Center For Mark Twain Studies
Devoted to supporting & promoting Twain Studies scholarship through Quarry Farm Fellowships, Quadrennial Conference, Trouble Begins & Park Church Lectures, Quarry Farm Fall Symposia, The American Vandal Podcast, MarkTwainStudies.com, & more.
@jerklamerk.bsky.social
Connecticut-based playwright, proud liberal, drag whisperer, lover of memes, books, Prince, Mark Twain, pizza, and all things camp. Chief Creative Officer for Buzz-Engine.com. jacqueslamarreplaywright.com 📚🐕🐈🏳️🌈👸🧚♀️💃
@seeshespeak.bsky.social
reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator Champlain College (Burlington, VT) HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
@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
@andyhines.bsky.social
political economy of higher ed | socialist and communist education | Black studies | author of OUTSIDE LITERARY STUDIES, editor of UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS (he/him)
@shirleyinithaca.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, friend, mother, sister. In production: “Haunted by the Civil War” (PUP, 2025) Now writing: “Women & Democracy in the C19 U. S.” (Edinburgh UP) Also work as a humanities chair https://english.cornell.edu/shirley-samuels
@sarahcomyn.bsky.social
Assistant Prof & Ad Astra Fellow in UCD School of English, Drama, Film & Creative Writing. Irish Research Council, Starting Laureate: Imperial Minerals. She/her. Views mine.
@jdconnor.bsky.social
https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com For alerts when something new drops: https://forms.gle/neT79ZHa9BPjGh2m9
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social
Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her. Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring. Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
@hennefem.bsky.social
Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
@post45.bsky.social
Open access peer-reviewed journal for scholarship on postwar American literature and culture post45.org/journal
@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social
literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
@thomasruyssmith.com
Prof of Lit and Culture, mostly nineteenth century. Out now: The Last Gift: The Christmas Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman & a new edition of Black Beauty. Writing books about Mark Twain & London, children’s lit, Santa Claus 🎅 http://www.thomasruyssmith.com
@lclaberge.bsky.social
Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
@melville-society.bsky.social
The Melville Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, brings together scholars, readers, and artists through the study and appreciation of the life and works of the author Herman Melville. www.melvillesociety.org
@thecarie.bsky.social
I cannot drive by cows without saying "cows!" which poses some logistical problems considering i live in southwest Oklahoma.
@manshel.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
@jessagoldberg.bsky.social
Abolitionist | anti-imperialist | academic PhD in American Literature Black Studies, Queer Studies, Carceral Studies they/them | my views, not employer's | book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917890/abolition-time/
@gabrielh.bsky.social
Modernism, digital studies, psychoanalysis, horror, literary color. Asheville / Clemson. Literary and Cultural Studies feed here: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m22fqufavn4t3bpxa6y53jqz/feed/aaajitqeisltw .
@mlmcgill.bsky.social
C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
@ericafretwell.bsky.social
good enough professor | The Art of Slight Living: Anaesthetics in Times of Anomie (in progress) | Sensory Experiments (Duke UP, 2020) | she/her
@pjmaciak.bsky.social
TV Critic @ The New Republic // DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) // teaching @ Wash U in STL // https://linktr.ee/phillip.maciak 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sixers
@tjschweiger.bsky.social
C18th studies. Academic worker. Instructional professor of English/Humanities. SEIU Local 73 steward. He/him. Cohost, @betterreadpod.bsky.social https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-read-than-dead-literature-from-a-left-perspective/id1472577259
@oliviastowell.bsky.social
theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
@ghostingdani.bsky.social
A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
@thathoberekguy.bsky.social
Finally on Bluesky. The last time it took this much effort to join the uncool kids I went to grad school.
@sherimariephd.bsky.social
@kwazana.bsky.social
I write about food. Mom. Professor, c19 US and gender studies department chair. Moroccan Arab Jew. Radical diasporism. Winner of the James Beard, Lora Romero, Best Book in Food Studies and Choice Awards. “Can Run Meetings” 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
@sanjukta.bsky.social
Interested in the idea and practice and law of economic coordination. I work as a law professor at a public university.
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Grimdark media, theory of the present, and critical tech, including AI. Better times: letterpress printing and tabletop gaming. Distinguished University Prof., U. of Maryland; speaking only for myself here though. Default content: cats. Pests: blocked.
@astra.bsky.social
Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
@isanchezprado.bsky.social
Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs. Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
@thisblue.bsky.social
Los Angeles since 2003. Media Studies, Critical Finance; power ballads; history of this wild city Find me at michellechihara.com
@econmarshall.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah. Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance, Jain Family Institute. Aging enfant terrible.
@titachico.bsky.social
Prof of English (18thc) @ U of Maryland Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished University Professor @ U of Bristol *On Wonder* (2025) *The Experimental Imagination* (2018/20) https://titachico.wixsite.com/home
@feinsod.bsky.social
Comp Lit and English Prof. Baltimore. 💙⚓️💚🌱🖤📖. *Speaking only for myself*
@ashleyrattner.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Early American literature. Utopia, print culture, and communitarian reform. Birmingham, Alabama. C19 Podcast.
@ubiquity75.xyz
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta used it to train its LLM. Professor, researcher, author, VP AoIR, synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady. “This heaven gives me migraine.”
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
@amoskowitz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College | Early + C19 American Literature | Political Economy | Literary Form | Sensory Perception
@gracelavery.bsky.social
❤️🩹🥝🩺🧨🫀 tr*nny dianny / / / surplus scholar 📚🎥🛍🪗🧻 ** QUAINT, EXQUISITE (Princeton UP, 2019); PLEASE MISS (Seal, 2022); PLEASURE AND EFFICACY (Princeton UP, 2023). Repped by Kent Wolf at Neon Literary. **
@rafaelwalker.bsky.social
I write on literature and issues in higher ed || Assistant Professor at Baruch College, CUNY || Editor of Nella Larsen’s *Passing* for Broadview Press https://tinyurl.com/2s3kt7w9 || Still fun! 🎡 🌈 baruch.academia.edu/RafaelWalker
@jordanstein.bsky.social
Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone