Courtney Berger
Executive Editor, Duke University Press
Lover of big ideas, lifter of heavy objects
Opinions are my own (duh)
@lclaberge.bsky.social
Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
@hilmalatino.bsky.social
Woods Weirdo // Professor at Farmer’s High// Author of Side Affects, Trans Care, and Queer Embodiment he/they if you insist
@styleandspine.bsky.social
Developmental editor for scholars and academics. Historian. True Story: How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media (Harvard, 2022); Body and Nation: The Global Realms of US Body Politics (Duke, 2014)
@lpennywark.bsky.social
Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers.
@mkeffer.bsky.social
Senior Acquisitions Editor, Linguistics - De Gruyter Mouton (formerly with OUP). Emotional support human for Murphy and Millie.
@jttremblay.bsky.social
assoc. prof at york | coauthor of negative life: the cinema of extinction (northwestern) | author of breathing aesthetics (duke) | https://jeanthomastremblay.carrd.co/
@maiagiladi.bsky.social
Author of Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence (Duke University Press, 2025) | Assistant Prof. of Latinx studies, Johns Hopkins University | views my own | she/her/ella 🧟
@theoryishpodcast.bsky.social
Join Hannah Ayres and Paola Medina-Gonzalez as they try to understand theory. For any business enquiries please reach out by DMs. We are a Shakira Stan Account https://www.theoryish.com
@fiveoclockbot.bsky.social
Writer, dog dad, Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press
@bethanywasik.bsky.social
Assistant Editorial Director at Cornell University Press acquiring books in classics, military history, modern European history, and archaeology. Has a biology PhD (really). Likes books, Criterion, rye, history, science, everything in between, and donuts.
@sonyabonczek.bsky.social
Director of Publicity at UNC Press 📚 Currently reading: Custom Made Woman by Alice Gerrard (forthcoming December) and Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
@amoorelouise.bsky.social
Professor of Political Geography Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics Author Politics of Possibility https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics-of-possibility & Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
@mahinder.bsky.social
Cornell University Press's Editorial Director and Sponsoring Editor in Medieval Studies, Literary & Cultural Studies, and other Studies. National Park obsessive (229 and counting), film noir and crime fiction aficionado, incorrigible overpacker.
@biidaasamose.bsky.social
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe writer, musician and intellectual. https://linktr.ee/betasamosake
@cameronludwick.bsky.social
Professional enthusiast. Associate Director for Books Marketing and Sales @DukePress and Publicity, Communications, Marketing for authors. Coauthor, @MyOldKyRoadtrip
@markanthonyneal.bsky.social
Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
@sayshatim.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut opinions mine. he/him
@annakspeaking.bsky.social
How we know (agri)natures & why it matters. More-than-humans (soil, microbes, funghi), agriculture (regenerative), food (local). Environmental social scientist, Associate Prof of Trandiscipl Human-Environment Relations at Univ of Oulu, Finland. paikkaotus
@elspethiralu.bsky.social
Angami Naga. Assistant Professor of Indigenous Planning. @ACMEjournal editor. I write about Indigenous geographies, visual culture, and the aerial perspective.
@meredithalberta.bsky.social
skarù•ręʔ by mother line at 6N | Asst Prof at UBuffalo in Geog and Indigenous Studies | (Indigenous) Geog PhD at Berkeley | MPH | writer | tall | lifter | she
@brianbhalley.bsky.social
Executive Editor at University of Massachusetts Press, based at UMass Boston. Views here don’t reflect them. Feminist, progressive, 🏳️🌈, into books, dogs, ocean, print culture, lit studies, environmental studies/climate justice, and more.
@maxliboiron.bsky.social
Author: Pollution is Colonialism (2020), Discard Studies (2021) CLEAR lab at @clear-lab.bsky.social
@rlevay.bsky.social
Senior editor of sociology and anthropology at Princeton University Press. Cofounder Paths in Publishing. Running, books, kids, somewhere out west.
@felicitycallard.bsky.social
I am writing — at the intersection of geography/medical humanities — about ‘the university’ since the university worker strike of 2018 (my own views, not my employer’s). Editor, History of the Human Sciences.
@eischwartz.bsky.social
Director, NYU Press = From Downtown to the World https://nyupress.org/
@mngupbooks.bsky.social
Scholarly books from University Presses. News and info from across academia. Part of the Mare Nostrum Group. Based in Harrogate, UK.
@lucaschurch.bsky.social
Executive editor @uncpress.bsky.social. I acquire books in: Lit studies, social sciences, trade, CNF, App Studies, music. Writer. Recovering Appalachian. Book @Press53. He/Him.
@thunderrhoda.bsky.social
Editorial Director and Senior Acquiring Editor for music, theater, performance studies, and dance at University of Michigan Press (@uofmpress.bsky.social). Mother, baker, cat person, slow lap swimmer.
@danaluci.bsky.social
Academic, queer crank, radical depressive. Partly enigmatic, partly fossil. How The Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century America: https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-the-earth-feels
@marisollebron.bsky.social
Queer Latina | Professor | Policing Life & Death | Aftershocks of Disaster | Against Muerto Rico | PRsyllabus
@davidshorter.bsky.social
Professor, UCLA. Editor-in-Chief, American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Curator, settler on Tongva land, Digital Publisher, Science of the Paranormal, colonialisms, including extra-terrestrialilty. Www.davidshorter.com
@allisonvandev.bsky.social
Developmental editor for academic authors. Author: The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook (UChicago Press). Workshop facilitator. She/her, Van DEV-en-ter. Comp lit PhD. https://www.allisonvandeventer.com/
@lportwoodstacer.bsky.social
Helping scholarly authors write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚 Tips at newsletter.manuscriptworks.com & in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK. New book: MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK. Courses + free workshops at manuscriptworks.com. Knitter, 2X Jeopardy! champ 🤓
@micharahder.bsky.social
Writer | Editor | Writing coach | Indexer. Recovering academic, seeking new words and new worlds. Settler in North Carolina. She/her. www.micharahder.com for my writing and www.mlrediting.com for my work on other people's writing.
@jonathansterne.bsky.social
sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats -- Montreal https://sterneworks.org
@elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor WGSS Emory University | "A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: Foundations for Affect Theory" (with Adam Frank) UMinnesota Press | Co-editor differencesjournal.org Current research: Valerie Solanas 🖤 bit.ly/valeriesolanas
@jamieljones.bsky.social
Environmental Humanities, Energy, Oceans | Assoc Prof, English, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | RENDERED OBSOLETE: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling, UNC Press https://uncpress.org/book/9781469674827/rendered-obsolete
@ideasonfirephd.bsky.social
Editing and indexing agency helping interdisciplinary scholars write and publish awesome texts, enliven public conversations, and create more just worlds. ideasonfire.net
@dawnd.bsky.social
Editorial Director at @uncpress.bsky.social • acquiring books in history, Black studies, girlhood studies, carceral studies • H-Net's #FeedingTheElephant • real housewife of the other Orange County
@dukepress.bsky.social
Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
@laurasell.bsky.social
I promote books at Duke University Press. Reader, cat lover, messy cook and lazy gardener. Will plunge into any nearby body of water.
@fromaleftwing.bsky.social
Sports crank, art writer, teacher. Author of Campus Sex/Campus Security, Sex Objects, Hold It Against Me. ACFC fan.
@shannonmattern.bsky.social
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; professor @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool) architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++ nyc + philly wordsinspace.net
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2026). Black. Still. Life. (2027) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
@libankerdc.bsky.social
Professor: Political Theory & US Culture. Author: UGLY FREEDOMS & Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Promise of Freedom (both Duke). Books-in-progress: “Make Sovereignty Great Again” and “The Low Road” Web: https://tinyurl.com/Elisabeth-Anker
@kwissoker.bsky.social
Senior Executive Editor, Duke University Press. Director, Intellectual Publics, CUNY Graduate Center. Book doula/curator. Art lover, record accumulator. All opinions my own-ish.