diff --git a/R/hugo.R b/R/hugo.R
index f4e1c51e..41ad2b24 100644
--- a/R/hugo.R
+++ b/R/hugo.R
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ install_theme = function(
     branch = sub('^@', '', gsub(r, '\\2', theme))
     theme = gsub(r, '\\1', theme)
     # the hugo-academic theme has moved
-    if (theme == 'gcushen/hugo-academic') theme = 'wowchemy/starter-hugo-academic'
+    if (theme == 'gcushen/hugo-academic') theme = 'HugoBlox/theme-academic-cv'
     if (branch == '') branch = 'HEAD'
   }
 
diff --git a/tests/test-ci/test-themes.R b/tests/test-ci/test-themes.R
index b3d1984e..ce66d0e1 100644
--- a/tests/test-ci/test-themes.R
+++ b/tests/test-ci/test-themes.R
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ test_site = function(theme) {
 assert('new_site() and build_site() work with selected themes', {
   themes = c(
     'hugo-apero/hugo-apero',
-    sprintf('wowchemy/starter-hugo-%s', c('online-course', 'research-group')),
+    sprintf('HugoBlox/theme-%s', c('online-course', 'research-group')),
     sprintf('yihui/hugo-%s', c('lithium', 'prose', 'xmag', 'xmin', 'ivy', 'paged'))
   )
   status = !sapply(themes, test_site)