Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Studies
A starter pack of scholars interested in the academic study of speculative fiction broadly construed: including fantasy, science fiction, horror, magical realism, weird, and beyond.
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@rblemberg.bsky.social
@marklewandoski.bsky.social
Developmental biologist & geneticist, avid bibliophile (often science fiction) & melophile (particularly piano and synthesizers). Show mercy. If you DM me & we don't know each other I will likely unfollow. All opinions are mine only!
@everalkisti.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher working on children’s/fantasy literature & identity @ University of Edinburgh. Writer, reader, adventurer. Ever changing. ☕️📚❄️ It’s pronounced AHL-kee-stee.
@jennahanchey.bsky.social
"Badass fairy." SFWA & Codex. BSFA nominated writer. Ignyte & BF nominated narration. Poetry Ed @ Orion's Belt. Prof of Rhetoric & Critical/Cultural Studies. Researches African SFF & colonialism & development. she/her. https://jennahanchey.com
@brcongdon.bsky.social
Wrote a book about American literature, masculinity, and magazines https://utorontopress.com/9781487522162/leading-with-the-chin/ He/him
@jasonhaslam.ca
McCulloch Professor, Dalhousie English and Gender & Women’s Studies, focussing on Science Fiction, the Gothic, & Prison Studies. I take pictures of birds for reasons that are beyond me. He/him
@theogray.bsky.social
PhD candidate in literature; spec fic & border studies scholar | artist, film photographer, mamamoo fan | they/them
@justcode.bsky.social
Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
@dezmiller.bsky.social
~ PhD candidate at Emory doing a dissertation on urban rivers, using NLP and literary criticism in combo ~Occasionally writing fiction, making music, and doing silly things with code
@tobiogundiran.com
Ignyte, British Fantasy award-winning author of GUARDIAN OF THE GODS duology (Tor) • JACKAL, JACKAL (Undertow) • BSFA, Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy award nominee• Rep: Alex Cochran
@annaoleszczuk.bsky.social
researcher | translator | geek | she/they 🏳️🌈🍉 sf | fantasy | comics | gender and queer theory | intersectional feminism currently in: Poland
@cavar.bsky.social
transMad/queercrip writing&editing&phding. cooler on goodreads. edits manywor(l)ds. wrote FAILURE TO COMPLY (featherproof). repped by Noah Grey Rosenzweig. 🕸️ www.cavar.club 📖 goodreads.com/cavar 🧨 bookshop.org/p/books/failure-to-comply/20969806
@pootsidoodle.bsky.social
Writer of fiction, TTRPGs and lost to-do lists. PhD Researcher and Writer in Residence at Ulster University. Associate Editor at @CastOfWonders. Published in WFRP, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth RPG, Factor Four and Opulent Syntax SFWA, OW-NI he/him
@nirele.bsky.social
Writer of stories and (mostly TTRPG) games. Early Career Fellow and Creative Writing Prof at UT Austin. Writing Excuses co-host. Storyteller. She/her. writingbyerin.carrd.co
@drerinnerung.bsky.social
Associate professor (17th and 18th century secret history, celebrity, fantasy fiction and fan cultures), haphazard gardener, dog and cat mom, she/her 🖤🩶🤍💜
@maryannemohanraj.bsky.social
Writer, professor, arts administrator, school board member, cook. Founder of Strange Horizons, Director of Speculative Literature Foundation. She/her. Books here: https://serendibshop.com. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anne_Mohanraj
@riacheyne.bsky.social
Liverpool-based academic. Disability, medical humanities, genre fiction, neurodiversity, accessibility and inclusion in HE. #DisabilityStudies #MedHums Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
@shgmclicious.bsky.social
reader | editor | writer | pilates teacher | once librarian | occasional professor | phd | she http://about.me/mclicious
@mjrsangster.bsky.social
Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
@dimitrafimi.bsky.social
#Tolkien expert, Professor of #Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow. Co-Director: Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic Website: http://dimitrafimi.com
@tattersdill.bsky.social
Writer and teacher. Literature and science, dinosaurs, fantasy/sci-fi, alternate history, worldbuilding, periodicals, museums, etc. Fiction as W. J. Tattersdill. He/him.
@gothicacademic.bsky.social
🇨🇦🏴 📚 PhD Student at University of Westminster // MLitt in Gothic Studies 🌿 Researching ecofem, hauntology, & the climate crisis in speculative fiction 🎓 First gen & non-trad student 🎗️ Advocate for accessibility in academia
@gillianpolack.bsky.social
Writer, historian, educator, foodie. Maker of seriously bad jokes.
@klnoone.bsky.social
writer, professor, medievalist, lgbtq romance author, happily married bisexual, she/they pronouns, fan of craft beer & board games
@sfboswell.bsky.social
Researcher, quasi-academic, nerd, gymnastics fan. I always flip to the back of the book.
@writervh.bsky.social
Writer / Science Fiction / Fantasy / Birds / 🍸 Warhammer 40K Darktide / Black Library Author / Lancaster University Creative Writing Scholarship PhD Student 🌈 All views her own, she/her https://linktr.ee/WriterVH
@grmorgan.bsky.social
Head of Collections and Principal Curator at The Science Museum, London | Storyteller | PhD | Sometime Lecturer, Interviewer, Writer | He/Him | Views mine | https://linktr.ee/glynmorgan
@jonathanthornton.bsky.social
Writer for The Fantasy Hive, Tor dot com, Gingernuts Of Horror. Books reviews editor for Foundation. Entomology technician at LSTM. Lover of cats, books, music, starships, gardening
@blackarchive.co.uk
Obverse Books award-winning range of book length monographs on individual Doctor Who stories. www.blackarchive.co.uk
@sysrtina.bsky.social
Lawyer turned Storyteller • Futurist • PhD Researcher on Technology Regulation using Science Fiction Literature
@oliverklangmead.bsky.social
CALYPSO out now from Titan Books // Lecturer at Lancaster
@tomunro.bsky.social
Reviews for www.fantasy-hive.co.uk, creative writing PhD, author of Lady of the Helm, Climate change is REAL, the Fossil fuel industry and its allies are guilty of ecocide. Loves beautiful sunsets & good books! Occasional editor https://tomunroedits.co.uk
@stevewestenra.bsky.social
Book reviewer. Trans. #SFINCS judge. #SFFChat Academic expert on monsters. Author of questionable taste. HWA. He/him https://beforewegoblog.com/author/steve-hugh-westenra/ linktr.ee/SteveWestenra NO AI
@evmaroon.bsky.social
Nonprofit leader in rural health and harm reduction. Loves mocha & progress. Sweater vest aficionado. Once and future author. Co-Chair, WA LGBTQ Commission.
@janeijking.com
History & Theory of International Relations. Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. Oxford Martin Fellow, Changing Global Orders. www.janeijking.com
@arwainian.bsky.social
he/she | assigned nerd at birth | queer as in [microphone cuts out before i can explain my embodied identity and personal experience of gender and sexuality in historical context and with academic citations]
@deanleetal.bsky.social
Phd hopeful, fandom, X-Men, Taskmaster, Staged, SPN, non binary, trans, fat, polyam, neurodivergent, queer, aroace, ceasefire now
@megapolisomancy.bsky.social
Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
@smcarroll.bsky.social
Academic Blue Sky for Siobhan Maria Carroll. Victorian Studies, Romantism, 18C Studies, Science Fiction, Environmental Humanities. Short reviews of things I love and occasional gardening complaints.
@alexmoranbooks.bsky.social
✍🏽 contemporary and spec author | 🫶🏽 friendly neighborhood chaos goblin | 📚 probably reading fanfic | rep: Weaver Literary Agency https://linktr.ee/alexwritesstuff?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=57c094c5-5723-4802-9b0a-de9d056f02ad
@epikt.bsky.social
Critic in residency at the Institute of Impure Science. He/him. Failure wizard. Views not those of my employer except by accident.
@megintransition.bsky.social
PhD belief & gods in fantasy @angliaruskin, work in R&D @UofGlasgow, DH Promotions @Glasgowin2024. Tendency to pun-escalate. She/Her Cis/Bi 🌈🏳️🌈
@effjayem.bsky.social
SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴🌈🏳️⚧️ Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein and Rhetorics of Fantasy. Publishing a book on Joanna Russ's The Female Man with Luna Press in 2026. Pre Order now!
@somtoihezue.bsky.social
In: Tor |F&SF| Clarkesworld| BCS| Podcastle| Strange Horizons| Escape Pod| Pseudopod| BFA shortlist| @BSFA longlist| MFA, @UofMaryland| TinHouse ‘24| Clarion West ‘24| @sfwa. Filmmaker| Rep: @crsripley.bsky.social (selectricartists.com) somtoihezue.com
@tristanbeiter.bsky.social
Poet and critic; speculative fiction nerd; he/him; PhD student at the University at Buffalo Website: https://tristanbeiter.com/
@yenooi.bsky.social
Narrative designer, writer, editor, researcher @ intersection of culture/technology, excited about zoefuturism. Rep: @abirfellows.bsky.social Rén: the ancient Chinese art of finding peace and fulfilment (book) Road to Guangdong (game) www.yenooi.com
@mruthrobinson.bsky.social
MR, she/her. PhD candidate and writer of SFF · reader at Diabolical Plots · Clarion West ‘25 · VP2024 · SFWA · Codex · words at BCS, Fusion Fragment, Haven Spec, elsewhere · co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🪐 🗡️ 🌈 https://m-r-robinson.com
@shaunduke.net
SF/F/H writer/editor (The Duke of Editing), Prof of #scifi #writing, podcaster at (The Skiffy and Fanty Show)! Twitch (W/Su 6-8PM Central. Skiffy on Fri 7PM): http://twitch.tv/alphabetstreams Opinions my own. Things here: https://shaunduke.net/dukething
@inkstainedwreck.ca
SSHRC funded PhD Candidate in English at The University of Calgary The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits Words in Clarkesworld, ARB, The Ex-Puritan
@alana-m-vincent.net
Historian of Religion. Migrant (currently based in Finland). Bad at gender, worse at writing bios, absolutely incapable of refraining from profanity. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once.
@vallescurarule.bsky.social
Co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies 1 & 2; author of Neil Jordan: Works for the Page; Sturgeon, BSFA, & BFA finalist; Locus Rec List; stories in Year's Best SF, Best of British SF, Interzone, Andromeda Spaceways, ParSec, Nature Futures... He/Him
@tiffaniangus.bsky.social
Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 coming 2026! https://linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Now 🇬🇧 was 🇺🇸
@judithrauscher.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. /JProf. for American Literature & Culture @ U of Cologne; Poetry, Ecoriticism, Mobility Studies, Speculative Fiction, Gender Studies 🤓👩🏫🌄🎶📚🏳️🌈
@lizawemakor.bsky.social
Writer | Clarion West ‘23 | English Ph.D. student @ UC Riverside | ‘Loving Safoa’ sapphic vampire novella available @ Neon Hemlock Press https://linktr.ee/lizawemakor
@chefstentor.bsky.social
Cartographer, podcaster, academic studying wildfire, Q method, and fantasy maps. Settler in Jaödeogë’ (Pittsburgh). They/them. https://mapsburgh.com https://carrierbagpodcast.blogspot.com/ https://glittercats.itch.io
@calleinthesky.bsky.social
PhD in Scandinavian Studies, working as a tutor for the moment and painting and writing. More on carlolsen.net and vikingsbooksetc.wordpress.com. Shops at etsy.com/shop/CallePaints and vikingsbooksetc.redbubble.com. IG and YT @callepaints.
@hpbookcraft.bsky.social
36. She/they. Folklore, horror, hauntology. Master's in Gothic literature. Keeper of wayward books, editor, and thing that goes bump in the night.
@ausir.bsky.social
Linguist and translator. Languages spoken: PL/EN/ES/LAD/PT/CA/YI/DE (more or less in the order of fluency) ↙️ ↙️ ↙️ Mastodon: @ausir@meowr.me he/him on/jego http://pronouns.page/@ausir
@amycchambers.bsky.social
science/culture • history/theory • media #WomenInSTEM #SciEnt #SciComm #WomenMakeSF #WomenMakeSFPod she/her/Dr | https://linktr.ee/amycchambers
@cherylmorgan.bsky.social
Writer, editor, publisher. Science fiction and fantasy, also queer history. Welsh. May rant about rugby.
@tpmoylan.bsky.social
Utopian citizen, writer, teacher. Professor Emeritus, Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick.
@larsschmeink.bsky.social
Futures Studies and Science Fiction Studies Researcher, based in Germany
@virginiaconn.bsky.social
-Socialist SF -Chinese SF -really embarrassing powerlifting
@mariakalberto.bsky.social
PhD English '24, University of Utah | she/her 🏳️🌈 | 📚 pop culture, #fanstudies, DH, Tolkien | diss: D&D, canon, & drow | header by galxrax (Unsplash)
@gerrycanavan.bsky.social
Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.
@jordanscarroll.bsky.social
Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (Hugo & Locus 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
@shankcruz.bsky.social
🇵🇷 genderqueer bisexual Mennonite writer, they/multitudes. #Mets #LGM #haiku danielshankcruz.com
@shinjinidey.bsky.social
essayist, lapsed academic, commie propaganda. 👀: @dilettantearmy@LAReviewofBooks @strangehorizons @decolonialhackr + 🏆:@dream_foundry'21 (she/her)
@taylorwdriggers.bsky.social
Author, QUEERING FAITH IN FANTASY LITERATURE (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). Independent scholar of fantasy, gender, sexuality, religion & theology. 2024 Le Guin Fellow. Creative nonfiction at https://buttondown.com/taylordriggers-mcdowall.
@jgbridgergilmore.bsky.social
Instructor, Gender and Race Studies @ University of Alabama
@danhartland.bsky.social
Writes, variously. Reviews Editor, Strange Horizons. Columns at Ancillary Review. Songs over at Bandcamp. Also see @savinglives.bsky.social.
@deeholloway.bsky.social
Library worker & writer. Floridian in upstate NY. Work out recently from Lamplit Underground, Queen of Swords, Islandia Journal & more. Codex. Lit Editor for DIS/MEMBER. find all the details here: deeholloway.carrd.co
@kkoopman.bsky.social
Ph.D. from VT STS. Studying and writing speculative fiction. Definitely not two smaller Kristen Koopmans in a trenchcoat.
@daviddaviddavid.com
Horror Writer, Book Lover, Reader for Electric Literature’s The Commuter and Occasional Backup Dancer for Parisian Drag Queens. He/him www.daviddaviddavid.com
@thelemurguy.bsky.social
Primatology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics. I helped describe Groves' dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus grovesi). Cats, camping and curling. LSU grad, Geaux Tigers Associate Professor of Biology at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. All posts my own opinion.
@marmercurio.bsky.social
PhD in 19c literature | Acquiring Editor, University of Michigan | (she/they)
@jayowens.bsky.social
I’m Head of Audience at @lrb.co.uk and I write about environmental politics. ‘Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles’ (2023) 🔗 https://JayOwens.me 📧 https://disturbances.ghost.io/ 📙 https://hachette.co.uk/titles/jay-owens/dust/9781529362
@cwp.bsky.social
UMD—>Stanford—>Assistant Prof of Black literary studies at LSU. 5 times winner of witch weekly’s most charming smile award
@brenram.bsky.social
<1% of the phds in the United States belong to islanders and one of them is me!!! 🇫🇯 artist, conservationist, apocalypse studies guy, word understander, friend to birds, enjoyer of vertical sports ⛷️🤿🧗♀️ https://linktr.ee/brenmakesthings
@chaosbogey.bsky.social
dissertating anthropologist, lapsed lawyer, occasional critic. https://chaosbogey.com
@basicchunnel.bsky.social
I am still alive in love and wide eyed in my time. Stars my destination / Haters my motivation. John WM Thompson. Shirley Jackson Award nom’d editor of “Mooncalves” @ NO Press. Av: “The Banquet” (Magritte, 1956). https://www.no-press.org for books!
@whiterxbbit.bsky.social
Dr | Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds | abortion, international human rights law, animal rights, science fiction, comics | vegan | artist | bisexual | she/they | https://linktr.ee/whiterxbbitcreates
@leticiaasu.bsky.social
(she/her) Tejana writer and teaching artist of the weird. Author of Las Criaturas with @flowersongpress.bsky.social and The Remedy is the Disease, forthcoming spring 2026 from @undertakerbooks.bsky.social 💗 Find my work at: http://linktr.ee/lurieta16
@yarntheory.bsky.social
Math, history, science fiction, string theory, games with string. yarntheory.net
@christinawurst.bsky.social
💻 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Uni Tübingen: Lehrkräfte-Fortbildungen zu digitalen Medien im Unterricht. 📎 Dozentin Engl. Fachdidaktik Uni Frankfurt. 🎓 Doktorandin Amerikanistik ("Fandom and Political Polarization"). 🏫 Bio-/Englisch-Lehrerin (Gym)
@czwrites.bsky.social
PhD student, writes + studies spec fic // she/they https://cynthiaqzhang.wordpress.com/ https://linktr.ee/czhang
@fabiofernandes.bsky.social
Writer, translator, editor. Jornalista, pesquisador, professor. Criador do Observatório do Futuro (PUC-SP). Esquerdopata, surrealista, budista. Autista nível 1 de suporte. Posts in English e em Português. https://fabiofernandeswriter.com/
@jesbattis.bsky.social
Writer/Prof/Other. They/Them. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/jbattis
@folukeifejola.bsky.social
Lawyer, academic, writer, and occasional singer and poet. Author of Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge. Handle on all socials: folukeifejola Website: FolukeAfrica.com https://linktr.ee/folukeifejola
@corinnekathryn.bsky.social
Scholar of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Fantasy, & Consent | English PhD | Cohost of Sex. Love. Literature., a Pop Culture Podcast, found at @sexlovelitpodcast.bsky.social
@casella.bsky.social
Appalachian in the big city. Editor at Ancillary Review, host of A Meal of Thorns, bookseller, coffee pro, SF reviewer & scholar. He/him. https://linktr.ee/jakecasellabrookins
@akasylvia.bsky.social
Just me. Author of Fear of Landing (aviation) and Accidents and Incidents (personal)
@azzageddi.bsky.social
English professor in Fukuoka, Japan; research focus on utopias in literature with forays into science fiction, ecocriticism, & monster theory. Immigrant, grandad, LGBTQIA+(bi), intersectional equality for all. he/him https://linktr.ee/azzageddi
@reginakanyuwang.bsky.social
Writer, scholar, editor based in Oslo/Shanghai. Ph.D in cultural studies from University of Oslo, MFA in in creative writing & BA in management science from Fudan University. Multiple Chinese Nebula Award winner, Hugo and Locus Award Finalist.
@jbarchivist.bsky.social
Science fiction librarian, archivist, curator, reader. Reasonably nice.
@ebonyteach.bsky.social
Chair & Associate Professor, University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. 1913 ❤️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel, 2026). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
@silviapark.bsky.social
writer/luftmensch. she/they. Assistant Professor of English, University of Kansas. Debut novel LUMINOUS 🐯🤖 out now with Simon & Schuster (US) and Oneworld | Magpie (UK) https://linktr.ee/silvia_park