dixie (Cambridge, 2017). In progress books: educational radio on the ground and a history of alternative music in 10 bands.
https://linktr.ee/katherinejewell
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
David J. @apocalypticdrift.bsky.social Reluctant literary scholar with a focus on the end (of the world)
American Studies at Universität Stuttgart
(Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Other research interests include video games (& ludology), zombie studies, sound studies, and dark ecology.
The Sociologist's Dojo @thesociologists.bsky.social The Sociologist's Dojo is a blog and podcast focusing on the social analysis of film and popular culture using the Sociological Perspective.
Blog
http://thesociologistsdojo.blogspot.com
Podcast
https://thesociologistsdojo.libsyn.com/
Jess Morrissette @decafjedi.com I'm a professor who studies politics, games, and pop culture. I stream retro adventure games every Wednesday night at twitch.tv/decafjedi. Co-host of the Quest Quest podcast. Links to all my other stuff at decafjedi.com!
Dan Guadagnolo @danguad.bsky.social Assistant prof at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Communication, Culture, information & Technology
Samuel Yates @syates.bsky.social Asst. Prof at Penn State. Dramaturg. Write on disability/crip studies, queerness, musicals, literature, aesthetics, performance, and access. deaf. they/he.
https://samuelryates.com
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social Historian. Editor. Writer. Looking at connections between culture and politics. Especially fashion. Author of Dressed for Freedom. Principal Editor of Dress. www.einavrabinovitchfox.com
The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org
Over 15,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
• Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
• Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social A peer-reviewed open-access journal exploring popular romance media and the logics, institutions, and social practices of romantic love in global popular culture. https://www.jprstudies.org/
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network @popcrn.bsky.social A vibrant scholarly network exploring mass phenomena through academic inquiry.
Publishing the International Journal of Popular Culture.
popcrn.org
@lisajhackett.bsky.social @jojopopcrn.bsky.social @popcrn-huw.bsky.social @popculturestudies.bsky.social
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com Rare Book #Librarian, #editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/pan/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-Uncanny Mag. #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. #DoctorWho New book: https://alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop
Michael Damian Thomas @michaeldthomas.bsky.social 10-time Hugo & World Fantasy Award-winning @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Publisher/Editor, & It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton podcast Content Editor. Former caregiver to my late daughter, Caitlin.
They/Them, he/him
Married to @kirstyislathomas.bsky.social
Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social Popular culture and politics.
Sometimes academic who writes about those things.
Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
Beth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social Gleek, college football fan, ex-radio, current academic, southern af, she/her.
🦆🧊
Dr Kath @dr-kath.bsky.social PhD, English / comparative and general literature: intertextuality | concept album, bilingual (German / English), creator of the blog #aircraftalbatrossandabeast, (she / her)
Helene Meyers @helenemeyers.bsky.social writer, career educator, lover & critic of Jewish literature & film. Author of MOVIE-MADE JEWS: AN AMERICAN TRADITION. Forthcoming: ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS
https://helenemeyers.com/
Jeanette Patrick @jeanettepatrick.bsky.social Public Historian|Podcaster|Museum Specialist
Now Playing:
Worlds Turned Upside Down
Finding Jane Austen
Revolutions in Retrospect
The Green Tunnel
Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant
Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Jennifer Schell @jenniferschell16.bsky.social English Professor, Cetacean Enthusiast, Canine Therapy Human. I write about anthropogenic species extinction, Arctic ecosystems, more-than-human organisms, and blue humanities. Ocean obsessed! Fairbanks, AK. Views my own.
Adam Golub @adamgolub.bsky.social American Studies professor at Cal State Fullerton. Popular culture, true crime, monsters, music, creative work, the history of childhood. Writing a cultural history of the doppelgänger. Also a dad and a runner. https://www.everydayfictions.com/bio
Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com Writer, author, media historian.
Columns @ The Hollywood Reporter, LA Times
News/Reviews @ MovieWeb
Media studies @ Marquette University
Books: The Warner Brothers; Hollywood Hates Hitler…
Adventures in the Archive newsletter: chrisyogerst.substack.com
Landon Palmer @landonpalmer.bsky.social historian of film, media, popular music | wrote a book about rock stars in movies and writing another about Motown movies | he/him | opinions are mine, do not represent my employer, and seek not to curtail any tide's roll
Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social Horror Lex® (https://horrorlex.com) is the home of academic horror. Explore our huge research database of scholarly, thoughtful writings on horror films. #horror
Paige Gray @blankpaige.bsky.social Enchantress/Professor/Explorer Extraordinaire
Children's Literature • Newspapers • Puppets
Children of the Black Press (Ohio State UP)
Cub Reporters: American Children's Literature and Journalism in the Golden Age (SUNY Press)
linktr.ee/blankpaige1110
Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
Carey Millsap-Spears 🖖🐎❤️ @careymillsapspears.bsky.social Author of Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic: Tell Fear No, Lexington Books, 2023. Views own
Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social Media studies researcher, Penn State professor, past and future television blogger.
Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social Univ. HH.Am.Studies.The long 19th c;author of “Producing Mass Entertainment:The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid” (OSUP 2019).Eisner Award nominee.President of ComFor e.V. Gardening.she/her
https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/iaa/personen/meyer-christina.html
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, 26.2🏃♂️✅
Torsten Kathke @kathke.com Historian. 19th/20th century US & Germany. LMU Munich. 70s/80s cultural criticism, pop science, futurology. Book: Wires That Bind.
Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social Freelance Game Writer & Narrative Designer | NOW: Kinali Works & Stupendium Softworks | Hugo finalist, BAFTA, DICE, Future Class | UVW-CWA | "Queen of the Freelancers" | ♐️ 💜🤍🖤💚 | she/her | annacwebster.com
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.