Adaptation Studies
A list of film, TV, theatre, (digital) media and literary scholars interested in and publishing on adaptation as cultural practice, process and product. Very much a work in progress (adaptation even!) - post a reply if you'd like to be added!
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@drchrislouttit.bsky.social
@dr-braid.bsky.social
Period drama afficionado, mad for all things neo-Victorian and gothic
@valeriefrankel.bsky.social
👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXJSF/Jewish-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy
@peterarnott.bsky.social
Playwright etc. For permissions etc, Brennan Artists. https://www.brennanartists.com/
@grossmjj.bsky.social
Adaptation studies; Classical Hollywood; film noir; TV, musical theater
@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
@lissettesz.bsky.social
Professor, Consultant, Mom, 2x cancer survivor (endometrial and ovarian). 19c studies; transmedia adaptation; gothic monsters; gender studies; career education for arts & humanities students. Frankenstein Expert/AcaFan especially Frankenstein's Bride.
@jesmyth.co.uk
Writer, critic, historian |📕Mary C. McCall Jr.|📘Nobody’s Girl Friday | ed.📗I Lost My Girlish Laughter | 📚Fred Zinnemann | Mum to Z & Z, 7 🐕, + Mortimer🐰 | Ban AI
@carladellagatta.bsky.social
Dramaturg | Arts Advocate | Writer | Theatre Historian 💃🏻 Associate Professor | Author: Latinx Shakespeares Co-Editor: Shakespeare & Latinidad https://www.latinxshakespeares.org/ https://www.carladellagatta.com/
@austintichenor.bsky.social
Actor/Author. HAMLET! (a prequel); POP-UP SHAKESPEARE; DAISY THE LITTLEST ZOMBIE. Writer @folgerlibrary.bsky.social. A.D. @reduced.bsky.social & host of world's 1st & longest-running weekly theatre podcast. TheShakespeareance.com ReducedShakespeare.com
@profmikesell.bsky.social
English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Writing 'Playful Literature: Stories, Games, Theories' • Founder, The Digital Storytelling Project • Co-author, 'Systemic Dramaturgy' (Southern Illinois UP) • Unionized Faculty (IUP-APSCUF) • he/him
@schwanebeck.bsky.social
Literatur, Comedy, Popkultur, Filmpublizistik. Texte hier und da für konkret, 54books, TITANIC, Reclam (100 Seiten). Neu: "Dieser Kalender wurde mit 5 von 5 Sternen bewertet" 2025 (arsEdition) Mehr: https://www.wielandschwanebeck.de
@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.
@ssedaozz.bsky.social
PhD in English📚Scholar of Film Adaptation and Remakes @Uni of Delaware 🎞️ 🎬 Media Reviews Editor, Adaptation Secretary, Literature/Film Association Founding Editor, Adaptation Today http://www.sedaoz.info
@sherlockphd.bsky.social
PhD in Sherlock Holmes Adaptations. Executive Director, The Ken Ludwig Company. Teacher/Writer/Editor/Consultant. Swordfighter. Wheaten Terrier Mom. Hawksian Woman. She/Her.
@drlkz.bsky.social
academic | into adaptations, crime fiction, and neo-Victorianism | QAQV group coordinator [qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl] | Changing Narratives conferences organiser [changingnarratives.weebly.com]
@adaptationsig.bsky.social
The Bluesky account for the BAFTSS Adaptation SIG, convenor @stinaface.bsky.social
@mariajuko.bsky.social
18th/19th ct and self-help lit, Neo-Victorian, adaptation studies, biofiction, and teacher (Eng/Bio) in Potsdam (Germany), she/her
@pcbryan.bsky.social
Have PhD, will travel. Americanist by training, fan/media studies by trade. Scholar of fan studies, adaptation, Disney, comics - happy to talk intersections of translation/gender/disability. First book out; next book soon. He / him.
@megenjm.bsky.social
@anjahartl.bsky.social
Assistant Prof | University of Innsbruck Contemporary Drama | Brecht | Victorian Studies current project: The Politics of Shame in the Victorian Novel https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/anglistik/department/staff/hartl/
@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
@drstephr.bsky.social
Historical fiction, Anne Boleyn, Jane Austen, pop girlies and fitness. Currently writing about counterfactual historical fiction. Australia's most important member of the BeyHive. Alena Smith stan. Editor of the Journal of Historical Fictions
@chrismey2203.bsky.social
Univ. HH.Am.Studies.The long 19th c;author of “Producing Mass Entertainment:The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid” (OSUP 2019).Eisner Award nominee.President of ComFor e.V. Gardening.she/her https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/iaa/personen/meyer-christina.html
@professorjen.bsky.social
Victorian literature specialist, live music fan, lover of old homes and vintage housewares, seeker of productive social exchanges
@jonfoster.bsky.social
Spend my days reading Shakespeare and C19th literature, theatre-going and watching cricket (Middlesex CCC). Trustee of medical charity HealthTree Uganda (UK registered charity 1185553).
@pascaleexeter.bsky.social
Dragonboater, paddleboarder, Dartmoor walker, Aare-swimmer. Also editing Titus Andronicus and interested in all things Shakespeare, performance, theatre broadcasting, post-COVID-19 creative industries. Never able to see enough shows or read enough books.
@elementaladam.bsky.social
Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS). 18th-Century Co-Editor, Literature Compass. Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals. Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
@rjdashwood.bsky.social
Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen, and Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
@drbeard79.bsky.social
Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
@susannegruss.bsky.social
English lit prof @uni-bamberg.de | pirate/collaborator | law&lit-geek | 🍄 | reviews ed. Shakespeare JB | gen. ed. gender forum Cologne | assoc. ed. Neo-Victorian Studies | mum | colour-lover | doodler | she/her https://www.wonderlink.de/@susannegruss
@catherinequirk.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Drama. Coffee lover, writer, actor, (digital) theatre historian, Victorianist. Language learner. Likes &c my own. she/her. 🌈
@kylemeikle.bsky.social
associate prof, u of baltimore; adaptations, franchises, animation, etc.
@huntressleine.bsky.social
Kids media researcher and critic. Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University; RA with DEFI Cambridge; media reviews editor for Adaptation at OUP
@stinaface.bsky.social
Teaching film and writing at U Birmingham. Co-Convenor BAFTSS Adaptation SIG (https://bsky.app/profile/adaptationsig.bsky.social) and MHHRN (mhhrn.bham.ac.uk). Podcast: B Film Queer Pod 🏳️🌈(https://tinyurl.com/2bbw5ywd)
@profdanielcook.bsky.social
Associate Dean & Professor, University of Dundee (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
@dramamen.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain from 18th-21stc; Expert on masculinity; sexual violence; British Period Drama; TV/Media Studies; Public Historian; Royal Family expert; environmental activist; visit me at julieannetaddeo.com for more. Views all my own.
@antonijap.bsky.social
Professor who writes about Victorian literature & culture on screen, neo-Victorianism, postfeminism, the real and fake Sherlock Holmes, World Lit & translation. I also dabble in DH and gardening.
@benbroadribb.bsky.social
Performance Reviews Editor for Shakespeare Bulletin | Shakespeare on screen(s) | Shakespop | metamodernism | performance | adaptation | cinema | theatre | he/him/his
@profjsanders.bsky.social
Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Proud Trustee at Shakespeare’s Globe, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.
@ecco0210.bsky.social
Prof. English Literatures and Cultures@TU Braunschweig, Germany; Adaptation, Intermediality, Theatre, Neovictorianism, U/Dystopia, "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana."
@cbkenkar.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention. 🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Co-host, You Made Me Watch That?! available wherever you get podcasts.
@drchrislouttit.bsky.social
Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies. President of the Dickens Society. He/him