Research Fellow @ies-sas.bsky.social, Bougie London Literary Woman, cat concierge. Book on 18th-century women's letters forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. natashasimonova.com
Queer romcom author, snack connoisseur, Terry Pratchett enthusiast. Proudly trans and sheepishly neurotic. RECIPE FOR TROUBLE and FALL INTO YOU available now! Preorder SECOND HELPINGS, out this May: https://geni.us/1469-al-aut-ch
Open Book Collective
www.openbookcollective.org
Lancaster University
Coventry University
Researcher and writer in fan studies, media culture, digital media, music and gender, once personally insulted by Jordan Peterson.
Medievalist. Early Modernist. Fan Scholar. Shakespearean. Interests: queenship, popular history, medievalism, fandoms, then&now
Assistant Professor, LIM College |PhD Media Studies | Reviews Editor, Journal of Fan Studies | Comms, Transformative Works & Cultures | she/her
Senior Lecturer in Law. Researches LGBT media, pop culture and modern legal histories. Writer and CIC Director. ๐ฉท๐๐
Contingent Academic | #C19AmLit | @UCLA English PhD | rank-and-file @uconnaaup | she/her | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | I speak for myself | #unionstrong
Curator, fangirl, utter nerd. Assoc. Prof/Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at U of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Co-Editor Women in Book History Bibliography at womensbookhistory.org. Fan Studies, Tolkien Studies, SFF Studies. I just really love books ok
Classical Studies, UNAM | Digital Humanities | Admin of Desde Themyscira: desdethemysciraffyl.mx | Admin of EPN, UNAM: iifilologicas.unam.mx/pnovohispano | https://alejandragj.com/
Mathematician at Emerson College, Boston. Combinatorics with a hint of group theory. Brit living in Vermont. Board games. Maps. AVFC. Beginner bassist and even-more-beginner drummer. SciFi. Other stuff.
Professor, musicologist, bandoneonist, Montrealer, not the author of Bake, Bike, Bach
Tenured Teaching Staff @ Cyprus University of Technology. Researches Virtual Exchange & Technology Enhanced Language Learning.
Into Contemporary Literature, Digital Humanities & Fan Studies.
Postdoctoral Researcher, CoSTAR Foresight Lab, University of Edinburgh; views my own.
she/her
Please don't DM me - I can't access them anymore.
English PhD student ยท Victorian literature ๐๐ | Fan studies ๐๐๏ธ | Arctic humanities ๐โ๏ธ
information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Author and poet. NEA, Guggenheim, Fulbright Fellow. See paisleyrekdal.com
Assistant Professor of English @ Harvard. Medieval literature, queer theory, fan fiction & fan studies. She/her. Support trans rights.
http://www.drannawilson.com/
Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Professor, U of Utah. Biology, family, sports, food. Knitter, musician, aspiring weaver. SLC, via LA, the Bay Area, and Boston. Views are my own.
Associate prof of urban planning. Research on green space equity, green gentrification, climate adaptation, and health equity. Love SLC, my family, and the great outdoors. Opinions (good or bad) are my own ๐ฎ๐น๐บ๐ธ ๐ฉ๏ธ๐ rJgnW3igNgz7
Bryan William Jones
Neuroscientist
Vision Neuroscientist
Connectomics / VolumeEM
Photographer / #Leica
Professing at Pitt
In the data
bryanwjones.com
ORCID 0000-0001-5527-6643
Poet | Writer | Hybrid ๐
Sometimes NYC โข Salt Lake โข Songdo
Author of The Flightless Years and Trojans Horses: Voices from the Opioid Crisis
https://www.jlsmithwriter.com
๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ ๐
Literary historian. Poetโs daughter. MacArthur Fellow. Archives builder working collectively at @CCP_org and @DigBlk.
Obssesive reader, a sarcastic woman who loves music, art, wine and Monty Python, slightly unhinged when it comes to Twilight. Sorry.
Writer๐Baker๐ฉโ๐ณ candlestick maker๐ฏ๏ธ
Chaos Muppet. Rap Game Jo March. Loveable Curmudgeon. Educator. Yalie. Longhorn.
poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. Swiftie. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-burt/taylors-version/9781541606234/?lens=basic-books
poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
๐จโ๐Professor, ๐author of 100 books on drwho๐ซstarwarsโจoutlander #sfwa๐ #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXJSF/Jewish-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy
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://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
A book prize celebrating writing by women translated into English. Winner announced 27th November 2025. From SCAPVC at the University of Warwick. Posts by Holly Langstaff.
Asst prof at U Illinois working on contemporary global South literature, environmental humanities, imagined states, lit and politics, utopia, apocalypse, genre, infrastructure
History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own.
asheeshks.org/
English Professor 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. Viewpoints my own and not my employerโs.
Professor of English Literature at UGent | Memory & trauma studies, ecocriticism & environmental humanities, postcolonial & decolonial theory | How stories help us live with loss & imagine better futures | Born at 335 ppm | He/him/his | www.stefcraps.com
Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies @UCL | Environmental Humanities | Utopia | Apocalypse | Anthropocene Studies | World Literature
Lecturer in World Literature (including Australian Literature) at The University of Melbourne; Honorary Associate at The University of Sydney. Views mine.
McCausland Fellow and Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina. Views my own.
Comp Lit and English Prof. Baltimore. ๐โ๏ธ๐๐ฑ๐ค๐. *Speaking only for myself*
Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.
website is medievalkarl.com
Law Prof QUB| Tyranny & Global Legal Order | Utopia | International Law | Feminism | Feminist Constitutionalism | Brexit & Northern Ireland | History | Law & Humanities | Cork & Belfast & Ireland | She/Her Sรญ/รญ
Senior Lecturer
Research: feminist global constitutionalism - democracy, constituent power, utopias & manifestos. (she/her)
Libraries and digital literacies scholar as well as popular romance fiction. PhD teaching @ UTS.
Walking, talking, storytelling and shallowreading. I sometimes forget the shallow part.
shallowreader.com
she/her. disabled, autistic/adhd & queer. PhD @ university of kent, researching embodied Madness in interactive media through a Mad and crip lens. twitch affiliate & occasional nerd musician. recklessenough.com
aka rebecca milton
Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking based at @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. @blackarchive.co.uk author. She/her.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
Political scientist @Leiden University
European politics, institutions, Central and Eastern Europe, democracy, authoritarianism, governance, EU enlargement, public administration reform
fandom acct (marvel, 9-1-1), chicklette damn near everywhere
artist + writer + creative troublemaker
SuzuCreative.com
Films, Fanfiction, Funk & Fangirling. ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐
Daredevil Romance Author since 2008 I love cats, slap mean clowns, donโt trust mannequins. I write. Mom. Wife to a guy https://linktr.ee/debra_anastasia
Amanda the Coward! The artist formerly known as a dancing Ron Swanson gif. Here for pirates ๐ดโโ ๐ Tender as hell! ๐ฉท๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐งถ๐ฆ | Trans rights are human rights. | She/her | 40s
There's no stopping my squeeeee.
Current fandom: MDZS. Always fandom: Merlin.
She/her
writer. fan. historian. lefty. wrangler of beasts. she/her
She/her. Mom, yarn crafter, cat wrangler, librarian. Still reading way too much Teen Wolf fanfic.
Artist, writer, reader.
I like perfume and cats and cake.
FF addict, legal professional, amateur author, mother, sarcastic, smartass... If you take life or yourself too seriously, move along...
Mom of many, gardener, bread baker, reader, I make stuff
she/her/hers
Setting everything on fire with my incandescent rage at [gestures broadly at everything]
Contemporary and historical romance/ political ranting and pop culture/ costumes and cute animals. Brooklyn, NY. she/her
https://www.amandaweavernovels.com/
Just a South Bronx HS dropout who decided to write books.
BA @Columbia.
MFA @Vanderbilt.
Ph.D student @UniofCincinnati
Read my work: https://www.jesilfa.com/projects
algonquinrt/D0t Park3r
writer. editor. occasional baker. former reviewer.
clown for jesus turned rabid queer pinko commie.
she/her
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Writer of top class shenanigans. Occasional burlesque performer. Frequently exasperated. Might be twenty cats in a people suit. ScarlettStorm on Ao3. She/her
Executive Director of the MLA. Book reader. Bike rider. Please renew your membership! www.mla.org/Membership/About-Membership
Curate at Christ & St Stephen's (Upper West Side, NYC). Formerly of @fansplaining.bsky.social. They/them ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ.
Academic looking at pop culture, gender, fans, and monsters. They/them. Sometimes I make stuff. Frequently fannish. Retweets & likes =/= endorsements.
Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her ๐
Montreal en/fr ๐จ๐ฆ
gretchenmcculloch.com
Assistant Prof at ASU. Research/Teach: Media studies, digital culture, and female desire in pop-media. (She/Her.)
she/her | just another poet with a cat | teaches film and creative writing | studies danmei/dangai and fanfiction | masterless ronin, island dweller, matcha enjoyer, winter sparrow | we must hurry if we are going to dance | http://jsalowe.com
English & theatre & film & fandom. Fair use advocate. In the process of building something new.
Professor at UMBC (USA). Applied linguist | teacher educator |runner | fan. Researching fan practices for language learning in the digital wilds and the L2 classroom, virtual exchange, & computer-assisted language learning. She/her
Associate Professor, UCF T&T and English. Opinions mine. Bringing Foucault to fandom since 2006.
Writer. Prof. Lover of Music and Film. ๐ญ๐น๐ซ๐ท๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๏ธViews expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Professor and Chair of University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU ๐. ฮฮฃฮ โค๏ธ. OES โญ๏ธ. August โ๏ธ. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Associate Prof, University of Colorado; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Currently writing the official history of public media in the US
Researcher of fandom studies, fanfiction, computational literary studies and literary reception. Currently a PhD candidate at Radboud University. Views are my own.
๐ธ๏ธMedia studies scholar
๐ธ๏ธFan studies, cosplay, games & tech
๐ธ๏ธPassionate senior lecturer at HU Utrecht
๐ธ๏ธGamer, fan artist & Trekker ๐
https://linktr.ee/nicollelamerichs
Prof in English of the Long Nineteenth Century, Cape Breton University
Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead at University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism โข Theme Parks โข Disney โข Participatory Cultures โข Media Endings
๐งโโ๏ธ she/her
๐ป https://linktr.ee/drrebeccawilliams
Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
Fan, celebrity & cultural studies academic. Senior lecturer in media & cultural studies @ NUS, Singapore. Intermixing posts on shows I'm watching, fandoms, politics, academia & work. Opinions strictly my own.
Corset scholar; bioanth PhD; chaotic neutral--harlequin aspect; bibliophile; tattooed; advocate 4 the dead; cyborg/transhuman/robot lover; bad example 4 hire.
amazon.com/author/rebeccagibsonbioanthro
Research Associate/lecturer at Cardiff Uni School of Journalism, Media and Culture; honorary research fellow at Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales; @fanstudies.bsky.social. Writes about fandom, cult TV, true crime, tattoos, cancel culture and other fun stuff.
RPs are sometimes bookmarks for myself
Assistant Professor at Texas A&M Commerce. Children's lit and media scholar. Lover of Disney, animation, adaptation, musicals, and fairy tales.
Queer, trans, purveyor of werewolfy things // PhD candidate, medieval lit // Muldumarec's number one fan // they/them // ๐ โ ๐
Writing about digital communities, books, and fandom. Editor of Fansplaining & co-curator of The Rec Center โจ
elizabethminkel.com // fansplaining.com // https://buttondown.email/the-rec-center
she/her
Gen X
Boonwurrung country, Australia
AI hater
I just think #WangYibo'sFace
fic recs: https://bsky.app/profile/yesmissjane.bsky.social/post/3kmr7ncomxi2s
Interdisciplinary, independent and open access journal focused on all forms of audience research and reception studies.
NEW ISSUE: November 2025: https://www.participations.org
Professor of medieval studies. Leverhulme major research fellow. Norman history and landscapes. Occasional gardening, knitting, cricket and Anglicanism https://normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/ ๐โฑ๏ธ๐
Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.
Translation Studies researcher. PhD project explores the influence of fan culture on professional manga and anime translation (specifically, Sailor Moon!).
Also JA-EN translator.
Really an advocate for all things naff.
ๆฅๆฌ่ชOK!
19C British literature; seriality; transmedia; popular culture; fictionality.
Assoc. Prof of English. Author of Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century, Palgrave 2022. Views are my own, not my employer's.
I research rhetoric, the internet, and fandom. Associate Professor at Xavier University. PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. BA from Creighton University.
Rachel. Palestinian-American. She/Her. Feminist. 2nd Year PhD student in Media Studies. Shoujo fan. Teacher. CR: Nodame Cantabile https://anilist.co/user/shoujoscholar/
Reporting, analysis, criticism, and moreโall by, for, and about fandom. Weekly publication relaunching this spring!
(Plus 9 years as a podcast: 250+ eps in our back catalog!)
fansplaining.com // patreon.com/fansplaining // https://ko-fi.com/fansplaining
