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Prof in Spanish American & Comparative Literature, Oxford; fin de siècle, Caribbean, ghosts, otters.
Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
Lecturer in Literature at the University of Essex.
Researcher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, Modernism/modernity. Modernism and media, especially the BBC; women's writing in war and crisis. Fuck ICE and all its works. Eat the rich. Protect your neighbors. 🍉
Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Professor, English, opinions own.
1930-50 Lit. & Public Opinion scholar; Roller derby athlete. Cats.
Chapter Pres., AUUP-AFT Wright State
Co-Pres., Space Between Society
Books: Psychographic Turn (OUP, 2021); Midcentury Women's Writing (MUP, 2024)
Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture, UCL. Proudly Cornish and quasi-Italian. Interested in the 1930s (1848-1950). Biographer of Celia Fremlin.
Teaches Drama at University of Birmingham. Scot. And unfeasibly tall.
Written about Beckett, UK theatre, popular music, Eno, Kraftwerk, Velvets, Talking Heads, and why gigs look the way they do.
Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
Junior Research Fellow in English. Magdalen College, Oxford. Book about Impressionist art and English poetry available for preorder: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/after-impressionism/B1C8107A1906B8906910F5D22BD3E387.
British modernism, Victorian literature, digital humanities, Anthropocene theory, Texas A&M. My specialty is turning play into work.
The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, and other books & journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Book nerd interested in utopia/dystopia, SF & modernism. Senior Lecturer in English Lit. Currently thinking about deserts (& usually also dessert) ✡️🌈He/him
Archives and cocktails. Mainly cocktails, to be honest.
Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow
Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures.
Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Seems important to add, son of a political refugee.
NWCDTP AHRC-funded PhD student at Keele University | Spatiality and Fitness in Modernist Literary Hotels | She/Her
Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
The Middlebrow Network focuses on research about the loaded and disreputable term 'middlebrow'. To join our mailing list, contact middlebrow@hotmail.co.uk.
middlebrownetwork.com
Professor of Modern Literature and Director of Research in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at UEA. Co-editor “‘The People‘ and British Literature” (CUP) out now. Writing “The Collective Voice” for Stanford UP. Literature & Politics.
Modernist & avant-garde visionary aesthetics | Writing PhD on Mina Loy & spirituality @eui-history.bsky.social Florence, Italy | Organiser Mapping Mina Loy Studies I Prev PG Rep @modernistudies.bsky.social
20th century literature & sound | SWW DTP funded PhD @bristoluni.bsky.social & @exeter.ac.uk | PG rep @modernistudies.bsky.social | Patrick Hamilton appreciation society
Lecturer in Modernism at University of Edinburgh | Author of 'The Modernist Anthropocene' and editor of 'Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene' | Judge of James Tait Black Prize in Fiction | Views here not necessarily those of my employer etc etc | He/him
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.
Mostly Egyptian
Reader | Writer | Editor
Space | Movement | Modernism
Secretary @bowensociety
Transnational modernist working on 'nothing', modernist readings of nihilism, and working-class food culture
Book Review Editor for The @spacebetween.bsky.social Journal.
We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Assistant Professor of British Literature at the University of Regensburg | New book on Louise Glück: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/about-suffering/442DE8B942EB7E546F41CE5470E947D0🪻
Cultural history, Britain, cities, sexuality & gender, #20s30s.
Now - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
Next - The Self-Improvers: The restless people who remade themselves and made the Pelman Age
Researching modernism, queer networks, literature and silent cinema 📚🎞️ writing about the POOL group 🌊 teaching film and poetry. She/her.
The official journal of the Modernist Studies Association.
Writes on the history & theory of the novel. Lecturer in Modern Literature at Leicester. Book: TROUBLING LATE MODERNISM (https://tinyurl.com/592f5me2).
Postdoc at Leeds University | T. S. Eliot | modern and contemporary poetry | Modernism | classical reception
https://wei-zhou.co.uk
Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University. Honorary Lecturer, UCL. Publications Director, Bookselling Research Network. London and the Modernist Bookshop (Cambridge UP, 2020). https://tinyurl.com/eub7wta5
Modernism, pregnancy, feminism, queer theory, cats. Assoc. Professor of WGSS at University of Kansas. Books: Masculine Pregnancies (SUNY 2023) and Conceived in Modernism (Bloomsbury 2016)
Society for Interwar Scholarship.
www.spacebetweensociety.com
Senior Publisher for Literary Studies, Digital Cultures and Medical/Health Humanities at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); non-canonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.
Associate Dean (I know...), professor, writer, trying to put my best love out into the world
Professor of Twentieth Century Literature, Nottingham Trent University. Modernism, periodicals, cricket.
Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
English Professor, Northeastern University
Professor of English at Idaho State University. Modernism, comics, popular forms. Author: The New Old Style (U Nebraska P, soon), Violent Minds (Cambridge UP). Co-Editor: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. You can call me Matt.
matthewlevay.com
Onetime English/radio prof, now policy guy. Media, fiction, Indigenous rights and reconciliation. Here for bad takes & worse jokes. Writing the Radio War, the Edinburgh Companion to Modernism & Technology, & DUBLINERS out now. www.ianwhittington.com
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
Independent scholar. Traveller. Bibliomaniac. Flâneur. List-maker. Interested in AI. Orwellian. Researching Orwell’s Anglo-Indian family. Recently received the Peter Davison Award for scholarship. https://www.darcymoore.net/
Wrote a book about G.K. Chesterton and literary modernism. Now working in uni admin, but still doing research - see pinned thread for info on my current project, 'Inscribing Pandemonium'. Also posting about music, culture, politics, random nonsense.
Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Literature academic and bookish person based around Edinburgh, Scotland, curiously crossing disciplinary boundaries in work and life 📚
Doctor of dystopian fiction, post-truth, and "endotexts" working behind the scenes in HE.
Co-host of @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social.
Former teacher - GCSE revision materials available at https://youtube.com/@dystopiajunkie
Assoc. Prof. at Paris Nanterre University, France. Modernist & contemporary lit. Author of "Between Worlds: Mina Loy's Aesthetic Itineraries (2022)." Board member SEM France & MSA.
PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
friendly neighbourhood Schopenhauerian
• part time Proustian • associate professor @philoswarwick.bsky.social
Owner of @LiteracyEngine.bsky.social
English Teacher | Teaching and Learning Geek | Visualiser Master Practitioner | Oracy for Learning | Lego Enthusiast
Literacyengine.co.uk
Lecturer in Lit and Environment at @bristoluni.bsky.social | Co-director @uobrisceh.bsky.social
Writing: Marine Attachments 🦀🐚🪼🐙
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Rachel-Murray-fc3d0780-8a1b-4a92-9676-5c862ea56faa/
Prof of Culture Stuff. Author of Island (Bloomsbury) & The Manifesto Handbook (Zero).
An independent publisher of innovative non-fiction.
www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
Lecturer in Literature @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Poetry | Environmental Humanities | Controlled Panic
New book TERROR FIRMA on horror + ecology for Fitzcarraldo
Tutor and Researcher in English Literature, University of Oxford.
PhD on Adorno and Anglophone Modernist Lit. Snoopy, Charli XCX and Kafka Stan.
lillianhingleydphil.wordpress.com
Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania. Modernism-adjacent; reformed all-caps user. Working on Evelyn Waugh for the rest of time? She/her.
Associate Professor of Literature & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
📚 Author of Laurence Sterne & the C18 Book (CUP, 2021)
📚 Co-editor of John Cleland’s Letters (CUP, 2024)
📚 Working on a global history of women in book production
Society dedicated to promoting knowledge of the art and literature of the protean modernist satirist, Wyndham Lewis
"We only want Tragedy if it can clench its side muscles like hands on its belly, and bring to the surface a laugh like a bomb." BLAST, 1914
Historian of musical instruments and Associate Professor at Northumbria University. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow 2024-28. Also on Instagram @RachaelDurkin. Views my own.
Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
Associate Professor of American Studies
Pynchon | Film & TV | Metal & Experimental Music | Genre & Franchise Culture | Political Violence | Star Wars
he/him
Views my own
Lecturer at RGU; Ethnograper and sociologist. I write and research on hauntings, ghosts, graveyards, the wilderness, and other sundry death things.
IRISH MODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL HEALTH (OUP); Leverhulme (University of Cambridge); Senior Postdoctoral Researcher (Trinity College, Cambridge); BAIS and BSLS Executive; Co-facilitator of 'Relatively Queer'; Co-host of 'Censored'; FRHistS.
Senior Lecturer English and American Lit @ Winchester Uni: Lit & Film, utopia/dystopia, apocalypse, terror. Co-host Utopian and Dystopian Fictions podcast. D&D. Dog pics. Views own. He/Him
Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian literature, and 19th century newspapers.
New book coming soon(ish)
Rep: Aevitas Creative UK
Associate Professor of English at UNSW | Modernism, novels, specialisation, media, bildungsroman &c | Chair Australasian Modernist Studies Network
Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
Professor of Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.org & @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
Oxford University, DPhil English | Modernism and Ecocriticism | she/her
Asst prof @northumbriauni.bsky.social contemporary culture | Essays New Humanist, The Week, Review31...| 📖 The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel @bloomsburylit.bsky.social; Sleep and Its Meanings @mitpress.bsky.social Spring '26 | dilettadecristofaro.com
Woolf Doctor | Turns squiggles into angle brackets | modernism, digital humanities, bad puns | he/him | would prefer not to
Professor, University of Bologna. Feminist. Looking for hope and utopia in dystopia
Joint Head of the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading & one half of Frances Wise.
https://linktr.ee/frances_wise_author
👩🏻🏫Tutoring English @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
✍️Co-writing book for @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Deputy @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Novelist, Playwright & Modernist Scholar | Author of "Wyndham Lewis, Modernism and The New Radical Right" (Logos Verlag Berlin, 2025)
https://www.logos-verlag.de/cgi-bin/buch?isbn=5971
Course leader and Senior Lecturer in English Literature. Victorian lit and culture, detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. New book: *Literary Illusions: Performance Magic and Victorian Literature* (Edinburgh UP, 2025).
Currently finishing "Reading with the New Frankfurt School." PSA: postcritique is not anti-critique. Corgi lover
Former Eng Lit academic. Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Fitzgerald, Robert Nye, but mainly Anthony Burgess, a fellow Mancunian.
robspence.org.uk shinynewbooks.co.uk
victorcrabbe on Insta
Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/rob611
Canadian, disaffected Catholic, PhD in Wyndham Lewis. @rightscholar on X. My Substack is called Agony: https://open.substack.com/pub/theagony/p/welcome-to-agony
Doctoral researcher & lecturer @LeipzigUniversity. Writing about Mina Loy's modernist metaphysics. Organiser of "Mapping Mina Loy" Symposium: https://loysymposium2023.wordpress.com
Visiting professor, book writer, book editor, book reviewer. A bookish life.
https://northampton.academia.edu/GerriKimber
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gerri-Kimber/e/B0034OTB4K/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1457789255&sr=1-2-ent
Honorary research fellow in English, University of Hull; interested in modernism, food and the environment. Author of “Food and Culture in the Works of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf” (OUP, 2024); also childhood, reading and play
Editorial Assistant at ASAP/Review / Contemporary Literature, Affect, Brexit / she/her 🏳️🌈
Contemporary Literature, Novels, Theory, Time, Readers, Reading, Sociology of Literature.
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
Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
Assoc Prof of English Lit and Deputy Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uni of Greenwich. All views my own
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.
Art Historian, PhD, HIIT enthusiast, liberal.
Academic in modernist literature & culture: Virginia Woolf, feminism, social class, dance & performance.
Senior Executive Member, Steering Committee, British Association for Modernist Studies.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne/home
Independent modernism scholar. I look at things, then I try to write about them.
Author & editor; FBA; FRSL; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London; editor of the letters of T. S. Eliot. Chocoholic.
Asst. Prof. @ Istanbul Bilgi University, English Language and Literature Department | Literature, Modernism, Virginia Woolf & and her Reception | Reception of the Byzantine Empire | Ottoman Modernisms
