Mid Theory Collective
the contemporary and its curiosities
https://mid-theory.com
@jessrauchberg.bsky.social
social media + digital culture expert. I write about labor + inequalities in the creator economy. hot takes are my own! www.jessrauchberg.com
@elotroalex.bsky.social
faculty of collective wonders for Yale Spanish & Portuguese. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.
@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)
@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@palumboliu.bsky.social
Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera. Book from Haymarket. Views proudly my own.
@larryglickman.bsky.social
Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
@jfrejnyc.bsky.social
Building a vibrant Jewish Left in NY, fighting arm-in-arm with our neighbors for care not cops. Extremely pro-glitter.
@nplusonemag.com
n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
@cnewf.bsky.social
Psychic life of culture, green political economy, critical university studies, knowledge-power struggles, epistemic justice.
@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
@claremullaney.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Clemson University | Ph.D., Penn | 19th & early 20th U.S. literature, disability studies, material texts and material culture.
@furqans.bsky.social
@c4noff.bsky.social
Assistant prof of Latin American studies at Cornell. Mex + CAm studies. Environmental humanities, 📚, 🎥.
@plantmetaphor.bsky.social
island person, bike rider, PhD student thinking about c19 books and ecologies
@alecpollak.bsky.social
“I’m not a girl I’m a genius.” editor, Joanna Russ’s ON STRIKE AGAINST GOD, out now. archive rat, organizer, grad student. Alec with a “c”
@bubbaprog.lol
Journalist. Consultant. Neighborhood president. Voting rights advocate. Non-profit theater board member. Citrus grower. Beagle foster dad. Wife guy. Signal: 352.222.2706 https://timburkelegalfund.org
@biqbal.bsky.social
anthropologist, editor. author of _the dread heights: tribulation and refuge after the syrian revolution_ (coming july 2025). bookmarking in the wasteland
@arabarbaro.bsky.social
Political theorist | reconstructing visions of world and earth in postcolonial thought c. 1970-2001 | Ford Fellow
@strongman.bsky.social
Asst. Professor @ UM, Writing a book on literary culture and Black feminist sociality in the 70s and 80s
@michaelcary.bsky.social
PhD student interested in floods, infrastructure, and agrarian change in Paraguay and beyond. Also 📚🎥🌵🏀🦜.
@kinamv.bsky.social
poet & editor @ garden-door press | academia-adjacent day job | mom to kid + cats | winged eyeliner on the daily 🦇📚🐈 ithaca, ny
@buscopur.bsky.social
University of Western Ontario, Comparative Literature, Ph.D.; Research on boredom; Lecturer (LD), Creative Arts & Production (CAP). https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/bored-as-hell/
@coffeehousepress.bsky.social
Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
@iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
¶PhD in C17-18 book history & bibliography ¶Anglo-German print & typography ¶queer media history ¶video game, arthouse cinema, & public transit enjoyer ¶Librarian-in-training ¶ 🇺🇸🇩🇪🏳️🌈 He/Him 📍Texan in DC https://linktr.ee/iamdylanlewis
@shirsho.bsky.social
journo @miamiherald.com (dc bureau). ex-soccer writer. usually cooking, fiddling with a camera or evangelizing about cricket to americans. 📩: dshirsho@protonmail.com; Signal: shirsho.09 📍dc https://linktr.ee/shirsho
@nathankhensley.bsky.social
Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (2025) • Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (2016) • Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his
@austinmccoy.bsky.social
Historian, Old School Rap Specialist. Writing book on history of the Left in Midwest and another one about De La Soul. https://austincmccoy.com/ https://austincmccoy.substack.com/
@alinaetc.bsky.social
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
@leximcmenamin.com
permanent Philadelphian in NYC news + politics editor @teenvogue.com member @transjournalists.org @leximcmenamin on twit/insta/tumblr linktr.ee/leximcmenamin
@salsipotent.bsky.social
All men say “What” to me / phd candidate @ Cornell www.susannahsharpless.com
@sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social
A new print magazine, published three times per year ⚫️ Issue One 2025 is here ⚫️ Annual subscriptions and Issue One orders are available at the link below 🌝 Everyone is a critic ⚫️ sfreview.org
@kellypendergrast.bsky.social
technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes writing: kellypendergrast.com working: antistaticpartners.com
@rjkooiker.bsky.social
Assistant Editor at the Yale Review (pitch us: theyalereview@yale.edu) Pubs and projects here: https://linktr.ee/renekooiker Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/42CQ1
@carallewis.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English & WGS, IU NW / Author of Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism (Cornell UP, 2020) / Opinions my own (she/her)
@theseanmdonovan.bsky.social
Postdoc in Communication & Media at U-Michigan; a little fancy boy chasing mirth 🐻
@zugenia.bsky.social
English and Cultural Studies prof; poet; editor of @ecfjournal.bsky.social. Thinking in semiotic squares and cosmological circles. she/they/we
@ecourtem.bsky.social
Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
@jordanstein.bsky.social
Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone
@mjkeran.bsky.social
Recent English lit PhD thinking about the intersections of pop culture & violence against women. I love cats, romance novels, pop music, and buying too many planners.
@jackie-johns.bsky.social
English/Film Faculty at Pitt. PhD from USC's School of Cinematic Arts. Researching/Teaching TV, digital media, and Black cultural production. Hot sauce enthusiast who resides over a hellmouth.
@ranjodhdhaliwal.com
Critical Media Theory + Science and Technology Studies + Literature + CS. Associate Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere. VP, @litsciarts.org 📚: Computation, Political Economy, Infrastructures, History, Games, Design, SF. ☭. Not a professional account.
@perryzurn.bsky.social
Prof @Cornell & @AmericanU. Interested in the political theory, social movements, LGBT life, and fungi. Author @UMinnPress @mitpress @dukepress https://www.perryzurn.com/