Matthew Leggatt
Senior Lecturer English and Amrican Literature @ Winchester Uni: Lit & Film, nostalgia, utopia/dystopia, apocalypse, terror. D&D. Dog pics. Views own. He/Him
@befuddledpanda.bsky.social
Reader, scifi & fantasy, book collector, Podcaster (Green of the Legendarium), foodie, dog lover, seattlelite
@dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
@fransplains.bsky.social
Postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social, interested in nostalgia, visual politics and the gothic. "Needlessly polemical" https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/65lr7v/doctor-francesca-melhuish
@megan-woodward.bsky.social
Occupational bookworm PhD exploring Child-oriented & post/nonhuman temporalities in British dystopias @ Uni of York. Research network admin, 'Reproduction and the Humanities' (York). University of Leeds alum and former Faculty Student Success Officer
@roxannedouglas.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at IAS University of Warwick. World-Literatures, Feminism, Arab Feminism, Gothic, Apocalypses. Women in World-Literature organiser. She/her.
@tinanovels.bsky.social
American, utopian, animal, video game & pop studies. EnvHum @UniTorino. Author of American Nightmares https://bit.ly/3euW4Ho. Editor at @Iperstoria. She/her
@jessnorledge.bsky.social
Stylistician @ Uni. Nottingham. Literary Linguistics. Language & Feminism. Contemporary Lit. Dystopia.
@lauratisdall.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
@mariettarosetta.bsky.social
Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at Glasgow Uni. Working on speculative fiction, representations of reproduction, medical humanities. Series editor Palgrave SFF: A New Canon. Twin Peaks/Blindboy obsessive. https://glasgow.academia.edu/AnnaMcFarlane
@simifilm.bsky.social
Film scholar, science fiction expert, utopian, Simpsons aficionado chocolate connaisseur. https://www.simifilm.ch
@krekberg.bsky.social
Researcher and teacher at Lund University, history of climate obstruction, anti-environmentalism, climate politics, utopia and cornucupianism. Relapsed skateboarder. Book: "Climate obstruction" https://t.ly/DS_Ja
@azzageddi.bsky.social
English professor in Fukuoka, Japan; research focus on utopias in literature with forays into science fiction, ecocriticism, & monster theory. Immigrant, grandad, LGBTQIA+(bi), intersectional equality for all. he/him https://linktr.ee/azzageddi
@bobeaglestone.bsky.social
Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
@proflisadowning.bsky.social
UK-based author & professor | Works at University of Birmingham; lives in London | Edits Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory | Author of The Subject of Murder, Fuckology, Selfish Women, & more | Forthcoming book: Against Affect (Nebraska UP).
@o3dipamaas.bsky.social
English professor researching and teaching anti-fascist stories for young people. I share research on rising neofascism in America, works of art, and anti-fascist propaganda. I believe that public education is a cornerstone of democracy.
@robertedgar.bsky.social
Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University. Scriptwriting, Music Memoir, Hauntology, Folk Horror.
@lindsaythomas.net
academic and aspiring person who likes winter. contemporary lit, digital stuff. i’ve written about sci fi, national security and fiction, the humanities, bunkers, and chatbots. now writing about novels and how long they are. https://lindsaythomas.net
@theodorekoulouris.bsky.social
Snr lecturer, University of Brighton. media & literary theory; deconstruction, ethics, politics, anglo-american modernisms, digital culture. Reposts not necessarily endorsements. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/theodore-koulouris
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Lit, U of Manchester| Assoc. Editor Literature & Theology 📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (Reaktion Books, 2025) https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/naomi.baker
@emmashort.bsky.social
thinking about hotels, gertrude bell, and the environment. not necessarily at the same time. assistant professor of modern & contemporary literature at durham university. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22129-4
@alixbeeston.bsky.social
Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at Cardiff University | Author of In and Out of Sight (Oxford UP) | Coeditor of #Incomplete (U California P) and #Visualities (Modernism/modernity) | Working on a critical–creative book about women in photography
@multistorey.bsky.social
Teaching American literature at the University of Warwick. Englishman in Wales. Trying this out. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/people/markstorey/
@crport.bsky.social
Modern & contemporary British and Anglophone lit. Age studies and related areas. Brooklynite by birth. South Carolinian by circumstance.
@doctorwaffle.substack.com
Victorianist • Utopianist • Environmentalist • Essayist Read essays here: doctorwaffle.substack.com Listen to podcast here: tinyurl.com/drwafflefriends See other stuff here: deannakreisel.com
@stuartjtaylor.bsky.social
PhD (EngLit), SFHEA. Lecturer, DLTE, Edinburgh Napier University. #ECR Ed. Dev., contemp. #literature & #maths📐🔬#litsci 🔭he/him.
@judithrauscher.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. /JProf. for American Literature & Culture @ U of Cologne; Poetry, Ecoriticism, Mobility Studies, Speculative Fiction, Gender Studies 🤓👩🏫🌄🎶📚🏳️🌈
@saraupstone.bsky.social
Professor of Contemporary Literature and Director Postgraduate Research, Kingston School of Art. Researching transglossic literature, disability, social and environmental justice. All views my own. Masking against Covid until no one has to.
@tashaalden.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction at @AberUni. Lit & philosophy/theology, esp. Iris Murdoch & M Robinson, language of fertility, queer historical fiction, MedHums. Schools / access. Buddhisty-Quaker. LWithTheT
@kovesi.bsky.social
Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures. Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
@maisieridgway.bsky.social
Associate lecturer at Worcester and soon to be research fellow at The University of Leicester embarking on a book about energy imaginaires and inscription
@drannaburton.bsky.social
Lecturer in English Literature, University of Derby | Interested in all things arboreal | Trees in C19 English Fiction (2021) | she/her
@bendoyle.bsky.social
Senior Publisher for Literary Studies, Digital Cultures and Medical/Health Humanities at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
@djbduncan.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
@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)
@dralexjcalder.bsky.social
ECR in Contemporary Writing | teaching at University of Cambridge | co-editing Ali Smith: Critical Essays (Routledge) | literary experimentation; politics and ethics; gender; the maximalist novel | from Caithness, Highland | he/him
@dystopiajunkie.bsky.social
Doctor of dystopian fiction, post-truth, and "endotexts" working behind the scenes in HE. Co-host of @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social. Former teacher - GCSE revision materials available at https://youtube.com/@dystopiajunkie
@apocalypticdrift.bsky.social
Reluctant literary scholar with a focus on the end (of the world) American Studies at Universität Stuttgart (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Other research interests include video games (& ludology), zombie studies, sound studies, and dark ecology.
@openlibhums.bsky.social
The Open Library of Humanities. Building a sustainable, diamond open access future for the humanities. Part of Birkbeck, University of London & makers of Janeway
@ilariabiano.bsky.social
Religious and Cultural Studies Scholar and Historian Scrivo The God Gap thegodgap.substack.com/
@chloehouston.bsky.social
Joint Head of the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading & one half of Frances Wise. https://linktr.ee/frances_wise_author
@swillmetts.bsky.social
Cultural historian with an interest in secrecy, intelligence agencies, and their impact upon wider culture and society. I work at Leiden University, but my views here are my own.
@mariaabizandac.bsky.social
PhD student in American literature at @www.unizar.es. Member of @posthumanuz.bsky.social. SF, crime fiction, posthumanism. Currently Fulbright visiting student at @ucrchass.bsky.social. she/her
@nomiclairelazar.bsky.social
Professeure Titulaire, Legal / Political Theory uOttawa GSPIA Books:on Time & Politics (YaleUP); on States of Emergency (CambridgeUP) Co-Lead, British Academy Global Convening Crisis, Constitutions, Elections, Apocalypse, Extremism www.nomiclairelazar.com
@utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social
A podcast about utopia and dystopia hosted by @matthewleggatt.bsky.social and @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social. Each episode we interview a different thinker in the field of Utopian and Dystopian studies. You can follow the podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
@drejosephine.bsky.social
Gender Studies PhD. Literature Masters & Hons. Critical animal studies - men and masculinities; Cultural histories, Social futures. Utopia/Dystopia Sociologist, Narrative Therapist with #CRPS 💖 🐇s, manta rays #pigoneer Unceded Bundjalung Country, AUS
@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.
@geography-emma.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sustainability and Geography Education at the University of Southampton. Often found reading, writing or walking in the hills.
@carolinekoegler.bsky.social
Chair of English Lit / Global Literature and Its Media @ Freie Universität Berlin (FU) Empire/post/colonial/18C/19C/affect/queer & gender stds/maritime fictions/lit&Economics/book stds Website: https://tinyurl.com/bddnpakt @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social