American Studies
literature, culture, politics, history, economics, ….and much more.
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@chrismey2203.bsky.social
@amyefarrell.bsky.social
professor of American studies and women's, gender and sexuality studies; writer; author of Yours in Sisterhood; Fat Shame; and the forthcoming Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA
@septology.bsky.social
American Studies MSt student (Oxford), writing about the city in the postwar American Novel (Vidal, Ellison, Malamud) they/them
@fasafinland.bsky.social
The Finnish American Studies Association (FASA) aims to encourage and promote the academic study of the United States in Finland (EN/FI). fasa.fi
@danstein2025.bsky.social
Professor of North American Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Siegen, author of Authorizing Superhero Comics (Ohio State UP), co-editor of Anglia: Journal of English Philology. Opinions my own.
@aobst.bsky.social
PhD from FU Berlin | Researcher at Justice Collective Carcerality & Abolition | Political Myth | W.E.B. Du Bois
@molliegodfrey.bsky.social
Professor of English, working on African American literature, community-engaged archival recovery practice, and Black digital and public humanities (she/her, opinions my own)
@agr.bsky.social
Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
@yangonzalez.bsky.social
Prof of Asian American Studies at Chapman University, historian of Asian Am politics and conservatism. PhD Stanford '22, NEH fellow '23, mom to two cute no-longer-potatoes, scarf enthusiast, fiction lover
@jpitettiheil.bsky.social
university of cologne american studies | critical dance studies | cultural studies | theory | american lit C19-C21 | transcendentalism | feminist philosophy | gender studies | new materialism | knitting and dancing academic
@ibrasch.bsky.social
Teacher&Author in American Studies. Early America and (!) Film Studies [Author of: "Film Serials and the American Cinema]. #Archives! Research Network: Voices & Agencies: America and the Atlantic, 1600-1865 |Right now: Interim Prof at Hamburg University <3
@robertdaleparker.bsky.social
Here for US &/or Modern fiction & poetry, critical theory, crime fiction. Author of How to Interpret Literature & books on US & Native American literature. Emerging writer of mystery & crime fiction. https://rparker1648.wixsite.com/robert-dale-parker
@panikarenka.bsky.social
Former mayor of Hamtramck Michigan, historian of American Polonia,, Hungarian folk dancer, owner of Tekla Vintage; Ph.D. American Culture, University of Michigan; President, Polish American Historical Association
@clairecazajousauge.bsky.social
Associate Professor - environmental U.S. literature, animals, ecopoetics, zoopoetics, critical outer space studies - also into sewing and embroidery - @CAS @UTJeanJaures - "I but go skin deep."
@tomkoenigs.bsky.social
Early/19thC American Literature at Scripps College. Book: “Founded in Fiction” (http://tinyurl.com/y35bkptr). W/NBA takes. He/him.
@profausberlin.bsky.social
Political scientist, North American domestic policy expert. When he’s not dissecting US-democracy at the John F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin, he’s busy proving that politics can be just as entertaining as a good sitcom!
@luethinho.bsky.social
(Digital) soccer fan, dad, academic, pop culture aficionado, and part-time podcaster...pretty much a mediocre middle-aged white European dude
@dwlachance.bsky.social
Law & Humanities Professor in Emory University’s History Department. Ph.D. in American Studies (UMN). I write about crime and punishment in American Culture. Author: Executing Freedom (2016), Crimesploitation (2022). Website: https://tinyurl.com/rmhsv6fx
@glenntwo.bsky.social
Prof of English and American Studies, Fordham U (all disclaimers apply). Wrote 33 1/3 book about David Bowie Diamond Dogs & other Bowie things. Coedited Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Member, Academic Board, Jewish Voice for Peace.
@astridfellner.bsky.social
Americanist|#BorderStudies|#GenderStudies|#SaarlandUniversity|#UniGR_CBS
@shanedenson.bsky.social
Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
@simongrivet.bsky.social
I’m teaching American history at the Universite de Lille (France) and doing research on federal judges in the South during the civil rights movement (among other topics) I love to run (cross, 10k, half marathon, marathon), cook, play chess and read.
@compamstudies.bsky.social
Comparative American Studies is an international, interdisciplinary journal. Edited by @rachmclennan.bsky.social and @thomasruyssmith.com. Send us your articles and special issue suggestions! https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ycas20
@justcode.bsky.social
Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
@drkj.bsky.social
(She/Her) Professor of American literature, American studies, and women’s, gender and sexuality studies. Author of *Neodomestic American Fiction* and *The American Adrenaline Narrative.* Working on a book about regional cli-fi.
@rosarioariasuma.bsky.social
Professor of English Literature, University of Málaga; President of Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, and President of VINS Society💜📚🪴🎼👻
@timgalsworthy.bsky.social
Lecturer in History & Military History at Bishop Grosseteste University. Researches Civil War memory and the Republican Party. Posts about sport and politics. Views my own, sadly 🏉⚽️🌹
@unddieregel.bsky.social
Cultural Studies/Media Studies/Far Right BS Author at Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen
@julia-leyda.bsky.social
jaded academic | new Norwegian | chronically ill | ace woke pinko SJW | surviving mainly on film, TV, SFF novels - doesn't suffer fools - gleefully uses block function - mastodon https://hcommons.social/@julia - movies https://letterboxd.com/jleyda
@spychalam.bsky.social
"I'm a Doctor of Philosopy, Jim, not medicine, dammit." Nerd. Feminist. I write about women at war, 19th-century Gothic poetry, and sometimes SFF (especially #StarTrek). She/her
@susanstryker.bsky.social
Trans Studies||Historian||Filmmaker||Settler on Ramaytush Ohlone Land||When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader @dukepress.bsky.social||susanstryker.net||Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
@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.
@jasminwro.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Latin American Cultural Studies @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, #LatinAmericanStudies, #Comics, #ConcretePoetry, #Memory + #GenderStudies
@aliettev.bsky.social
MCF UnivRennes 2, docteure litté US contemporaine, écriture de la catastrophe, post-9/11 littérature, soundstudies, writing the city Associate prof @Univ Rennes 2 (France), US contemporary literature, post-9/11 litt, soundstudies Bookworm Turbo
@stefanbenz.bsky.social
Postdoc in North American Studies @ Uni Bonn. Poetry. Sound & Music. Hip Hop. Native & Indigenous Studies. Sound Studies. Critical Posthumanism.
@buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
Buddhist material culture in media for Western audiences, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD (@peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social) 🗺 buddhasinthewest.com 🌟 New Posts: Mon, Wed, & Fri
@micahcarlson.bsky.social
-PhD Candidate and adjunct professor of #History. -#Dissertation on #ghosts and #ghoststories in the U.S. South. -Expert at responding to bruh and petting cats -Posts do not reflect the views of my employer or degree-granting institution -Sometimes funny
@richbelknap.bsky.social
Social Media refugee. Eclectic poster: music, politics, sports, food. He/Him/Old. 🇺🇦/🇺🇸/🥃
@syates.bsky.social
Asst. Prof at Penn State. Dramaturg. Write on disability/crip studies, queerness, musicals, literature, aesthetics, performance, and access. deaf. they/he. https://samuelryates.com
@animatedstardom.bsky.social
Author of Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts, out now from University of Texas Press. Reseach interests include animation, classic Hollywood, stardom, & home video/streaming. Lecturer at UAL. Views my own.
@alicedegalzain.bsky.social
C19 American lit | Postdoctoral Fellow @SorbonneUniversité working on Transcendentalist utopias 🌿 | Associate Editor Concord Saunterer | Associate Editor The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Writings of Margaret Fuller
@mpcaaca.bsky.social
The Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association is a regional branch of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Find us at The University of Iowa October 3-5, 2025. Submissions opening early 2025. mpcaaca.org
@rob-in-newmexico.bsky.social
Rob Vaughan. PhD in my 50s in American Studies from Univ of Hawai`i. Retired. Taught college & high school. Before that, 20 years in trucking. CDL to PhD. Long strange trip, etc. (Used to be Rob-in-Hawaii on X. Still Rob, just not in Hawaii.)
@willpjones.bsky.social
Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
@matthewleggatt.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer English and Amrican Literature @ Winchester Uni: Lit & Film, nostalgia, utopia/dystopia, apocalypse, terror. D&D. Dog pics. Views own. He/Him
@lauriesue.bsky.social
Former grief counselor for a hospice. Happily retired grandma. Never Trumper. Democrat to the bone. Blue dot in a red state Married since 1976. No MAGA. #NO🚫DM🚫NONSENSE🚫 Please NO DM'S !!!!!!
@allannotallen.bsky.social
Lecturer at Harvard Hist & Lit. Post-45 American lit and popular culture. Last name frequently misspelled.
@vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social
Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) - archive and research on the music of the Vietnam War, 6,000+ songs identified. Founding Editor Dr. Justin A. Brummer - on the hunt for new songs 🎵 🧐 Austin, TX. Est. 2007 https://linktr.ee/vietnamwarsongproject
@bunkhistory.bsky.social
Highlighting connections between American history stories from across the web. Visit us: https://www.bunkhistory.org/ Subscribe: https://www.bunkhistory.org/newsletter Powered by @urichmond.bsky.social Partnered with @myhnn.bsky.social
@myhnn.bsky.social
New perspectives on the many ways in which the past shapes the present. Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly deliveries of our original writing about history: http://hnn.us/newsletter Powered by @bunkhistory.bsky.social at the University of Richmond.
@kostrofs.bsky.social
Bunk taxonomist, Sesame Street historian, digital humanist, housing & transportation advocate, Boston Rosident.
@historians.org
The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions. http://historians.org/join
@americanstudier.bsky.social
Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://linktr.ee/americanstudier he/him
@officialbaas.bsky.social
Official Bluesky Account for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). We promote, support & encourage the study of the United States in the UK. Posts by the Social Media team.
@catbateson.bsky.social
American Historian & Lecturer/FRHistS/British Online Archives Academic Liaison Manager/Associate Editor http://irishamericancivilwar.com / “Irish American Civil War Songs” LSU Press out now! https://lsupress.org/books/detail/irish-american-civil-war-songs/
@kellenhoxworth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University at Buffalo - SUNY. Author of “Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance”: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
@petermcatapano.bsky.social
Author of The Hollywood Brand: Movies & American Modernity. Professor of Immigration and Cultural History at NYCCT.
@rumorator.bsky.social
historian. interested in slave insurrections in the South. assistant professor, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin
@dcsackman.bsky.social
Historian, Nature and Culture, author of Orange Empire and Wild Men and editor of A Companion to American Environmental History https://sites.google.com/view/douglassackman/home
@thomasruyssmith.com
Prof of Lit and Culture, mostly nineteenth century. Out now: The Last Gift: The Christmas Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman & a new edition of Black Beauty. Writing books about Mark Twain & London, children’s lit, Santa Claus 🎅 http://www.thomasruyssmith.com
@oliviastowell.bsky.social
theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
@drcompton.bsky.social
Sociology Prof (social psyc, methodology, and some demography!). Usually thinking about food, sexualities, masculinities, and sneakers. 🏳️⚧️ He/they/them/him NOLA/DC
@melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social
See link below for Manson book! American Studies, UMass Boston Current Project- “Boston Sounds, 1974-1999” @fsu_UMB 🇵🇸 Books on Black-Jewish relations (Right to Sing the Blues and Leo Frank), 9/11 and Manson. skyhorsepublishing.com/9781628728941/…
@rezekjoe.bsky.social
English Prof at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” under contract with the Omohundro Institute for Early Am History and Culture and UNC Press. https://www.bu.edu/english/profile/joseph-rezek/
@tlknoell.bsky.social
Professional nerd. Occasional time traveler. Co-host of Silent Film Fridays on Twitch. Dept. of Popular Culture, School of Cultural and Critical Studies, Bowling Green State University. On sabbatical '24-'25 academic year. Views are my own.
@waterman.bsky.social
Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001. If I’m not here I’m on the WFMU comments board.
@danhf.bsky.social
All-purpose movie guy and media studies scholar @ Utrecht University. Intransigent curmudgeon. Forthcoming: books on the political economy of the Fast & Furious franchise and a minute-by-minute analysis of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
@frederikbk.bsky.social
Lecturer in English and Film @edinburghnapier.bsky.social. Author of Chester Brown (https://edushare.ing/C) and Serial Selves (https://edushare.ing/D) + editor of Chicago: A Literary History (https://edushare.ing/E).
@atlantakademie.bsky.social
Politische Bildung zum Thema #USA | Education, Encounters, Expertise on U.S. Politics & Transatlantic Relations | Kaiserslautern, Germany | https://www.atlantische-akademie.de/
@sarahwagner13.bsky.social
transatlantic european | us politics & pop culture | deputy director + podcast 'Amerikas Verfassung' at @atlantakademie.bsky.social |
@davidsirakov.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, US politics nerd, polarization and populism, foreign policy and transatlantic relations. Director of @AtlantAkademie.bsky.social. Podcast „Amerikas Verfassung“, views my own.
@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
@labarren.cpesr.fr
Vice-president for research at University Bordeaux Montaigne. Comics scholar, writer, player of games, teaching American culture Author of Warhol Invaders (in French, 2021) and Understanding Genres in Comics (2020). https://cv.hal.science/nicolas-labarre
@timeflieslike.bsky.social
(she/her) American Studies scholar. Based at U of Augsburg. Researches Ecocritical Comedy. Also active in aging studies and queer studies. Enjoys slowly improving skills in chess, ping-pong, and Norwegian
@amandaannklein.bsky.social
media studies professor writing historical fiction. bylines: New Yorker, Salon, Atlantic, KERA, Vice, E! Views expressed are my own Millennials Killed the Video Star: https://www.dukeupress.edu/millennials-killed-the-video-star
@jysexton.bsky.social
Hoosier, Political Analyst, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Co-Host Muckrake Podcast, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, Board: The Change Campaign
@makisa.bsky.social
@wiebkekartheus.bsky.social
US art museums + architecture & Greifswald university library
@improbable.bsky.social
Doubtful Guest, scholar, hiker, teacher, rarely up on a soapbox; guest professoring @uni-konstanz.de; @fau.de, @grk2806.bsky.social
@gesinewegner.bsky.social
Teacher-as-learner @TUD. All about Teaching in Higher Education and #D2C2. Rooted in Disability Studies & American Studies. Writes in German & English
@johannesbabbe.bsky.social
PostDoc Uni Flensburg, American Studies: Comics & Visual Culture, Associate Editor Amerikastudien / American Studies: A Quarterly www.johannesbabbe.net
@fkelleter.bsky.social
Impossible you say? Nothing is impossible when you work for the circus. ------ IG https://www.instagram.com/fkelleter/
@katrinhorn.bsky.social
American Studies Teacher, Gossip Researcher, Pop Culture Enthusiast Here for #Gender #Queer #Archives #DH Prof @UniGreifswald
@charle.bsky.social
Interested in the past, aware of the present and a little worried about the future! But determined to bring it all together for good! 📚history of knowledge, diplomacy, revolutions, universities, also public history, visual culture and historical theory
@profiprof.bsky.social
Americanist, Modernist, moving backwards, Netzwerk Nachhaltige Wissenschaft, worried
@stefschaefer.bsky.social
North American Lit&Cult, Uni Mannheim; Political Culture, First Ladies, Cowgirls. Host of Podcast LadyFiction. Foto Ines Grabner
@davideisler.bsky.social
Publishing Director for Language, Literature, and Culture at De Gruyter Brill; Author of WRITING WARS: Authorship and American War Fiction (Uni. of Iowa Press, 2022)
@dorikiel.bsky.social
She/her | Disability & temporality in American literature | Phd cand. @ Kiel Uni | cystic fibrosis | mom of 2 | on maternity leave (again)| yoga | cooking & baking
@sommerfeld.bsky.social
American Studies | University of Göttingen | sublimity | C19 | Poe | environmental humanities | COVID realist |
@libraryaac.bsky.social
Library of Anglo-American Culture & History #FIDAAC Resources for British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, American & Canadian Studies https://libaac.de/ https://libaac.de/legal-notice/
@jenstemmen.bsky.social
(he/him) | Prof. in #AmericanStudies | KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt | Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz | #Astroculture and the Anthropogenic Polycrisis | US Imperialism | Critical Futures @ transcript
@juliafaisst.bsky.social
Prof American Studies & the Media @TU Dortmund - 20/21C lit&visual culture, photography, home/space, race, child/migration, intersectionality, ecocrit, memory cultures - feminist mama, forest lover, failed artist
@kathleenloock.bsky.social
American studies and media studies | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | New book: Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Shape Industry and Culture (UC Press, 2024) | Emmy Noether Research Group: Hollywood Memories
@honeckmischa.bsky.social
Historian, United States, empire, childhood, gender. Professor, University of Kassel. Mostly nice.
@kristener.bsky.social
Editorial Director at The Ohio State University Press & Mad Creek Books. Literary trade, race & ethnic and Latinx studies. Opinions my own. She/her.
@ohiostatepress.bsky.social
We publish great books and journals across literary and cultural studies. Our Mad Creek imprint is home to expansive, fresh, and invigorating literary and graphic works, and Trillium publishes books about Ohio and the Midwest. www.ohiostatepress.org
@hquanquin.bsky.social
C19 Americanist, Université de Lille, feminisms, Men in the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890: Cumbersome Allies (Routledge, 2020), Le droit de vote des femmes aux Etats-Unis, 1776-1965 (2022). Senior fellow Institut Universitaire de France.