Efram Sera-Shriar
Historian of occultism and science, Victorianist, anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and bass player. Lover of classic videogames. 🎮 Views own. (https://www.eframserashriar.com)
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Game Studies for the Humanities
Hello fellow video game enthusiasts. I am starting this list for all those humanities scholars with an interest in games. If you want to be added, let me know. All are welcomed!
@artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Art crime prof at CUNY. Follow for how-to tips on art forgery. Also: repatriation; monuments; classics; museum shenanigans. She/her; queer. www.artcrimeprof.com
@nathgalexander.bsky.social
Historian, University of Ottawa 🇨🇦. Self-publishing a historical fantasy novel, Ashes of the Revolution 🐉. Author, Race in a Godless World. Project manager, @nonreligioncf.bsky.social. Co-host, Beyond Atheism Podcast. https://www.nathangalexander.com
@laurenbrand.bsky.social
Historian. Coffee-drinker. Cross-stitch enthusiast. Reviews Editor @ American Historical Review https://www.historians.org/news-publications/american-historical-review/
@eavanod.bsky.social
Honorary Research Lecturer, English @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Principal Investigator of 'Exploring the Arctic Archive' funded by @researchireland.bsky.social. MSCA alumni @umeauniversitet.bsky.social. Travel writing, Arctic exploration, Visual Culture.
@adriamaral.bsky.social
Professor and Researcher on pop culture, digital media, and fan studies at UFF. Series Editor at PCWP Routledge. Aoir 2025 Chair. Childless Cat Lady. Spooky Nerd. Goth. https://adriamaral.substack.com/ ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9159-2352
@danielcavicchi.bsky.social
Professor, Rhode Island School of Design. Fan studies, popular music studies, sound studies, American studies. Views are my own. https://www.risd.edu/academics/history-philosophy-and-social-sciences/faculty/daniel-cavicchi
@chriscomerford.bsky.social
Lecturer in Comms & Media, University of Wollongong 📖 | Doctor of screens, fans & Batman 🦇 | Useless Trivia expert 🧠 | Ace Stardew Valley fisherman 🎣 | Views my own | He/Him
@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
@alfredmartin.bsky.social
Detroit native. Associate Professor and Chair of Cinematic Arts at U of Miami. Author of The Generic Closet, Fandom for Us, by Us, and editor of Rolling.
@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.
@juliakuttler.bsky.social
Acafan who studies #documentaries & #fanstudies. Alumna of Manchester University (in Indiana), Ball State University, and Bowling Green State University. Associate Professor of Communication and College Student Media Adviser at McPherson College in Kansas.
@shannagilkeson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Digital Media, Cinema and Journalism at Eastern Michigan University. Fan studies scholar. Chair of Star Trek Studies and Fan Studies subject areas at MPCA. Post may be fannish, scholarly, or full of cats. Opinions are my own.
@memorieschild.bsky.social
Research Associate at Cardiff Uni; honorary research fellow at Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales; co-editor of Popular Communication; @fanstudies.bsky.social & @scmsfaas.bsky.social boards. Writes about fandom, cult TV, true crime, tattoos and other fun stuff.
@berthac.bsky.social
Fan, celebrity & cultural studies academic. Co-Editor-in-Chief Popular Communication. Fan Studies Network board. Senior lecturer in media & cultural studies @ NUS, Singapore. Opinions my own. She/her
@florencesn.bsky.social
Video game archaeologist + game dev// PhD on archaeogaming as game preservation + procgen// Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology they/them 💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
@marknathansen.bsky.social
Ordfører for Klima,- og Miljø i Radikal Ungdom, foruden Heavy Metal 💚 Desuden kommunalvalgskandidat for RV-LTK 🩷 Kontakt: mark@radikalungdom.dk
@harrietfletcher.bsky.social
Writer & academic | Lecturer in Media & Communication @ ARU | 💀⭐ #GothicCelebrity (Bloomsbury) | pop culture | horror | feminism | bimbo-ologist 💅 | she/her
@governorwalz.mn.gov
Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.
@jonwestaway.bsky.social
Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies. PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network. uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
@gothicauob.bsky.social
A spooky network interested in exploring all aspects of the Gothic at @unibirmingham. Co-run by @katrinajan.bsky.social, @dremilyvincent.bsky.social & Ross Conway. Blog: https://uobgothica.wordpress.com/past-sessions/
@drerinnerung.bsky.social
Associate professor (17th and 18th century secret history, celebrity, fantasy fiction and fan cultures), haphazard gardener, dog and cat mom, she/her 🖤🩶🤍💜
@lawrentian.bsky.social
PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
@nathanbossoh.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ Southampton University working on herbal medicinal history & knowledge in Ghana. Curator of 'The Kola Nut Cannot Be Contained'. Historian of science, medicine, and African collections || Bass Player || Book Reviews Editor @ ANCR
@billjenkins.bsky.social
Historian of science and ideas, with a special interest in Scottish history. Honorary research fellow at the School of History, University of St Andrews.
@jjol33n.bsky.social
|Ph.D. in Games |Postdoctoral Researcher @CoEGameCult |Editor @Eludamos |Author of Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling |(she/her)
@levato.bsky.social
Poet, professor, literary translator, new media artist, and writer of speculative fiction. M.F.A., Ph.D. #horror #scifi #fantasy #booksky Web: https://francescolevato.com/
@bkidd.bsky.social
PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology
@timsnelson.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media History (UEA) https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/tim-snelson
@k8lister.bsky.social
Blonde Bombsite. Sex Historian. Author of A Curious History of Sex & Harlot, Whores, & Hackabouts. Host of Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. Consider this your fair dos warning.
@ryansweet.bsky.social
Researcher and lecturer of Victorian literature, culture, and disability. Co-creator of the new role-and-move strategy board game Legless in London (www.leglessinlondon.com). All views my own.
@davidveevers.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern History | colonialism and global history | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | 'miasma enthusiast' - The Critic | 'belligerent academic' - The Daily Mail | tired dad | academia’s longest commute
@alicecrossley.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, English Literature (University of Lincoln). Ageing in Victorian lit; 19th- century paper ephemera; valentines; material/visual cultures; history of emotions; masculinity studies; Japanese fiction | FRHistS. FHEA. - Own views -
@kerrymckenzie.bsky.social
Philosopher of science at UC San Diego. Director of the UCSD Science Studies program. Aging raver, failed environmental activist and aspiring psychonaut.
@rjnoakes.bsky.social
Historian of science and technology at the University of Exeter. Bit of an amateur astronomer and even more amateur at playing the clarinet and piano. Very proud dad.
@profkate.bsky.social
I cook and run a lot. I study Bronte (and Austen). Adaptation. Multimodal writing. I'd rather be hiking in the UK / Europe.
@eleanormorton.bsky.social
Scottish comedian/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book is out now! https://linktr.ee/llfhw support me here: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
@merilainen.bsky.social
Academy Research Fellow @ Tampere University, currently studying the intersections of men, masculinity, and gaming. Also into RPGs, miniatures, pirates, pro wrestling, and video games. orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-684X mikkomerilainen.com
@paulmontycat.bsky.social
19th century musical and literary criticism; intellectual history; biography; religious history; popular culture; gender. Professor of Musicology. Swimmer; cat dad.
@advancesjournal.bsky.social
Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research - the journal of #INCSA Peer-reviewed journal with general & themed issues representing all fields of study in the arts, social sciences, & sciences. Website here: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ranr20
@infrastructuregeek.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Co-editor, Environment and History. The environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Author of Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain.
@nienkegroskamp.bsky.social
PhD student in history & philosophy of science, studying esotericism and reproduction in 19th-century America @ Cambridge HPS.
@whitakeralmanac.bsky.social
Professor of History. Empire, Crime, Policing, and Video Games. Creator and host of historyrespawned.com (history in video games). Not communicating on behalf of my employer. https://linktr.ee/bobwhitaker
@domford.bsky.social
Postdoc at the ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, studying videogames, myth, community and reality formation online. Managing editor: gamevironents Editor: Eludamos
@rosemondcates.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ut-dallas. 19c Anglophone Lit. Posts my own/reposts not endorsements
@jonasgjerso.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History, University of Stavanger & Current Debates Editor, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social. PhD International History, LSE.
@beckybowd.bsky.social
University Archivist at Heritage Quay, the archive service of the University of Huddersfield. PhD on libraries and reading in Georgian Leeds. All views my own.
@historianhope.bsky.social
Marketing and engagement manager @historians.org | US history & public history PhD | Slow cyclist, lover of maps and cities, outdoorsy. thepipsqueakery.org/donate.
@sonicthecurator.bsky.social
Curator of sound technologies. Thwarted FOH engineer. Horror and folklore fan. Stitches a lot.