WFTHN
Exploring the contributions women have made to the emergence and development of film and television.
Next conference: DWFTH7, Lincoln, 18-20 July 2025
Website: https://wfthn.com/
@helenwheatley.bsky.social
Academic Director of Warwick Institute of Engagement, Professor of Film and Television, Co-Founder of the Centre for Television Histories and mum of three teenagers and three cats
@tanyah.bsky.social
@elizabethalsop.bsky.social
CUNY prof, culture writer, author of ELAINE MAY (2025): https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088582
@pamhutch.bsky.social
Critic, historian, curator | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
@laurah.bsky.social
Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: Girls Will Be Boys (2016). she/her (white cis queer)
@cinemiasma.bsky.social
film scholar + critic | books abt 60s sex films, global cinema, place | in '25: The Prop (Fordham); Wanda (BFI); toiling: Cinemas of Exhaustion | teach @ King's College London | post-soviet newyawker, ekphrastic perfume fiend | elenagorfinkel.com
@caetlin.bsky.social
Professor of English and Film & Media Studies, marathon runner, shih tzu fanatic. If you're looking for more info, check me out at www.benson-allott.com
@suchmayer.bsky.social
They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. TRUTH & DARE out now with @cipherpress.bsky.social 💘 SPACE CRONE (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 💜 Website & newsletter: somayer.net.
@jomeara.bsky.social
Associate Prof. in Film Studies & IRC Laureate, Trinity College Dublin. Digital theory, screen voices, sound, immersive tech and synthetic media. And cats.
@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
@tanyagoldman.bsky.social
cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
@filmstudiesff.bsky.social
Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
@carolmorleyfilm.bsky.social
Filmmaker Writer Director https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/05/mark-kermode-on-carol-morley-typist-artist-pirate-king-the-alcohol-years-dreams-of-a-life-the-falling-out-of-blue
@millywilliamson.bsky.social
Department of Media Communications and Cultural Studies Goldsmiths.
@profkarenboyle.bsky.social
Feminist Media Studies, Head of Humanities University of Strathclyde.
@alpember.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Film & TV Studies @ Warwick Uni / Forthcoming: The Dancing Girl in Contemporary Cinema 💃 (EUP, 2026) / Programming: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/trailblazers / Editor: Open Screens 🌳 Rambling through Epping Forest 🌳
@jessicavalenti.bsky.social
I write about abortion every day at abortioneveryday.com Read my newsletter & find me other places here: linktr.ee/jessicavalenti 📚 My new book 'Abortion' is out now prh.com/abortion
@helenexeter.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, Uni of Exeter, UK. Research: #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines. #FilmSky https://bit.ly/3AVLwgf
@jolittler.bsky.social
Social / cultural / political / media analysis Prof @Goldsmiths @MediaComGold.bsky.social 📕📗: Left Feminisms, Care Manifesto, Against Meritocracy, Politics of Heritage #firstgen All views socially & culturally constructed.
@shelleystamp.bsky.social
Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
@mhairibrennan.bsky.social
TV lecturer, researcher, writer. 'Archiving the Referendum: BBC Scotland's TV Archive and Indyref 2014', Palgrave Macmillan, 2025 Research Associate ReCARE TV: Reality Television, Working Practices and Duties of Care, Aston University.
@britishfilmstardom.bsky.social
AHRC funded PhD at QMUL and BFI National Archive researching British film stars 1920 - 1970. Case studies: Jessie Matthews, Valerie Hobson, Moira Shearer, Julie Christie ✨
@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
@marthashearer.bsky.social
asst prof in film studies, university college dublin. film/tv + real estate since 2008 • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/ https://people.ucd.ie/martha.shearer/
@sophiasb.bsky.social
senior managing editor at MUBI | writing for Sight & Sound, ArtReview, MUBI Notebook | website: https://sophiasatchellbaeza.co.uk | let's see how long I last on here
@wfhinetwork.bsky.social
Proud feminists behind the WOMEN AND THE SILENT SCREEN conferences and other initiatives and events. https://www.wfhi.org/
@abkeating.bsky.social
Film lecturer @ucc, writer, maker. Co-founder of Alphaville Journal. Researching women in film & protest media. Runs on music. abbkeating.wordpress.com
@profsaabbott.bsky.social
Professor of Film and Television, Northumbria University. Horror scholar and writer. Author of Celluloid Vampires, Undead Apocalypse, TV Horror, BFI Classic on Near Dark. Canadian in the UK but forever Canadian. she/her.
@jennychambles.bsky.social
Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Senior Lecturer in Film & Media. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. Certified DISCO DIVA (IYKYK). I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
@helenwarner.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media and Digital Cultutes, University of East Anglia
@amymarieboyle.bsky.social
Feminist researcher of popular culture, media studies, TV studies / PhD @UOW / Sessional Academic / views my own / she/her
@zoevb.bsky.social
Film Curator @ Wessex Film & Sound Archive | Research Women amateur filmmakers | 9.5mm film geek | Senior Research Fellow UWL | All views are my own | She/her
@dootson.bsky.social
Lecturer in Film & Media UCL. BBC New Generation Thinker 2024. Author: The Rainbow's Gravity (PMC/Yale 2023). Convenor: Bombay Film Colour. Roller Derby Athlete. kirstysinclairdootson.co.uk
@uccwomenstudies.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary Master’s & PhD degree in Women's Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. https://www.ucc.ie/en/cke03/ Taught by a vibrant multidisciplinary team & managed by program director Dr Evelien Geerts (@egeertsphd.bsky.social).
@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/
@mbarnesnelson.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison researching television comedy, identity, and media industries + audiences https://commarts.wisc.edu/staff/barnes-nelson-madison/
@dearstefania.bsky.social
media studies scholar. motha. friend. wrote a book on Teen TV (2021, Routledge). still working on that book on women showrunners.
@jillybkay.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media, Loughborough University Feminism, cultural studies, politics
@ggergely.bsky.social
[gɑːbɔːr gɛrgɛj] Associate Professor of Film | Chair of BAFTSS www.baftss.org | Photo of Simplon Cinema courtesy of Fortepan/Preisich Family
@chipam.bsky.social
Professor in Department of Film, TV and Theatre, University of Notre Dame
@bdcmuseum.bsky.social
Welcome and explore with us some of the treasures from the UK's leading moving image museum, based at the University of Exeter. Free to visit and open 10am to 5pm every day. www.bdcmuseum.org.uk #FilmSky #🎥 #cinemahistory
@scmstudies.bsky.social
The Official Blue Sky account for SCMS https://www.cmstudies.org/
@cbrannondonoghue.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Media Industries. University of North Texas. Author of The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere (UT Press) & Localising Hollywood (BFI Press).
@bellecobb.bsky.social
Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies University of Southampton, UK
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app