Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social SDS is a lively scholarly association made up of artists, scholars and activists who promote Disability Studies. #DSQArchives #Soc4DisStudies
Find out More At: linktr.ee/dis_studies
Brian Singleton @bsnglton.bsky.social Retired from School of Creative Arts & The Lir Academy, Trinity College Dublin
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social writing professor ✨ appalachian transplant ✨ bad feminist
I talk a lot about accessibility, disability justice, self-care, teaching, zines, & wildflowers.
allisonhitt.com
profile: white woman with glasses wearing a black mask | banner: white trout lily
Ariel Nereson @arielnereson.bsky.social Associate Professor @ University at Buffalo and Coeditor of Theatre Journal. Author of Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary American Performance, and the Racial Past. Current projects: monuments, performance, afterlives of conquest.
Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social Professor @UCLA @UCLAEEB
Studying ecological effects of global change (range shifts, #phenology, and #wildfire) on #birds and occasionally other organisms. Proudly LGBTQ (he/him)
Tweets entirely my own
@azapfel.bsky.social @azapfel.bsky.social 
Jeremy David Engels @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social Professor of Democracy, Ethics, and Rhetoric + Mindfulness teacher-scholar-practitioner. Author of On Mindful Democracy (Parallax 2026). Newsletter: zenandtheartofdemocracy.substack.com Email: jde13@psu.edu
David Pettinicchio @dnpetti.bsky.social Associate Professor/Associate Grad Chair Sociology/ Munk School @University of Toronto. Instagram @dn.petti
Jordan Scott Hardesty @jshardesty.bsky.social PhD Theatre and Performance student @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Brooklyn, NYC
Dutch language theatre and culture, political performance, the performativity of the economy.
Gays Of Bluesky @gaysof.bsky.social #1 source of gays on Bluesky
Jonathan Hsy 許維成 @jonathanhsy.bsky.social (he/他/伊) Literature & language & theory & disability & donuts & ampersands. Cripqueer. Antiracist Medievalisms: From "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter (2021)
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83922
Saul Lyons @slyons.bsky.social I draw men. Here’s my website:
saullyons.com
Rye Gentleman @ryegent.bsky.social Performing arts librarian, writer of performance/trans/new media studies things, in the throes of NRE with NYC. He/him.
TrentOn @snackerman92.bsky.social Kentucky boi in Chicago doing his best
Sleep deprived and fired up 🏳️🌈
Jamie @ajamie.bsky.social The best dancer at St. Bernadette's
📍LA
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social Fangirl, Associate Professor of media studies at UT Austin, author of "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019) and a bunch of other stuff. Posts aren't endorsements, mind your own cartwheels, etc. etc.
Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social Intersectional feminist and neuroaffirmative researcher & educator | Media Studies & Education | MU | Neurospicy Nerd | She/Her | Views are your ma's.
Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social English professor in Fukuoka, Japan; research focus on utopias in literature with forays into science fiction, ecocriticism, & monster theory. Immigrant, LGBTQIA+(bi).
https://dystopianflower.leaflet.pub/
https://linkat.blue/azzageddi.myatproto.social
Michael Shallcross @michaelshallcross.bsky.social Wrote a book about G.K. Chesterton and literary modernism. Now working in uni admin, but still doing research - see pinned thread for info on my current project, 'Inscribing Pandemonium'. Also posting about music, culture, politics, random nonsense.
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social Prof of History at The New School | Author, FIT NATION (2023) + CLASSROOM WARS (2015) | Last Pod: EXTREME for BBC | Words: WSJ, MS NOW, NYT, CHE, etc | Fellow, Carnegie Corp/NEH Public Scholar | Mom | NYC
Robert Dahlberg-Sears @dahlbergsears.bsky.social PhD in Punk Stuff, Sendai dweller, ethno/musicology, folklore, and anthropology
Punk/alt. musics in Japan
he/him
Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
Learn more: jaivirdi.com
Corinne Matthews, Ph.D. @corinnekathryn.bsky.social Scholar of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Fantasy, & Consent | English PhD | Cohost of Sex. Love. Literature., a Pop Culture Podcast, found at @sexlovelitpodcast.bsky.social
Claire Denelle Cowart @clairedenelle.bsky.social Literature professor specializing in Irish lit, Jane Austen, detective fiction and modern Brits. Twitter refugee (was ccowart1). Live close to NOLA. Married with grown children and grandchildren. Eyeing retirement. she/her
Niki Dolfi Hall @profdolfi.bsky.social Sociologist by birth, weird-ass human by training. Researching religious discrimination | nontheism | microaggressions | pop culture. Coming soon chapter on Father Brown & nontheism
Me: 🌱🍽🎤🎨🎬🏳🌈♿
Follow ≠ Endorse. Mix of personal + professional posts.
Marc A. Ouellette @burnedprof.bsky.social 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info.
my passport says i am 183cm tall.
when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere.
ça que c'tait.
Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social scholar of art/cinema/media
https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
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
Nilanjana Bhattacharjya @nilanjana.bsky.social Teaching professor at a large public university in Arizona. I start more books than I finish and write on music and films. (I also photograph trees.)
Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
Kristine Toft Rosland @kristinerosland.bsky.social Associate Professor University of South-Eastern Norway. Reader of weird texts, from Nag Hammadi to fanfiction
🏳️⚧️Critical Kate Willært @katewillaert.bsky.social (Pronounced WILL-ert) | Investigating forgotten gaming history | Creator of the greatest Metroid video on Youtube | Asexual, autistic, artistic, 🏳️⚧️(she/her) | Linktree: https://katewillaert.com/link-tree
Emily Corbett @dremilycorbett.bsky.social Academic specialising in children's and YA literature. Head of the MA Children's Literature programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. General Editor of The International Journal of Young Adult Literature.
Dr Leah Phillips @lephill.bsky.social Senior Lecturer & Programme Lead at @marjonuni. MA Lit for Social and Environmental Justice launching in ‘25 (pending final approvals). Author of Female Heroes in YA Fantasy & Founder of @YAStudiesAssoc. Views my own. Also, I read banned books.📚
Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social Feminist academic and ECR. Lecturer in Sociology @ University of Manchester, UK. Author of Feminist Fandom (2024). Interested in youth, gender, digital/pop culture, platforms + anti/feminisms. She/her. https://linktr.ee/brionyhannell
Dr Alice M. Chapman-Kelly (she/her) @alice-mck.bsky.social Teaching Associate @strathclydehass.bsky.social - author of *Decolonising the Conrad Canon* (2022) and *Fanfiction as Queer Healing* 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Dr Thomas Baudinette @tbaudinette.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Global Cultures at Macquarie University; East-SE Asia (Kpop, BL, idols), esp. queer media; opinions my own
Louisa @fanvidcrit.bsky.social Mother, scholarfan, remix vidder. Associate Prof of Film & Media Culture and Middlebury College. She/they https://criticalcommons.org/user/Lstein/media
Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social Historian | Author of DEFENDING THE ARCTIC REFUGE, SEEING GREEN, & NATURAL VISIONS | Environmental History & Visual Culture | North American West, Arctic, & other places
Arctic Refuge Public History site: defendingthearcticrefuge.com
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Kimberly Pierce @kpierce624.bsky.social Critic. Archivist. Author.
Co-Chair Denver Film Critics.
https://piercingpopculture.substack.com/
Allison McCracken @shegiles2010.bsky.social American Studies prof at DePaul; cultural history, pop culture & media, gender/queer/feminist/madness studies. Wrote REAL MEN DON’T SING. Peak tumblr is my aesthetic.
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan.
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.
Dr Jennie Gouck @jenniegouck.bsky.social WiRe Fellow at University of Münster 📚 Researches girlhood in American YA 🤓. ChLA Membership Committee 👥. Reviewer for Kids Books Ireland 🇮🇪. She/her.
Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social Feminist, abolitionist, anti-racist collector of religious kitsch and novel experiences.
Skeets are mine and mine alone, & u should hold my employer accountable for their words and deeds.
Dr. Shelby Judge @shelbyjudge.bsky.social Lecturer • researches feminist myth retellings and, sometimes relatedly, incels • Seed Talks speaker on folklore & myth • good at book recs • she/her 🏳️🌈
Dr Chiara Bullen @chiarab.bsky.social ✨🏔️ THE INN AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT VENGEANCE IS OUT NOW 🏔️✨
sometimes author, sometimes academic. always anxious.
glasgow.
rep: Jessica Mileo
contact me buy my books etc: https://linktr.ee/chiarabullen
Marcelo Ribeiro 🇵🇸 @marcelorsr.incinerrante.com militonto do inutilitário, pós-doutor honoris causa em línguística pela unipântano, pesquisador de anarqueologias, professor de cinema-delírio e entropólogo
Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen + Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social Film historian in German cinema. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the Universität Leipzig researching German cultural diplomacy at film festivals during the Cold War. Lecturer at the Europa-Universität Viadrina.
www.elizabeth-ward.com
David Bering-Porter @atg-dbp.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Culture & Media @ The New School.
Living at the crossroads of Media Theory, Black Horror / Zombie Movies, and AI / Digital Culture.
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators 
Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen @sheribiesen.bsky.social Cinema Professor. Film History. Jazz. Books: Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style. Blackout: World War II & Origins of Film Noir. Film Censorship. Music in the Shadows📚📽️🎷
https://noirbooks.blogspot.com
https://SheriChinenBiesen.blogspot.com
Andrew Green @drandrewjgreen.bsky.social I write about music and musicians, activism, climate + environmental crisis, México. Lecturer in the Anthropology of Music @KCL. Nie wszystko co pozytywne jest realne
Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking at Lancaster University, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. Co-Director of @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social. Wrote for @blackarchive.co.uk. She/her.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
Dr Ross Garner @drrossgarner.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @Cardiff JOMEC. Co-Investigator of media.cymru media tourism research. Co-editor of Popular Communication journal. Ask me about #Pokemon #JurassicPark and #Dinosaurs
More information at: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/garnerrp1
Liz Evans @lizjevans.bsky.social Professor of Screen Cultures at Uni of Nottingham. Writing about audiences, media industries, technologies, & transmedia while mum to two future superheroines. Co-Editor of ‘Participations’.
Paul Gagliardi @pgagliardi.bsky.social Teaching Assoc Prof at Marquette University, Dad, Terrible hockey player
https://paulgagliardi.squarespace.com/
Dr Adam @theeuphemism.bsky.social Dr Cyberpunk PhD. Literature and Games academic replete with an untended plastic minis addiction, brass band love, and an optimistic perspective on walkable distances. He/Him
Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social Associate Prof of English at Duke. My new book We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature (Columbia UP) comes out Summer 2026! More about me here: https://aarthivadde.com
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Mavcall @mavcall.bsky.social comm prof: pop culture & online pedagogy. human to devon rex supergroup: Huey Lewis 🌈, Joan Jett, Stevie Nicks, Eddie Vedder, & Billy Idol. gluten free foodie. clean air advocate. ❤️ my mn lynx, and twolves! Naz Reid.
Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social Media Studies Lecturer and PhD Student studying fangirls @ Uni of Huddersfield, girlhoods, popular music, fan politics, celebrity etc
Uni of Leeds and Emerson College alum, from LA now cozying up in the Yorkshire countryside.
queer audhd disabled
Cariad Martin @cariadroseandco.bsky.social PhD researcher and lecturer in Media Studies | Family media and fandom, digital childhood, media ethics | Tragic Millennial | Parent | She/her
Matthew Thompson @drmatthewthompson.bsky.social Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media. He/Him
Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social Book history, disability studies, and digital humanities. Specialty in tactile reading. Certified braille transcriber. she/they. ocd & chronic pain & cane user.
Nick Davie @nickdavie.bsky.social Film/Television PhD Researcher @ UoN: arthouse, authorship, formalism in Twin Peaks: The Return. Here for the Garmonbozia. @ whalefromtv on Twitter/X, words for various.
Nickdavie.wordpress.com
Louis Dominquez, M.Ed @loubowski.bsky.social Godzilla first, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Astros, Spurs. Love what I do and I want more and better for San Antonio and Texas.
Emma L. Davies @edgarallanhole.bsky.social horror author | bristol | ahrc funded phd | bog gothic 🌱
lb: https://boxd.it/455UF
David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social Teaches Drama at University of Birmingham. Scot. And unfeasibly tall.
Written about Beckett, UK theatre, popular music, Eno, Kraftwerk, Velvets, Talking Heads, and why gigs look the way they do. 
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Dr Darren Gray @drdarrengray.bsky.social Researcher in Literature, Film and Cultural Studies | The Gothic, Horror, Technology, Disability | Currently writing ‘Horror and Disability’ for the University of Wales Press Horror Studies series.
Proudly neurodivergent (ADHD)
𝓗𝓪𝓷 @thehns.bsky.social 𝓝𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓷. 𝓦𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓻. 𝓕𝓲𝓵𝓶 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻. 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓸𝓶𝓼 𝓐𝓬𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓶𝓲𝓬. 𝓟𝓸𝓹 𝓒𝓾𝓵𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮. 𝓒𝓪𝓽𝓼. 𝓢𝓱𝓮/𝓗𝓮𝓻🌈
𝓦𝓮𝓫𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓮: https://www.thehns.co.uk
𝓛𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓫𝓸𝔁𝓭: https://boxd.it/2gPz
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism 
Dr. Joe Krulder @joekrulder.bsky.social Proud dad, lucky husband, an existentialist historian of the 18th-century Atlantic, laughing as I go. Author of “The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain” (2021)
Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social When I'm not busy cooking or being sarcastic, I work on digital religion & gender.
If you meet me in person, I'm probably the one wearing purple.
Website: https://giuliaevolvi.com/
Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social Exploring the circulation of Buddhist material culture in Western historical media, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social.
📜 #buddhasinthewest
🌟 Summer Hiatus 🏖️
Victoria Sturtevant @vsturtevant.bsky.social Media Studies Faculty. Author of It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy. Always up to talk comedy, gender, popular media, and reproductive politics.
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330449/
Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social Online digital media researcher (horror) with the worst taste in movies that you’ll ever see.
@ Newcastle University 💜
Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/ 
Seo-Young J. Chu (she/they) @seoyoungjchu.bsky.social disabled queer Korean Am semi-feral writer/CUNY prof. A Refuge for Jae-in Doe; I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley; Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation; The DMZ Responds; Postmemory Han; #MeToo
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social global media professor
author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01
español incluído.
Caddie Alford @caddiealford.bsky.social Associate Prof of Rhetoric at VCU // critical AI, platform and media studies + rhetorical theory + writing pedagogies // Co-Lead of AI Futures Hub // 📕 = Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality // 1st Gen // #TeamRhetoric
https://caddiealford.com
Clachmun @clachmun.bsky.social All things pop culture, bravo, astrology, animals 🎬🩵😺🔮🦀
Areum Jeong 정아름 @areum.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
📚 Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sept 2025) & K-Pop Fandom (@uofmpress.bsky.social, Feb 2026)
📧 areumjeong@gmail.com
Mélodie Simard-Houde @mshoude.bsky.social Professeure à l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières // littérature, presse, culture médiatique, culture numérique // http://vecu.hypotheses.org
Katy Coduto @katycoduto.bsky.social Assistant professor of media science @ Boston U. Researching sexting, swiping, + other online behaviors. Usually watching horror movies.
kdcoduto.com
Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team Head of Community at @blackskyweb.xyz and Hot Girl General. 1922.
Committed to a Black feminist politic of collective work as a scholar, educator, and practitioner.
Very serious about hobbies.
🔗 Kalyncoghill.com
Hannah Palsa @hannahpalsa.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Kansas State. Dogs for Defense. Hoosier. 😻 Mom. I really love cats. Museum Person. Disney. Horror. Britpop. Yellowjackets 🐝🐝
Charlie is the happiest kitty. Smokey’s momma forever 💔❤️🐾🌈
Heart-Pages @heart-pages.bsky.social Dr. Michelle Cristiani
Stroke survivor, writer, anthropologist, teacher, fan. Batman and anime enthusiast. Older and hotter than you
Heart-Pages.com
Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io