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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
Derek Kompare @dkompare.bsky.social Media scholar/eulogist, higher ed administrator, teacher, spouse, parent, child, procrastinator, physical media stan, music omnivore, flâneur. Disappointed with the internet since 1995. Posts do not reflect views of my employer.
Adrienne Shaw @adrishaw.bsky.social Author, founder of the LGBTQ game archive (@lgbtagamearchive.bsky.social), professor, and caretaker of plants who are mostly just doing their own thing.
Dr. Marissa Lammon @marissalammon.bsky.social i watch the movies + write the things https://linktr.ee/marissalammon
@jordanrbrower.bsky.social @jordanrbrower.bsky.social
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)
Michelle Amazeen @commscholar.bsky.social Associate Dean of Research, College of Communication Associate Professor of Mass Communication, Director, Communication Research Center, Boston University New book – Content Confusion: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553605/content-confusion/
Jessica Hoover @jawsgirly.bsky.social Doctoral candidate UW-Milwaukee: Feminist media studies, television history, gender history, cultural history. Wife, cat mom, cross-stitcher, romance reader.
NathanH @nathanhal.bsky.social Media educator/artist/worker. New Orleans.
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
Ehsan Dehghan @essideh.com Academic @QUT; Researching various things, all related to antagonism/agonism/discourse online 🌐: https://www.essideh.com
Countess of Monte Fisto @slstalter.bsky.social Opinions expressed here are my own and not reflective of my institution. English prof, writing about NYC performance and mobility. Modernist, mom. Work in Progress on the New York Hippodrome. Pronouns: she/her. https://www.sunnystalterpace.com/hippodrome
Dr Abigail Fine @onceuponafine.bsky.social PhD in Comp Lit, MA in History. Fairy tales, material culture, (fast) fashion, gender, children’s literature. Special interest in fairy godmothers and American Girl brand.
Myles Ethan Lascity @elascity.bsky.social Quasi-jock w/semi-literary aspirations and a hint of nihilism. Fashion media prof. Summertime traveler. Author of "The Abercrombie Age": https://uncpress.org/book/9781469680910/the-abercrombie-age/
Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social AIAS-AUFF Fellow @ Aarhus University (DK). Vice-chair @acsj-ica.bsky.social. Research: social movements & digital media | mutual aid | politics of tech. Book: https://elisabettaferrariphd.com/ancbook/ Hobbies: getting angry at the Philadelphia 76ers
Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social editor & scholar. Pop music, gender, philosophy. Books: GOOD VIBES ONLY; THE FUTURE OF ROCK & ROLL; THE SONIC EPISTEME; RESILIENCE & MELANCHOLY. Writing a 33 1/3 on The Breeders. Bylines all over, views could only be mine lol. its-her-factory.com
Kelsey Cameron @klcameron.bsky.social Assistant professor, film & media, U of South Carolina. Currently writing on: police body cameras | AI business models | queer games fandom
Pratiksha Thangam @drtiksha.bsky.social
Michael Newman @mznewman.bsky.social Milwaukee, WI Media Studies
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social global media professor author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01 español incluído.
Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social University Professor, School of Communication, American University; Editor Emerita, In These Times; Author of books about documentary film, Kartemquin Films, the copyright doctrine of fair use and creativity, "political correctness," and more
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
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
Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Furthering our understanding of the role of communication in public life through research, education, and service.
Brunella Tedesco Barlocco @brunellatedesco.bsky.social She/Her. Film Studies/History professor at @escacub.bsky.social. Co-editor at @ComparativeCinema.bsky.social. Writer at Sitges Film Festival. My views are my own, and all that jazz. 🇺🇾 in 🇪🇸
Elizabeth Graber @elizabethgraber.bsky.social Editor at Rutgers University Press
Michael D. Dwyer @michaelddwyer.bsky.social film, pop music, cultural studies // author, TINSEL AND RUST (oup 2025) and BACK TO THE FIFTIES (oup 2015) // both can't survive // michaelddwyer.com
Laurel P. Rogers @aca-laurel.bsky.social PhD candidate at UT Austin RTF. fans & nostalgia.
Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social Performance historian, disability historian. Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024) 30% off with code NYUP30 https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/ https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈‍⬛️
Rochus Wolff @rrho.bsky.social Folgen Sie mir, ich gehe ins Kino. (Editor, author, film critic, feminist, working dad. Online since 1994. Specializes in children's films, runs @kinderfilmblog.de. Cis. He/Er.) Also on Mastodon: @rrho@wehavecookies.social - https://letterboxd.com/rrho/
Amanda Kennell, Ph.D. @akennell.bsky.social Japanese media scholar @ Notre Dame; author of Alice in Japanese Wonderlands; working on pop media + environment - zoos, anime, collaborations, Godzilla, nuclear stuff, smart phone games, etc. 日本語OK https://eastasian.nd.edu/faculty-staff/amanda-kennell/
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
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social
Kathleen Loock @kathleenloock.bsky.social American studies and media studies | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | New book: Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Shape Industry and Culture (UC Press, 2024) | Emmy Noether Research Group: Hollywood Memories
Benjamin Woo @geekworlds.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University. Studying comic cons and festivals as interfaces between media industries and fan communities. Reading comics, playing TTRPGs, cooking Chinese food. #CatDad
Ben Kruger-Robbins @bkrugerr.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor in the Film Studies program at Weber State University with research/teaching interests in television/broadcast history and queer media.
Mike Miley @mikemiley.bsky.social Books: DAVID LYNCH'S AMERICAN DREAMSCAPE (2025) | TRUTH & CONSEQUENCES: GAME SHOWS IN FICTION & FILM (2019), CONVERSATIONS WITH STEVE ERICKSON (2021) www.mikemiley.com
Performance and Stardom SIG @scms-starperformer.bsky.social The Scholarly Interest Group of the SCMS for Performance and Stardom.
SCMS TV SIG @scms-tv.bsky.social SCMS Television Scholarly Interest Group. Sharing posts, CFPs and info about tv studies.
David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social comm, media industries, platform, social media, and creator studies scholar (aka "creator anthropologist"). In my past life, I spent decades making TV movies and "producing to power".
blu karee-anne @kareexonline.bsky.social apparition • phd student • ⋆｡˚˚ ֶָ֢꒰ঌ♡໒꒱ ˚ֶָ֢⋆｡˚ ( ˊᵕˋ )♡.°⑅ https://stereoscopic.super.site/
Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social Lecturer in Cultural Policy at the University of Glasgow. Media history nerd. Likes archives. Not actually Eve Arden.
CynthiaBemisAbrams @cynthiabemisabrams.bsky.social Minneapolis-based Podcaster of Advanced TV Herstory®, documentarian & writer. Connecting the dots of TV & feminism to American culture & politics since 2015. Sign up for my newsletter - www.tvherstory.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/@advancedtvherstory
Dr. Satenik Margaryan @satenikm.bsky.social An Immigrant, community college professor and a mom. She/her/hers. 🇦🇲 Հայ #RutgersGSN SCJ
Dr Jennifer Mooney @mooneyjennifer.bsky.social Assistant Professor, DCU School of English Children’s & YA Literature MA Chair Applications now open: bit.ly/4hGaOyy MA Blog: https://share.google/4lAJIYRDbWZHNBUJ7
Misha Mihailova @mihailova.bsky.social Assistant Professor, School of Cinema, San Francisco State University. PhD, Yale University. President of the Society for Animation Studies. 🇧🇬 Research: animated media, AI, vfx, video games. Latest: https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/67/2/111/8719517
J @jamierogersa.bsky.social @jamierogersa.bsky.social
Dr. Cris Rhodes @crisrhodes.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Latinx Children's Literature Scholar Felix's Mom (she/her/ella)
Michael Franklin @mcbfranklin.bsky.social academic research & industrial application - film, risk, philosophy, economics, market devices | personal acct | https://ciciexeter.org/ | https://britishscreenforum.co.uk/film-data-initiative-pilot/ | https://mcbfranklin.com/
Kevin McKenna, PhD @watching-rubbish.bsky.social Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction at USF I Researches experimental film, film-philosophy, and ecocriticism through a Bataillean lens.
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)
Annette Wannamaker @o3dipamaas.bsky.social Author of How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist: Storytelling and Narrative Literacy for Young People I share research on rising neofascism in America, works of art, and anti-fascist propaganda. I believe that public education is a cornerstone of democracy.
Celeste Yvonne Howington @celesteyv.bsky.social PhD Student UIowa Comm | Trans Horror, Gay Cartoons, and Camp🏳️‍🌈
Kelsey Moore @kelseymoorej.bsky.social Film & Media Studies PhD candidate @ UCSB || archives, nontheatrical media, memory, & Nikkei wartime incarceration || she/her
Michael Kackman @mkackman.bsky.social Media historian at the University of Notre Dame, and given the circumstances, a reasonably friendly grump.
Briand (Brinni) Gentry @brinnigentry.bsky.social she/her. UMich PhD candidate in FTVM | film history & visual cultures, colonial image regimes, touristic fantasy, experience as mediated by built space & moving image
@kylewrather.bsky.social @kylewrather.bsky.social
@wannacombover.bsky.social @wannacombover.bsky.social
Rob Watts @drrobertbobby.bsky.social Lecturer in Television and Creative Industries, University of Manchester Editor at Critical Studies in Television: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/CST
Ben Pettis @bpettis.bsky.social University of Richmond PhD in media and cultural studies. I research platforms and internet culture Fediverse/Mastodon: @bpettis@benpettis.ninja (https://mastodon.benpettis.ninja/@bpettis) www.benpettis.com
Christy Putnam @christyputnam.bsky.social Writer-Thelma Ritter: Hollywood’s Favorite New Yorker, @upmississippi.bsky.social, 2025…Film Festival Presenter…#TCMFF…#TCMParty…#FilmSky…Native Houstonian….Romper Room Alumni. Blue dot in a red state. 💙
Emilie Rose @helloemi.bsky.social Academic librarian, English professor, digital humanities PhD student with research interests in gender and queer studies, and popular culture.
Jackie Johnson @jackie-johns.bsky.social English/Film Faculty at Pitt. PhD from USC's School of Cinematic Arts. Researching/Teaching TV, digital media, and Black cultural production. Hot sauce enthusiast who resides over a hellmouth.
@ndrossi13.bsky.social @ndrossi13.bsky.social Latinx and Media Studies Faculty in Chi Currently researching Latinx Race & Ethnicity in relation to digital DNA
Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers @drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social Writer~Professor~Literacy Advocate~Blogger~Creative~Community Organizer-Consultant Native Chicagoan living in the south. YouTube: @tiffanyaflowers Spoutible: @Prof_Flowers Fanbase: @drtiffanyaflowers Medium: The Black Aesthetic Tradition Blog
Robert Joseph @robertgjoseph.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University of Dayton. Focus on cinematic geography, American independent cinema, mediations of hell and the apocalypse, and other things. On Letterboxd at https://boxd.it/iB7b.
Mark Edlitz @markedlitz.bsky.social Pop Culture Detective --- Writer of books about movies and pop culture --- MOVIES GO FOURTH: 4th FILMS IN FANTASTIC FRANCHISES and THE LOST ADVENTURES OF JAMES BOND (about Dalton's third and fourth unmade Bond).
Brianna J. C. @briannajc.bsky.social fangirl: juicy stories📖, wnba⛹🏾‍♀️, reality tv 📺, janelle monáe🛸, mindful movement🧘🏾‍♀️, and black feminism👩🏾‍🦱 🇬🇩✨writer, director, poet, filmmaker, theatre 🎥 drama, afrofuturism, musicals 🖖🏾 👩🏾‍🏫filmmaking prof 💻 https://linktr.ee/ladymcbev
Caroline N. Bayne @fkaponytail.bsky.social phd in critical media/media history of the american south; currently researching local television history in mississippi; assistant prof at millsaps college; televangelist (i worship tv)
Collette Snowden @drcollette.bsky.social British/Australian - Communication and Media academic and writer interested in media effects on human society. Everything interests me, especially communication, media, language, music, technology, complexity, and contradiction.
Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
Codruța Morari @cmorari.bsky.social Faculty at Wellesley College. Researching Film Festivals, Public Media, Cultural Policy. Following track, tennis, winter sports news and gossip.
Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social Believer | Happy husband and dad | Associate Professor of History & Director of African Studies, University of Washington | Chosen Peoples (Duke UP), Bounds of Blackness (Cornell UP) UW bio: https://history.washington.edu/people/christopher-tounsel
Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social Assistant professor of moving image archiving at University of Colorado Boulder working on non-institutional approaches to media preservation.
Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social Fact writer. Biographer of Ernie Pyle, John Bartlow Martin, Richard Tregaskis, Malcolm Browne, and Robert Sherrod, among others. Bio about journalist Wallace H. Terry available October 2026: https://www.unmpress.com/9780826370150/wallace-terry/
Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social Restoring and distributing "lost" films outside the Hollywood mainstream since 1990. We mess with the canon. Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, founders. www.milestonefilms.com
José M. Palacios @josempalacios.bsky.social film and media studies | https://www.josemiguelpalacios.com/ | author of Transnational Cinema Solidarity (UC Press, 2025) | assistant professor @ Cal State University Long Beach | latin american cinema - documentary - archives - transnational solidarity
Elia Powers @eliapowers.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Towson University 📖 Author of Performing The News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality 🎙️ Podcaster 🏀 Basketball junkie https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/performing-the-news/9781978836679/ | eliapowers.com
Emerson Victoria Johnston @idenarch.bsky.social currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives) tech policy @ stanford / comms and membership @ AoIR masters x2 @ stanford / bachelors @ northeastern first gen 🎓 | 🏳️‍🌈
tvdoc @tvdoc.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈(He)📺 Broadcast historian focusing on marginalized histories/media policy, TV Lamp collector, Media Studies Prof. 👵 Golden Girls book coming soon! University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. 🌈
Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social scholar of art/cinema/media https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
Damien Cassar @damiencassar.bsky.social Sydney based Screen Director/Writer & PhD Candidate at University of New England. Talk a lot about nostalgia, film and television, culture, politics, and tennis. Reposting not necessarily an endorsement. http://damiencassar.com.au
Kyle Barnett @kylebarnett.bsky.social Media studies professor. Participant observer. Itinerant Hoosier. Author, Record Cultures (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2020). Faculty adviser/occasional DJ, Bellarmine Radio. https://www.kylesbarnett.org/
Bailey Apollonio @bapollo.bsky.social Fifth Year PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan Film, Television, and Media
Rowena Squires @rowenasquires.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Cambridge University. Dissertation: “‘They’re Following Our Script’: 70 Years of Disney & Outer Space”. She/her. https://www.rowenasquires.com
Eduard Cuelenaere @deduard.bsky.social Media & film scholar at Ghent University & Vrije Universiteit Brussel www.eduardcuelenaere.com
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts https://linktr.ee/newbooksnetwork
Harrison Jacobs @harrisonxjacobs.bsky.social Exec editor @ARTnews / reporting in @businessinsider @VICEnews @WashingtonPost @verge, etc. / writing fiction you'll never read
Dr Ellie Tomsett @ellietomsett.bsky.social Comedy academic. Author of Stand Up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms (2023), co-founder of Mixed Bill research network. Book reviews editor for Comedy Studies. Views/cats my own. She/her
Alex Russo @alexrusso.bsky.social Media Studies Professor. Radio, Sound Studies, Culture Industries, Media Technologies. Husband to @LGQ. Dad to F. Y-town raised. Views my own.
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.
The History on Film Podcast @historyonfilm.bsky.social The History on Film Podcast is an award-winning series that looks at the intersections of history, film and media studies, and more. Our goal is to make the educational parts entertaining and the entertaining parts educational. New episodes Mondays!
Ethan Thompson @swigzine.bsky.social media historian, artist, writer, professor @ tamucc and weekend rancher in south texas
Melissa Adler @murmz.bsky.social Prof, FIMS-Western-Ontario. American-Canadian. Cruising the Library (Fordham), Peculiar Satisfaction: Jefferson in the History of Libraries, Archives & Museums (Fordham 2026) Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty Bloomsbury 2026) She/her 🌈
Mehdi Semati @msemati.bsky.social Professor, (Global) Media Studies, Internet-Distributed TV, Cultural Studies, Cross-border media, Digital Diasporic Media, #terrorism studies
Lindsay Hogan @lrhogan.bsky.social Opinions my own.
Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social Film & Theatre scholar - Livecasting, remediation, intermediality, medium identity. Thesis: Both Grand and Intimate - UK Livecasting From 2009 to Now Actually autistic, sometimes writer, cat person. (She/Her)