BACLS @bacls.bsky.social The official account of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies. www.bacls.org
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
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Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Harley E. Ryley @harleyeryley.bsky.social Researching memoir and how we write it at The University of Sheffield (AHRC funded) and writing sassy self-deprecating life-snippets. Musing on what it is to be a creative researcher. Reading romantasy for balance.
Leonard Zinovyev @leonardzinovyev.bsky.social Digital art director. Visual artist, poet & fiction writer. Surreal and satire. ⚠️
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Joseph E Brockway, PhD @josephebrockway.bsky.social Poet, collagist, translator, & Spanish professor interested in #Surrealism, Puerto Rico, & #Translation Studies. Poems & translations have been published in SurVision Magazine, Queen Mob's Teahouse, New Poetry in Translation, Reliquiae, and others. #ALTA49
Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social Surrealist, Writer/Artist, Media Editor
Galaxist, Tulpa at-large
Alex Watson Jones @awatsonjones.bsky.social V&A Provenance Research Curator
The University of Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social We're a QS World Ranking Top 100 University changing lives through education and research since 1905.
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James Harvey @jch987.bsky.social Film and Media, University of Hertfordshire | John Akomfrah (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2023)
Victoria @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social phding, grad rep, teaching in dept of film studies at king's college london 🚀 researching masculinity, politics, laughter in post-2016 us pop culture 🔮 AFHEA 🛸
Geoffrey Maguire @maguiregeoff.bsky.social Associate Professor of Spanish @CaiusCollege.bsky.social. Queer ecologies | sexuality and gender | blue humanities | Latin America. he/him.
BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social The BAFTSS Special Interest Group on Colour and Film, connecting scholars, filmmakers, archivists and film conservation specialists: http://colourandfilm.com
Dr Matt Hilborn @matthewhilborn.bsky.social Film Comedy Researcher, University College Dublin
Film Comedy and Spain: Humour, Genre, and the Nation 1970-2020 (Legenda, 2025) - buy now!
Writing on 21st-century rom com (film/TV) in Spain
Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS).
Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals.
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
Elisha Wise @elishawise.bsky.social PhD student working on Sylvia Plath and representations of the self across an intertextual autobiography at the University of Sheffield
Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social Professor of English, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
Luke Surzyn @lukesurzyn.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Sheffield researching queer nineteenth century linguistics // He/him.
Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social Indie Publisher of historical fiction, championing authors and stories based in Northern England and Scotland. SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Ella Ruby Self @local-sea-wytch.bsky.social Author, professional daydreamer, find me where the water is clear and the sky is big
Máiréad Casey @maireadcasey.bsky.social Research interests: horror, gender, genre, sexuality onscreen, representations of sexual violence, demon possession
Peter Marra @thepetermarra.bsky.social Spoopy queer AuDHD professor.
Author of QUEER SLASHERS.
All pronouns.
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Seda Öz @ssedaozz.bsky.social Film & Adaptation Scholar | Asst. Prof. @BilkentCOMD
Treasurer, Association of Adaptation Studies
Founding Editor, Adaptation Today
Dr Eve Benhamou @evebenhamou.bsky.social She/her. Senior Lecturer / Maitresse de conférences, Université Bordeaux Montaigne. Teaches & researches contemporary American cinema & anglophone animation. University of Bristol alumni
Book on Disney animation published by EUP (2022)
Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social Pokémon Content Daily
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Tugce Kutlu @tugcekutlu.bsky.social MA @ucl. PhD Candidate @ilefsocial. Palestinian documentary cinema. Horror film, grief, death, trauma. She/her. Instagram: t_kutlu88. Host of Death and Other Things podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ipkN2ggrWGOB2w2Hkalxj?si=oiFz6V2dRzGQFQ_Ps9i4HQ
🗃️ Women’s Screen Work in Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social Our AHRC-funded project aims to make the history of women’s screen work better known by working with #archives, #museums and #filmmaker donors. 🗃️ 🎞️ 🎥 https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/ Posts by Project Team, project lead: @helenexeter.bsky.social
Molly Leeming @mollyleeming.bsky.social PhD student in the School of English at University of Sheffield, researching women's role and creative labour in British northern social realist film and television.
James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice. 
Sarah Haylett @sarahhaylett.bsky.social AHRC PhD researcher between Tate and UCL researching community archiving methodologies for socially engaged art.
Reshaping the Collectible research: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/reshaping-the-collectible
Rebecca A @creativeresistance.bsky.social Filmmaker Writer Educator
Surrealist Buddhist
Love, art, alchemical connections
@julia-troj.bsky.social @julia-troj.bsky.social PhD candidate. Critical theory, labour history, surrealism, and film.
Tom Mason @tommason.bsky.social Newcastle University Film Theory and History
Surrealism, Hollywood, Horror, and Bond
Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social Writing about women and surrealism and cinema. Cat worshipper. Small Brummie. Tired.
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International Society for the Study of Surrealism @isss-surrealism.bsky.social https://surrealismstudies.org/
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Sam Twyford-Moore @samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social Author, fool.
Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com De/anti-colonialism, Indigenous Cinemas, Settler National Cinemas (CANZUS).
Settler kid, raised on Peramangk country.
Programming: londonaustfilm.com
Teaching: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social
Ellesse Patterson 🐝 @elpatterson.bsky.social AHRC funded PhD student at the University of Sheffield, researching monstrous reproduction in long 19th-century British Gothic. She/Her.
Emily Naish @emjlynajsh.bsky.social PhD candidate at Uni of Shef | Ecology and genre in early modern lit (esp. in Poly-Olbion!) | she/her 🍄
Sheffield Arts & Humanities @uos-artshumanities.bsky.social Exploring what makes us human through the study of languages, literatures, cultures, histories and ideas.
Tilly Guthrie @tillyguthrie.bsky.social C19 tactile alphabet enthusiast, book/disability history, and otherwise doing folky things. PhD candidate in History
@sheffielduni and WRoCAH
Melanie Williams @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social Norwich-based film and media prof. Books on A Taste of Honey, 1960s, stardom, David Lean, Ealing, J. Lee Thompson, etc. Currently working on ace director Muriel Box. Opinions very much my own.
Dr Jonny Smith @jsmithy64.bsky.social Film Studies Lecturer in Leeds with PhD in researching Brutalist Architecture & British Cinema. Long-suffering Fulham & Aldershot fan. Views are my own.
David Forrest @davidforrest.bsky.social Professor in Film and Television Studies - work on British cinema, television and literature with a focus on class and region.
Deputy VP Education at The University of Sheffield.
Football, fiction, music, running and cricket the rest of the time.
Xanthe Pajarillo @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇵🇭 Film Director doing a PhD in Horror
🐁 The Feral Academic
🎬 In Post: Kids Make Horror
📍 Birmingham UK 🔁 LA
Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social Teaching film and writing at U Birmingham. Co-Convenor BAFTSS Adaptation SIG (https://bsky.app/profile/adaptationsig.bsky.social) and MHHRN (mhhrn.bham.ac.uk). Podcast: B Film Queer Pod 🏳️🌈(https://tinyurl.com/2bbw5ywd) 
Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social Associate Lecturer, AUB | Non-Executive Director, Workers Policy Project | Author of 4 books with Bloomsbury & EUP
Matthew Bruce @mattbruce007.bsky.social PhD in French (Film) Studies student @LCAHM_UoB looking at comedy cinema. PGTA @unibirmingham. SEA @pg_cal. PGR Rep for @baftss. Views are my own.
BAFTSS @baftss.bsky.social British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies #BAFTSS2026
BAFTSS Conference 2025 @baftss2025.bsky.social Official account for the BAFTSS conference 2025, held at the University of Warwick on 26-28 March 2025. #BAFTSS2025
Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social PhD on class & alcohol in 18th cent. art & literature / a Manc studying at the University of Sheffield / very grandma-esque / BSECS PGR Representative
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