Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Washington, Information School. PhD in English from WashU in St. Louis.
I’m interested in books, data, social media, & digital humanities.
They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court. 🏀
https://melaniewalsh.org/
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
michelle n huang 🌱 @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social smöl professor of english and asian american studies @ northwestern, beach goth, lymphoma survivor-ing
Scott Selisker @sselisker.bsky.social literature prof at U of Arizona. books: HUMAN PROGRAMMING (on metaphors for ideology), CHARACTER NETWORKS (on social networks in recent US fiction and history, out October 2026). he, suh-LISK-er, views mine, sporadically present here.
Lisa Messeri @lmesseri.bsky.social anthropologist of sci & tech. Prof @Yale. author of "Placing Outer Space" and VR book "In the Land of the Unreal". tech criticism with good vibes.
tony wei ling @tonyweiling.bsky.social comics criticism / research
Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social phd in gender studies - writer of books (Summer Sons, Feed Them Silence, The Woods All Black, and anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity)- he/him
Aaron Obedkoff @aabedkoff.bsky.social PhD’ing in English @ Emory: Post45, c21.
Probably running.
Alden Sajor Marte-Wood @aldenmartewood.bsky.social Founder of record label, MCM-GRIME. Deforming platforms. Covered in moss. Always historicizing.
Diana Filar @dianafilarski.bsky.social Game recognize game.
Gus McFadzean @gusmcfadzean.bsky.social Author of Suburban Fantastic Cinema: Growing Up in the Late Twentieth Century (2019); Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce: A Critical Edition, eds. (2024). Tutor at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/tutors/5
Ryan Topper @ryantopper.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at Western Oregon University. Author of Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature. https://sunypress.edu/Books/A/Animist-Poetics.
Michael George @mikeyjgeorge.bsky.social PhD candidate studying social and cultural history in 1960s and 70s: sex, secularism, suicide and The Samaritans. University of Huddersfield.
jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social they + she
art historian poet
Fil Am messing with Renaissance practices
U Delaware + Philly
co-founder of the journal Selva
https://linktr.ee/henkaipantomime for books and pubs
Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.
J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com
For alerts when something new drops: https://forms.gle/neT79ZHa9BPjGh2m9
USC Cinema & Media Studies
but opinions my own
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
Arthur Wang @arthurzw.bsky.social Scholar of literature, media, and science communication, software engineer, & co-editor @post45.bsky.social
Emmy Waldman @emmywaldman.bsky.social Assistant Professor in English at University of Miami starting August 2026; graphic narrative & other things
Michael James Harrington @michaelharrington.bsky.social NYU provost fellow / assistant professor in English
Mitch Therieau @mitchtherieau.bsky.social East
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
zunguzungu@gmail.com
Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social Finally on Bluesky. The last time it took this much effort to join the uncool kids I went to grad school.
Jean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social assoc. prof of english at york | coauthor of negative life: the cinema of extinction (northwestern) | author of breathing aesthetics (duke) | https://jeanthomastremblay.carrd.co/
Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social Professor at UChicago | bird nerd | lakefront enjoyer | violin player | book hoarder 🚲🦩🏳️🌈
Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social Comp Lit and English Prof. Baltimore. 💙⚓️💚🌱🖤📖. *Speaking only for myself*
Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social UAlbany English | The Art of Slight Living, 1900/2000 (in progress) | Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke UP) | Co-editor (w Sarah Wasserman), Oxford Studies in American Literary History | she/her
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology
Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him.
Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social i’d prefer not to.
Pam Thurschwell @pamthur.bsky.social I'm going back to New York City; I do believe I've had enough. Also recently wrote a book, Teenage Time (Bloomsbury 2025).
Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
Subscribe today!
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Rose Casey @rosecasey.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at WVU.
Views are my own and don't represent my employer.
Author of Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style https://fordhampress.com/aesthetic-impropriety-hb-9781531510626.html
profchander @profchander.bsky.social bad at most things
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
oishani @oishani.bsky.social
race, print culture, pictures
into funny/uncanny things
Katrina Forrester @katforrester.bsky.social
Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social Author of ENTERING SAPPHO, TRANSLINGUAL POETICS, DOWN, & SECURITY POSTURE.
My newest book is HERE IS A FIGURE: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/
Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social Professor&Chair, Gender&Sexuality Studies, University@Buffalo. Awards: Lora Romero (ASA'13); Best Book in Food Studies (ASFS'13); Choice (2022); Alan Bray (MLA&ASA'26); Hon. Mention, Rene Wellek (ACLS '26); James Beard essay award ('23), NHC Scholar 26-27.
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
matthew ellis @matthiasellis.bsky.social cinema and media, capitalism, theory, history, politics
LB: letterboxd.com/mattellis/
www.historiesofthepresent.com
V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social Professing English at the University of Louisville. Poetry, poetics, philosophy, translation — plus old books, old cars, cat pics. Views mine.
Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social soft g. poetry, poetics, public power. _Lyric Shame_https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674734395
Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.
website is medievalkarl.com
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social Author of Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press) and The Wallflower Avant-Garde; Associate Professor of English, Univ of South Carolina
Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today
She/They
amygaeta.com
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
deez contents @lintax.bsky.social gorgeous sweetie with perfect politics and correct opinions that are certainly not representative of my employers’ views
Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social Vulgar Marxist, Kentucky proud, fuck work. She/her
anniemcclanahan.com
Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Appalachian State University | writing on California, African American literature, frontiers, crime fiction | straddling uncomfortably the intersection between Bartleby the Scrivener and Gonzo the Great
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College