Stephen Shapiro
Edinburgh based: read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
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For those who don't stray from Virtue's path and for those who do.
@rebeccatillett1.bsky.social
Associate Professor of American Literatures and Cultures at UEA: founding member of the Indigenous Studies Research Network (ISRN), U.K.; co-lead for Green BAAS; Climate Fiction; Environmental Humanities
@drdomdavies.bsky.social
Academic & author, Imperial Infrastructure (2017), Urban Comics (2019), The Broken Promise of Infrastructure (2023), Graphic Refuge (2025). More info: www.drdomdavies.com. Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social
@aderickson.bsky.social
Associate Researcher and PhD candidate, SchauflerLab@TU Dresden #AmericanStudies #speculativefiction, #CriticalFutures, oh, and cycling + haikus on Strava
@leverpress.bsky.social
Lever Press is a collaborative #openaccess scholarly publisher driven by the values, ambitions, and imagination of the top liberal arts colleges. leverpress.org
@cnewf.bsky.social
Psychic life of culture, green political economy, critical university studies, knowledge-power struggles, epistemic justice.
@victorshammas.com
Oslo, Norway-based Associate Professor of Sociology with a global perspective. To the left of Bernie Sanders. Research: victorshammas.com. Substack: theorybrief.com.
@igd.bsky.social
In search of new forms of life. Digital community center and media platform featuring news, opinion, podcasts, and reports on autonomous movements, social struggles, and revolt across so-called North America from an anarchist perspective. itsgoingdown.org
@gfzw.bsky.social
Associate Audio Director at R*, sound designer, cyclist, QA veteran, player of games, cinephile, etc. Any opinions are mine, and mine alone. Sounds good > clever
@emilyalder.bsky.social
@rkapitany.bsky.social
Forever DM, eurorack hack, and neophyte game designer. Also, academic psychologist interested in cultural evolution, ritual, religion, and reality beliefs.
@ludology.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Film, Television, & Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. Author of Eugene Jarvis: King of the Arcade & Playing War: Military Video Games after 9/11. Co-editor of How to Play Video Games.
@snaxwell.bsky.social
Game Designer + Prof. Angry queer. Himbos of Myth & Mettle, Frame 352 and vis-a-visage. https://maxwellander.itch.io/ Co-host of RTFM. Rtfmcast.com
@mollymacv.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Interdisciplinary Humanities @ WFU/ contemporary literature, climate, critical food studies
@nikolaysarkisyan.bsky.social
Scholar of Russian/Soviet history/culture and beyond. Marie Curie postdoc at Oxford. Working on museums of revolution in early Soviet Union and revolutionary tradition in the Russian Empire.
@mariatho.bsky.social
“We cannot lose our humanity. It is necessary for us not to lose our solidarity. It is necessary for us to think a little bit with our hearts.” —Lula I organize healthcare workers with interruptingcriminalization.com. more at bit.ly/BDNHLaunch.
@possumcreekgames.com
ENNIE Award Winning, Nebula finalist RPG publishing company, making queer games and dreaming of what could be. https://linktr.ee/possumcreek
@pgmcgonagle.bsky.social
Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
@katopodis.bsky.social
Feminist educator and writer; Early & 19C Americanist; Co-Author of The New College Classroom; Environmentalist; Sound recorder
@benspky.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
@emrekizilkaya.bsky.social
Ph.D. Researcher & Editor | Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights | Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow | IVLP Alumnus | IBM Certified AI Developer | https://www.linkedin.com/in/emre-kizilkaya #Media #Humanities #AI #Ethics #News
@courtneythorsson.bsky.social
I study, teach, and write about African American literature. **The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture** hc 2023, pb 2025 https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-sisterhood/9780231204729 https://www.courtneythorsson.com
@lackingceremony.bsky.social
I'm a queer game designer hailing from Amiskwaciy-wâskahikan. I care about make believe and liberation. www.buriedwithoutceremony.com
@miriamposner.com
Asst. prof. at UCLA Information Studies, ask me about supply chain tech! Labor, data, DH, etc. www.miriamposner.com
@repeaterbooks.bsky.social
@resistrevchorus.bsky.social
A collective of women + non-binary artists + activists who sing in the spirit of JOY & RESISTANCE! Listen to our album THIS JOY on Righteous Babe Records ➡️ http://bit.ly/RRCTHISJOY
@drrenajackson.bsky.social
#VictorianLit | author, The Imperial World-System and Cultures of Dissent in Thomas Hardy's Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) | Editorial Advisory Board, Thomas Hardy Journal & Hardy Society Journal | She/her | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3915-06
@apetrossiants.bsky.social
writer and editor; PhD candidate at NYU writing about tenants' movements and the production of social space; co-editor of Diversity of Aesthetics https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/diversity-of-aesthetics-looting-volume-3
@jamesdraney.bsky.social
VAP in the Writing Program at Haverford College. Working on a book about the novel, interiority, and big data. https://tinyurl.com/yc6jdn9z
@thelesbianmafia.bsky.social
VERY VIOLENT GANG! Heard shouting 'Let them eat c*ck!' Challenging parts of the LGBTQFU script too Listen here: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/thelesbianmafia
@tommylynch.bsky.social
Reader in Political Theology Vague yet rigorous Currently trying to watch every Hollywood end of the world film https://letterboxd.com/ApocaLynch/
@madverse.bsky.social
This profile is toast. Follow me here: micropoetry.bsky.social MadVerse.com poem poet poetry book Dada Surrealism experimental Beat haiku nature wildlife animals Boulder Denver Colorado kindness Christus Super Omnia
@valuequestion.bsky.social
Scotland-based Lecturer in Anthropology & Museum Studies. Vanuatu/Pacific; economic anthro, value, labour migration. Co-Editor, Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
@pb58.bsky.social
Artist · Graphic Designer · Dem · Reader · Married to my favorite Librarian : ) #Art | #Astronomy | #Rocks/Fossils | #Archaeology | #AmateurRadio | #Books 🚫No Maga 🚫No Porn
@benchappell.bsky.social
Antifascist. Interdisciplinary ethnographer. * studies. Midwesterner. Academic unionist. 8647 Loves mass transit and espresso. Hates structural violence and oligarchy.
@gabrielh.bsky.social
Modernism, digital studies, psychoanalysis, horror, literary color. Asheville / Clemson. Literary and Cultural Studies feed here: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m22fqufavn4t3bpxa6y53jqz/feed/aaajitqeisltw .
@lakauffman.bsky.social
Organizer + writer. She/her. Books: DIRECT ACTION and HOW TO READ A PROTEST. Newsletter: lakauffman.substack.com
@djtjjax.bsky.social
Crypto is a Ponzi scheme. Mega Churches are too. 💙 Not looking for love in all these wrong places. No DMs. Seeking: philosophy, poetry, art, nature, overall intelligent life. GenX.
@civics4all.bsky.social
Passionate about writing, civic education, adventure, and the future! Former professor and elections official. Learn more about my work here: https://civics4all.org. Share and subscribe to my Substack: https://substack.com/@civics4all.
@unddieregel.bsky.social
Cultural Studies/Media Studies/Far Right BS Author at Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen
@zibrak.bsky.social
Books on women writers, the progressive era, feminisms, and popular culture. Writing @ LARB, Missouri Review, McSweeney’s, Millions, New Yorker, Baffler, Women's Studies, etc. Prof @ UWyo - views own. www.ariellezibrak.com
@lawrentian.bsky.social
PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
@mlp4.bsky.social
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented”…Elie Wiesel Wife. Mom. Blue dot in a red state. Radical liberal. Advocate. Human rights are NOT a matter of opinion. 💙💙💙
@liamlanigan.bsky.social
Work as an English professor in Chicago, interested in urban studies, Irish studies. In my mind I'm always still in Kilkenny. Mainly post about Deadwood and lefty political stuff, hurling and pictures of my dogs
@emilydische.bsky.social
Parallelgesellschaftslobbyistin, u.a. bei Forensic Architecture und Diaspora Alliance. Laut ZEIT, leider unbelegt, "eine im postkolonialen Milieu bekannte Autorin". Beiruti for life
@aylinwalder.bsky.social
#FirstGen academic📍Braunschweig / Cologne PhD on the #fantastic dawn of #affinity 🌈 #eco 🌿 #speculativefiction 🛸 Student Caucus Rep @IAFA 🦄
@andyirwin.bsky.social
PhD'er at Uni of Birmingham and Associate Tutor at Uni of Warwick. Queer theorist and literary critic into: optimism; putting theory into practice; the political novel in the 21st century; interpreting against the grain; agitating for worlds otherwise.
@andrewgorin.bsky.social
writer, assistant professor | poetics, media, public sphere | andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org