Twain Studies
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@mattseybold.bsky.social
@harrys.bsky.social
@drhenrywashjr.bsky.social
gospel music stan, ham hock enthusiast. scholar of race, gender, and aesthetics. assistant professor. https://berkeley.academia.edu/HenryWashingtonJr
@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
@c19americanists.bsky.social
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists C19 2026: Cincinnati, OH -- March 12-14 Theme: UNDERGROUND c19society.org
@citizense.bsky.social
Rural regional public prof (SUNY) writing The Race for Hawthorne; governance wonk (UFS President-Elect); union goon (UUP/HELU); #PublicGoodU; sf/fantasy/comics/anime nerd; golf otaku; ex-point guard/pitcher; empty nester; mostly harmless; this one just me
@benjaminmorgan.bsky.social
Professor at UChicago | bird nerd | lakefront enjoyer | violin player | book hoarder 🚲🦩🏳️🌈
@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social
Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
@jessagoldberg.bsky.social
Abolitionist | anti-imperialist | academic PhD in American Literature Black Studies, Queer Studies, Carceral Studies they/them | my views, not employer's | book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917890/abolition-time/
@transbookhistory.bsky.social
PhD Candidate | Trans Book History & 19C Am. Lit. | former sub-sub-librarian | Owner of @meanwhilelttrpress | he/him | Opinions my own.
@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
@jerklamerk.bsky.social
Connecticut-based playwright, proud liberal, drag whisperer, lover of memes, books, Prince, Mark Twain, pizza, and all things camp. Chief Creative Officer for Buzz-Engine.com. jacqueslamarreplaywright.com 📚🐕🐈🏳️🌈👸🧚♀️💃
@briceezell.bsky.social
Writer, critic (@PopMatters), teacher. ATL. PhD in English, University of Texas. Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy. Writing a book on Tom Stoppard. https://boxd.it/1rEO5
@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
@rafaelwalker.bsky.social
I write on literature and issues in higher ed || Assistant Professor at Baruch College, CUNY || Editor of Nella Larsen’s *Passing* for Broadview Press https://tinyurl.com/2s3kt7w9 || Still fun! 🎡 🌈 baruch.academia.edu/RafaelWalker
@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.
@sherimariephd.bsky.social
@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
@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
@nathanielwms.bsky.social
Teaches technical & science writing at UC Davis / studies weird C19 literature and pulps
@brucemichelson.bsky.social
Husband, father, grandfather, retired prof and unit director; still teaching and publishing (Mark Twain, literary wit, Clemenceau and Monet, gen AI's impacts on the humanities). Long, LONG walks in summers.
@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.
@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