Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Paul M. Cray @pmc.bsky.social 'A plain, unvarnished Preston man.' Permanent resident alien in Seattle, Wash. Writer, AGI researcher, wine industry professional. Interests: books, futurology, historiographic metafiction, sf, technoeconomic paradigm shifts, the Technological Singularity
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
Holden Walker @holdentwalker.bsky.social Literary/cultural studies PhD candidate and associate lecturer at the University of Wollongong. Researching America post-2008 and literature from California.
Alden Sajor Marte-Wood @aldenmartewood.bsky.social Founder of record label, MCM-GRIME. Deforming platforms. Covered in moss. Always historicizing.
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Nicolas Dream, PhD @afraidofwasps.bsky.social driving behind you really close with my brights on and i'm screaming
Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social a grumpy melange of personality defects who gets paid to make people's writing better; or, failing that, to not make it appreciably worse.
Kevin Potter @kevinmpotter.bsky.social Postdoc at University of Vienna.
Author of Poetics of the Migrant
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-poetics-of-the-migrant.html
Dog Dad
Free Palestine 🇵🇸. He/him.
Lt. Governor Ghazala Hashmi @ltgovhashmi.bsky.social Virginia’s 43rd Lieutenant Governor. Former State Senator for Virginia’s 15th Senate District.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Euclid P Jones @euclidpjones.bsky.social Media not found. 
PVermeulen @pverm23.bsky.social Literature scholar @KU Leuven
www.pvermeulen.com
Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé @zumhagenyekple.bsky.social English and Comp Lit Prof. Tulane | Comparative Modernisms, Phil&Lit | Books: A Different Order of Difficulty | Wittgenstein and Modernism (both @uchicagopress.bsky.social) | Cambridge Companion to Lit&Phil | Current book: Vanities
Tyne Daile Sumner @tynedaile.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow: literary studies | digital humanities | surveillance | President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/ | current project: surveilit.com | everything else: tynedaile.com
Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social Prof American Studies @ U Heidelberg
Am Lit 1800-present, cultural sociology, literary institutions
https://www.as.uni-heidelberg.de/personen/Leypoldt/
Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social Psychic life of culture, green political economy, critical university studies, knowledge-power struggles, epistemic justice.
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Shannon Mooney @shmooney.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Babson College. Studying New Jersey in literature & popular culture. Frequently running & hiking.
📍Dorchester
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)
steven @stevenwatts.bsky.social assistant professor of heathcliff the cat studies; writing about how books represent accumulation, growth, and their counterparts.
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👐
Jessica Pressman @jessicapressman.bsky.social Professor of English and Comparative Literature @ San Diego State University. Co-founder of SDSU's Digital Humanities Initiative.
—Electronic literature, bookishness, and mermaids
#mermaidlit
jessicapressman.com
Shannon Fisher @msshannonfisher.bsky.social Talk Show Host, Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. Occasional host of the National Press Club Update-1 podcast. Social & Political Commentator. Writer. Human Rights Advocate. Love the arts, politics, dogs, and life! #RVA 🏳️🌈
Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social #firstgen #professor and #writer in #nola ❤️. Relentless advocate for #sociology. Author of non-fiction and textbooks with a new book -- Exposed: A College in Crisis Puts Science to the Test -- out in 2026. I adore what I do. And #cats!
lisa-wade.com
Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social Teaching and writing about environmental narratives, ecocriticism, modern fiction. Sci-fi, horror, heavy metal. Author of Writing Our Extinction https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/writing-our-extinction?tab=1
Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com Author. Activist. Existentialist. Humanist. Beat Philosopher. Philosophy Of Mind. Dog Mom.
Writing About Philosophy Here: https://melissanadiaviviana.com/
Douglas Dowland @profdgd.bsky.social Curious about affect in the contemporary US? Visit: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5889/
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
Erik Fredner @fredner.org Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Literature
Oregon State University
https://fredner.org
martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social asst prof in film studies. post-2008 film/tv + real estate • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her
https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/
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/
Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania. "Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film" from Edinburgh UP. He/him.
Emily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social assoc prof of English at Penn (c19 British lit, novel theory, mass politics, labor, history of science), author of Populating the Novel
Debra Rae Cohen @debraraecohen.bsky.social Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, Modernism/modernity. Modernism and media, especially the BBC; women's writing in war and crisis. Fuck ICE and all its works. Eat the rich. Protect your neighbors. 🍉
Andy Oler @andyoler.bsky.social Parent, English prof, Hoosier. He/him. Departments Editor, New Territory, #LiteraryLandscapes. Old-Fashioned Modernism (LSU 2019), Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell (MSU 2023) & Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest (UIP 2025).
Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social I teach music, modernism, psychoanalysis @ University of Chicago, direct Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, and am mostly unconscious. Stuff: http://bit.ly/3JMupgJ
Dr. Mike Sell @profmikesell.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of the The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social Assistant Professor, English, Acadia U
Paul Buchholz @pailbuckets.bsky.social Literature, songwriting, counterculture, 35mm photography. Assoc Prof of German Studies at Emory U.
Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social For you
I've saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches,
teaches at UChicago | editor & indexer | proud member of SEIU local 73
Jennifer Scappettone @xenoglossic.bsky.social poet/documentarist/devotee of literary, scholarly, visual & performance arts
UChicago prof battling assaults of planetary life 1 word at a time
Columbia: Poetry After Barbarism; Killing the Moonlight
Atelos: Republic of Exit 43
UChi: Locomotrix
oikost.com
Carlos Spoerhase @spoerhase.bsky.social Lit Prof @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social Asst Prof, American Studies @ JFK Institute, FU Berlin - knowledge cultures, book studies, literary institutions, AmLit C19-C21
Corinna Norrick-Rühl @corinnanorue.bsky.social prof of Book Studies @ University of Münster, Germany
20th / 21st c. book culture, publishing, book clubs
https://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/bookstudies/
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2490-0735
Evan Kindley @evankindley.bsky.social "The New York School: Poetry, Art, and Friendship in Midcentury Manhattan" forthcoming from Knopf, March 2027 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737462/th
Jim English @jacquesanglais.bsky.social 
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
Andrew Goldstone @agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Chiefly interested in applying the methods of a discipline I took one undergrad course in to topics entirely ignored in my graduate education.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@agoldst, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Scott MacKenzie @henrythe5thelement.bsky.social He/him. UMiss Prof. 18th-Century literature, political economy, scarcity, & porridge
folly @voidfolly.bsky.social psychology, sociology, technology, writer. top 5 sleepy AuDHD bearcats
they/he 💚
Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Faculty in English @ U of Iowa | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first.
Stephanieinsleyhershinow.com
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. - J @jedesty.bsky.social @jedesty.bsky.social
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Philip Bump @pbump.com Hearst data editor and columnist
Formerly: Washington Post
Book: "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America"
Newsletter: www.ctinsider.com/newsletters/data/
Email: hello@pbump.com
Signal: pbump.11
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
@cecilecottenet.bsky.social @cecilecottenet.bsky.social Professor of American Studies in Provence, #bookhistory, US literature, #histoiredulivre 📚🇫🇷🇺🇸, literary agents
Madeline Bedecarre @mbedecarre.bsky.social Prof: Sociology of Lit / Postcolonial Studies / African Lit / Francophone 
Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social Yiddish, German, literature, art, monuments, museums.
My book about 4 of the above: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33157
Associate Professor @ Johns Hopkins.
Sam Pergadia @thebreakupalbum.bsky.social Assistant Professor @SMU.
I study #AfricanAmericanLiterature #Post45AmericanLit #EnvironmentalHumanities #MedicalHumanities
“...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.” -OEB
David Wittenberg @dhwitten.bsky.social English & Cinema prof in Iowa. Big objects, time travel, architecture, some politics, philosophy, some poker, miscellaneous theory. In my mind I'm a contented veterinary technician. 
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
linktr.ee/david_leavitt
Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social Writer, editor, & English professor in Dayton, OH. Chair, School of Humanities & Cultural Studies. Artifacts: How We Think & Write About Found Objects. Co-founder: the-rambling.com. From rural Appalachia.
Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social Thinking about people thinking about other people. First Amendment, interpretive methodologies, criminal law, law & humanities, theories of mind. Assistant Professor @umichlaw.bsky.social. 💙💛 she/her. hwalser.wordpress.com
Alex Brostoff @alexbrostoff.bsky.social asst prof @ Georgetown | comparatist | editor AUTOTHEORIES | translator | trans literatures
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552295/autotheories/
Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social Here for US &/or Modern fiction & poetry, critical theory, crime fiction & speculative fiction. Author of How to Interpret Literature & books on US & Native American literature. Emerging fiction writer.
https://rparker1648.wixsite.com/robert-dale-parker
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social TPM editor at large + all things Morning Memo: https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Signal: davidkurtz.88
Proton: davidmkurtz@proton.me
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
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
Antonio Barros @antbarros.bsky.social Professor de Teoria Literária na UFRGS. Editor do site Carbono: www.ufrgs.br/carbono - @carbonoufrgs.bsky.social
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him. 
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
zunguzungu@gmail.com
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Laura Marsh @lauramarsh.bsky.social Literary Editor, The New Republic
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
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
Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social Novelist, memoirist, co-founder of The Los Angeles Review of Books
David Marcus @davidmarcus.bsky.social Literary Editor @TheNation. Working on a history of socialism in the United States. Essays and more: http://linktr.ee/davidimarcus
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
Check out https://thecurrentowdm.substack.com
Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social Cultural historian and lit prof, Baltimore. 💙⚓️💚🌱🖤📖. Speaking for myself (and occasionally for the dead), but not for my employer.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Ignacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs.
Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @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/