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Melanie Ramdarshan Bold @drmrb.bsky.social Researching children's & YA books, authors, publishers, and readers at the University of Glasgow.
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Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social Kidlit author. Blasian Muslim magical girl. Always dreaming.
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Idunn Victoria Rostøl @ivrostol.bsky.social PhD in Intellectual History at the University of Oslo. Mission history, childhood, antisiganism, children's literature, and history of emotions. https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/people/aca/history-of-ideas/temporary/idunnvs/index.html
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Krzysztof Rybak @kmrybak.bsky.social Assistant professor, Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, Poland
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Dr. Brigitte Fielder @brigfield.bsky.social Prof. of African American literature before 1900ish, Black children’s lit. 1773-now, & other things (neverending)19th Century. Co-editor, J19. Co-founder, TaughtByLiterature.org. I like birds & trains. Also cats. Mon français est nul. It’s “bridge-it.”
Dr. Cris Rhodes @crisrhodes.bsky.social Associate Professor of English
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Perry Nodelman @ndlmn.bsky.social Retired professor of English lit, children’s lit critic and author, and art gallery docent and guide. My current project is a study of how children’s picture books depict museum art and visits to art museums. I also collect weird salt and pepper shakers.
Stine Liv Johansen @stineliv.bsky.social Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Studying children and young people in digital environments. Specific focus on intersections between children+youth, media, and disability.
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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social Feminist scholar who coined the term: know-your-place aggression. Author of LIVING WITH LYNCHING + FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Editor of IOLA LEROY + INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Literary & Cultural Critic. Runner.
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Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social Children’s comic artist/writer.
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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
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Mary Hicks @maryhicks.bsky.social Author: Captive Cosmopolitans:
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Dr Abigail Fine @onceuponafine.bsky.social PhD in Comp Lit, MA in History. Fairy tales, material culture, (fast) fashion, gender, children’s literature. Special interest in fairy godmothers and American Girl brand.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
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Kate Capshaw @katecapshaw.bsky.social Prof. of English and Social and Critical Inquiry at the University of Connecticut, past president of the Children's Literature Association. Opinions are my own and do not represent my employer.
Robin Bernstein @robinmbernstein.bsky.social Author of Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit and Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. https://scholar.harvard.edu/robinbernstein/home ; robinbernsteinphd.com .
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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
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Jade Dillon-Craig @jadedilloncraig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Children’s Literature @ NTNU, Norway 📚✨ Ed. Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature https://tinyurl.com/FamKidLit 📚 Ed. Children's Literature in English Language Education journal 📚 I love all things books and cats!
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Dr. LuElla D’Amico @luelladamico.bsky.social Early&19th-Century U.S. Literary Historian at the U of Incarnate Word. Girlhood Studies. Children’s Lit. Transatlanticism. Women’s Writing&Religion. 💜Catholicism&Caffeine.
Emily Harrington @emilyharrington.bsky.social teacher, scholar, nineteenth-century poetry, women writers, fin-de-siècle, aesthetics
Hilary Green, PhD @hngreen.bsky.social Scholar, Educator. Author of Educational Reconstruction (Fordham UP, 2016) and Unforgettable Sacrifice (forthcoming Fordham UP, 2025) and other works. 
Dr Robyn Muir @drrobynmuir.bsky.social Lecturer in Media & Communication at University of Surrey researching Disney Princess Phenomenon and Influencer Culture 👑 Founder @DisNet 🏰 Founder
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Rebecca Rowe @drbecca.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Texas A&M Commerce. Children's lit and media scholar. Lover of Disney, animation, adaptation, musicals, and fairy tales.
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
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