PhDs Who Watch Lots Of Stand-Up Comedy Specials
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@mattseybold.bsky.social
@tomduncombe.bsky.social
History professor specializing in Britain and U.S., currently working on mental health in Progressive-era New Mexico.
@michaelgvann.bsky.social
Anti-fascist surfer, grappler, & historian. "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt", other words in Jacobin and elsewhere, & mumbled podcast musings as a host on New Books and guest on Long Reads, Southeast Asia Crossroads, Napalm in the Morning, Bungacast, AmPrest.
@diegom.bsky.social
Books, food, flowers, running, coffee, mostly in reverse order. Also an Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies working on a book about laughter.
@pgagliardi.bsky.social
Teaching Assoc Prof at Marquette University, Dad, Terrible hockey player Buy ALL PLAY AND NO WORK from Temple U Press: https://tupress.templ https://linktr.ee/paul.gagliardi?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=4d83fe13-3508-4b11-b014-666a8afc3
@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)
@stephbrown.bsky.social
VAP of Com and Media Studies @ Washington College | current Delawarean | I do work on gender, space, media, and belonging and also comedy studies | she/her
@jalylah.bsky.social
@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
@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
@thisblue.bsky.social
Los Angeles since 2003. Media Studies, Critical Finance; power ballads; history of this wild city Find me at michellechihara.com
@lclaberge.bsky.social
Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
@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