The American Vandal
Guests from 11 seasons of The American Vandal Podcast.
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@mattseybold.bsky.social
@nathanielwms.bsky.social
Teaches technical & science writing at UC Davis / studies weird C19 literature and pulps
@francescac.bsky.social
UW (Seattle) grad student in English Lit, focusing on Victorian poetry and the weirdness of subjective time. NAVSA Poetry Caucus grad coordinator if you want to read some poetry together.
@becimay.bsky.social
Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
@c19americanists.bsky.social
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists C19 2026: Cincinnati, OH -- March 12-14 Theme: UNDERGROUND c19society.org
@stalecooper.bsky.social
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
@markmcgurl.bsky.social
@jordanscarroll.bsky.social
Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (Hugo Award finalist) Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, and the LARB Opinions my own
@jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Bestsellers THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War & THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series. + THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE & more. Words & pics Vanity Fair. Professing @ Dartmouth. He/Him. New writing: https://slowcivilwar.substack.com/
@beelzebebout.bsky.social
Researcher and educator: Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x studies, critical whiteness studies, and reactionary rhetoric.
@use-theforce-em.bsky.social
hey hey the ga(y)ng's all here. News & Entertainment Editor at Reactor, they/xe, opinions are mine ofc. Rep by thejordache at JABberwocky
@sunsetandecho.bsky.social
Editing, Writing, Teaching, Muttering, not in that order. LA and CT currently but Iowa originally. USC; Avidly; #hairstudies; with intense eagerness.
@jalylah.bsky.social
@dfmorgan.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies. Little Black girl from Durham.
@xineyaophd.bsky.social
DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine from the colonies https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected
@brittlepaper.bsky.social
Your go-to site for African writing and literary culture. We bring you all the latest news on publications, authors, events, prizes, and lifestyle.
@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.
@hightheorypodcast.bsky.social
two tired academics trying to save critique from itself Hosts Kim Adams and @saronikbosu.bsky.social hightheory.net
@derekcrim.bsky.social
// prof & writer 🍉 // words in Time, LA Times, The Guardian, etc. // podcast @endofsportpod.bsky.social // new book link in bio @uncpress.bsky.social // hobby jogger 2:49 marathon https://uncpress.org/book/9781469683461/the-end-of-college-football/
@nkalamb.bsky.social
🍉; “Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc @ UNB; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; plz order *The End of College Football*: https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
@jacobsilverman.com
Please preorder my next book GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY Signal: jacobsilverman.99 jacobsilverman@gmail.com www.jacobsilverman.com
@stepforddaughter.bsky.social
Feminist horror scholar, author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Professor of English at MJC, editor of Horror Studies and Blind Field journals, lover of mutual aid.
@lsiraganian.bsky.social
Author of MODERNISM & the MEANING of CORPORATE PERSONS (2021). Prof. @ Johns Hopkins U. Modernist mom. Could always be playing more tennis.
@lalouverouge.bsky.social
author, “cool mom,” adjunctified phd books: Comedy Against Work (Common Notions, 2022), Fag/Hag (Rosa Press, 2024) next book: Solidarity with Children (Haymarket, 2025)
@harrys.bsky.social
@deyob.bsky.social
Husband, Proud Papa, Teacher-Scholar-Activist, Writer, Democratic Socialist. Nihil humani a me alienum puto ... y sigo a los perros. Opiniones son mias.
@shirleyinithaca.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, friend, mother, sister. In production: “Haunted by the Civil War” (PUP, 2025) Now writing: “Women & Democracy in the C19 U. S.” (Edinburgh UP) Also work as a humanities chair https://english.cornell.edu/shirley-samuels
@sherimariephd.bsky.social
@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.
@thathoberekguy.bsky.social
Finally on Bluesky. The last time it took this much effort to join the uncool kids I went to grad school.
@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)
@ajdouglas.bsky.social
political theorist at morehouse | latest books = http://bit.ly/mlkcrc + http://bit.ly/duboisccs | future book (maybe) on philosophies of money in the black radical tradition | marathoner | posts ≠ employer
@minsong.bsky.social
English Professor, BC, with focus on ecology, race, and aesthetics. Latest book is Climate Lyricism (Duke UP), which is also open access: https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2985/Climate-Lyricism
@lclaberge.bsky.social
Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
@oliviastowell.bsky.social
theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
@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
@rbuurma.bsky.social
@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social
Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
@profdgd.bsky.social
Professor of English and Chair: posts are mine and mine alone. Curious about affect in the contemporary US? Visit: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5889/
@manshel.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
@gilduran.com
California writer. Ida Tarbell stan. Beat: tech fascism, billionaire extremism, meta narratives, network state, crypto cartels. Writes: The Nerd Reich: http://www.thenerdreich.com FrameLab: http://www.theframelab.org “Don't judge a taco by its price.”
@thisblue.bsky.social
Los Angeles since 2003. Media Studies, Critical Finance; power ballads; history of this wild city Find me at michellechihara.com
@jdconnor.bsky.social
https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com For alerts when something new drops: https://forms.gle/neT79ZHa9BPjGh2m9
@kwazana.bsky.social
I write about food. Mom. Professor, c19 US and gender studies department chair. Moroccan Arab Jew. Radical diasporism. Winner of the James Beard, Lora Romero, Best Book in Food Studies and Choice Awards. “Can Run Meetings” 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
@ashleyrattner.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Early American literature. Utopia, print culture, and communitarian reform. Birmingham, Alabama. C19 Podcast.
@lbmcgrath.bsky.social
Professing literature in Philadelphia. Writing MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Literature (Princeton UP). laurabmcgrath.substack.com
@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social
literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
@inlandemperor.bsky.social
Author of NORMPORN, WHY KAREN CARPENTER MATTERS, and RELOCATIONS. Food motivated. Expert Homosexual. Prof by day. Cohost of The Art of Grief and The Gaymazing Race podcasts, formerly of Waiting to X-Hale. #Gaylor curious. ACFC ⚽️ & Dodgers ⚾️
@isanchezprado.bsky.social
Scholar of literature, cinema, gastronomy and Mexico. Post about that plus dogs. Occasional Words: ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
@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
@natewolff.bsky.social
I invented reuben pizza and was the first guy to notice the -Dick jokes in Moby-Dick. Because of this they made me a professor. I wrote a book about Gilded Age literature: bit.ly/NotQuiteHope
@erinbartram.bsky.social
Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
@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.
@titachico.bsky.social
Prof of English (18thc) @ U of Maryland Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished University Professor @ U of Bristol *On Wonder* (2025) *The Experimental Imagination* (2018/20) https://titachico.wixsite.com/home
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social
Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her. Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring. Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv She/Her https://www.dominiquebaker.com/ (I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
@ibogost.bsky.social
Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, Writer at The Atlantic. https://linktr.ee/ibogost
@sanjukta.bsky.social
Interested in the idea and practice and law of economic coordination. I work as a law professor at a public university.
@econmarshall.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah. Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance, Jain Family Institute. Aging enfant terrible.
@astra.bsky.social
Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
@ubiquity75.xyz
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta used it to train its LLM. Professor, researcher, author, VP AoIR, synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady. “This heaven gives me migraine.”
@mistresssnowphd.bsky.social
dominatrix @ pandora’s box • researcher @ ucla • writing a book on sex work & surveillance 👁️ words @wired.com @thenation.com @chronicle.com @thedailybeast.bsky.social @slate.com @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social etc • she/her doctrixsnow.com
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com
@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.
@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