Matt Seybold
Resident Scholar @ Center For Mark Twain Studies | Host, The American Vandal Podcast | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies @ Elmira College | Lit & Econ
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The American Vandal
Guests from 11 seasons of The American Vandal Podcast.
@participha.bsky.social
Philosopher, cognitive scientist, writer Books: Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity between Life and Language (MIT Press); Denken over Liefde (Letterwerk) Participatory sense-making Loving and knowing she/her masking
@riislover667.bsky.social
@bertemerson.bsky.social
Lit prof and part-time admin at Whitworth U in Spokane, WA | ever hopeful for democracy | author of American Literary Misfits (UNC Press) | co-editor of Democracies in America (Oxford UP)
@ryanridge.bsky.social
Writer @sarabandebooks, @altcurrent, @UofMPress, etc. | Professor | Honorary Steamboat Captain | Bass for the Snarlin’ Yarns |
@heyitsdenisew.bsky.social
Postdoc at JLU on the DFG/AHRC-funded UKRI project 'Reading Post-postmodernist Fictions of the Digital' | Reviews Co-Editor @c21literature.bsky.social
@themisterlibrary.bsky.social
'25 SLJ Librarian of the Year 🎉 '24 LJ Mover & Shaker 🎉 '23 Nat’l Media Literacy Teacher 🎉 '22 KY Librarian of the Year 🎉 Second City Alum 🎉 Co-Owner of nimcoinc.com 🎉 Book out Oct '25 linktr.ee/misterlibrary #Skybrarians #TLSky #EduSky #BookSky
@ioanmarcjones.bsky.social
Writer. Essays in The Independent, HuffPost, openDemocracy, New England Review, Litro, etc. Views own. He/him.
@themistocleswall.bsky.social
Resisting dictatorship is the disciplined thing to do.
@ucmarxistinstitute.bsky.social
@kiese.bsky.social
@martynwendell.bsky.social
Senior associate editor, The Bulwark. American in Canada, writer. Dad newsletter: https://martynwendell.substack.com/
@vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social
I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead. Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and the forthcoming To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
@columjournreview.bsky.social
Monitoring the press, tracking the evolving media business & encouraging excellence in journalism since 1961.
@vanderhoofy.bsky.social
trivia about british and american weirdos, both recreationally and professionally at vanity fair
@americancampus.bsky.social
on the history and political economy of higher education https://americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/
@charliearchy.bsky.social
News Editor @ Salon Philadelphia, USA Signal: @charlesdavis.13
@scalzi.com
I enjoy pie. Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
@zacharylesser.bsky.social
Book history, Shakespeare, early modern studies @ Penn English. Views just my own. Image in header is from: https://shorturl.at/FtfZQ / Gen'l Ed., Arden Shakespeare / https://pennmaterialtexts.org/ / http://shakespearecensus.org / http://deepplaybooks.org
@kyla.bsky.social
wrote a book called "in this economy?" | chair of the federal reserve | writing and youtube @ http://kyla.substack.com
@natlhumanities.bsky.social
The NHC is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing humanities research and teaching and encouraging appreciation for the humanities. nationalhumanitiescenter.org
@rogerwhitson.bsky.social
lit and media prof @WSU — science fiction, buddhism, william blake, science & tech studies, polyamory.
@nope4evr.bsky.social
Librarian and Liaison Program Lead, PhD candidate, LIS adjunct faculty. Instruction programs, crit info lit, edu policy studies, valuation of library labor, qual methods. 🌱🐈⬛🚲☕️ https://www.nicolepagowsky.com/
@charlieeaton.bsky.social
Economic sociologist. University of California, Merced professor. Author Bankers in the Ivory Tower. Subscribe: https://charlieeatonphd.substack.com
@meghanclare.bsky.social
Write a work that intersperses love with landlords. - Bernadette Meyer
@halperta.bsky.social
Here for the humanities. Formerly: NEH Civil Servant & AFGE Local 3403 VP tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands halperta.com
@anaguimarae5.bsky.social
she/her 🌈 PhD candidate in latin american literature at the university of michigan https://www.ana-guimaraes.com/
@scmstudies.bsky.social
The Official Blue Sky account for SCMS https://www.cmstudies.org/
@davarianbaldwin.bsky.social
Urbanist/teacher/writer/community advocate Founding Director, Smart Cities Research Lab Author, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
@kgrotke.bsky.social
Reader, writer, historian. Working on finance, endowments, higher ed. Publications at TAP, Inside Higher Ed, Academe and elsewhere. Have been called "one of the great minds of the 18th c", still trying to catch up.
@frank-smigiel.bsky.social
Arts in San Francisco now: Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture; then: SFMOMA; SFAI (RIP) U Delaware English PhD who fell into the 20th c. art world — thanks U Arts (also RIP), Rosenbach + Whitney Museums Just looking.
@lizwfab.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, Teacher Books: The Computer’s Voice (U Minn Press, 2020) Robot Suicide (Lexington, 2023) Under the Mistletoe (McFarland, 2024) LizWFaber.com
@sarahemarsh.bsky.social
Literary historian of slavery and antislavery in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Associate Professor of English at Seton Hill University.
@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
@bilalb.bsky.social
Director, Democratic Institutions @rooseveltinstitute.org and Roosevelt Forward. #FirstGen Go Blue. opinions my own.
@jillcaddell.bsky.social
writer, editor, teacher thoughts on writing and culture: jillcaddell.substack.com clips and more! jspiveycaddell.com agent: @keslupo.bsky.social
@allisonpugh.bsky.social
Care, Tech, Culture, Inequality. Check out The Last Human Job re the "scaling up" of humane work @PrincetonUPress. Johns Hopkins sociologist
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Chair of Political Science, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill. Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears. Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame. “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
@simongrivet.bsky.social
I’m teaching American history at the Universite de Lille (France) and doing research on federal judges in the South during the civil rights movement (among other topics) I love to run (cross, 10k, half marathon, marathon), cook, play chess and read.
@holdenthorp.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief of Science and Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at George Washington University. Opinions not those of AAAS. https://www.zotero.org/holdenthorp #ActuallyAutistic