Modernism and Contemporary Literature Scholars
Modernists and contemporary lit scholars (self-identified) who skeet.
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@woolfianjosh.bsky.social
@johnmorgenstern.bsky.social
Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian @ Emory University, former Director of Clemson UP, modernist scholar, friend of dogs (and at least one cat)
@sztockmann.bsky.social
Book nerd interested in utopia/dystopia, SF & modernism. Senior Lecturer in English Lit. Currently thinking about deserts (& usually also dessert) ✡️🌈He/him
@fmussgnug.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies @UCL | Environmental Humanities | Utopia | Apocalypse | Anthropocene Studies | World Literature
@stephenshapiro.bsky.social
Edinburgh based: read my scholarly books below! I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
@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.
@maebhlong.bsky.social
Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies, U. Otago | President International Flann O’Brien Society & ISAANZ | PI Marsden Project ‘Modern Immunity’ | co-author w/ Matthew Hayward of The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonisation, Radical Campuses and Modernism
@becimay.bsky.social
Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
@debakanyahaldar.bsky.social
she/her | PhD candidate at UF English | 20th c American literature | South Asian literature | Modernism | Visual Culture | Urban Studies | MLA Public Humanities Incubator Awardee 2023 | https://www.debakanyahaldar.com/
@plathpoem.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English; Author of Annotating Modernism; Co-Editor of The Poems of Sylvia Plath (2026), a new edition of Plath’s Collected Poems.
@thedaybooks.bsky.social
Mom, poet, + artist in Alabama FT Instructor of English + Gender Studies Adjunct Former k12 + YA librarian, archivist PhD student in Comms/Book History (Posts don’t reflect my institution *at all* apparently) 🔗https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
@huwmarsh.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English at QMUL | contemporary fiction, comedy and work http://tinyurl.com/32zydzav | he/him https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/marshhuw2.html
@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
@michaeljsullivan.bsky.social
Literary critic at University of Oxford, St Catherine's College | Poetics | Transnational drift of verse forms | Digital Humanities & Digital Editing | General Editor, OUP Complete Works of Tennyson. Views are my own. www.michaeljsullivan.net
@leahamilne.bsky.social
Author of #NovelSubjects. Associate professor of multicultural American & postcolonial literature. 🇵🇭 daughter of immigrants. First-gen. Bookworm. Cat mom. https://linktr.ee/leahmilne
@keegancf.bsky.social
writing about poetry and politics (professing literature in Baltimore)
@kmuth.bsky.social
Assistant prof of digital humanities @ Durham English, books about work || work about books, she/they, https://krmuth.github.io/
@annabel-l-kim.bsky.social
French prof at Harvard // UNBECOMING LANGUAGE (OSUP 2018) // CACAPHONIES (Minn 2022) // dua lipa stan & miley cyrus enthusiast // VERY into cats // vegan climate griever
@professeurmartell.bsky.social
French Literature professor. He, his, him. (If you google me I’m going to find out through academiadotedu) https://lyon.academia.edu/JamesMartell
@jshelat1.bsky.social
PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about 9/11, the War on Terror, and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own. https://www.jayshelat.com
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon, LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com
@andyoler.bsky.social
Parent, English prof, Hoosier. He/him. Departments Editor, New Territory, #LiteraryLandscapes. Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity & Midwestern Lit (LSU, 2019) & Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell (MSU, 2023).
@bradleyfest.bsky.social
assoc. prof. and Cora A. Babcock Chair in English at Hartwick College | poetry: The Rocking Chair (2015), The Shape of Things (2017), & 2013–2017: Sonnets (2024) | criticism: C20-21 lit. & culture | https://bradleyjfest.com
@apocalypticdrift.bsky.social
Reluctant literary scholar with a focus on the end (of the world) American Studies at Universität Stuttgart (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) Other research interests include video games (& ludology), zombie studies, sound studies, and dark ecology.
@sandropology.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher @ St Andrews | Whistleblowing & writing | Academic Policy Officer (Quality) 📄 | Interdisciplinary humanities 📚🔬🌍 | he/him | 🌈🏴🇩🇪🇪🇺| Secretary of @BACLS_official
@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
@susannegruss.bsky.social
English lit prof @uni-bamberg.de | pirate/collaborator | law&lit-geek | 🍄 | reviews ed. Shakespeare JB | gen. ed. gender forum Cologne | assoc. ed. Neo-Victorian Studies | mum | colour-lover | doodler | she/her https://www.wonderlink.de/@susannegruss
@sianround.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American literature, Swansea. Working on 'The Little Magazine in the US South, 1921-45' (UGA Press) and 'The Harlem Renaissance and the Southern Tour'. linktr.ee/sianround
@robertsheppard.bsky.social
Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
@qiaoj.bsky.social
History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
@samplereality.bsky.social
Professor of Film, Media, and Digital Studies at Davidson College. Maker of @mobydickatsea.bsky.social and @clipart.bsky.social. Teaches, researches, and practices computational creativity. Other things I've made: https://samplereality.itch.io
@rkokayokay.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Comparative Poetry and Poetics. Co-director Bristol Poetry Institute. Out now: HÉLIO OITICICA: SECRET POETICS. Out next: DETROIT'S ALTERNATIVE PRESS: DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE. From the Lake Michigan dunes.
@thelouisehornby.bsky.social
@electrostani.bsky.social
Professor of English at Lehigh University. He/his. Anglophone Postcolonial / Modernism / African American Literature / Digital Humanities.
@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
@moderniststudies.bsky.social
This is the official MSA Bluesky account run by @kweingarten.bsky.social. Find us at moderniststudies.org for more information about future conferences and other events.
@elotroalex.bsky.social
faculty of collective wonders for Yale Spanish & Portuguese. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.
@beckettletters.bsky.social
We collect/consult/transcribe all extant letters by Beckett; see our interactive index (chercherbeckettletters.emory.edu), and 4 volume selected edition.
@six18sfoundry.bsky.social
Stories, poems, essays. Posts & pics on my peeps: Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Ozu, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, Jameses. Love the friendly connecting with everyone. www.six18sfoundry.com Grab your copy of Junk Birds!
@nicksturm.bsky.social
post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Lecturer in English @ Georgia State | co-director of NNYSS | editor of books w/ Fonograf & City Lights | book on New York School poets with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
@dr-kath.bsky.social
Independent scholar of English / comparative and general literature: intertextuality | concept album, PhD, bilingual (German / English), creator of the blog #aircraftalbatrossandabeast, job seeking, (she / her) https://personalhomepagehagenk.wordpress.com
@dralexjcalder.bsky.social
ECR in Contemporary Writing | teaching at University of Cambridge | co-editing Ali Smith: Critical Essays (Routledge) | literary experimentation; politics and ethics; gender; the maximalist novel | from Caithness, Highland | he/him
@jonhegglund.bsky.social
Professor of English, Washington State U. Modernist/Anthropocene narrative, critical theory, environmental humanities. Regular podcaster/occasional writer in the Baseball Prospectus extended universe. Yes, that is a moose in my front yard.
@stephjayb.bsky.social
Author | Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State | U Toronto Press, 2024 Assoc Prof English in Tucson | Surveillance | C20/21 UK, Caribbean, Black British Lit | GWS rock scrambler | hawk enthusiast | she/her
@anamsanchezarce.bsky.social
Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University. Contemporary lit, authenticity, censorship, postcolonialist, Almodóvar, feminist. Occasional rants and cat references. Looking for kindred spirits.
@catrionahenderson.bsky.social
PhD student in literature at the University of Vienna. Research focus - metamodernism, the historical novel, Scottish literature. Optimistic (mostly) and easily amused.
@sdileonardi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Center for Digital Studies at Pitt-Greensburg (he/him) Every day I wake up and cognitively map like my subjectivity depends on it.
@thelong1930s.bsky.social
Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture, UCL. Proudly Cornish and quasi-Italian. Interested in the 1930s (1848-1950). Biographer of Celia Fremlin.
@matthewlevay.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at Idaho State University. Modernism, comics, genre, seriality. Author: Violent Minds (Cambridge UP). Co-Editor: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. Alum: Fulbright Poland. Soccer fan, taekwondo novice. matthewlevay.com
@thehubble101.bsky.social
Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher, critic, academic. Nonbinary (they/them)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️. Blogs on science fiction, fantasy & the future at Prospective Cultures - with a current focus on #ScottishSFF. https://linktr.ee/nick_hubble
@spencro.bsky.social
Former Eng Lit academic. I have written about Ford Madox Ford, Louis de Bernieres, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Fitzgerald, Robert Nye, but mainly about Anthony Burgess, a fellow Mancunian. robspence.org.uk Reviews at shinynewbooks.co.uk
@davidcollard.bsky.social
Autheur. 'A Crumpled Swan' (June 2025) https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_crumpled_swan/ 'Multiple Joyce' (June 2022) https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/ (I block anonymous followers with no photo, bio or original posts)
@jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social
Writer, editor, teacher, interested in all things books. Asst prof: creative writing, poetry, 20/21c American lit. He/him. www.jeremymichaelreed.com https://jeremymichaelreed.beehiiv.com/subscribe
@aarthivadde.bsky.social
Associate Prof of English at Duke. Wrote a book Chimeras of Form on modernism. Writing a book on contemporary literature and internet culture; co-host a podcast called Novel Dialogue for the Society of Novel Studies: https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/
@dissentum.bsky.social
Global + postcolonial + comp lit, theory; occasional translator. Assoc. prof. Not on xitter. Views/prons: his. Books: Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent/Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (ed.) both @uminnpress.bsky.social
@thomassdavis.bsky.social
English/Env Hum Prof. The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism & Everyday Life (Columbia 2016). Finishing: Forming Attachments: Aesthetic Education & Ecological Crisis. Starting: Searching for William H Johnson. www.thomassdavis.net
@pdkindig.bsky.social
Asst Prof of English. Lit crit: Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity (2022). Poetry: fascinations (2025) / all the catholic gods (2019) / Dry Spell (2016). pdkindig.wordpress.com.
@mariadele.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Literature at UWE Bristol. Neo-Victorianism, ecocriticism, colonial writing. Lover of country houses. Agatha Christie fan.
@michelletaylor.bsky.social
The lazy laughing Jenny of the bard | fellow at Magdalene, Cam; once Emory FCHI & St Hilda’s, Ox | essays in The New Yorker, FT Mag, The Point, &c. | modernism & coterie, w/ a taste for the archive https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/user/taylor
@marta-zboralska.bsky.social
Art historian. Currently working on a book about visual art and Witold Gombrowicz
@hartmann-villalta.bsky.social
Let's see: the Spanish Civil War, modernism, naps, visual culture, pedagogy, Yiddish, penguins, I-95, writing, & how to avoid just leaving my clothes on the floor instead of the laundry or closet. Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University.
@gabrielh.bsky.social
Modernism, digital studies, psychoanalysis, horror, literary color. Asheville / Clemson. Literary and Cultural Studies feed here: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m22fqufavn4t3bpxa6y53jqz/feed/aaajitqeisltw .
@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
@debraraecohen.bsky.social
Finally here. Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, M/m; past president, CELJ. Modernism and media, especially the BBC. Anti-fascist, trans ally. Bean soup, pickles, word games. She/her. 🍉
@carallewis.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English & WGS, IU NW / Author of Dynamic Form: How Intermediality Made Modernism (Cornell UP, 2020) / Opinions my own (she/her)
@zumhagenyekple.bsky.social
English and Comp Lit Prof. Tulane | Comparative Modernisms, Phil&Lit | Books: A Different Order of Difficulty | Wittgenstein and Modernism (both @uchicagopress.bsky.social) | Cambridge Companion to Lit&Phil | The Vanity of Wisdom (in progress)
@post45.bsky.social
Open access peer-reviewed journal for scholarship on postwar American literature and culture post45.org/journal
@chiarab.bsky.social
Postdoc researcher in Publishing Studies & Literature, investigating Corporate Social Responsibility and Cultural Production | Teaching English Lit & Publishing | Writing | Glasgow
@plashingvole.bsky.social
Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun. Read books; join unions; block cookies.
@noreenmasud.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
@amyeelkins.bsky.social
Associate Prof of English; author of Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (OUP, 2022) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/crafting-feminism-from-literary-modernism-to-the-multimedia-present-9780192857835?cc=us&lang=en& 🌈
@stephengb.bsky.social
Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
@shelbyjudge.bsky.social
Lecturer, Derby Uni • researches feminist myth retellings and, mostly unrelatedly, Incels; teaches english literature & media • good at book recs • she/her 🏳️🌈
@jtbowen.bsky.social
DPHil in English, Oxford University; PGCert Psychodynamic Counselling, Oxford Department of Continuing Education https://www.jamestbowen.com
@jcbretan.bsky.social
PhD at University of Cambridge on modernism, East-Central Europe & political geography. Research assistant for the Baltic Geopolitics Programme, Centre for Geopolitics. Words in The TLS, The Public Domain Review, Engelsberg Ideas, The Arts Desk & more.
@sholtonbradley.bsky.social
PhD at King’s College London - Derek Jarman, E. M. Forster, Jocelyn Brooke, Neo-Romanticism and the ecopoetics of cruising.
@cleohanaway.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, writer, thinker. Collector of autoimmune diseases. I share a birthday with James Joyce (and I quite like his books, too). Mostly a modernist. Also sensory studies, disability, and medhums.
@jhdscourfield.bsky.social
Classicist and Modernist, Em. Prof. Working on a monograph on E. M. Forster and Classics, and a new edition of his novel The Longest Journey for Cambridge UP. Welsh/Irish.
@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
@bobeaglestone.bsky.social
Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
@meindertpeters.bsky.social
Leverhulme EC Fellow at @UniofOxford & @NewCollegeOx | Book: Habituation in German Modernism: https://shorturl.at/LYKFy | Co-Curator: Kafka: Making of an Icon (Oxford/New York) | Editor: Bodies & Abilities (Brill) | www.meindertpeters.com
@tashaalden.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction at @AberUni. Lit & philosophy/theology, esp. Iris Murdoch & M Robinson, language of fertility, queer historical fiction, MedHums. Schools / access. Buddhisty-Quaker. LWithTheT
@peteradkins.bsky.social
Lecturer in Modernism at University of Edinburgh. Author of 'The Modernist Anthropocene' and editor of 'Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene'. Views here not necessarily those of my employer, etc etc. He/him.
@shilorae.bsky.social
| PhD in English Lit | Co-Conspirator at The Woolf Salon Project | Feminist Modernist Studies | “No, I was not busy when you came!”
@valerie-favre.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in English / MCF – Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | Literature, Feminisms, Virginia Woolf & her Reception | http://instagram.com/favre.val/ | she/her
@samslote.bsky.social
Professor, School of English, Trinity College Dublin. Writes about Joyce, Beckett, Modernism. Quondam New Yorker. Co-author of Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses http://bit.ly/3Gngb2L He/him/his
@annagirling.bsky.social
Teaching English at the University of Edinburgh. Generally reading, writing, day dreaming. Writing and thinking about Edith Wharton, Nancy Cunard, modernism, decadence, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, cosmopolitanism, & other people and things like that.
@leannalostoskiho.bsky.social
Recent English Ph.D. graduate in modernist literature now navigating being an independent scholar. Often found reading Woolf or ecocriticism, very slowly.
@barthesstudies.bsky.social
An open-access, independent, peer-reviewed journal for research in English on the work of Roland Barthes. The journal doesn’t have personal pronouns but the person posting here does: he/him. https://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes
@websterij.bsky.social
PhDing in Exeter: Modernism and the making of macroeconomics. Having spent years doing less interesting stuff.
@atpost45.bsky.social
Always open-access, Contemporaries publishes curated conversations and critiques in the form of clusters—groups of essays centering around specific themes, topics, and discourses.