Mixed Bill: Comedy and Gender Research Network
Research network for comedy scholars
@adcarter.bsky.social
Sociologist of emotion/humour in everyday life. Co-Editor - Families, Relationships and Societies. Uni of Sheffield, RA. Cat dad. Bit of a gaymer he/him.
@jillybkay.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media, Loughborough University Feminism, cultural studies, politics
@loucoopey.bsky.social
Doctor in film & television. Independent researcher & freelance content writer. Researching TV, representation, complexity, seriality, adaptation.
@lucyriphd.bsky.social
Postgraduate Researcher on Mental Illness in Sitcoms 🤣, and CEO 💼 of Talent Masters ⭐️. Geeky 👓, autistic, queer ❤️, feminist 💪, fantasy 🧙🏻 fan. She/Her/Slytherin 🐍.
@femmediastudies.bsky.social
Feminist Media Studies is a transdisciplinary, transnational journal publishing peer-reviewed scholarship + commentary & book reviews. Posts by @krystenstein.bsky.social
@profkarenboyle.bsky.social
Feminist Media Studies, Head of Humanities University of Strathclyde.
@profkirsty.bsky.social
Prof of Screen Studies, SODA at Manchester Metropolitan University. Music Commissioner GMCA Series Editor-British Pop Archive https://linktr.ee/kirstyfairclough
@bellecobb.bsky.social
Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies University of Southampton, UK
@brandymp.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Communication + Media Studies @ Fordham U; Scholar of Black popular media, television and film, digital culture, and celebrity
@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
@smittermeier.bsky.social
Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. “Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Very bisexual. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social. https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
@vsturtevant.bsky.social
Media Studies Faculty. Author of It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy. Always up to talk comedy, gender, popular media, and reproductive politics. https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330449/
@tellyelk.bsky.social
Reader in TV, who watches TV and sometimes makes some with her students at Edge Hill University. Interested in the role of media in communicating climate change. Also interested in questions of inequality and television. Also posts pretty pictures.
@lrjdmnr.bsky.social
feminist TV & media lecturer @ the university of salford ❈ women & UK comedy book: https://shorturl.at/iD3Q5 ❈ tv & class project: https://shorturl.at/uIkTP ❈ l.j.minor@salford.ac.uk https://salford-repository.worktribe.com/person/1178868/laura-minor
@emma-sullivan.bsky.social
Comedy research (stand up, literature, visual art). Associate lecturer at the Open University, tutor at the Brilliant Club, freelance writer https://humourinthearts.com/
@clairesedgwick.bsky.social
Feminist. Book- Feminist Media: From the Second Wave to the Digital Age: http://bit.ly/30vMF82 she/her. Currently researching comedy. Views Own, personal acct.
@edfringe.bsky.social
The greatest platform for creative freedom in the world 🌎 01 - 25 August 2025. #edfringe Register a show: https://www.edfringe.com/take-part/artists/organise-a-show/registration/
@pxlwy.bsky.social
Founder & Festival Director, @argcomfest.com Vice Chair, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society @edfringe.bsky.social Member of Feral Sett, organising @feralvector.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️
@edmorrish.bsky.social
Leeds man & audio/comedy producer. Work stuff @leadmojo.bsky.social My posts, since you asked: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zhglb2ub3qwkn2kpxlwekst3/feed/aaaaqszrsfcwo
@drdaveobrien.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Manchester and host of New Books in Critical Theory. Currently on secondment to DCMS, also at Creative PEC and the Whats On Project too
@vixleyton.bsky.social
Stand up, podcast, host, consumer champion & hype merchant, writer, columnist. Strong views, diluted by vino. Fueled by petty.
@campaignforthearts.org
We believe the arts make life better, and everyone should have opportunities to experience and take part in them. 🎶💃🎭🎨✍️📸🎥🧵 https://www.campaignforthearts.org
@scottygb.bsky.social
TV Critic and Broadcaster. Must Watch and The Bachelor of Buckingham Palace podcasts on @BBCSounds.
@rachaelhealy.bsky.social
Journalist/lapsed mackem | Freelance features/reviews/investigations. Mostly on culture, mostly in @theguardian.com/Observer, and @inews.co.uk | British Journalism Awards winner 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/profile/rachael-healy
@lalouverouge.bsky.social
author, “cool mom,” adjunctified phd books: Comedy Against Work (Common Notions, 2022), Fag/Hag (Rosa Press, 2024) next book: Solidarity with Children (Haymarket, 2025)
@stephbrown.bsky.social
VAP of Com and Media Studies @ Washington College | current Delawarean | I do work on gender, space, media, and belonging and also comedy studies | she/her
@ellietomsett.bsky.social
Comedy academic. Author of Stand Up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms (2023), co-founder of Mixed Bill research network. Book reviews editor for Comedy Studies. Views/cats my own. She/her
@bsky.app
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