Mid Theory Collective
the contemporary and its curiosities
https://mid-theory.com
@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
@glavey.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, Univ of South Carolina; author of The Wallflower Avant-Garde; working on a book about relatability and the poetics of oversharing
@evenannaliese.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. of English & Dir. of Academic Writing. Baroque Modernism. Crime Narratives and Culture. No kings, no tyrants, no billionaires.
@jdconnor.bsky.social
https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com For alerts when something new drops: https://forms.gle/neT79ZHa9BPjGh2m9
@nicolaaspbarr.bsky.social
Translator, Tofik Dibi's DJINN https://sunypress.edu/Books/D/Djinn. Race/religion in the Netherlands, other nerdy stuff. Bargain-basement lecturer/uni staff. Trombonist, http://bandavagosseattle.com. he/him
@briceezell.bsky.social
Writer, critic (@PopMatters), teacher. ATL. PhD in English, University of Texas. Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy. Writing a book on Tom Stoppard. https://boxd.it/1rEO5
@sherimariephd.bsky.social
@katewagner.bsky.social
architecture critic @thenation.com, creator of https://late-review.com, derailleur.net, mcmansionhell.com. Nicht bringst du Unheil dahin, wo Unheil im Hause wohnt. she/her
@lgilmore.bsky.social
Feminist literary critic. Ask me about memoir. Author of Tainted Witness: (Columbia 2017), The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (Cornell 2023), and The #MeToo Effect (Columbia 2023).
@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
@dereknystrom.bsky.social
Indolence capable of energies. I teach and write about various things, mostly stuff on screens. McGill, English. He/him.
@faith-harden.bsky.social
early modern iberia & beyond | author: Arms & Letters: Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain (U Toronto Press) | amateur aerialist, circus enthusiast, poetry fan | she/ella/ela https://arizona.academia.edu/FaithSHarden
@mattseybold.bsky.social
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
@thathoberekguy.bsky.social
Finally on Bluesky. The last time it took this much effort to join the uncool kids I went to grad school.
@rcolesworthy.bsky.social
Acquisitions editor (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
@nicholemflores.bsky.social
Associate professor of religious studies at UVA. Author of The Aesthetics of Solidarity: Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy (Georgetown 2021). Writing a book on Advent & Christian political imagination. Views are mine and they are breathtaking.
@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social
Reviews architecture, in New York. nyra.nyc
@knadiminti.bsky.social
Writing on postcolonial lit and other things; companion to a zany dog; lover of biryani.
@sbrodsky.bsky.social
I teach music, modernism, psychoanalysis @ University of Chicago, direct Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, and am mostly unconscious. Stuff: http://bit.ly/3JMupgJ
@philipleventhal.bsky.social
Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own.
@saronikbosu.bsky.social
Teaching at Baruch College, CUNY. Co-Host of @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social Co-Founder of Humanities Podcast Network. Digital Artist. Home Cook. My dream? car-free neighborhoods with one public library per 100 people.
@aaup.bsky.social
The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. aaup.org
@isanchezprado.bsky.social
Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs. Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
@natewolff.bsky.social
I invented reuben pizza and was the first guy to notice the -Dick jokes in Moby-Dick. Because of this they made me a professor. I wrote a book about Gilded Age literature: bit.ly/NotQuiteHope
@mitchrmurray.bsky.social
Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic, Contributing editor @ ASAP/J, William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture https://t.co/eVTDsrcgtv. Opinions my own.
@marissafenley.bsky.social
Harper Schmidt Fellow at UChicago / Associate Editor at Mid Theory Collective / Literary Fellow at Court Theater
@jshelat1.bsky.social
PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about 9/11, the War on Terror, and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own. https://www.jayshelat.com
@oliviastowell.bsky.social
theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
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