Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast
A podcast about utopia and dystopia hosted by @matthewleggatt.bsky.social and @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social. Each episode we interview a different thinker in the field of Utopian and Dystopian studies. You can follow the podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
@dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
@amandastoel.bsky.social
DIY futurist, utopianist, technogaianism, passionately curious, science junkie, author, speaker
@zddochterman.bsky.social
Speculative Fiction | Codex | Assistant Professor of Writing at USC | Apophatic Utopianist Chillsubs Profile & List of Publicatons: https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/zddochterman
@krekberg.bsky.social
Researcher and teacher at Lund University, history of climate obstruction, anti-environmentalism, climate politics, utopia and cornucupianism. Relapsed skateboarder. Book: "Climate obstruction" https://t.ly/DS_Ja
@amystorn.bsky.social
Associate professor of literacy at University of Pennsylvania, studying digital literacies, youth media, & writing; lover of beaches & dystopian fiction (vs real dystopias); triple scorpio; she/hers
@naomialderman.bsky.social
I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Lit, U of Manchester| Assoc. Editor Literature & Theology 📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (Reaktion Books, 2025) https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/naomi.baker
@emmashort.bsky.social
thinking about hotels, gertrude bell, and the environment. not necessarily at the same time. assistant professor of modern & contemporary literature at durham university. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22129-4
@alixbeeston.bsky.social
Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at Cardiff University | Author of In and Out of Sight (Oxford UP) | Coeditor of #Incomplete (U California P) and #Visualities (Modernism/modernity) | Working on a critical–creative book about women in photography
@stuartjtaylor.bsky.social
PhD (EngLit), SFHEA. Lecturer, DLTE, Edinburgh Napier University. #ECR Ed. Dev., contemp. #literature & #maths📐🔬#litsci 🔭he/him.
@doctorwaffle.substack.com
Victorianist • Utopianist • Environmentalist • Essayist Read essays here: doctorwaffle.substack.com Listen to podcast here: tinyurl.com/drwafflefriends See other stuff here: deannakreisel.com
@judithrauscher.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. /JProf. for American Literature & Culture @ U of Cologne; Poetry, Ecoriticism, Mobility Studies, Speculative Fiction, Gender Studies 🤓👩🏫🌄🎶📚🏳️🌈
@noreenmasud.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
@dystopiajunkie.bsky.social
Doctor of dystopian fiction, post-truth, and "endotexts" working behind the scenes in HE. Co-host of @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social. Former teacher - GCSE revision materials available at https://youtube.com/@dystopiajunkie
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
Senior politics writer at Salon.com. Subscribe to Standing Room Only: salon.com/newsletter
@ifmoorsauthorguy.bsky.social
Horror, Sci-fi, and Fantasy Author! Mostly in that order. (He/him)
@climatealex.bsky.social
PhD candidate exploring post-growth and low energy demand climate solutions. University of Exeter. Ecological economics. Nature photography. Born at 361.88ppm. He/him. All views my own
@averybooks.bsky.social
Author of Speculative Fiction. WIP: Escape from Elysium (Space Opera). I try, and fail, not to get political. Perpetually a student, hoarder of degrees (PhD, MFA, MS, etc) Quotes: "Yes, I write science-fiction. Yes, I write it on a Typewriter."
@reutopia-revista.bsky.social
Publicación científica de la Editorial CSIC sobre utopías y utopismos. https://reutopia.revistas.csic.es/.
@lauratisdall.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
@apocalypticdrift.bsky.social
Reluctant literary scholar with a focus on the end (of the world) American Studies at Universität Stuttgart (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Other research interests include video games (& ludology), zombie studies, sound studies, and dark ecology.
@emiliamickiewicz.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law at Newcastle Law School, editor and founder of the Just Theory podcast. @justtheory.bsky.social
@jeannecasteen.bsky.social
ED @secularaz.bsky.social. Advocate for social justice, dog lover, avid camper, didn't know that my love for dystopian fiction was essentially me reading a guide book. #SecularActivistLady #UnionStrong #LiberalAtheist; posts belong to me and me alone
@joellecharbonneau.bsky.social
NY Times Best selling author, mom & hobbyist chef. Lover of climbing. Fierce defender of the right to read. Determined to fight book bans. My dystopian novels VERIFY & DISCLOSE were supposed to be warnings not suggestions. And I'm a Cubs fan.
@mviktoro.bsky.social
just wants to avoid dystopia. Talks about tech, #aiethics, human rights, #UBI, crafts, memes, #booksky 🇧🇬🇨🇦 she/her | views my own
@radonjournal.bsky.social
Publisher of short prose & poetry relating to science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, and cyberpunk dystopia. Pays semi-pro rates. Simultaneous Times partner. CLMP member. Like Black Mirror but more political. RadonJournal.com
@andyscollick.bsky.social
Dystopia isn't in the future. Dystopia is now. PhD sustainability, complex adaptive systems theory | interactions between defence, security, climate, energy | former strategic defence planner, adviser to Ukraine's military | environmentalist
@nickgiraffe.bsky.social
Ⓐ | he/him (31) @NickGiraffe@kolektiva.social | Sci-fi & Satire • Sports + Books • Fixing and/or Breaking Things • Weird Stuff • Utopianism = good
@kdarnya.bsky.social
Ex-polisci major, now a terrible historian. Studying utopianism in a dystopian world. I'm Ukrainian🇺🇦, so русні пизда
@gl73hj.bsky.social
William Morris / Medievalism / Utopianism / Victorian Literature / Tamiki Hara
@jaelreasoner.bsky.social
Retired Lit/Rhet professor, studied cultural intersection of Utopianism/colonialism. Alter ego: Gender war combat vet (she/her) from Joanna Russ’s sci-fi multiverse where women take no 💩 from men [“The Female Man” (1975)]. #BlueCrew #Ally 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐈 🚫 DMs 🚫 MAGA
@georgien.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD @ Edinburgh • history of CogSci, psychoanalysis, utopianism georgienewson.com
@flightforall.bsky.social
Science fiction/Philosophy/Utopianism fan~ Autistic+Eternally Sapphic~ She/Her Transfemme~🏳️⚧️ Martyr complex? Well I think it's quite simple Minors DNI~ Authoritarians of any type DNI~
@frances-dinger.bsky.social
Writer, quilter, queer in Seattle. Currently writing a book on utopianism and a popular game franchise for Boss Fight Books.
@flamencastone.bsky.social
Procesos en Webedia. Nostálgica del cyber-utopianism y hooligan de Brian De Palma.
@vaclavzheng.bsky.social
History PhD @Johns Hopkins | Early Modern Europe, Cultural and Intellectual History, Czech and Polish Renaissance, Utopianism, Futurology, Emotions, Historical Theory and Historiography, Argumentation | On the Job Market
@realpartonehalf.bsky.social
ML & genomics, currently @ Ultima Genomics; formerly Trace Genomics, particle physics @ Rome + UCSD. Interests: genomics, physics, philosophy, urban utopianism, futurism, alpinism.
@alfonsofierroo.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Latin American literature @Northwestern (antes Berkeley y UNAM). Urban utopianism in revolutionary Mexico, Latin American futurisms, Urban Struggles
@jacksokol.bsky.social
Meditation Teacher, Master Gardener, Utopian, William Blake, Thoreau, #PlantATree #FBR follows back. #VOTEBLUE
@mattfluck.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in International Relations University of Westminster International Theory | Critical Theory | Transparency | Utopia
@honorbrabazon.bsky.social
Prof at SJU. Law, social movements, neoliberalism, universities, theory. Views here are my own.
@sorchamcc.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in law at Leeds Beckett. PhD from Durham University on Vulnerability & Sexual Offences. Proud Irish feminist, Mama to Croía & Bowie.
@ilariabiano.bsky.social
Religious and Cultural Studies Scholar and Historian Scrivo The God Gap thegodgap.substack.com/
@chloehouston.bsky.social
Joint Head of the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading & one half of Frances Wise. https://linktr.ee/frances_wise_author
@mraleosays.bsky.social
teacher | scholar | EdD from UIUC | literary, critical, & digital #literacies
@hingleytheory.bsky.social
Tutor and Researcher in English Literature, University of Oxford. PhD on Adorno and Anglophone Modernist Lit. Snoopy, Charli XCX and Kafka Stan. lillianhingleydphil.wordpress.com