Academic Pick and Mix
Some of the best from a grumpy literary critic working in scholarly communications.
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@nonwayne.bsky.social
@nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate at York University. Freelance Tutor, Teacher and Educator. Research interests: Schelling. German Idealism. Jena Romanticism. Creator of #TheYoungIdealist Series. https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungIdealist/videos
@julianisland.bsky.social
Prof of Culture Stuff. Island (Bloomsbury), The Manifesto Handbook (Zero). Will speak for 🍷. Lapsed Canadian
@sudojournal.bsky.social
A journal from the fringes of civilised society. Volume 6 submissions open now! sudojournal.com Cover image: “Heart on a Wire“ (CC0 1.0 Universal) by Alan Levine.
@editsannotations.bsky.social
A podcast from the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. Season 1 episodes releasing on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Listen here: https://podfollow.com/editsannotations/view
@pippilongsock.bsky.social
Mum. Wife. Teaching and learning in higher education. Academic Integrity. Hobby photographer. Aotearoa New Zealand.
@saintsoftness.bsky.social
essayist + critic + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites) ⎔ Critic in Residence at IDM-NYU ⎔ next book in 2028 from Seven Stories Press avmarraccini.com
@drnatosborne.bsky.social
Env + insurgent planning & human geography, urban social + env justice, radical spatial politics, abolitionist planning. Co-producer of @radioreversal.bsky.social, co-convenor Brisbane Free University. White settler on unceded Jagera & Turrbal Country
@tomtanuki.bsky.social
regular columns and videos, usually on the latest in aus radical, activist, fringe and/or gross political scenes. independent as fuck.
@alixbeeston.bsky.social
Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at Cardiff University | Author of In and Out of Sight (Oxford UP) | Coeditor of #Incomplete (U California P) and #Visualities (Modernism/modernity) | Working on a critical–creative book about women in photography
@brionyneilson.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-century France—incarceration of juveniles, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia). Book out soon "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php. Based in Sydney, Australia
@drannaclark.bsky.social
Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
@emilyrowe1.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern Literature & Culture at King’s College London. Love all histories of metal, military worlds, and material culture. Can also be found board-gaming, TTRPG-ing, walking, and pasta-making ~ she/her
@gtiso.bsky.social
Online magazine editor, @overlandjournal.bsky.social. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him.
@cathywilcox.bsky.social
Editorial cartoons, dog walks, languages, bleeding heart, existential malaise. Latest book Hoary Chestnuts, shop at cathywilcox.com.au
@fionakatauskas.bsky.social
Cartoonist for the Guardian (amongst others) , political junkie, best-selling author of The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made. Sweary. Gadigal Country. Australia
@amyremeikis.bsky.social
Just a soul whose intentions are good | she/her 🇱🇹🇦🇺 Insta- ifyouseeamy/pyjamapolitics amy.remeikis@australiainstitute.org.au
@hermioneclone.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Co-Chief Diversity Officer at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom. Queer (pan/demi) Wiccan. 🏳️🌈📚☕ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney
@patricklenton.bsky.social
(He/him) freelance writer and editor. Author of some books. My debut novel ‘In Spite of You’ out in 2025. Subscribe to my newsletter: https://heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/ Read my articles: https://linktr.ee/patricklenton
@alinaetc.bsky.social
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social
Writer and professor of medieval literature. I'm a columnist at the TLS, sometimes co-host a podcast with Mary Wellesley at the LRB, and am one of the editors of @creativecritical.bsky.social. irinadumitrescu.com
@tedmccormick.bsky.social
Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him
@aliciaandrz.bsky.social
assistant prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
@helendecruz.net
Philosopher writing on science, religion, SFF, SFWA, Codex, lute music. newsletter: http://helendecruz.substack.com website: https://helendecruz.net/ My book Wonderstruck - https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232126/wonderstruck
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
@grogsgamut.bsky.social
Chief Economist at @australiainstitute.org.au Columnist on economics and politics for Guardian Australia. Dollars & Sense podcast https://australiainstitute.org.au/news/category/podcasts/dollars-sense/
@monitorlizard.bsky.social
Reptile. Socialist. Green Party voter. Marathon Runner How strange it is to be anything at all.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
@simoncd.bsky.social
Bookish married English professor, living between Brisbane and Berlin. Interested in way too much, reads indiscriminately, and, cant seem to help myself, has opinions on pretty much everything.
@tenille.bsky.social
Bookseller. PhD candidate in creative writing. Critical AI, LLMs and time perception. Co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social. Co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social. She/her.
@fionathehardy.bsky.social
melbourne-based author, reviewer, bookseller & butthead crime books/kids books/educational books next up: unbury the dead 💀 out w/ affirm press march 2025
@huwgriffiths.bsky.social
Literature; piano; 🏳️🌈; Blue Mountains; Associate Professor of English Literature at University of Sydney
@stuartabarnes.bsky.social
Curehead, poet, 1/4 of Hell Herons. The Wreck Event, Like to the Lark (Upswell Publishing, 2023), Glasshouses (UQP, 2016) 🏳️🌈 stuartabarnes.com
@drmelmcbride.bsky.social
Researching the affordances of specialized environments, materials, & tools for tacit, physically embodied, multimodal, learning in contexts of skilled practice. Distance runner. Mostly outside. Mutuals only. Randos please jog on.
@nathanhobby.bsky.social
Biographer, scholar & special collections librarian in Perth, Australia. Author of THE RED WITCH, 2023 WA Premier's Prize Book of the Year. Working on a biography of John Curtin. Covid & climate action now! https://nathanhobby.com
@kelwebbdavies.bsky.social
Cymraestralian. Immigrant 🇦🇺🏴. Linguist and educator doing AI in edu at Oxford (she/her/hi/ei)
@larkinsjo.bsky.social
Multidisciplinary STEM educator, demystifying statistics and quantitative literacy. Researching assessment; ‘Exams: what are they good for?' Knitting is my Zen. Views are my own. #academicsky
@shawliterary.bsky.social
A “klein aber fein” literary agency devoted to the very best Antipodean fiction & non-fiction
@tullyb.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Creative Industries, Flinders University. Living on unceded lands of the Kaurna people. Director, Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts. Vice President of the Australasian Assocaition for Digital Humanities. Cultural policy studies
@drnaomi.bsky.social
Historian, writer, editor, whippet custodian, living and working on Darug and Gundungurra Country and Palawa/Pakana Country. She/her. We cannot have peace without academic and artistic freedom.
@sighmonger.bsky.social
Historian, among other things | Usual disclaimers | My pronouns are ze/zir or they/them
@alicektg.bsky.social
Managing Editor, Australia Institute Press Anne Kantor Fellow Research Manager, The Australia Institute Austlit editing and publishing aficionado Opinions own
@nitaalexander.bsky.social
PhD Sociology (Society & Culture) - Western Australia. Senior research Officer at The Kids Research Institute Australia. Hiking Ocean Nature (she/they)
@jarrodhore.bsky.social
Settler historian on Dharug land. Gondwana/Land, geologies, photographs, colonialism. Co-Director & Postdoc Fellow in the New Earth Histories Research Program, UNSW | IG @jarrodhore
@jinghuaqian.com
freelancer emeritum | senior media advisor at economicmediacentre.org | words & shenanigans at jinghuaqian.com | work and also nsfw | ey/eir/em 伊
@jamesley.bsky.social
Deputy Books and Ideas Editor, The Conversation. Contributing Editor, Sydney Review of Books. Author of The Critic in the Modern World. Words in various other places.
@cathellis13.bsky.social
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Quality and Integrity, Western Sydney Uni. Research into Contract Cheating. HEA National Teaching Fellow. BA (Hons), PhD, PFHEA
@felicity-plunkett.bsky.social
she / her Poet, critic, editor Vanishing Point, A Kinder Sea, Seastrands, Thirty Australian Poets (ed.)
@claresmillar.bsky.social
Maisy Mouse enthusiast (Writer, editor, glassblower, former bookseller, etc) She/her
@catrionamp.bsky.social
Editor and critic at large. SYD →YVR. I write a newsletter about literature and the internet called Infra Dig. https://infradig.substack.com/
@drmilthorpe.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania. Modernism-adjacent; reformed all-caps user. Working on Evelyn Waugh for the rest of time? She/her.
@drvnagy.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of Tasmania Research interests: gender + history + crime, CSA prevention, SXA, VAW prevention. Cairn Terrier & cat aficionado. Horse mum.
@annakarlien.bsky.social
Reading English at the University of Cambridge Interested in modernism and epistemology Dreams of research 🏳️⚧️ https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/graduates/Anna.Dijkstra
@ccguerilla.bsky.social
Higher ed misconduct investigator/ consequence courier. Former professor of cunning at Oxford University Academic integrity "thinkey and talkey man." Otherwise, dog father, record spinner, urban hillbilly. Views my own. https://www.guerillawarfare.net/
@profmdavis.bsky.social
@michellearrow.bsky.social
Historian. Author, The Seventies (2019), co-author Personal Politics (2024). Writing a biography of Anne Deveson. President, Australian Historical Association. Whitlam Institute Fellow. FASSA. She/her. Views my own. http://newsouthbooks.com.au/books.
@javariafarooqui.bsky.social
Research areas: popular romance, book history, postcolonialism, media/cinema, gender, and fandom. Shameless posting of published research across all socials.
@micwink.bsky.social
Writer, reader, swimwear model. Last book Grimmish. Next book Griefdogg. michaelwinkler.com.au
@jegcomposer.bsky.social
Grateful Immigrant and Manuhiri | Composer | EMS Researcher | an "individual with diverse but intertwined competencies” Based near Titirangi, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. gardnercomposer.com
@nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social
Academic. Political scientist researching public policy / admin & occasionally foreign policy via auspol + comparative analyses. Settler living on unceded Dharug country.
@butiamarealworm.bsky.social
Southern trash, dachshund trad wife, historian: 18th century emotions, animals, material culture, gender.
@bethanykeats.bsky.social
Writer ✍️ Reader 📚 Dancer 🩰 cyclist 🚲 PhD: creative writing, family history, 1950s Australia, gothic literature, women's history 🎓 Also: languages Geelong ✈️ Townsville (sometimes 🇫🇷) co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social
@jocaseau.bsky.social
Professional book nerd (writer, editor, critic - former publisher, bookseller). Deputy Editor, Books & Ideas, The Conversation: @aunz.theconversation.com. Co-editor, Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Autistic Writers (UQP).
@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
@bluerehn.bsky.social
Science illustrator | Research communicator for TropWATER | Palaeoenviro scientist | Archaeologist | Crafter Based in Far North Queensland, Australia Portfolio: https://emmarehn.com
@ednewtonrex.bsky.social
CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Previously founded Jukedeck, VP Audio at Stability AI.
@nickferns.bsky.social
DECRA fellow in history at Monash University. Working on histories of development and decolonisation in Australia and the Pacific.
@moniquerooney.bsky.social
teaching US literature, television and new media at the Australian National University. Writing contemporary ‘brow’ aesthetics and a biography of Ruth Park. https://anu-au.academia.edu/moniquerooney and https://substack.com/@moniquerooney
@dranastevenson.bsky.social
| anastevenson.phd | feminist historian + ISG @ UFS | ✍ social movements + women in politics + AcLits 📚 | @auswhn.bsky.social + #VIDAblog | archivingsocialmovements.com | 🗳 The Suffrage Postcard Project | 🗺️ Mapping Monuments | 🎼 blockflute ♫♬♫ | 😷 |
@martc.bsky.social
'another Dr Compton' Londoner, KCL, #DigiEd, (gen)AI, #Assessment & Feedback , #ungrading, #HE (and #spurs) #COYS https://mcompton.uk/
@jordanas.bsky.social
jewishness, diasporism, history, memory, solidarity, justice. she/her. Author of 'Cruel Care' (2023) and 'Anxious Histories' (2015).
@purplepingers.bsky.social
“Tiktoker” (derogatory) I hate real estate agents Join ur union x https://linktr.ee/purplepingers
@clairegcoleman.bsky.social
Noongar writer - Novels: Terra Nullius, The Old Lie, Enclave [Hachette Australia]. Non-fiction: Lies, Damned Lies [Ultimo Press]. Writer also of essays, verse, opinion, and criticism.
@nickfeik.bsky.social
Writer, journalist, former editor of The Monthly. https://nickfeik.substack.com/ Email: nickfeik at proton dot me
@gamerlearner.bsky.social
Ed tech and eLearning guy, convenor of @TELedvisors SIG, PhD candidate USyd SFHEA He/Him Opinions are mine. Work stuff Newsletter http://bit.ly/edtechmustreads (Pro-tip - if you don't have a bio or any posts, I probably won't follow)
@overlandjournal.bsky.social
Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
@greenbowlerhat.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in C20th English Literature at Keele | Working (slowly but surely) on Critical Eds of May Sinclair | Past Chair of BAMS | Modernist Wellness | She/Her
@alisoncroggon.bsky.social
I write words. Award-winning poet, novelist, critic, theatre writer. Arts editor The Saturday Paper. She/her. Living on unceded Yalukit-Willam Country. http://www.alisoncroggon.com/
@robbiemoore.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English at UTAS. "Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film" from Edinburgh UP. He/him. open.spotify.com/user/rm508
@marcwatkins.bsky.social
Assistant Director of Innovation at the University of Mississippi training faculty in AI literacy. Teaching, #OER, #OpenPedagogy, #AIED marcwatkins.org
@jennaprice.bsky.social
recovered academic, columnist, journalist, editor, grandmother of four dragons, still tired after all these years jennapricejournalist@gmail.com
@janerosenzweig.bsky.social
Writing Center Director I write about writing in the age of AI and teach a class called "To What Problem is ChatGPT the Solution?" Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
@eliasgreig.bsky.social
Recovered Bookseller/academic; slow writer (he/him) Author of I Can't Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue (A&U 2018). Opinions mine. Rep'd by @daniellebinks.bsky.social Email: eliasgreig@gmail.com (E-I-G)
@devingoure.bsky.social
PhD in political theory, posts on philosophy, Nietzsche, mental health, politics, and games of all sorts. “The stillest words are those that bring the storm.”
@johnattridge.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at UNSW | Modernism, novels, specialisation, media, bildungsroman &c | Chair Australasian Modernist Studies Network
@amyclukey.bsky.social
Academic and neo-Victorian convalescent I've been told that I'm a flower that grew out of a can of Budweiser
@wyld.bsky.social
K.A Ren Wyld Writer of books and posts. Aboriginal person (Martu) Free Palestine from the river to the sea! Links to other sites, books and stuff > https://linktr.ee/KarenWyld
@drjpersian.bsky.social
Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. dabbles in the far right. Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia. Associate Professor, Australia