Jean Schwab @jeanschwab.bsky.social Avid reader, aspiring writer, excellent knitter, okay crocheter. Writing center person.
I'm the kind of person who reads about book design for fun.
Veronica Joyner✨🦖🫶🏾 @doctahroni.blacksky.app Mother of humans 👧🏾👦🏾 and dog 🐈. Partner in life 🤎🖤. Feeling like the new Jan Brady ✊🏾💪🏽
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social Into words, sentences, genres.
#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #cdnwrds #genai+writing
https://katjat.medium.com/
Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social Studies rhetoric & writing, autobiography, feminism & religion | AI eye-roller | Currently writing a book about Rachel Held Evans
UConn | Penn State | Newtown, CT | now in East TN
Michael Hessel-Mial @mrpoemguy.bsky.social Poet and scholar, college writing instructor, wife guy, dad to Melody. I’m an editor at specpoverse.org. Science fiction, PDFs, socialism, Jewish mysticism. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
ProfKakie @profkakie.bsky.social Professor of Multimedia. Practitioner of multiple media. WRFL alum. LPFM enthusiast. Kentucky-Penn State-Clemson (NOT for football) ("Khaki" like the fabric.)
Jessica C Adams @jcmadams.bsky.social Comp/Rhet person, writing professor, drinker of coffee, generalized word nerd. she/her
All opinions are my own & occasionally snarky.
Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social gaziano family legacy professor of rhetoric & writing studies | cultural & digital rhet / asian am rhet / UX | refusal.blog | http://www.etsy.com/shop/byebot
Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University. Director, Knowledge Commons. Author, LEADING GENEROUSLY. All opinions my own and not those of my employer, especially the sweary ones.
Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social Muhlenberg College. Assistant Prof of English Literatures and Creative Writing. Writing Program Director. Writing Center Director
Allison Dieppa @amdieppa.bsky.social Instructor of writing and literature at Florida Gulf Coast University | Composition studies, critical AI, and early English literature
Amdieppa.wordpress.com
Any views expressed are my own.
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com 💖Assistant prof of English
💜fan studies & digital rhetoric
💙keeper of Team Rhetoric feed
💖Alliance for Refusing Generative AI Discord https://discord.gg/fPpdr2fkBp
💜writing a book on fanfiction
💙”your silence will not protect you “
Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social She/her; rhet/comp; socialist; CUNY; 💙💜💗
Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social Associate Professor. Digital/feminist rhetorics/writing studies. she/her.
Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social Views are mine, unless retweets. Posts about wpalife, ttrpgs, trans rights, cats & random observations.
Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. Kentuckian. Really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO.
Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren.
send dog pics (alt text a must)
nothing here reps my employer
Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social Love 🎾 and ⚽️. Watch a lot of 📼. 💚 Green. Drink 🍻. 🏳️🌈. Born in 🇻🇮, but linked to 🇻🇬.🍕 is my religion. Schreib mir auf 🇩🇪. Michigan til I die.
📍Austin, TX
CCCC Queer Caucus @ccccqueercaucus.bsky.social Official caucus of Conference on College Composition and Communication, home of the lavender rhetorics awards 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of English & Assoc. Director of First-Year Writing @BaruchCollege, @CUNY | teaching, rhetoric, quant | wooder ice (lemon) | #firstgen | he/him
Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social Director, Program in Rhet/Comp, U of Arkansas
English prof
Writing about #WPALife and writing pedagogy
Loves dogs
Before: Sonoma State English & Dartmouth Institute for Writing & Rhetoric
(views only ever mine, obv)
she/her
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Χριστίνα @drchristinah.bsky.social “A twat” — Andrew Mastrandonas @andrewmceo, founder of Pillar Health
Dr C Naylor Davis @metalbiblescholar.bsky.social Metal studies, biblical studies, feminism, gender studies, 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈ally, disability activism, vegan for the animals...a lot more fun than I sound. I promise. 
Nat Katz @nathanielskatz.bsky.social Roman historian at the University of Arizona. Science Fiction & Fantasy reader and writer. Also: metal, rap, cats, Seinfeld.
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)
Dr. Angela Costello @zostepatrikia.bsky.social Dress and Textile Historian/Archaeologist @ Institute for Digital Exploration - USF. Old clothes pre-1200 is my jam. Florida woman. she/her
Keith Kahn-Harris @keithkahnharris.bsky.social Author. Sociologist. Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Senior Lecturer at Leo Baeck College but here in a personal capacity. Interested in metal, Jews and much else. https://linktr.ee/keithkahnharris
Dr. Laina Dawes @lainad.bsky.social Post-Doctoral scholar @CWRU. Music Critic. Metalhead. Author, "What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal: https://www.amazon.com/What-Are-You-Doing-Here/dp/1935950053
Claire @drclairemcgee.bsky.social 📍Norwich/Northumberland
Academic researcher interested in: art, anthropology, global visual and material culture, costuming, death studies, subcultures and digital humanities
Murderers As Leaders @morbidhegel.bsky.social Antifascist 🤘 🌈 🍉
Jacqueline Jung @profjackie.bsky.social Medievalist and art historian @Yale University, Melville fanatic, music lover, cat mom. Author of THE GOTHIC SCREEN and ELOQUENT BODIES: Movement, Expression, and the Human Figure in Gothic Sculpture
Rosemary L Hill @rosemaryhell.bsky.social Author, musician, feminist, cat-lover obvs. She/her
Por treze, tres @sasoeurjuliette.bsky.social Academia alter-ego of Juliette de Bertole. #Celestina #BookHistory #HispanicMedievalLiterature #HispanicStudies #MetalStudies
Ingres @frandji.bsky.social
~ brazilian, historian, tropical goth.
Ancient History, Classical Reception, Gender Studies, Roman Egypt.
Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social Chair of Languages & Cultures @ Macquarie University. Sociolinguist of Japanese. Lingua Brutallica co-host. Studies Japanese script, media, language, and metal. 日本語の文字やメタル や翻訳を研究する社会言語学者. He/Him.
https://wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com
Simon Trafford @simonjptrafford.bsky.social Early medievalist at IHR, Univ. of London, with a current research focus on water and human immersions. Also ethnicity, identity, migration and modern medievalisms. Regrettably likely to propose a lovely long walk given half a chance.
GalliaTransalpina🍉 @galliatransalpina.bsky.social Underemployed Ancient Historian with a focus on Late Iron Age and Roman Gaul and issues of ethnicty, class, gender, and social power under Roman Imperialism. Attempting to break back into academia.
She/Her
David Burke @metalanalysis.bsky.social PhD: heavy metal studies
Band: S(Ⱥ) | ∞ | a.p.-1 https://absentsignifier.bandcamp.com/
Theory: negative universality | politics of enjoyment | aesthetics of the bad | uncultural studies 
Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social Third-most well-known composer named 'Schumann' - scholar, music writer, working parent, and "less-prestigious faculty" - based in southeast Michigan - founder of #beansky - TBTL Ten
Larissa Glasser @larissaglasser.bsky.social I wrote F4. I like bunnies, heavy metal, medieval history, Clark Ashton Smith. My dad was an anti-Franco spy during the Spanish Civil War, a mafia lawyer, and told Nixon where to stick it. Antifa4Life, Trans rights now, DeathToMAGA
Sophie Laribi Glaudel @eurydicesophie.bsky.social PhD in Ancient History.
Childhood studies, Ancient Greek Religion/Histoire des Religions, Classical Reception Studies.
Chargée de cours à l’Université de Lorraine.
"Membre associée" à l’UR 1132 SAMA.
I (proudly) teach History in highschool for a living
Brian Egede-Pedersen @kindmetalteacher.bsky.social Denmark's Upper Secondary Teacher of the Year 2017, dabbles in part-time scholarship, may often be found talking about Teaching, Templars, and Tolkien - sometimes combined.
Studies far-right appropriation of the Middle Ages against my better judgment.
Herastrophe (Hera Vidal) @herasalander.bsky.social MHA (the degree). She/they. Writer/reviewer, researcher, and metalhead. I sometimes talk about the books I read.
@ninecirclesblog.bsky.social and other bylines.
Se habla castellano/español. Nazis a la horca. #metalbandcampgiftclub #metalmusicstudies
Dr Jamie Stephenson @audioontology.bsky.social ambient metaphysics | music aesthetics |
sontology | poetics of resonance | drone monism | aural hermeneutics |postphenomenology | auditioning
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8211-6586
👹Blackened grindgaze as HERMETIC ABYSS:
hermeticabyss.bandcamp.com
Thorsten Hindrichs @thhindrichs.bsky.social Musikwissenschaftler | Antifaschist | er/ihm, he/him | #rechtsrocktnicht | #Musikwissenschaft | #musicology | #Betze | #diesdas
Charlotte Doesburg @charlottedoesburg.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Music | Somerville College, University of Oxford.
Researching identity negotiations by Russian and Finnish Karelian metal bands.
Committed to providing a messy smorgasbord of hysterical and whimsical ideas.
Julie T @libmetal.bsky.social College librarian, researcher of loud music and motherhood, co-writer of Heavy Music Mothers, Lexington Books, 2023
Sam Thomas @literarymetal.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Studies
Pynchon | Film & TV | Metal & Experimental Music | Genre & Franchise Culture | Political Violence | Star Wars
he/him
Views my own
Nikolai Okunew @nikolaiokunew.bsky.social https://zzf-potsdam.de/de/mitarbeiter/nikolai-okunew
Joe Diaz @realjoediaz.bsky.social Independent Educator for Hire. Will Teach for Food.
https://linktr.ee/joediaz
MetalStats @metalstats.bsky.social Plots, maps, and stats on heavy metal.
Check out my work at: https://metalstats.wordpress.com/
https://app.flourish.studio/@metalstats
Benjamin John @srhgbg.bsky.social The man who (temporarily) killed Svalbard on Metal Archives.
A. Rose Johnson @arosefromthedead.bsky.social Falmouth University PhD student. scholar of queer horror, Tumblr, vampires, and Ghost. not-so-mild-mannered instructional designer by day.
mouse 🐁 @springmcmlxxiv.bsky.social mid 20s. she/they. metalhead, pervert/eroticist, silly goose, caffeine addict.
writing: villainsofcircumstance.substack.com
*:·.✧ ✦ ✧.·:*
https://themousehole.drr.ac (WIP)
🇨🇦
Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie @metalbyzantinist.bsky.social 
Dawn Hazle (she/any) @keletkezes.bsky.social Roleplayer; hobby artist; D&D fanfic writer; admin NCTU; volunteer & trustee @newarkairmuseum.bsky.social; Soviet RU metal music research; polymath. Pan aroace agender; unofficial AuDHD. Personal views only.
Arturo Mora-Rioja @arturomorarioja.bsky.social Musician, Literature Scholar, Computer Science Engineer, Teacher. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bojana Radovanović Šuput @redbosh.bsky.social Musicologist and art theorist; Research Associate @ Instutute of Musicology SASA 🇷🇸; Editor-in-Chief @ INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology🇧🇦
Researching voice, metal music, contemporary music and art.
https://www.bojanaradovanovic.com/
Dr Ben Hillier @benhillier16.bsky.social Australian metal academic, antifascist activist. PhD in music theory/ethnomusicology studying Australian extreme metal and far-right metal. Opinions my own.
Rev. James Clarke @revjamesclarke.bsky.social Ordained Interfaith/Omnist/Pluralist Chaplain and Freelance Community Minister, Father, Husband, Music Lover, Bassist, and Meme Maker
Manuela Tapprich @manuelatapprich.bsky.social MA student in Cultural Analysis & Social Sciences at the University of Zurich,🇨🇭
Currently writing my thesis: 'The Constructed Other in the Extreme: Belonging and Boundary-Making in Death Metal Scenes"
Cultural studies | Metal studies | Ethnography
Dolorous Edd @metalmedievalist.bsky.social History Grad in Bologna | Middle Ages & Medievalisms | Byzantines & Heavy Metal | Fedele allo Imperatore
Owen Coggins @owencoggins.bsky.social noise, fraktur, mysticism
Rosie Overell @rosieoverell.bsky.social ⛧°｡⋆༺ rosie ༻⋆｡°⛧
Media / Film / Comms @ Otago Aotearoa NZ
Lacan | ikebana | grindcore | feminism
Broxton8r @broxton8r.bsky.social PGR @ University of Sheffield. Criminology. Interests in far right extremism, online hate, and media and crime. Metalhead gamer, wrestling fan and book lover
Ross Hagen @rosshagen.bsky.social Musicologist at Utah Valley University | Monstrology bassist
https://linktr.ee/rosshagen
Gabriela Stašová @gabistas.bsky.social Lover of art, literature, culture and nature. Academically immersed in musicology and sociology. Journalist. Amateur painter. Amateur singer. Professional ignoramus of crowds and uniformity. And I love music, metal especially!
Clara C. Wanning @claracwanning.bsky.social Art 20 lV GG
Finding my place somewhere in between negative dialectics and horse stories
@grimke.bsky.social @grimke.bsky.social 
Dr. Ruth Barratt-Peacock @ruthbarrattpeacock.bsky.social Writes on metal, childhood, East Asian popular culture, and Romanticism.
Rubén G. Herrera @rubengherrera.bsky.social Periodismo, Antropología y Música.
Comunicación y Marketing Digital.
Metal Studies.
@lori-a-burns.bsky.social @lori-a-burns.bsky.social 
Vanessa Lavallée @ravenlyght.bsky.social Conférencière en religions anciennes et folklores féminins
Autrice, amoureuse de cafés et de livres 
Leire Olabarria @leireolabarria.bsky.social Associate Professor in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham
@solshine-soulshine.bsky.social @solshine-soulshine.bsky.social 
15 Grams of Religion (Michal Puchovský) @15gramsofreligion.bsky.social Religious studies scholar, metalhead, influencer and geek.
Check my channel 15 Grams of Religion!
https://linktr.ee/15gramsofreligionofficial
Sarah Landry @dayofthesaxons.bsky.social history B.A. (wip)
public history, reception theory, fan/media/cultural/memory studies, heavy metal, late 20c-present.
she/her.
https://villainsofcircumstance.substack.com/
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Tom Morello @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social hoo.be/tommorello
Puptography by Adrian Budnick @puptographer.bsky.social Volunteer puptographer at Metro Animal Care & Control, Nashville, TN. 💙🆘🇺🇸
Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social Congressman for New York's 10th District in the House of Representatives
goldman.house.gov
âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social Award-losing national bestselling Métis author of "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit in Canada", from manitow-sâkahikan/Lac Ste. Anne in so-called Canada. Trying to debunk myths. She/her/wiya
https://linktr.ee/apihtawikosisan
Claire McCaskill @clairecmc.bsky.social Lots of former stuff including US Senator from MO, professional grandmother to 16, baker and political analyst MS NOW
JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social I drive around making deliveries
of stuff to people around the
country. I have a lot of time to let
my mind wander. That's rarely a
good thing. 
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social Religious Studies & Hebrew Bible PhD student📚/Jewish✡️/ADHD & Autistic🎧/Mythology Nerd🏺/Recovering Attorney ⚖️/Perpetually Sleepy💤
(she/her)
Kate, Queen of the Squirrels (she/her) @pavlovcat.myatproto.social She/her. Michigander, AuDHD - Living with POTS, MCAS, celiac, & perimenopausal rage. Fuck fascists. Free Palestine.
Your 1 stop shop for TMI, soap box diatribes, native plant nerdery, cats, and cross-stitch.
I only repost images with alt-text.
Andie Holman - author @authorandie.bsky.social Contemporary fantasy series with sassy female leads, but the main character is always Nature. Romance subplot.
🍁
https://andieholman.com
https://andieholman.substack.com
Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app 
What's Antifa? @thejeder.bsky.social Every generation needs a new revolution. #Impeach #WokeAF #Resist
American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social We're holding Republicans accountable. https://linktr.ee/abpac
Get the Research: http://Research-Books.com
Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net We mobilize the fight for science and democracy - because science is for everyone! 🧬🧪🌎
Donate here: https://bit.ly/SUFS_GIVING
Learn more ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/standupforscience_bluesky
Astrologer Patrick Arundell - The Horoscope Ace @horoscopeace.bsky.social Astrologer to UK Press Assoc, Metro, YouTube Subs 148K, 45M views. 1-to-1 Testimonials http://tinyurl.com/ybzgyafp
Oksana Markarova @oksanamarkarova.bsky.social Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA 🇺🇦Financier, Mother of 4, Ukraine's Minister of Finance 2018-2020
Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social Nothing much to say that hasn’t been said long ago: I’m a doofus and a terrible follow