Chris Grobe
Associate Prof. of English at Johns Hopkins. Posts my own. Theorist/historian of performance. ART OF CONFESSION (http://bit.ly/2BALZDt). Now writing on tech&the arts, politics&performance.
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Theater & Performance Studies
I'm still trying to figure out which TAPS folks are on here, and I'm sure others are, too. Reach out to me to get added.
@profhillmill.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of English @ QC-CUNY and of Theater/Performance @ the GC. Still hunting for the B-side.
@theframelab.bsky.social
FrameLab is a newsletter about political language and the ideological structures that shape perception. We deconstruct propaganda to help you defend democracy. Founded by @gilduran.com and @george-lakoff.com
@devinfitz.bsky.social
Old Books, Global History, at UCLA (Curator of Global Book History and the History of Printing). Once described as, "in need of etiquette classes." Queer. Poly. They/them
@johnmkuhn.bsky.social
English prof. 17th century stuff. Prairie son. Working on a cultural and material history of the birchbark canoe in the early modern Americas.
@chrisrodelo.bsky.social
Assistant professor at UC Irvine | writes on Latinx performance & literature since the 19th century | they/he | 🇨🇴🇲🇽🏳️🌈 https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=7102
@himself.bsky.social
http://www.henryfarrell.net Now out with Abe Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554
@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.
@agthomas.bsky.social
Editorial Director, University of Chicago Press. On book publishing, literature, and photography. https://linktr.ee/alnthomas
@marissafenley.bsky.social
Harper Schmidt Fellow at UChicago / Associate Editor at Mid Theory Collective / Literary Fellow at Court Theater
@jessemerz.bsky.social
Pa & theatre & teacher. ✌️🧡🧡🧡 Former Meisner-based theatre professor. Ai Workshop leader. CampFire of Paradise Survivors. Columbia Gorge School of Theatre 1997-2019. "The Gospel According to Tammy Faye" musical producer. 8 B'way alumni. SAG-AFTRA, AEA
@c-also.bsky.social
Critic. Thoreau’s Axe (2023), Haunted Convict (2016), The Oracle & the Curse (2013), The Prison & the American Imagination (2009). Writing about Foucault & the legacies of theory for WW Norton. Tending my garden. https://campuspress.yale.edu/calebsmith/
@globaldramamama.bsky.social
global citizen drama mama iconclast who believes that art is the antidote to our mad, mad world silver-haired wise woman not afraid to speak her mind maker of good trouble
@pollackpelzner.bsky.social
Teaching English/theater at Portland State University. Writing in The New Yorker and The Atlantic. Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist forthcoming from Simon & Schuster, Fall 2025. Zeugmas welcome. https://www.danielpollackpelzner.com/
@kylegillette.bsky.social
Theatre scholar, Director, Professor and Interim Associate Provost
@marieminden.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Durham University | Author of Modernism after the Ballets Russes, forthcoming with Oxford University Press - https://shorturl.at/ReFmK | Working on a book about modern poetic drama and dance
@edwarmulfo.bsky.social
PhD | Instructor of Communication, Performance, and Sexuality Studies | Queer Latinx Performances of Loss from the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Borderland | Connoisseur of Guilty Pleasures They/Them
@johnboycollins.bsky.social
Artistic Director of Elevator Repair Service, director of Gatz, Ulysses, some others. Husband to @lizzieohreally.bsky.social and dad to Sam.
@joplaster.bsky.social
Author, Kids on the Street https://www.dukeupress.edu/kids-on-the-street | Curator in Public Humanities & Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University https://www.josephplaster.com | Director, Tabb Center | Itinerant oral historian | posts my own
@saranahmed.bsky.social
Writer and independent feminist scholar Queer person of colour #FreePalestine
@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 🧟
@demonicgrounds.bsky.social
lovesick audiophile + heartbroken reader + book maker most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
@ruha9.bsky.social
✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
@driftinghouse.bsky.social
prof & author ~ the intimacies of four continents; immigrant acts: on asian american cultural politics; critical terrains: french & british orientalisms; coeditor, the politics of culture in the shadow of capital
@dukepress.bsky.social
Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
@jonathansterne.bsky.social
sound, disability, culture, technology, Prof at McGill University, multiinstrumentalist, lover of cats -- Montreal https://sterneworks.org
@purplezebrav.bsky.social
Queer/crip scholar of freaks and monsters in pop culture and politics, here to talk about history, literary theory, and cats. They/them or xe/xen/xens pronouns.
@roberthigney.bsky.social
english @ city college, cuny | modernism, cold war, contemporary lit, media, the novel | INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER out now with uva press (https://bit.ly/inst-char)
@hwillenbrink.bsky.social
Performance scholar & Theatre artist, author of Performing for the Don, continuing the investigation at performingforthedon.substack.com
@drewdaniel.bsky.social
Matmos guy with my husband @lordchiefjustice / English professor at Hopkins / also known as The Soft Pink Truth.
@kelseyljacobs.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Drama @queensu | Author of Real-ish: Audiences, Feeling, and the Production of Realness in Contemporary Performance | Watches people watch things @centreforspectatorship Photos by Jen Bernard
@markmcgurl.bsky.social
@sandramacpherson.bsky.social
Still obsessed with Sylvia Townsend Warner. Making cocktails and talking about cats. (I am a dixhuitiemiste at an R1, but mostly teach film and whatever-the-hell-else they want me to teach.)
@categorymistake.bsky.social
Assoc. prof. of English, UC Berkeley; affiliate faculty, Philosophy. Lit & philosophy (analytic moral & mind), 20thC British/Irish lit, history of criticism, queer theory 🏳️🌈, etc. Book: tinyurl.com/58f79rz9; Wittgenstein/Jarman: tinyurl.com/4rnmn4ky
@davidjcoates.bsky.social
Cultural historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. Researching theatre in the long nineteenth century and queer theatre histories. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Regular theatre, exhibition and museum visitor. Chocoholic 🍫
@kallewesterling.bsky.social
Day-time Research Application Manager at The Alan Turing Institute for digital arts and humanities research. Night-time #drag historian with a PhD in #performance. Formerly #DigitalHumanities Research Institute, Living with Machines, and HASTAC
@lilyscherlis.bsky.social
writing in Parapraxis, The Drift, The Baffler, The Guardian phd candidate at uchicago english + taps
@marcarthur.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. Theatre and performance artist, scholar, and teacher.
@kjavadizadeh.bsky.social
@andrewepstein.bsky.social
Professor and Chair of English @FloridaState; author of "The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945," "Attention Equals Life," "Beautiful Enemies," & "Locus Solus: the New York School of Poets" blog
@gillywhite8.bsky.social
soft g. poetry, poetics, public power. _Lyric Shame_https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674734395
@bergmann.ai
Associate Professor in Performance at Toronto Metropolitan University | Sometimes artist | PhD student at the University of Guelph | tech nerd | enjoys building complicated systems
@chronicinsanity.bsky.social
Award winning UK theatre company // everything theatrical, digital, gig, immersive, and interactive // Staging 12 shows in 12 months
@carladellagatta.bsky.social
Dramaturg | Arts Advocate | Writer | Theatre Historian 💃🏻 Associate Professor | Author: Latinx Shakespeares Co-Editor: Shakespeare & Latinidad https://www.latinxshakespeares.org/ https://www.carladellagatta.com/
@rbtownsend.bsky.social
Director, American Academy of Arts and Sciences humanities, arts, and culture programs and Humanities Indicators (http://bit.ly/1vcZlh4). Quotes and RTs ≠ opinions.