Dr. Vaughn Joy
UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demonology • Wife of My Favourite Person
Starter Packs
Created by Dr. Vaughn Joy (1)
Film Studies & History
This is a starter pack for film historians and scholars, broadly construed. I am a Hollywood historian, focussing primarily on the post-war US and Christmas films. If I have missed you, please drop me a comment and I'll add you in!
@cliocontemporary.bsky.social
Connecting history to the present—articles, teaching materials, & advice for the contemporary historian. Accepting submissions. Eds @sarahking.bsky.social & @malszy.bsky.social clioandthecontemporary.com | #bskystorians
@lizcgil.bsky.social
founding senior attorney @ optimal counsel. startup lawyer. biglaw escapee. dog momager, @adamstasiw.com’s #1 fan. advocate for a healthier legal profession. she/her. formerly lizcgil on twitter, not there anymore. views my own. 🇨🇺🗽🦎
@magistracohen.bsky.social
Formerly working w/@/for many, now writing about myth & YA novels @ #Northwestern. Self-styled Tom Joad of Latin teachers. Still immoderata mulier, still proud of my alumnx, still #confelicity. I salt vibes. https://linktr.ee/navacohen
@mgmessmer.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow in International Security at Chatham House Former BASIC, King's College London
@respectthecows.bsky.social
PhD Candidate researching trans media histories. Hier ist's richtig! https://concordia.academia.edu/ChristopherWolff
@jonathanconp.bsky.social
Psychologist. Partner, Central Ontario Psychology, Barrie ON. Advisor, Badge of Life Canada. Host, ON Psych: Podcast of ON Psych'l Ass’n. Constantly amused by the cosmic absurdity of human existence. Avoids COVID to protect others. Premature DMs are creepy
@idenarch.bsky.social
currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives) currently @ stanford / prev @ northeastern first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
@maryellen74.bsky.social
New England girl. Library Assistant, Special Collections. Collector of Dead Relatives [family historian]. Beach bum. True Crime Junkie. History Buff. Music lover. Gen X. Mom to an awesome young adult. Thankful to live in a 🔵 state. *Opinions are my own*
@mikepiero.org
Bi. Writer. Novelist. Game Studies Scholar. Repped by Mark Gottlieb @ Trident. Fiction and poetry have appeared in J Journal, Midway Journal, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, and Oak Tree Journal. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him.
@mhs1791.bsky.social
Massachusetts Historical Society, f. 1791: First Historical Society in the US. Research library, programs, exhibitions, & online resources.
@husebc.bsky.social
Researcher,Canadian, policy wonk, climate change focus, learning Norwegian lost in childhood, and Oxford comma stickler. 🇨🇦🇳🇴
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
@ScholarsLab Director: just+joyful critical tech+culture 🏳️🌈✨💻 *SJ+experimental/DH+library futures, communities *DIY scholcom=zine/blog/code *Bookadjacent data+making Enthusiast (3 !s in a hoodie); abolitionist Dr.! (exTTprof) 🏳️⚧️They/Them AmandaVisconti.com
@aoifeb.bsky.social
Swears, writes, Gaeilge is fáilte. She/í Makes Censored, a podcast about dirty books and films https://shows.acast.com/censored Research interests: sex and death
@castingaspersions.bsky.social
PhD candidate. Bird nerd. Writer, reader, educator, and defender against book bans and censorship. Lover of all things cheese and bread. 🏳️🌈📚📕📖🪞🌌🦉✨
@lochinvar.bsky.social
.Anything but it .ארנב רות :in Hebrew. Not white. Born the year Raiders of the Lost Ark came out.
@pixieglas.bsky.social
🏳️🌈📽️ 'A puffed-up orb of a woman with a gaping mouth'. Enthusiast. She / her / hi. Shift Cardiff // Reframed Film // Chapter Cinema Cardiff. Views personal are mine alone. No SWERFs or TERFs or Tories os gwelwch yn dda.
@tedspencer.bsky.social
Former Navy Nuke, Renewable Energy Engineer, Energy and Environmental Policy Wonk. Climate Policy Analyst for @commondefense.
@lindarmonkjd.bsky.social
Constitutional Scholar, Author of "The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide," with foreword by RBG. Harvard Law, first gen, Jeopardy champion. www.lindamonk.com
@seeadler.bsky.social
Ex-RM from NI with a PhD. Author and professional editor. "Bluesky elder," apparently. #BSMRGUK To my Ukrainian friends: вдачi і вдалого полювання
@davidmislin.bsky.social
Historian of 19th 20th + 21st c. US religion. Temple U. faculty. Wrote about Protestants + pluralism. Now writing on religious liberals in small towns. Once and (hopefully) future marathoner. Tired political junkie. Sheetz/Wawa equal opportunist. He/him.
@helensonner.bsky.social
Medical writer by vocation and cultural historian by avocation. More often than not, these are one and the same. Enjoying the blue sky.
@theliftline.bsky.social
Jesse Ritner, Ph.D. A skier & environmental historian trapped in the Texas! Editor at NiCHE #skiing #history #climate
@imaginaryhistories.bsky.social
"You ever feel like nothin' good was ever gonna happen to you?" "Yeah, and nothing did. So what?" Archivist at Boston University for ~25 years, he/they https://www.imaginaryhistories.com
@ryanlintelman.bsky.social
Public historian, MoCo Marylander, classic film fan, experiential scholar of food and drink. This is my personal account & opinions are mine, not my employer’s.
@clinicalliz.bsky.social
Historian with imposter syndrome and who often posts about LFC. I understand why St. Anthony talked to the fish. (she/her)
@phoebebarnard.bsky.social
The world doesn't have to be this way. Biodiversity, climate risk, resilience, societal/planetary futures. Prof environmental futures, conservation biology, Univ Washington; research assoc African Climate & Development Initiative/ Fitztitute, UnivCapeTown
@pennyrabiger.bsky.social
Elephant pointer. Educator. PhD from Centre for Race, Education & Decoloniality LBU, 2025. Racial literacy. Freelancer with a wheelbarrow portfolio. School Governor.
@incspotlight.bsky.social
Author of THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLACK FLAG | Current WIP: THE SHERWOOD GAMBIT | former (?) film/comic review blogger | unrepentant punster | he/his/him iannathanielcohen.weebly.com
@charlottecull.bsky.social
History PhD at King’s College London - Anarchism, the Freedom Defence Committee and the British Left 1940-1960. IHR Early Careers History of Political Ideas Co-Convenor.
@emilyrowe1.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern Literature & Culture at King’s College London. Love all histories of metal, military worlds, and material culture. Can also be found board-gaming, TTRPG-ing, walking, and pasta-making ~ she/her
@jimmy-dot-org.bsky.social
The Jimmy Stewart Museum is located in Mr. Stewart’s hometown of Indiana, PA. Exhibits honor his life, film career, and military service.
@prattkristin.bsky.social
UNC c/o 2007. Am a great reader and take pleasure in many things (sports, books, Disney). Opinions are my own. She/her.
@smsaideman.bsky.social
#CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.
@janmarcmorawe.bsky.social
Gender Scholar Researching (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ... https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
@septology.bsky.social
American Studies MSt student (Oxford), writing about the city in the postwar American Novel (Vidal, Ellison, Malamud) they/them
@dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social
Modern Languages, Literary and Cultural Studies at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts on books, journals and news by our editors.
@robinoi.bsky.social
Writer, actor, activist, ex EMT, back 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈, pro humanity, not Supremacists using religion & profits to push murder & turn 🌍 into an oven. ➡️ www.robintudge.wordpress.com ➡️ www.amazon.co.uk/Whippy-Goes-Schaumberg-Robin-Tudge/dp/B08ZH28XCB
@lauragraceweldon.bsky.social
Writer, poet, book editor, hope monger, cranky pacifist, effusive introvert. Author of four books. Braided Way editor. she/her 6a lauragraceweldon.com
@toledoblues.bsky.social
Full time therapist, part-time actor. Late boomer and late bloomer. My interests include mental health, baseball history and miniature dachshunds.
@melusinagr.bsky.social
Co-founder, co-creator, co-conspirator (ie Satura journal). Luddite. Dabbles in art, with the soul of a poet. Academic trying to help decolonize Book Studies/Book History by researching Indigenous NA newspapers. Addicted to art supplies. Plays #ttrpgs.
@matteatonmedia.bsky.social
Personal Account: researching troop morale & entertainment for p/t Military History PhD, London IC, voracious reader, keen baker, secret SWW modeller. Journaling about history here: https://matteatonmedia.substack.com
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Author of Villager, 1983 and 13 other books. LP recommendations. Folklore. Psychedelic countryside pics. Sheep & cattle-based nonsense. Essentially a thinly disguised attempt to persuade you to subscribe to my Substack: tomcox.substack.com
@richmondbridge.bsky.social
Edited The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (2025) and co-edited Off White: Central/Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024). Eurovision research since longer than I can remember. She/her.
@citizense.bsky.social
Rural regional public prof (SUNY) writing The Race for Hawthorne; governance wonk (UFS President-Elect); union goon (UUP/HELU); #PublicGoodU; sf/fantasy/comics/anime nerd; golf otaku; ex-point guard/pitcher; empty nester; mostly harmless; this one just me