Guests of High Theory Podcast
Our wonderful guests, High Theorists extraordinaire!
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@saronikbosu.bsky.social
Teaching at Baruch College, CUNY. Co-Host of @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social Co-Founder of Humanities Podcast Network. Digital Artist. Home Cook. My dream? car-free neighborhoods with one public library per 100 people.
@mackenziecooley.bsky.social
Renaissance woman by profession. Associate Professor @HamiltonCollege. Director of the New World Nature Project https://mackenzie-cooley.com
@katherineturk.bsky.social
Writer (Equality on Trial, The Women of NOW), Historian, Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Words in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Slate, LARB, Jacobin, etc. Carrboro NC
@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | EXORCISM (2025) | PERFORMING ANIMAL MAGNETISM (2026)
@erinrpineda.bsky.social
“middle-brow theorist” aiming for low-brow, chicken enthusiast and author of Seeing Like an Activist (2021). tweets or whatever you call them here my own &c.
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Grimdark media, theory of the present, and critical tech, including AI. Better times: letterpress printing and tabletop gaming. Distinguished University Prof., U. of Maryland; speaking only for myself here though. Default content: cats. Pests: blocked.
@margaretgalvan.bsky.social
Asst Prof in visual rhetoric. Eisner-nominated In Visible Archives out with U Minnesota Press! 2021-22 Stanford Humanities Center faculty fellow researching LGBTQ cartoonists.
@brianfairley.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellow in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Pitt. (Ethno)musicologist, media historian, former dramaturg.
@stevenswarbrick.bsky.social
Prof at CUNY | author of The Environmental Unconscious (Minn, 2023) | coauthor of Negative Life (NUP, 2024) https://www.stevenswarbrick.com/
@seeshespeak.bsky.social
reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator Champlain College (Burlington, VT) HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
@bernarddionysius.bsky.social
teacher, writer, curator media, cybernetics, HCI, environmental humanities, digital images, AI
@amritade.bsky.social
Academic interested in Masculinity studies and Marxist theory . Postdoctoral Fellow at Penn State
@djbduncan.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ucl.ac.uk | FRHistS | INDEX, A HISTORY OF THE | NYT, LRB, Guardian, WaPo, TLS | Book history, Oulipo, translation | Rep: Anna Webber/A.M.Heath
@jgieseking.bsky.social
Environmental psychologist, geographer, and a gregarious good time about all things queer trans dyke
@alexhanna.bsky.social
Director of Research, DAIR Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬⚧ She/هي 📸 @willtoft.bsky.social Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
@sritamabarna.bsky.social
Writing on Indian Ocean Archipelagos and environmentalism. At University of Pittsburgh
@lclaberge.bsky.social
Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
@emily-ogden.bsky.social
Essayist and English professor. Books: On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays (Peninsula Press / U of Chicago Press); Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (U of Chicago Press)
@quinnanya.me
Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Signal: quinnanya.823
@sunnygrrl.bsky.social
African American Studies, Digital Humanities, Black German Studies, AI and Fictions of Blackness
@halperta.bsky.social
Here for the humanities. Formerly: NEH Civil Servant & AFGE Local 3403 VP tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands halperta.com
@erinmcel.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Geography at University of Washington https://www.erinmcelroy.net; Anti-Eviction Mapping Project https://antievictionmap.com/; Silicon Valley Imperialism https://www.dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley-imperialism
@gezimvisoka.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. Latest book: ‘The Derecognition of States’ https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11703277.
@sohinipillai.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religion & Director of Film and Media Studies at Kalamazoo College. Mahabharata & Star Wars Fan. Dog Mom. she/her/hers
@artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Art crime prof at CUNY. Follow for how-to tips on art forgery. Also: repatriation; monuments; classics; museum shenanigans. She/her; queer. www.artcrimeprof.com
@noreenmasud.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
@lportwoodstacer.bsky.social
Helping scholarly authors write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚 Tips at newsletter.manuscriptworks.com & in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK. New book: MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK. Courses + free workshops at manuscriptworks.com. Knitter, 2X Jeopardy! champ 🤓
@ellamchawk.bsky.social
Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
@hzeavin.bsky.social
historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.bsky.social
@stephengb.bsky.social
Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
@torsa.bsky.social
CSU English prof | book on c21lit, cog sci, & narrative theory, OUT OF MIND (Ohio State U P); experimental novella, OPEN COUPLETS (yoda press, india); fiction/criticism/translation at MassReview BerkeleyFiction LitHub LARB ++ torsaghosal.com
@wikivictorian.bsky.social
Sharing random stuff from 1800 to 1920s: fashion, stories, art, and a compilation of faces and cultures that coexisted then ✨
@erikkaars.bsky.social
Queer medievalist. Helicopter parent to a kitty. Champion napper. He/they
@amygaeta.bsky.social
Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today She/They amygaeta.com
@nicholasbirns.bsky.social
Academic, literary critic etc. teaching at NYU. Books from Cambridge UP, Bloomsbury, Broadview, Palgrave, U of South Carolina P, Sydney UP, Routledge. He/him
@andrecarrington.bsky.social
Author of Speculative Blackness/editor of The Black Fantastic & professor, but mostly #birds & dog dad, aspiring plant gay https://dredf.org/protect-504/ insta: audio.futurism
@mattseybold.bsky.social
Resident Scholar @ Center For Mark Twain Studies | Host, The American Vandal Podcast | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies @ Elmira College | Lit & Econ
@gabrielwinant.bsky.social
Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him.
@sandeepbak.bsky.social
Queer vegan of colour academic. Committed to decolonial inquiry. Postcolonial, Queer Studies. Université Paris Cité. He/They. https://larca.u-paris.fr/en/membre/bakshi-sandeep-en/ http://decolonizingsexualities.org
@oishani.bsky.social
asst prof @ UT El Paso race, print culture, pictures into funny/uncanny things
@varsha.bsky.social
will index your book in exchange for money, send me a book rec, dissertating at berkeley: history+dams+us foreign policy+india. linktr.ee/varshaoforange
@voicesbend.bsky.social
Only the Void Stands Between Us out now on Silver Current Records | The Fact of Resonance @FordhamPress | editor at The Faulkner Journal | Former President of the New School AAUP https://linktr.ee/juliebethnapolin
@travisclau.bsky.social
(he/him/his) Assistant Professor + Poet @ Kenyon: c18/c19 British Literature/History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)/Health Humanities/Disability Studies travisclau.com
@adityadesai.bsky.social
me jobs: writer, editor, phd student in lit. their job: literature nonprofit programming.
@ronjaunee.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Queen’s University. Author of Feminine Singularity (Stanford, ‘22) and editor of the Norton Critical Middlemarch (‘24)
@amyrwong.bsky.social
literature prof & psychotherapist-in-training | victorian lit, poco & anticolonial theory, asian diasporas & psychoanalysis | amyrwong.org
@amabemma.bsky.social
Assistant Prof • Essays on African Literature, Poetry, New Media, DH • Writing a book on African poetry • Founder Global Poetics Project •📍St Louis, MO & Boston, MA https://linktr.ee/amabemma
@super-bass.bsky.social
Cultural historian of medicine and empire. Asst Prof of English UTAustin. From Karachi, Sindh.
@southasianbuoy.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Comp Lit, Designated Emphasis in the Study of Religion @ucdavis. South Asia/France/Early Mod/Lit Crit/Visual Studies/ Performance
@tuhinchakr.bsky.social
Incoming Assistant Prof @sbucompsc @stonybrooku. Researcher → @SFResearch Ph.D. → @ColumbiaCompSci Human Centered AI / Future of Work / AI & Creativity
@oliviastowell.bsky.social
theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
@chernarumi.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, Tulane U 2024-25 Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar in History, Simon Fraser U Author: Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore (UC Press) cherylnaruse.com
@rcolesworthy.bsky.social
Acquisitions editor (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
@jshelat1.bsky.social
PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about 9/11, the War on Terror, and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own. https://www.jayshelat.com
@johnlinstrom.bsky.social
poet, educator, editor, maker, worshiper, museum guy, music lover, family person before most else teaching at Centenary College of Louisiana poetry book: tinyurl.com/5n8ruav6 edition of The Nature-Study Idea (discount code 09BCARD): tinyurl.com/mrwucr8k
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two tired academics trying to save critique from itself Hosts Kim Adams and @saronikbosu.bsky.social hightheory.net