Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
Harry Warwick @harry2023.bsky.social
Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.- M Mary Newbold @marynewbold.bsky.social PhD, Birkbeck College: critical theory/visual culture.
Colby Townsend @colbytownsend.bsky.social Dual PhD student (English/religious studies) @ IU Bloomington studying religion and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He/him
Ted Striphas @striphas.bsky.social Prof. & Chair – Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder | Author, Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet (https://tinyurl.com/p8ad6suw) | Opinions my own
Tobias Menely @tobiasmenely.bsky.social English prof at UC Davis writing about planetary pasts and futures
Heather Chacon @wickettred.bsky.social English professor (c19 American), closed adoptee, lover of the arts who studies public health & literature. Also a friendly neighborhood deadhead.
Frederik Byrn Køhlert @frederikbk.bsky.social Associate Professor of English and Film @edinburghnapier.bsky.social. Author of Chester Brown (https://edushare.ing/C) and Serial Selves (https://edushare.ing/D) + editor of Chicago: A Literary History (https://edushare.ing/E).
Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social Romanian/German sociologist, Head of School of the Global Studies Program @UniFreiburg, writes about global inequalities, empire, race, citizenship & forgotten Europes https://tinyurl.com/wbt9wyrm
Samuel Yates @syates.bsky.social Asst. Prof at Penn State. Dramaturg. Write on disability/crip studies, queerness, musicals, literature, aesthetics, performance, and access. deaf. they/he.
https://samuelryates.com
Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor.bsky.social English Department at UNT; modernism, graphic narrative, Lacan and red velvet cake. Currently working on game studies, UX, and writing about grind. (he/him/his)
Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature & Culture at University of Vienna│Leader of Irish Research Council project 'Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing 1860-1950s'│Co-Founder of @flannobriensoc.bsky.social and @theparishreview.bsky.social
Wiktoria Tuńska @wtunska.bsky.social Editorial Assistant at ASAP/Review / Contemporary Literature, Affect, Brexit / she/her 🏳️🌈
Bob Eaglestone @bobeaglestone.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
Anthony Ballas @tonyjballas.bsky.social Duke Lit | NFEE 4935 | @3ammagazine, @monthly_review, @NatCounterPunch, @scalawagmag, @proteanmag @blkagendareport, @plbmagazine | Internationalism | Host: De Facto Podcast |Co-Host Cold War Cinema | Activist News Network | Edits @PortolanSAQ
vicky kluzik @vkluzik.bsky.social works @goetheuni.bsky.social. historical sociologist phd‘ing on the environmentalization of economic knowledge and speculative capitalism. nie ohne soziologische brille. she/her
Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone
Pavel Andrade @pavelandrade.com Form & space c20-21 Mexican & LatAm lit, theory of the novel, world literature, architectural humanities, peripheral modernism | pavelandrade.com
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
Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film (U Minnesota Press, 2025) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917975/capitalism-hates-you/
Once interviewed Wesley Willis
he, him
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Bernice M. Murphy @murphgothic.bsky.social Professor in Popular Literature with a focus on American horror and Gothic narratives & the work of Shirley Jackson. Views own.
Marlon Lieber @marlonlieber.bsky.social Teaches American Studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Posts at the Intersection of Memes and Marxology. Published a book on Colson Whitehead with Transcript: https://t.ly/VgdH7
https://marlonlieber.com
Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social Sociology prof @ Florida International University, senior research associate @ University of Johannesburg, author of Delivery as Dispossession (Oxford UP, 2022), editor of Spectre, deputy editor of City & Community
Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social Co-director of Abundance. Co-author of Radical Abundance (2025) and author of Generation Left (2019). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
Lynda Ng @lyndang.bsky.social Lecturer in World Literature (including Australian Literature) at The University of Melbourne; Honorary Associate at The University of Sydney. Views mine.
Eoin Flannery @eoinflannery.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at @micireland.bsky.social
Poems @eatthestorms.com @thebelfastreview.bsky.social @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @hogriverpress.bsky.social @juniperpoetry.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social C19 Americanist, Université de Lille, feminisms, Men in the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890: Cumbersome Allies (Routledge, 2020), Le droit de vote des femmes aux Etats-Unis, 1776-1965 (2022). Senior fellow Institut Universitaire de France.
RJ Boutelle @rjboutelle.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at University of Cincinnati. Author of The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny (UNC Press 2023). Stray Cat Whisperer. Slap Bet Commissioner.
James E. Dobson @jeddobson.bsky.social Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Author of The Birth of Computer Vision (Minnesota), Critical Digital Humanities (Illinois), and co-author of Moonbit (punctum) and Perceptron (punctum). American Literature, ML/AI/DH
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social he/him. teaching C21 literature at ENU. co-ed of Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (EUP, 2023). Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism (EUP, 2024).
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
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.- S Steven Shaviro @sshaviro.bsky.social Stealth assassin from the clouds.
Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social Professor of multiethnic US lit; au of Dedication (2011), Anti-Imperialist Modernism (2016), Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism & the Cultures of the US Jewish Left (2025). He/him. 🕎🌹😷🇵🇸Chicago 🐢
https://iusb.academia.edu/BenjaminBalthaser
Nalo Hopkinson - Jamaica Ginger & Other Concoctions @nalohop.bsky.social Award-winning author of prose & comics, maker of food and small objects she/her/hers http://nalohopkinson.com
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social Associate Professor in World Literatures at Durham University. Marxist literary criticism & environmental humanities, new peasantries, agroecology, post-capitalist futures. Views mine.
Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social Global + postcolonial + comp lit, theory; translator. Assoc. prof. Views/prons: his. Books (@uminnpress.bsky.social): Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent / Ed. Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
sari edelstein @notsorry-sari.bsky.social English prof @UMassBoston | 19thc US lit | new project on the American beach | *Adulthood & Other Fictions: American Literature and the Unmaking of Age*🌈
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.
Steve Jones @profstevenjones.bsky.social Professor of #HigherEd, UoM, UK
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#PFHEA
Simon During @simoncd.bsky.social Bookish married English professor, living between Brisbane and Berlin. Interested in way too much, reads indiscriminately, and, cant seem to help myself, has opinions on pretty much everything.
Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social Lecturer in 21st Literature - Secretary of IASIL - Member of Young Academy of Ireland
#IrishStudies #HarukiMurakami 🍉🇵🇸 #AcademicSky
Andrew Epstein @andrewepstein.bsky.social Professor and Chair of English @FloridaState; author of "The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945," "Attention Equals Life," "Beautiful Enemies," & "Locus Solus: the New York School of Poets" blog
Michelle Burnham @curiousmonolith.bsky.social Prof at Santa Clara University. 🏳️🌈 Writer of books on American literature. Editor of Re-Editions series at Lever Press. WNBA fan. Writing a book on the 1970s. Reclaimer of bad texts and decades.
Alex Saum @alexsaum.bsky.social reader, writer, poet, editor, professor. Doing digital things in and out of UC Berkeley (she/her)
http://www.alexsaum.com/
Managing Editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, among many other things!
Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social I teach French lit sometimes in English @ Boston U. Also history, visual, popular & material culture, gender & sex at the fin de siècle, photography & mass press. Books: Before Trans; Having it All in the Belle Époque; The Hysteric’s Revenge.
Tom corby @tomcorby.bsky.social Artist@Atmospheric Research Collective
https://www.atmospheric-collective.org, honorary visiting Professor, University of Westminster
Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social English Prof at Penn State University. Wrote a book on utopia and politics, A Desire Called America (Fordham UP, 2019). Writing on Marxism, lit theory, speculative fiction (SFF), contemp novels & poetry. Assoc Editor of Utopian Studies. Views my own.
@hilaryemmett.bsky.social @hilaryemmett.bsky.social Associate Professor at UEA (American literature and culture) and recent MASIE grad at UCL. Transnational American studies, children’s literature, inclusive pedagogy, celebrating neurodiversity, protecting trans kids. She/her.
Robert Yeates @bobyeates.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Literature, Okayama University, Japan. #OpenAccess monograph: American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction http://uclpress.co.uk/AmericanCities
AM_Marini @annamartamarini.bsky.social Humboldt Research Fellow at JFKI FU Berlin | CDA&visual media | heritage/borderlands, ethnoracial violence, exclusionary/national identities | horror/gothic mediascapes, ocular uncanny and dental angst | annamartamarini.com
Alex Calder @dralexjcalder.bsky.social ECR in Contemporary Lit | teaching at University of Cambridge | writing Ali Smith and the Politics of Connection (Edinburgh UP) | co-editor Ali Smith: Critical Essays (Routledge) | Membership Secretary @bacls.bsky.social | from Caithness, Highland; he/him
Thomas Ruys Smith @thomasruyssmith.com Prof of Lit and Culture, mostly nineteenth century. Coming soon: 🎅 🔎 Searching for Santa Claus: An Anthology of the Poems, Stories and Illustrations That Shaped an American Icon. Writing a book about Mark Twain & London.
http://www.thomasruyssmith.com
Clare Hooper @clarehooper.bsky.social Director of of Journals Publishing at Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social. Cat servant to 3, I like books, running, horror films and big cups of tea (all views are my own).
Ian Alan Paul @elbienmaspreciado.bsky.social This account posts automated updates from www.ianalanpaul.com
Gabriela Minden @marieminden.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University | author of Modernism after the Ballets Russes (OUP) - https://shorturl.at/ReFmK | working on a new book about modern poetic drama and dance
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
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.
Judith Paltin @jpaltin.bsky.social English professor. I support trans and NB rights without reservation.
Ale Bottinelli @alebottinelli.bsky.social Profesora de Literatura - Universidad de Chile
Paul Stubbs @paul-stubbs.bsky.social Gramscian Sociologist Working on the New International Economic Order and Non Alignment Cricket umpire Liverpool fan Shy and Retiring
Roberto del Valle @robdelv.bsky.social Profesor Distinguido "Beatriz Galindo", UAH (Spain). Associate Professor of English Literature, Södertörn University (Sweden). British Working-Class Lit. Radical Politics. Critical Theory.
Mitch R. Murray @mitchrmurray.bsky.social Literature and sci fi scholar
Contributing editor, ASAP/Review
Host, Less Worse podcast, https://tinyurl.com/lessworse
Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics.
Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022). https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/494-hegemony-now?srsltid=AfmBOoqJNrqKZ8ydc63_O5y4SrzNyv9lpYrFBw3P-Bs4O0Y-tEdJft1u
www.jeremygilbert.org
camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social Studying platforms & their fauna
postdoc-ing @ University of Milan
Sommerfeld @sommerfeld.bsky.social American Studies | University of Göttingen | sublimity | C19 | Poe | environmental humanities | COVID realist |
Smaran Dayal @smaran.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Literature, Stevens Institute of Technology | PhD @nyu.edu | CLAGS
📚: Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts (2020) | Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (2024)
César Domínguez @drcesarpdp.bsky.social Prof de Literatura Comparada. Traballo en literatura mundial | tradución literaria | estudos transatlánticos | postsecularismo | literaturas menores | humanidades públicas
linktr.ee/CesarDominguez
Coordinador do Mestrado en Estudos da Literatura
Sean Pryor @seanbpryor.bsky.social Associate Professor of English @UNSW : poetry and poetics : modernism : editor, http://affirmationsmodern.com
Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social WFU English / WFU Humanities Institute / Melville's Democracy: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35599 / Leviathan: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/601 / Should be going for that run.
Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social Reading, writing, & thinking about cosmopolitanism, internationalism, decadence, anticolonialism, anti-fascism, modernism – & Una Marson, Nancy Cunard, Edith Wharton, & other people & things like that. Leverhulme ECF in English at University of Edinburgh.
Ericka Beckman @erickabeckman.bsky.social Marxist lit prof. Author of Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America's Export Age and--soon--Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism
Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social The University of Warwick’s Department of Film and Television Studies. One of the UK’s leading departments in film and television research and teaching.
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon @emdillon.bsky.social Literature professor at Northeastern University. Book-in-progress: Sweetness and Ruin: A History of Sugar, Race, and Capitalism (Dutton 2027). From the 17th-century plantation to 21st-century diabetes epidemic.
Writing: https://emdillon.substack.com
Annie Webster @anniewebbo.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF researching stories of displacement in Syria & Scotland at the University of Edinburgh
Rita F @ritafelski.bsky.social Currently finishing "Reading with the New Frankfurt School." PSA: postcritique is not anti-critique. Corgi lover
Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social A fool abroad. Assistant professor @ Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley.
Emma Bond @efbond.bsky.social Professor of Italian & Comparative Studies, University of Oxford. Interested in migration, museums and empire. New book CURATING WORLDS out Dec 2024.
Marika Cifor @marikac4.bsky.social Asst Prof @ UW iSchool | archives, digital studies, HIV/AIDS, gender and sexuality studies | she/her
Susan H @susanh.bsky.social English prof and union activist. Culture wars, academic freedom, and the novel. Oh Florida. Opinions, when I offer them, are my own. @uffuf.bsky.social
Rachid Benharrousse @benharrousse.bsky.social Research Fellow @AUC | Migration, neoliberalism, infrastructure, necropolitics, culture, and everything lost in-between.
Emanuelle Santos @emanuellersantos.bsky.social Associated Professor in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Xine Yao PhD (she/they) @xineyaophd.bsky.social DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine
from the colonies
https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
Marcelo Nogueira @marcelonoah.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University – Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Cultures; Sound, Media, Technology; Poetry, Songwriting, Avant-gardes | Posts in English, Portuguese & Spanish
Sofia de Melo Araújo @sofiameloaraujo.bsky.social Literary Studies scholar (Research interests: Ethics and Literature, Contemporary Narrative, Education)
Adjunct Professor at Porto Polytechnic and University of Porto
Head of the Foreign Languages Department at the School of Education- Porto Polytechnic
Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social associate professor of English at Hartwick College | criticism: C20-21 lit. & culture | poetry: The Rocking Chair (2015), The Shape of Things (2017), & 2013–2017: Sonnets (2024) | https://bradleyjfest.com
PVermeulen @pverm23.bsky.social Literature scholar @KU Leuven
www.pvermeulen.com
Amie Doughty (she/her) @amieadoughty.bsky.social English professor; fantasy, children's and YA literature, and folk literature scholar and fan; cricket and hockey nut
Heather Milligan @hrmilligan.bsky.social Research Fellow at Loughborough University // contemporary lit, ecocriticism, and American culture // writing a book called Ecogothic America and the Twenty-First-Century Novel (forthcoming Edinburgh University Press) // she/her
Florian Stadtler 🦀 @flostadt.bsky.social Associate Prof at Bristol Uni, researching British South Asian history, film, literature and Indian popular cinema; world lit and postcolonial studies | trustee Wasafiri magazine | love all things theatre 🎭 |black cat magnet 🐈⬛
Esther Rose Leslie @afoggyplace.bsky.social Somers Towner, militant aesthete.
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
William Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social Political theorist. Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hunter College CUNY. Political ecology of the far right w/ @zetkincollective.bsky.social