@dtreverigennari.bsky.social @dtreverigennari.bsky.social 
✨ Rachel (she/her) ✨ @researchbrb.bsky.social Aspiring adult and media scholar. Ph.D. in Internet Studies. 🇳🇿 Pākehā, currently based in Boorloo Perth. 🐨 Living in the frenzy of feeling. 🌟
🏡 Website rachelberryman.com
🦇 Co-founder darcmode.org
📱 Member ierlab.com
Emma McDowell @emmamcdoofus.bsky.social Lecturer at School of Performance & Cultural Industries (Leeds Uni); adhd; she/they; interested in how we make sense of/through our cultural experiences (esp theatre); preferred mode of communication - gifs; also dogs
Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social Occasionally writing
https://lukemckernan.com 
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
Matt Rule-Jones @mwilljones.bsky.social Historian of cinemas and their audiences. Escape room champion, optimistic hiker, book writer, board game player, cat tickler, very lucky husband🏳️🌈
The HoMER Network @homer-network.bsky.social International network of researchers interested in understanding cinema-going, exhibition, and reception, from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Web: https://homernetwork.org/
ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social • qualitative social science academic researching tech + young identities
• new book out with @ucpress: THE KIDS ARE ONLINE https://tinyurl.com/jv33yjaf
• words in @guardian @WIRED @WSJ @glamour
• she/her
find me @ ysabelgerrard.net/home
Tuija Aalto @taalto.bsky.social Helsinki-based all-round-digital-media-pundit. Doctoral student w. Tampere University. Expert at Strategy and customer insights w. Yle the Finnish Broadcasting Company.
Anna Viola Sborgi @annaviolasborgi.bsky.social Assistant Lecturer School of Media TU Dublin
housing/gentrification/cities/feminist media
https://mediahomesproject.com/
Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social Independent and open access journal of peer-reviewed, theoretical interventions into all aspects of media and communications.
mediatheoryjournal.org
SCMS Fan and Audience Studies SIG @scmsfaas.bsky.social SCMS Fan and Audience Studies Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about fan studies and audience studies.
Nancy Thumim @nancyt.bsky.social I teach, research and write about media, audiences, representation, and everyday life. I work at the University of Leeds. Here sporadically.
Kate Egan @kte75.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Northumbria University. Co-Investigator, AHRC Youth & Horror network. Co-editor of Hidden Horror Histories book series. Lover of horror and British cinema, cats and strong tea. She/her.
Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social used to work in museums, now works at School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds (she/her)
Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social Media Studies Lecturer and PhD Student studying fangirls @ Uni of Huddersfield, girlhoods, popular music, fan politics, celebrity etc
Uni of Leeds and Emerson College alum, from LA now cozying up in the Yorkshire countryside.
queer audhd disabled
Rafal Zaborowski @zaborowski.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Assoc Prof) at King's College London. Media, audiences, popular music, virtual idols, migration, Japan, brewing, wrestling, board games, stuff no one else finds funny.
MPCA/ACA @mpcaaca.bsky.social The Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association is a regional branch of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Find us at The University of Iowa October 3-5, 2025. Submissions opening early 2025. mpcaaca.org
Ludmila Lupinacci @ludludlud.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social ✨digital tech & everyday life, experiences of liveness (whatever that means), scrolling nonsense, moods & vibes ✨ ludmilalupinacci.com
Tomasz Poborca @tpoborca.bsky.social Film Studies at University of Lodz • National Centre for Film Culture • Cinema curator • Press reception research • Writing for http://pelnasala.pl
Tom Emanuel @realtomemanuel.bsky.social Theologian. Tolkien scholar. PhD on The Lord of the Rings and Post-Christianity from the University of Glasgow. Dad. He/him. All views my own.
Blog: queerandback.substack.com
Contact: thomas.k.emanuel(at)gmail.com
Violet @violetolivia.bsky.social yorkshire girl
Ed Vollans @edvollans.bsky.social University Lecturer, media paratexts, promotional materials, trailers & advertising. (Views my own). 🏴/ Midlands (UK).
Abby Kirby @abbykirby.bsky.social Middle school ELA// MA in Media Studies// Fandom Researcher// Gravity Falls & Psych Fan// Fanfic Enthusiast
Daniel Cavicchi @danielcavicchi.bsky.social Professor, Rhode Island School of Design. American studies, fandom studies, music studies, sound studies. Views are my own. https://www.risd.edu/academics/history-philosophy-and-social-sciences/faculty/daniel-cavicchi
David Wright @davwright.bsky.social Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
📚 Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sept 2025) & K-Pop Fandom (@uofmpress.bsky.social, Feb 2026)
📧 areumjeong@gmail.com
Alisa Perren @aperren.bsky.social Media studies prof. Director of Industry Relations for the Radio-Television-Film Department at UT-Austin. Opinions are my own.
Chris Comerford @chriscomerford.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Comms & Media, University of Wollongong 📖 | Doctor of screens, fans & Batman 🦇 | Useless Trivia expert 🧠 | Ace Stardew Valley fisherman 🎣 | Views my own | He/Him
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social Fan, celebrity & cultural studies academic. Senior lecturer in media & cultural studies in Singapore. Intermixing posts on shows I'm watching/discovering, fandoms, academia, and occasionally, life. Opinions strictly my own.
Dr. Acafanmom @acafanmom.bsky.social Asst Professor in perpetuity | researching fandom and popular culture |
RPs are sometimes bookmarks for myself | Osaka
fanhackers @fanhackers.transformativeworks.org Fanhackers is a project of the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) to make fan studies scholarship more accessible. We blog about research, maintain a fan studies bibliography, and more.
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.
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.
Dr Bethan Jones (she/her) @memorieschild.bsky.social Research Associate/lecturer at Cardiff Uni School of Journalism, Media and Culture; honorary research fellow at Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales; @fanstudies.bsky.social. Writes about fandom, cult TV, true crime, tattoos, cancel culture and other fun stuff.
Dr Rukmini Pande @rukminipande.bsky.social Academic. Working on the intersection of race/ism in media fandom. 
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.
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
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!)
Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social 30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.
Mark Stewart (he/him) @mediamarknz.bsky.social formerly @markboynz on Twits. Media and Comms academic. Pinko leftie socialist. Queer rights. Tangata tiriti. #Landback.- J Jonathan A. Rose @jonathanarose.bsky.social Sees and does his best to observe.
Post-doc at Uni of Passau. Fan, Trans, Cultural Studies. And fungi!
Jenessa Williams, PhD @jenessawilliams.bsky.social 🎓Music, Fandom & Internet Cultures Postdoctoral Researcher (Stanford University)
✍🏽Music Journalist (DIY, FortyFive, Guardian, NME etc.)
📌 https://jenessawilliams.substack.com
Elyan Stenel 🪻 @estenel.bsky.social He/Him. Interested in Popular Culture and Trans and Fan Studies.
🔸️Master from Université Paris Cité (2021) in English Art & Visual Culture.
🔸️Working on transmasculine representation in the MCU fandom.
Julia Neugarten @julianeugarten.bsky.social Researcher of fandom studies, fanfiction, computational literary studies and literary reception. Currently a PhD candidate at Radboud University. Views are my own.
June M. Madeley @madelejm.bsky.social Fan studies scholar, knitter, pinball player and fan of Dr. Who, Star Trek, Pokemon Go and Guy Gavriel Kay
Welmoed Wagenaar @wfwagenaar.bsky.social she/her | PhD candidate researching fandom, ritual, and everyday life | Universities of Groningen & Antwerp | fan & religious studies
Ludi Price @ludiprice.bsky.social Librarian, PhD in fan information behaviour & Visiting Lecturer. #FanLIS project co-founder. #Romy fan author/artist. Ace spec.
"I would totally cosplay Loki, but I'm too lazy to make the horns."
Dr. Fangirl, PhD (Chrisha) @drfangirlphd.bsky.social Fangirl 🥰 Therapist 🦄 Fandom & Mental Health Research 🦸🏻♀️ @TheFangirlBiz Podcast 🎤 Views mine 🌈 Posts aren’t advice 💜 Kindness has a spine 🌊
dr georgie carroll @fansumption.bsky.social wrote a phd on taylor swift. passionate about fandom + caffeine + napping. the loudest woman this town has ever seen.
Vanguard 🔜 Furrific, Scotiacon, ConFuzzled @vanguardhusky.bsky.social Furry, pup, gamer and PhD student. Streams on Twitch and studies furry identity, the furry fandom and safe spaces at BCU. Board of Directors - @furrystudies.org. Icon by @chanacabra.bsky.social. He/they
https://vanguardhusky.carrd.co
Louisa @fanvidcrit.bsky.social Mother, scholarfan, remix vidder. Associate Prof of Film & Media Culture and Middlebury College. She/they https://criticalcommons.org/user/Lstein/media
Dr Ross Garner @drrossgarner.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @Cardiff JOMEC. Co-Investigator of media.cymru media tourism research. Co-editor of Popular Communication journal. Ask me about #Pokemon #JurassicPark and #Dinosaurs
More information at: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/garnerrp1
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
Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social Into Contemporary Literature, Digital Humanities & Fan Studies.
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Edinburgh; views my own.
she/her
Please don't DM me - I can't access them anymore.
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
Camilla Ulleland Hoel @camillahoel.bsky.social PhD, academic (Victorian & 20th & 21st c. literature, fans: Dickens, via Sherlock Holmes, to scifi), feminist, bibliophile, geek; regularly political. She/her.
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.
anonprecious @anonprecious.bsky.social DtoA, Fan Studies, terrible humor
Francesca Coppa @fcoppa.bsky.social English & theatre & film & fandom. Fair use advocate. In the process of building something new.
Ashley Hinck @ashleyhinck.bsky.social I research rhetoric, the internet, and fandom. Associate Professor at Xavier University. PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. BA from Creighton University. 
Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film Studies and Production and Assistant Director of Women and Gender Studies, Oakland University.
"It's research, I swear."
James Rendell @jamesrendell.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Industries at University of South Wales. Researching media audiences, horror, film & TV, inclusivity & diversity. FHEA. He/Him. Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror out now https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726320/transmedia-terrors-in
Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social Feminist academic and ECR. Lecturer in Sociology @ University of Manchester, UK. Author of Feminist Fandom (2024). Interested in youth, gender, digital/pop culture, platforms + anti/feminisms. She/her. https://linktr.ee/brionyhannell
Charlotte Stevens @charstevens.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Birmingham City University (film/tv, fandom, games), she/her
Dr. Liz @lizlaurie.bsky.social Graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art. PhD in Theatre and Drama. Adjunct. Researches Cosplay. she/her/hers
Peter Cullen Bryan, PhD @pcbryan.bsky.social Have PhD, will travel. Americanist by training, fan/media studies by trade. Scholar of fan studies, adaptation, Disney, comics - happy to talk intersections of translation/gender/disability. First book out; next book soon. He / him.
Renée Middlemost (she/her) @reneemiddlemost.bsky.social Dr of cult movies| Communication and Media academic | researching celebrity, fans, film, and media audiences| pop culture nerd | coffee enthusiast | dog Ma | WSL/Matildas fan | views my own |
Claire @drclairemcgee.bsky.social 📍Norwich/Northumberland
Academic researcher interested in: art, anthropology, global visual and material culture, costuming, death studies, subcultures and digital humanities
@mareinna.bsky.social @mareinna.bsky.social ■ interdisciplinary hybrid ■ digital culture, gender studies, fandom and monsters ■ postdoc @ University of Bergen, Norway ■
Dr. EJ Nielsen @direjackalope.bsky.social Academic looking at visual culture, gender, fans, and monsters. They/them. Sometimes I make stuff. Frequently fannish. Retweets & likes =/= endorsements.
Mikael Gyhagen @aeraphiel.bsky.social MLIS at Oslo Metropolitan by day,
Forever DM by night, and FanStudies researcher by accident.
He/Him, Queer, Autistic
(@syntheticwhite on the birb-app)
Divya Mathur @divmat010.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Fan Studies and Cat Mom.
Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social Professor, UCF T&T and English. Opinions mine. Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.
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
Dr. Effie Sapuridis @effietheant.bsky.social Assistant Professor, LIM College | PhD Media Studies | Reviews Editor, Journal of Fan Studies | she/her
Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social Fangirl, Associate Professor of media studies at UT Austin, author of "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019) and a bunch of other stuff. Posts aren't endorsements, mind your own cartwheels, etc. etc.
Stephanie Jones @stephaniejones.bsky.social Lecturer in Film, Television and Media | Co-editor, Media History | 007's critical friend | Dysgu Cymraeg, Top of the Pops 🌈
Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead @ University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings
💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social [in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/ 
Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
Steve Anderson @sfanders.bsky.social Scholar-artist, video essayist
https://www.realityfrictions.net
https://technocinema.net
https://criticalcommons.org
Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org The Open Library of Humanities. Building a sustainable, diamond open access future for the humanities. Part of Birkbeck, University of London & makers of Janeway
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.
Drew Morton @damorton.bsky.social Professor, videographic critic and co-editor of [in]Transition, author of Panel to the Screen, gamer, runner, bass player, wiener dog keeper.
Los Angeles/Texas
https://damorton.wordpress.com/- S Steven Shaviro @sshaviro.bsky.social Stealth assassin from the clouds.
MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @maifeminism.bsky.social MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
Women Film Pioneers Project @wfpproject.bsky.social A digital publication & resource that advances research on silent-era women filmmakers. Published by the Columbia University Libraries.
https://wfpp.columbia.edu/
Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social Programme Leader Open Scholarly Communication at @opensciencenl.bsky.social | Dutch Research Council (NWO) | http://www.openscience.nl | co-founded @MediArXiv.bsky.social | #openaccess | views my own | posts in 🇳🇱 & 🇬🇧 | www.orcid.org/0000-0002-9866-0239
José Arroyo @josearroyo.bsky.social Teacher, critic; interested in all things film. 
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies @jcmsjournal.bsky.social Media studies for all. Print & online open access content. We value accessibility, transparency, diversity, & community. Published through SCMS
Online at: https://jcmsjournal.org
Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social Media scholar, video maker and PhD student at Tel Aviv University. TV studies, popular culture and videographic criticism.
https://www.arielavissar.work/
https://vimeo.com/arielavissar
Laura Bondía @laurabondia.bsky.social Film scholar, journalist, comic-liebhaber
https://encadenados.org/
https://photo-play.net
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Homay King @homay.bsky.social Author, teacher, scholar. Film, contemporary art, digital culture. California raised, Philadelphia based.
https://linktr.ee/homay.king
@kristimck.bsky.social @kristimck.bsky.social