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@benjykahan.bsky.social
@adriandaub.bsky.social
"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history and gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). Podcasts: The Feminist Present, @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social. Newsletter at adriandaub.substack.com
@roopikarisam.bsky.social
Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth, does data & digital humanities things, edits #ReviewsInDH, rides horses 🐴 https://roopikarisam.com
@palumboliu.bsky.social
Professor at Stanford, activist, writer, podcaster (Speaking Out of Place). https://speakingoutofplace.com/ Board of Directors, Truthout. Words in Jacobin, The Nation, Al Jazeera. Book from Haymarket. Views proudly my own.
@calebcrain.bsky.social
Into #birding, #CrossFit, and sometimes writing. Wrote the novels "Necessary Errors" and "Overthrow" More at https://calebcrain.substack.com and https://steamthing.com. New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-c
@mmvty.bsky.social
poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
@drewdaniel.bsky.social
Matmos guy with my husband @lordchiefjustice / English professor at Hopkins / also known as The Soft Pink Truth.
@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
@ecourtem.bsky.social
Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
@elizabethalsop.bsky.social
CUNY prof, culture writer, author of ELAINE MAY (University of Illinois Press, 2025): https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088582
@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 .
@feinsod.bsky.social
Comp Lit and English Prof. Baltimore. 💙⚓️💚🌱🖤📖. *Speaking only for myself*
@hesterblum.bsky.social
A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at Penn State. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
@sarahmdowling1.bsky.social
Author of ENTERING SAPPHO, TRANSLINGUAL POETICS, DOWN, & SECURITY POSTURE. My newest book is HERE IS A FIGURE: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/
@andrewepstein.bsky.social
Professor and Chair of English @FloridaState; author of "The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945," "Attention Equals Life," "Beautiful Enemies," & "Locus Solus: the New York School of Poets" blog
@nytimes.com
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
@andyhines.bsky.social
political economy of higher ed | socialist and communist education | Black studies | author of OUTSIDE LITERARY STUDIES, editor of UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS (he/him)
@amyclukey.bsky.social
Academic and neo-Victorian convalescent I've been told that I'm a flower that grew out of a can of Budweiser
@rbuurma.bsky.social
@maxfox.bsky.social
@aarthivadde.bsky.social
Associate Prof of English at Duke. Wrote a book Chimeras of Form on modernism. Writing a book on contemporary literature and internet culture; co-host a podcast called Novel Dialogue for the Society of Novel Studies: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/
@jsmurison.bsky.social
C19 enthusiast | Professor and Head of English at UIUC | Out now! Faith in Exposure from PennPress
@sueweinstein.bsky.social
English professor in the Red Stick. New Literacy Studies, English Education. Told today that I remind someone of that waitress on Cheers.
@jonearle.bsky.social
Academic administrator, U.S. Historian. Dogs, New Orleans, politics. Views are my own. Enjoy every sandwich!
@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
@sarialtschuler.bsky.social
Associate Prof., Director of Health, Humanities, and Society Program at Northeastern. Author: The Medical Imagination (Penn Press, 2018). Coeditor: Keywords for Health Humanities (NYU Press, 2023). All opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer.
@tedunderwood.me
Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学 Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). Pluviophile.
@ehayot.bsky.social
Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history. Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.
@danaluci.bsky.social
Academic, queer crank, radical depressive. Partly enigmatic, partly fossil. How The Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century America: https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-the-earth-feels
@amyjelias.bsky.social
Chancellors Professor, Director Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts (UTK). Humanities advocate; narrative, time/history, contemporary arts. Gardener. Dog lover. Will not curb my enthusiasm.
@mrsidetable.bsky.social
Minnesota, Chicago, Austin. NY, RI, Ann Arbor. Old books, gingham, Saabs, side tables. All opinions my own. RT ≠ endorsement. Director of the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
@mongibeddu.bsky.social
Poet, editor, scholar in Maine. Now available: Nice: The Collected Poems of David Melnick (https://nightboat.org/book/nice/). Free 🇵🇸; end the genocide now!
@zumhagenyekple.bsky.social
English and Comp Lit Prof. Tulane | Comparative Modernisms, Phil&Lit | Books: A Different Order of Difficulty | Wittgenstein and Modernism (both @uchicagopress.bsky.social) | Cambridge Companion to Lit&Phil | The Vanity of Wisdom (in progress)
@timpanyu.bsky.social
Poet, scholar, Cubs fan. Author of 100 Chinese Silences, Diasporic Poetics, Race and the Avant-Garde; editor of the Cambridge Companion to 21st C American Poetry.
@poulomisaha.bsky.social
English Professor & Director of Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley; mostly think & write about cults; send me your cult encounters and cute dog pics.
@goblemark.bsky.social
Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan. Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.
@mdsnediker.bsky.social
Professor of American Lit & Poetics at the University of Houston; Emersonian/Thoreauvian/Dickinsonian/Jamesian; author of Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain & Queer Embodiment (U.Minnesota Press), Jones Very (Ornithopter Press), &c.
@marktwain.bsky.social
Devoted to supporting & promoting Twain Studies scholarship through Quarry Farm Fellowships, Quadrennial Conference, Trouble Begins & Park Church Lectures, Quarry Farm Fall Symposia, The American Vandal Podcast, MarkTwainStudies.com, & more.
@blackpoetics.bsky.social
Beautiful to strangers. Writer, critic, and other things. Black illumination, Black imagination, Black poetics, Black listening. Most Recent Book: Soundworks: Race, Sound and Poetry in Production http://dukeupress.edu/soundworks
@categorymistake.bsky.social
Assoc. prof. of English, UC Berkeley; affiliate faculty, Philosophy. Lit & philosophy (analytic moral & mind), 20thC British/Irish lit, history of criticism, queer theory 🏳️🌈, etc. Book: tinyurl.com/58f79rz9; Wittgenstein/Jarman: tinyurl.com/4rnmn4ky
@harrys.bsky.social
@audenfan.bsky.social
Writer, reader, watcher; prof in English Dept @ Stanford; literary executor of Lincoln Kirstein. Studies Auden’s poetry: The Island (2024) https://a.co/d/4OPODvC and https://amzn.eu/d/8BlFExq
@taliaschaffer.bsky.social
I like thinking about Victorian care, disability, feminism, and also cooking (not necessarily Victorian).