BAFTSS Science Fiction & Fantasy SIG
We are the SFF special interest group for
The British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies https://www.baftss.org/science-fiction-and-fantasy.html Posts by @amycchambers.bsky.social
@ggergely.bsky.social
[gɑːbɔːr gɛrgɛj] Associate Professor of Film | Chair of BAFTSS www.baftss.org | Photo of Simplon Cinema courtesy of Fortepan/Preisich Family
@edinburghup.bsky.social
Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. euppublishing.com
@willkitchen.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer, University of Chichester & Arts University Bournemouth / Author with Bloomsbury & EUP / Currently writing books about film, media, work & critical theory + Lindsay Anderson
@stephaniejones.bsky.social
Lecturer in Film, Television and Media | Co-editor, Media History | Uni Admissions Tutor | 007's critical friend, Dysgu Cymraeg, Top of the Pops 🌈
@jaspersharp.bsky.social
Movies and mushrooms. Writer, film critic, Japanese film lover, amateur mycologist, co-director of CREEPING GARDEN and J-HORROR VIRUS and author of a few books. https://jaspersharp.squarespace.com
@rebekahking.bsky.social
Writer with a PhD in magic on the English stage. https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/ Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
@thomasrbritt.bsky.social
Film professor, writer, and listener. Add some music to your day.
@profsaabbott.bsky.social
Professor of Film and Television, Northumbria University. Horror scholar and writer. Author of Celluloid Vampires, Undead Apocalypse, TV Horror, BFI Classic on Near Dark. Canadian in the UK but forever Canadian. she/her.
@sexhistorian.bsky.social
Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions. Researching the health history of fuel poverty in North East England @ Northumbria University They/them
@areum.bsky.social
👩🏻🏫Researches & teaches Korean film, pop culture, theatre & performance at ASU 📚Beyond the Sewol (U of Hawaii Press, Sep 2025) & K-pop Fandom (U of Michigan Press, Feb 2026) forthcoming 📧areumjeong@gmail.com
@baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social
The BAFTSS Special Interest Group on Colour and Film, connecting scholars, filmmakers, archivists and film conservation specialists: http://colourandfilm.com
@tugcekutlu.bsky.social
MA @ucl. PhD Candidate and RA @ilefsocial. Horror film, grief, death, war, trauma. She/her. Instagram: t_kutlu88. Host of Death and Other Things podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ipkN2ggrWGOB2w2Hkalxj?si=oiFz6V2dRzGQFQ_Ps9i4HQ
@nsborwein.bsky.social
Horror scholar, poet, PhD, HWA, Co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social, EIC Katabatic Circus, Global Indigenous Horror (@upmississippi.bsky.social, 2025). Words in Utopia Science Fiction, Space & Time, Lovecraftiana, and more
@imryantaylor.bsky.social
Lecturer at LIPA in storytelling and screenwriting, PhD in transmediality/paratextuality (previously lectured at University of Portsmouth and Southampton University). I'm also a champion piggy-back rider, frequent troll slayer, occasional liar
@ladyhorrors.bsky.social
NZ film academic, arts critic & frock enthusiast. Cultural omnivore, bad at sports. Feminist horror deep dive WOMEN, MONSTROSITY AND HORROR FILM @routledge. Ōtautahi arts writing at flatcityfieldnotes.com. She/her/Dr. My views.
@antbit.projectedfigures.com
Feckless freelance film critic and neurotic apanthrope. The #Horror, the #Horror Programmer for the London Korean Film Festival. London Film Critics' Circle, Online Film Critics Society. ProjectedFigures.com
@vickybrewster.bsky.social
✏️Copy & developmental editor, & indexer 👻Gothic, horror & sci-fi academic 🧑🏫 Occasional lecturer & support at Swansea U 🏳️🌈Asexual-agender-panromantic
@celluloidscreams.bsky.social
Celluloid Screams is Sheffield’s annual horror film festival, now in its 17th year. www.celluloidscreams.com
@fanstudies.bsky.social
Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012. https://fanstudies.org/
@marthashearer.bsky.social
asst prof in film studies, university college dublin. film/tv + real estate since 2008 • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/ https://people.ucd.ie/martha.shearer/
@kfoster.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Film and Screen Studies at University of Nottingham. ‘Hammer Goes to Hell’ out now! EUP: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hammer-goes-to-hell.html
@hannahhamad.bsky.social
Feminist media studies academic. Reads, runs, remains. Forthcoming book: ‘Film, Feminism and Rape Culture in the Yorkshire Ripper Years’ (London: BFI)
@miriamkent.bsky.social
Lecturer in Film and Media, University of Leeds. I primarily research popular feminism in superhero films, TV & comic books. Leeds UCU Rep 🇩🇪🇬🇧 she/her Women in Marvel Films https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-in-marvel-films.html
@jegleggott.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies, Northumbria University.
@jamesfenwick.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Creative & Cultural Industries, Uni of Manchester. Film, media, & cultural history; archives; festivals; Palin; Kubrick; Dylan. Co-editor Historical Journal of Film, Radio & TV https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james-fenwick
@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)
@bronteschiltz.bsky.social
Writer & journalist. PhD on Britain’s Televisual Gothic 👻 Big on The Divine Comedy and fun
@emmadark.bsky.social
Award-Winning Film Director & Filmmaker | Creative Professional | Actress | Rondo-Nominated Writer 🏆🎬 Twitter/X: @emdarkofficial 🐦
@jesmyth.co.uk
Writer, critic, historian |📕Mary C. McCall Jr.|📘Nobody’s Girl Friday | ed.📗I Lost My Girlish Laughter | 📚Fred Zinnemann | Mum to Z & Z, 7 🐕, + Mortimer🐰 | Ban AI
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@augustaquarius.bsky.social
⭐️Associate Professor (Reader) 📚 @fanstudies.bsky.social board 🎢 Transmedia Tourism • Experience Economy • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings ❤️ Sushi • Margaritas • Minions 🧟♀️ she/her 🏴 💻 https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
@britfilmmelanie.bsky.social
Norwich film and media prof (at risk of redundancy - still!), British cinema lover. Books on A Taste of Honey, 1960s, stardom, David Lean, Ealing, J. Lee Thompson, etc. Currently working on ace director Muriel Box. Opinions very much my own.
@tvdrbarb.bsky.social
📺 TV Prof ; Collecting “homes” 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇱🇺 ; #WIASN #Jayhawk #firstgen 🌈 🦄 Kenzi’s & Billie’s mom. ❤️ 🥊 ,🧘♀️, 💃🏼 #survivor2019 🌴🥥 #SurvivorGermany
@manchesterup.bsky.social
We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture. Sign up to the MUP newsletter & receive 30% off all orders. https://linktr.ee/ManchesterUniversityPress
@jlwroot.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Greenwich. Researcher of Zatoichi movies and other Japanese films. Part-time film critic (open to offers)
@craigimann.bsky.social
Home video producer for Eureka / Masters of Cinema | writer on genre movies | author of Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film | producer of Survivors: The Spectre of Threads | 📼 📀
@bridgetkies.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Film Studies and Production; Faculty Fellow, AI and Teaching, Oakland University Television is good for you.
@lizwfab.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, Teacher Books: The Computer’s Voice (U Minn Press, 2020) Robot Suicide (Lexington, 2023) Under the Mistletoe (McFarland, 2024) LizWFaber.com
@direjackalope.bsky.social
Academic looking at pop culture, gender, fans, and monsters. They/them. Sometimes I make stuff. Frequently fannish. Retweets & likes =/= endorsements.
@frittersandclam.bsky.social
teaching professor in film; movies, tv, hockey, books, cats, horror, television, irish media. often retweets Hausu and Elsa Lanchester
@ejrawitsch.bsky.social
She/her. PhD in Film Studies. Cultural historian. Anglophile. Ex-expatriate. Oxford comma advocate. Life-long sucker for Capracorn.
@filmstudiesff.bsky.social
Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
@smittermeier.bsky.social
Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. “Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Very bisexual. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social. https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
@sarahlohmann.bsky.social
Academic working on science fiction, utopian studies, climate fiction and the Gothic. German/American/British, based in Tübingen, Germany and soon Zurich, Switzerland. Into cats, plants, choir, yoga, trail running and socialism. 🌹🌱
@careymillsapspears.bsky.social
Author of Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic: Tell Fear No, Lexington Books, 2023. Views own https://careyspears.academia.edu/
@kathleenloock.bsky.social
American studies and media studies | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | New book: Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Shape Industry and Culture (UC Press, 2024) | Emmy Noether Research Group: Hollywood Memories
@naomialderman.bsky.social
I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that