Modernist Studies in Asia (MSIA) @modernism-asia.bsky.social A network for scholars of modernist studies in Asia: literature, art, performance, culture
https://www.modernismasia.hku.hk/
Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social News and announcements from the Modern Language Association. If you have a question for MLA staff members, please visit http://mla.org/About-Us/Contact
British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social Official Bluesky Account for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). We promote, support & encourage the study of the United States in the UK. Posts by the Social Media team.
Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social Radical acts of craft & making 🪡 We curate exhibitions, events & a journal exploring modern decorative art, craft & design 🧶
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
Modernist Conversations @modernistconvo.bsky.social Conversations about modernism, a podcast hosted by Chris Townsend and Polly Hember. Get in touch: modernistconversations@gmail.com
Modernism in Metro-Land @modinmetro.bsky.social Art Deco, Modernism and Brutalism in London's suburbs and beyond. https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk
Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social The RSL celebrates and nurtures reading and writing of all kinds. We're a charity that believes literature is for everyone. ✨ 200 years young. 🌟
Space Between Society @spacebetween.bsky.social Society for Interwar Scholarship.
www.spacebetweensociety.com
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social Research network for literary & cultural modernisms | info@bams.ac.uk | Join http://bams.ac.uk/join-bams | The Modernist Review tmr@bams.ac.uk I #ModWrite
Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social Wrote a book about G.K. Chesterton and literary modernism. Now working in uni admin, but still doing research - see pinned thread for info on my current project, 'Inscribing Pandemonium'. Also posting about music, culture, politics, random nonsense.
Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); noncanonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.
Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social Onetime English/radio prof, now policy guy. Media, fiction, Indigenous rights and reconciliation. Here for bad takes & worse jokes. Writing the Radio War, the Edinburgh Companion to Modernism & Technology, & DUBLINERS out now. www.ianwhittington.com
Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature & Culture at University of Vienna│Leader of Irish Research Council project 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing 1860-1950s'│Co-Founder of @flannobriensoc.bsky.social and @theparishreview.bsky.social
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.
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Former Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
Madeleine Rose @madeleinerose.bsky.social Oxford University, DPhil English | Modernism and Ecocriticism | she/her
Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social Academic Coach @Buckinghamshire New University | Honorary Research Fellow; EngLit PhD @University of Birmingham | D. H. Lawrence, modernism, and archives | translator | he/him (phonetics: Bu-She Du-An)
Anna Dijkstra @annakarlien.bsky.social Repeated dreams of tornadoes
Modernism and epistemology fanatic
Dreams of research // eternally looking for a PhD position
🏳️⚧️
Wei Zhou @zhwouei.bsky.social Postdoc at Leeds University | T. S. Eliot | modern and contemporary poetry | Modernism | classical reception
https://wei-zhou.co.uk
Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social Writer
My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World – is out now!
"The most intellectually stimulating book I read this year.” John Banville
She/Her
https://linktr.ee/eherring
Doug Battersby @dougbattersby.bsky.social Writes on the history & theory of the novel. Lecturer in Modern Literature at Leicester. Book: TROUBLING LATE MODERNISM (https://tinyurl.com/592f5me2).
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
Zoe Kempf-Harris @zozietropes.bsky.social English PhD Candidate • Tethered Modernist, Transatlantic Nerd • Writer without a plan • Improviser with too many plans • Dungeon Master with Schrödinger's plan
BACLS @bacls.bsky.social The official account of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies. www.bacls.org
Diletta De Cristofaro @tedilta.bsky.social Asst prof @northumbriauni.bsky.social contemporary lit & culture | Essays New Humanist, The Week, Review31...| 📖 Sleep and Its Meanings @mitpress.bsky.social; The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel @bloomsburylit.bsky.social | dilettadecristofaro.com
Modernism/modernity @mmodernity.bsky.social The official journal of the Modernist Studies Association. 
Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social 🇿🇦 PhD in contemporary literature • utopianism, critical theory, sff, decolonisation, queer revolution • she/her 🏳️🌈🍉
Dr Barbara Franchi @barbarafranchi.bsky.social Contemporary literature scholar, feminist, wannabe eco-criticist. Career Development Fellow in Postcolonial and World Literatures at Durham University. she/her
Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social he/him. teaching C21 literature at ENU. co-ed of Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (EUP, 2023). Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism (EUP, 2024). 
Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social Contemporary Literature, Novels, Theory, Time, Reading, Sociology of Literature.
Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature at Kiel University, deputy editor for @c21literature.bsky.social , contemporary life writing/fiction, English & German, seriality, modernism • she/her •
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
Wim Van Mierlo @wvmierlo.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/wimvanmierlo
Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University with 'an air of cranky scholarship about him'
Author of James Joyce and Cultural Genetics: The Joycean Genome (Bloomsbury)
Documentary and Heritage Photographer
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social Writer, teacher, person in New Hampshire
Books from Black Lawrence, Bloomsbury Academic, punctum, Third Man, Lethe.
Horror fiction, modernism, pedagogy, Open Access, general weirdness...
https://matthewcheney.net
Jonathan Ellis @jonathansellis.bsky.social Author/editor of things on Elizabeth Bishop. Yes, I still write letters & postcards. Paid and sometimes unpaid academic. He/him.
Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker.
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. PPIE. Lived Experience. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces.
she/her. Views own
Erin Templeton @eetempleton.bsky.social Dean & English professor, runner, Steeler fan, avid reader, dog walker, cat food dispenser. Always up for pizza.
Academically: literary modernism, F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night possibly forever.
phone rings, Josh skeets, here comes company @shmeppy.bsky.social Assoc Prof of modernism, film, sound studies, shitposting. I like Triscuits, the Broncos, Douglas Sirk, Henry James, maybe some other things. AI is not one of them.
The slotted spoon can catch the potato. 🥔
Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social Professor and Chair of English @FloridaState; author of "The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945," "Attention Equals Life," "Beautiful Enemies," & "Locus Solus: the New York School of Poets" blog
Andrew Thacker @andrewthacker.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Twentieth Century Literature, Nottingham Trent University. Modernism, periodicals, cricket.
Wiktoria Tuńska @wtunska.bsky.social Editorial Assistant at ASAP/Review / Contemporary Literature, Affect, Brexit / she/her 🏳️🌈
Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social Always open-access, Contemporaries publishes curated conversations and critiques in the form of clusters—groups of essays centering around specific themes, topics, and discourses. 
Ian Webster @websterij.bsky.social PhDed at Exeter: Modernism and the Making of Macroeconomics. Having spent years doing less interesting stuff. Now time to figure out what to do next.
Leanna Lostoski-Ho @leannalostoskiho.bsky.social Recent English Ph.D. graduate in modernist literature now navigating being an independent scholar. Often found reading Woolf or ecocriticism, very slowly.
Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social Professor, School of English, Trinity College Dublin. Writes about Joyce, Beckett, Modernism. Quondam New Yorker. Co-author of Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses http://bit.ly/3Gngb2L He/him/his
Valérie Favre @valerie-favre.bsky.social Associate Professor of English / MCF – Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | Literature & Cultural Studies, Feminist & Queer Studies, Virginia Woolf & her Reception | http://instagram.com/favre.val/ | they/them—ielle
Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social | PhD in English Lit | Co-Conspirator at The Woolf Salon Project | Feminist Modernist Studies | “No, I was not busy when you came!”
Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social Lecturer in Modernism at University of Edinburgh | Author of 'The Modernist Anthropocene' and editor of 'Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene' | Judge of James Tait Black Prize in Fiction | Views here not necessarily those of my employer etc etc | He/him
Tasha Alden @tashaalden.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction at @AberUni. Lit & philosophy/theology, esp. Iris Murdoch & M Robinson, language of fertility, queer historical fiction, MedHums. Schools / access. Buddhisty-Quaker. LWithTheT
Meindert Peters @meindertpeters.bsky.social Honorary Faculty Research Fellow at @UniofOxford | Book: Habituation in German Modernism: https://shorturl.at/LYKFy | Co-Curator: Kafka: Making of an Icon (Oxford/New York) | Editor: Bodies & Abilities (Brill) | www.meindertpeters.com
Bob Eaglestone @bobeaglestone.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
Alix Beeston @alixbeeston.bsky.social Writer and academic | Author of *In and Out of Sight* (Oxford UP) and coeditor of *Incomplete* (U Cali P) | Coming in 2027: *Image Encounters* (Penn State UP) and *Women, Sisters and Friends: Selected Plays and Screenplays of Kathleen Collins* (U Cali P)
David Scourfield @jhdscourfield.bsky.social Classicist and Modernist, Em. Prof. Working on a monograph on E. M. Forster and Classics, and a new edition of his novel The Longest Journey for Cambridge UP. Welsh/Irish.
Sam Holton Bradley @sholtonbradley.bsky.social PhD at King’s College London - Derek Jarman, E. M. Forster, Jocelyn Brooke, Neo-Romanticism and the ecopoetics of cruising. 
Juliette Bretan @jcbretan.bsky.social Researcher, writer, and broadcaster on East-Central Europe, culture, history, and politics. Words in The TLS, The Public Domain Review and more; on BBC Radio 3.
juliettebretan.com
James T. Bowen @jtbowen.bsky.social DPHil in English, Oxford University; PGCert Psychodynamic Counselling, Oxford Department of Continuing Education
https://www.jamestbowen.com
Dr. Shelby Judge @shelbyjudge.bsky.social Lecturer • researches feminist myth retellings and, sometimes relatedly, incels • Seed Talks speaker on folklore & myth • good at book recs • she/her 🏳️🌈
Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Dr Chiara Bullen @chiarab.bsky.social ✨🏔️ THE INN AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT VENGEANCE IS OUT NOW 🏔️✨
sometimes author, sometimes academic. always anxious.
glasgow.
rep: Jessica Mileo
contact me buy my books etc: https://linktr.ee/chiarabullen
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social www.riabanerjee.com
Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal for scholarship on postwar American literature and culture
post45.org/journal
Editor
@jdconnor.bsky.social
Managing Editor
@aabedkoff.bsky.social
Editor-at-Large
@arthurzw.bsky.social
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
Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social Associate Professor of English & WGS, IU NW / Author of Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism (Cornell UP, 2020) / Opinions my own (she/her)
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. 🍉
Rafael Walker @rafaelwalker.bsky.social I write on literature and issues in higher ed || Associate Professor at Baruch College, CUNY || Editor of Nella Larsen’s *Passing* for Broadview Press https://tinyurl.com/2s3kt7w9 || Still fun! 🎡 🌈
baruch.academia.edu/RafaelWalker
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
Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social Art historian. Currently working on a book about visual art and Witold Gombrowicz
Michelle A. Taylor @michelletaylor.bsky.social The lazy laughing Jenny of the bard | fellow at Magdalene, Cam; once Emory FCHI & St Hilda’s, Ox | essays in The New Yorker, FT Mag, The Point, The Nation, &c. | modernism & coterie, w/ a taste for the archive
https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/user/taylor
Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature at UWE Bristol. Neo-Victorianism, ecocriticism, colonial writing. Lover of country houses. Agatha Christie fan.
Patrick Kindig @pdkindig.bsky.social Asst Prof of English. Lit crit: Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity (2022). Poetry: Agape (Forthcoming 2026) / fascinations (2025). All views expressed here are mine, not my employer's. pdkindig.wordpress.com.
Thomas S. Davis @thomassdavis.bsky.social English/Env Hum/Analog Hum/Prof at Ohio State. The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism & Everyday Life (Columbia 2016). Forming Attachments: Aesthetic Education & Ecological Crisis (out for review!). www.thomassdavis.net
Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social Global + postcolonial + comp lit, theory; translator. Assoc. prof. Views/prons: his. Books (@uminnpress.bsky.social): Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent / Ed. Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social Associate Prof of English at Duke. My new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature (Columbia UP) comes out Summer 2026! More about me here: https://aarthivadde.com
Jeremy Michael Reed @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social writer, editor, professor | creative writing, 20/21C US lit & cultural studies | edits @swiftslitmag.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/jeremymichaelreed
David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social Autheur. Unfluencer.
'The Beckett List' (2027)
'A Crumpled Swan' (2025)
'Multiple Joyce' (2022)
All published by www.saggingmeniscus.com
(No DMs)
Rob Spence @spencro.bsky.social Former Eng Lit academic. Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Fitzgerald, Robert Nye, but mainly Anthony Burgess, a fellow Mancunian.
robspence.org.uk shinynewbooks.co.uk
victorcrabbe on Insta
Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/rob611
Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher & critic. Author: Culture Wars in Britain (May, 2026). Columnist at Vector. Incoming editor of Foundation.
Nonbinary (they/them)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
https://linktr.ee/nick_hubble
Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social Professor of English at Idaho State University. Modernism, comics, popular forms. Author: The New Old Style (U Nebraska P), Violent Minds (Cambridge UP). Co-Editor: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. You can call me Matt.
matthewlevay.com
Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture, UCL. Proudly Cornish and quasi-Italian. Interested in the 1930s (1848-1950). Biographer of Celia Fremlin.
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Sean DiLeonardi @sdileonardi.bsky.social Writer, literary critic, Pittsburgher, professor, director of the Center for Digital Studies (he/him)
https://www.seandileonardi.com/
Catriona Weiser @catrionahenderson.bsky.social PhD student in literature at the University of Vienna. Research focus - metamodernism, the historical novel, Scottish literature. Optimistic (mostly) and easily amused. 
Ana María Sánchez-Arce (she/her) @anamsanchezarce.bsky.social Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University. Contemporary lit, authenticity, censorship, postcolonialist, Almodóvar, feminist. Occasional rants and cat references. Looking for kindred spirits.
Steph Brown @stephjayb.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Literature in Tucson | Surveillance Studies | C20 Caribbean and Brit Lit
Books: Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State (2024) | The Call (2019)
rock scrambler | hawk enthusiast | she/her
Jon Hegglund @jonhegglund.bsky.social Prof of English, Washington State U. Narrative theory, psychoanalysis, environmental humanities, humanism in a dehumanizing age. Minor character in Baseball Prospectus extended universe. Yes, that is a moose in my backyard.
Alex Calder @dralexjcalder.bsky.social ECR in Contemporary Lit | teaching at University of Cambridge | writing Ali Smith and the Politics of Connection (Edinburgh UP) | co-editor Ali Smith: Critical Essays (Routledge) | Membership Secretary @bacls.bsky.social | from Caithness, Highland; he/him
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)
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
David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social Walking pics, stories, poems, essays. & Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Sebald, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, HD, Ozu, Akerman, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dead, Mahler, Jameses… & some Dharma
www.six18sfoundry.com
Nurture Junk Birds
The Letters of Samuel Beckett @beckettletters.bsky.social We collect/consult/transcribe all extant letters by Beckett; see our interactive index (chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu), and 4 volume selected edition.
Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social faculty of collective wonders for Yale Spanish & Portuguese. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.