Keith W. Mathias @kwmathias.bsky.social Associate Professor, English | first-year writing, embodied rhetorics, illness narratives, film studies, 20th Century American literatures | big union guy | Living with Stage IV ALK+ lung cancer | he/him
Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social Assistant Prof of English at UT Austin. Author of PARASITIC EMPIRES (forthcoming Fall 2026, UNC Press). From Karachi. ✍🏼 on empire/poco, disability, medhums, and more recently Sindh. www.bassamsidiki.com
Danica Savonick @danicasavonick.bsky.social Education, social justice, feminist worldmaking, literature, pedagogy, technology | English Prof, SUNY Cortland | OPEN ADMISSIONS (Duke UP, 2024)
Ted Rooney @tedrooney.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, Wentworth Institute of Technology @wentworthinstitute.bsky.social. President, Wentworth Faculty Federation.
Denise Wong @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social Reviews and Roundtables Co-Editor @c21literature.bsky.social | Author of 'Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Time, Gender and Race' (2025) @edinburghup.bsky.social
Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
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
Meg Brayshaw @megbrayshaw.bsky.social John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature @ USYD. Editor, Aust Lit at Sydney UP. Co-editor, Australian Literary Studies. Current projects: resource extraction & settler colonial spatial imaginaries; Dymphna Cusack & literary commitment in the Cold War
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock @cypheractive.bsky.social I am professor of English at Central Michigan University, president of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic, and editor of American Gothic Studies. I am also the host of DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio and the Psychobilly Family Power Hour.
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Alex Helberg @dystopamine.bsky.social Lecturer at Trinity College, researcher of digital rhetoric and food justice, co-Exec Producer of re:verb podcast
Javier Padilla @jpadillar.bsky.social Assoc. Professor @ Colgate Univ. interested in poetry, postcolonial, Irish, and Latin American Literatures.
Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Writing Studies @ Millersville University
Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social Muhlenberg College. Assistant Prof of English Literatures and Creative Writing. Writing Program Director. Writing Center Director. Director of the Center for Ethics
Adrienne Ghaly @aghaly.bsky.social Literature Professor UVA | Novel, 19c-21c, theory, environmental humanities, art, biodiversity, extinction (views my own)
Cambridge 2027
Alex Trimble Young @alextyoung.bsky.social UCWAZ Member, Teaching Prof at Barrett Honors, and Associate Director of the BRIDGS Initiative for Gun Studies; co-host of Guns Unpacked. Thinking about US literature, settler colonialism, gun culture, radical politics, and the US West. Views are my own.
Karin Westman @westmank.bsky.social Professor of English, Kansas State University
Kristi McKim @kmckim.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Film at Georgia Tech. Writes/reads about ecocrit, joy, cinephilia, time, kids, trees, justice, music(als). Clumsy but earnest yogi, pianist, gardener. “My heart is moved by all I cannot save" (Adrienne Rich) www.kristimckim.com (she/her)
University Press Sales Bot @unipresssalesbot.bsky.social 
fester's quest @nmohlmann.bsky.social English prof (autobiography, the paranormal, colonial Virginia) & south coast vaporwave
Currently writing a book on autobiography in Forteana
becimay @becimay.bsky.social Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social C19th literature. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelitism. Caregiving / Care. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website https://carerspoetry.org/ for poems by caregivers.
Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social Writer and editor in Washington, DC. Bylines in Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Washington Post. AngelicaHankins.com
David Vail @davidvailphd.bsky.social Historian of Environment, Agriculture, Science, Medicine, & Public Health. New Project: Vulnerable Harvests: Emergency Conservation in the Cold War Great Plains (Nebraska Press). My posts and views are my own.
Gabriel Lonsberry @glonsber.bsky.social Shakespeare professor and theater historian into court masques. Experimental music obsessive. Atlanta.
Michael Pittard @michaelpittard.bsky.social PhD candidate researching the rhetorics of memory & nostalgia. Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net nominated poet. Warren Wilson College alum.
Austin J. Clements @clementsaustinj.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame | PhD ‘26 Stanford University | American religious and intellectual history | ASU West alum
Aaron Obedkoff @aabedkoff.bsky.social PhD’ing in English @ Emory: Post45, c21.
Probably running.
Kiron Ward @kironward.bsky.social lecturer in modern & contemporary literature at @standrewsenglish.bsky.social
author of _Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction_
co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social w/ @kdclewin.bsky.social
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Benjamin Saltzman @b-a-saltzman.bsky.social Prof. at the University of Chicago
Author of TURNING AWAY: THE POETICS OF AN ANCIENT GESTURE (Out this April, 2026)
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Jennifer Doyle @fromaleftwing.bsky.social Sports crank, art writer, teacher. Author of Campus Sex/Campus Security, Sex Objects, Hold It Against Me. ACFC fan. 
Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social Associate Professor of Comparative Poetry and Poetics. Co-director Bristol Poetry Institute. Out now: DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS. Out next: HÉLIO OITICICA: PUBLIC WRITINGS. Out before: more.
Bristol, England // Lake Michigan
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
Ryan Asmussen @ryanasmussen.bsky.social Visiting Lecturer in English, UIC / Freelance Writer / Member, NBCC & International Vladimir Nabokov Society. Arsenal.
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, she/her
CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/
Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
Daniel Jenkin-Smith @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Sexuality and Visual Culture, Loughborough University; 19th-20thC literature (esp. poetry), genders/sexualities (esp. queer femininities), portraiture, photography, fashion & celebrity. She/her.
National Humanities Center @natlhumanities.bsky.social The NHC is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing humanities research and teaching and encouraging appreciation for the humanities. nationalhumanitiescenter.org
The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social “A great contrast to the usual magazine.”
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Pavel Andrade @pavelandrade.com Form & space c20-21 Mexican & LatAm lit, theory of the novel, world literature, architectural humanities, peripheral modernism | pavelandrade.com
John D. Attridge @johndattridge90.bsky.social English Researcher in Modernisms, Marxism, class, labour and working-class literatures and pedagogies | Forster, Woolf, Rhys, Conrad and Lawrence | Assistant Book Review Editor for 'The Space Between Journal 1914-1945'
Dr Elizabeth English @drelizabethenglish.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Co-lead on AHRC project (2025-2029): 100 Years of The Well of Loneliness
Alice Keane @alicedkeane.bsky.social Bloomsbury scholar | teaching at CUNY | PhD, University of Michigan | JD, Harvard Law School | Co-Editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives (September 2025)
JT Welsch @jtwelsch.bsky.social Writer, academic, worrier. Literature, creative industries & liberal arts, University of York.
New book: The Poetry of Suicide (MUP, 2026).
Greg Barnhisel @gbarnhisel.bsky.social Pittsburgh-based English professor and writer
Craig Carey @ccarey.bsky.social Associate Professor, USM. Media History, Game Studies, C19 Literature, Critical Theory
Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social Psychic life of culture, green political economy, critical university studies, knowledge-power struggles, epistemic justice.
Kinohi Nishikawa @kinohi.bsky.social English & African American Studies and Director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton.
Jap-Nanak Kaur Makkar @jmakr.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky
Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-unstitch/9780231219648
Jennifer Park @jennmpark.bsky.social early modern literature, critical race, history of science & medicine • environmental and disability justice • community care • she/her • crip time #LongCovid
Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social teacher | scholar | ENG & EDU lecturer | literary, critical, & postdigital #literacies
re:verb Podcast @reverb-podcast.bsky.social Rhetoric and cultural studies podcast project from Alex Helberg, Calvin Pollak, Sophie Wodzak, and Ben Williams. Podcasting about politics, culture, and language in action from an academic perspective.
www.reverbcast.com
Nathan Pensky @nathanpensky.bsky.social Writer. / First-gen CMU Ph.D. adjuncting at Pitt and Duquesne. / Host at Third Person Limited podcast. / Columnist at The Pittsburgh Review of Books. / He/him.
First book, 'Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds': https://tinyurl.com/2pxhu7cu
Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social UAlbany, SUNY Assistant Professor of American Politics. Researching Black Politics, Distrust, and Neighborhood Institutions. 
Calvin @calvinpollak.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Tech & Prof Comm at University of Washington. Formerly: USU, CMU (PhD). Producer, co-host of re:verb podcast (reverbcast.com). Posts my own. He/him.
John Morton @drjmorton.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English Lit and Deputy Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uni of Greenwich. All views my own
Dave Price @prof-price.bsky.social Let’s solve the climate crisis.
SUNY adjunct teaching comp and intro lit. PhD. 2018 dissertation on Joyce, Pound, Yeats (transcendence and deconstruction).
Jenna Gersie @jennagersie.bsky.social PhD in English from CU Boulder. Environmental humanities and American literature.
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social Associate Prof: Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Hum, History of Med, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast
I do not use AI for anything, professionally or personally. All opinions my own.
Alexia Mandla Ainsworth 🦇 @alexiamandla.bsky.social PhD Student at Stanford | Studying the literature, theatre, and games of the (very) long eighteenth century | Gothicist | Game Studies | she/her
Nathan Waddell @drnjwaddell.bsky.social Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature | drnjwaddell.co.uk
Latest books:
- 📚 A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell (Oneworld, 2025)
- 📚 ed., The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell (Oxford UP, 2025)
Sylvie Thode @sylviethode.bsky.social PhD candidate in English at UC Berkeley. Working on HIV/AIDS lit and history, queer theory, poetics.
https://english.berkeley.edu/people/sylvie-thode
Andrea Blatz @andreablatz72.bsky.social Senior editorial associate at the University of Chicago Press. PhD in French studies. 
American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a nonprofit federation of 86 scholarly organizations and the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
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Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social A hub for the humanities, where intellectual relationships are forged across academic boundaries, within and beyond Yale University.
Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social Book worker at University of Texas Press | Formerly a bookseller, at Paris Review | Occasional writing at places like Defector, LARB, Full Stop, The Millions, elsewhere | joelpinckney@gmail.com
Melissa Girard @drgirard.bsky.social I am accused of tending to the past.
Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social Historical sociologist working on beer, food, cities, waterways, textiles. My book on hops in 19th century Wisconsin out in Fall 2026, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo271049878.html aka @sociologyofplants aka @historicalhops
Polity @politybooks.bsky.social The home of independent thinking
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Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social Snr Lecturer in English, Adelaide University| C19/20 lit, modernism| Regional Development of American Bildungsroman (‘23)| Ed. Women of 1922 (‘25)| ARC Discovery Grant Chief Investigator, “Australia’s Modernist Print Heritage” (26-9)| Treasurer, AMSN
nanocrit @nanocrit.bsky.social NANO: New American Notes Online is an indexed, Open Access, and Open Source humanities journal. NANO never charges to submit or to read content. Account managed by the editor, Sean Scanlan, PhD.
https://nanocrit.com
Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social Prof at Birkbeck & canicrosser. LGBTQI+ pasts; modern history of gender & sexuality; literary & cultural history; visual cultures; animals; pet history. Owned by 3 dogs & a cat. She/they.
London & the Surrey Hills via Wales. 💙 in Scotland
Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social professor; writer; black feminist; mother; cookie monster; WBB fan; editorial director of @feministstudies.bsky.social
Jared Gardner @guttergeek.bsky.social Prof of literature, culture, & media. Buckeye. Higher ed chronicler, academic freedom militant. Hobbies include music, plants, & counting pills. 🥄😵💫⚡️ 🕎 Unpopular opinions mine; the popular ones belong to the commons
http://campus-novel.ghost.io
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social historian, author, speaker, podcaster
Resistance from the Right (UNC Press, 2023), Degrees of Liberation (SUNY Press), Inventing the Liberal University (UChicago Press)
🎧 American Campus Podcast
https://linktr.ee/llassabe
Erin Yanota @yanotes.bsky.social thinking transatlantic modernisms, poetry/poetics | writing about mysticism & epic | teaching 20-21st c. US lit | magpie | she/her/hers
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.
Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social Publishing a universe of knowledge for readers worldwide. cup.columbia.edu
Lindsey A. Freeman @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social Lindsey A. Freeman, writer and professor interested in running, soccer/football, and poetics. Her most recent book, Running, is about practice, love, queerness, and long-distance running (Duke).
Insta: atomic_lindsey_freeman
www.lindseyfreeman.net
Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.bsky.social Associate Professor of English @ Emory | Author: *Making Love* | Work: 18th- and 19th-Century British Lit, the Novel, Philosophy and Aesthetics, Sexuality, and Disability | Play: National Parks, Yoga, Criterion Channel, and roughly one billion TV shows
Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ the University of Washington iSchool | formerly an Innovator in Residence @ Library of Congress | essays in WIRED, Gawker, The New Republic, Longreads, Current Affairs, etc.
🌐 www.bcglee.com
Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
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Marta Zanucco @martaswriting.bsky.social PhD in English Literature from the University of Liverpool: autofiction / metafiction / collective authorship
Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy Assistant professor at Yeshiva College in #18thC & #19thC #Literature. #Bentham & #queer #aesthetics (wrote Uncommon Sense, UVaP 2022), national #debt and #slavery […]
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Marc Blanc @blancpages.bsky.social Literary and cultural historian of the left; professor; Midwesternist. Words in Jacobin, Chicago Review, Belt, History News Network, and a few bathroom stalls.
Dan Punday @dan-punday.bsky.social Professor of English at Mississippi State University. I've published on narrative theory, contemporary US (mostly) literature, and computing. Currently working on infrastructure as a narrative issue. Also sometimes makes pottery.
Jemma Walton @jemmawalton1.bsky.social Birkbeck PhD student interested in surrogacy memoirs/ medical humanities; English teacher. I like books...
Scott Cohen @scohen.bsky.social 20th/21st c. lit | digital humanities | fictional futures | crosswords, pencils, books, Faraday cages, radio, &c.
J. Andrew Edwards @jaedwards.bsky.social academic book editor (UVA Press) | digital content producer (Society of Christian Ethics) | background in theology & religious ethics (Toronto, St Andrews, & Union RVA) | jazz aficionado & bassist | haggis chef
Benjamin Williams @bkwilliams21.bsky.social Assistant Prof of English @ Marshall University | All views my own, not my employer's
Corbin Hiday @chiday.bsky.social teacher, writer, reader • Chicago
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.
Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social 📚 Prof of Contemporary Literature & Theory.
🐈⬛ Poet, Londoner, ashtangi, beleaguered cat-feeder.
📕 Author of Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity.
Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social Commuting through Texas on I-10, pretending I'm a trucker, teaching English, making little notes on index cards, writing Egads! about queer picture books in the seventies and eighties. Book of poems,The Law at Night, coming in '27 from U of Nebraska Press.