Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures @mediumaevum.bsky.social The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures supports and promotes research into the cultures and intellectual life of the Middle Ages.
Madeline Sayet @madelinesayet.bsky.social Director/Writer; Where We Belong avail from @methuendrama
Andrew Siañez-De La O @mexicancryptid.bsky.social Writer-Designer @ ZeniMax Online Studios | Award-winning Stage and Audio Dramatist | Fighting every day to put dinosaurs in Elder Scrolls
Accursed opinions are my own.
They/He, Mex-American 🇲🇽
Florian Wieser @florianwieser95.bsky.social history PhD grad and Honorary Fellow University of Edinburgh, c16&17 colonial, queer, global history - opinionated, gay, and nerdy --- 🇪🇺🏳️🌈📖
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/FlorianWieser
https://empirespastdotblog.wordpress.com/
Books On Call NYC @booksoncallnyc.bsky.social We are a mobile bookselling service that handles book sales at author events/signings in New York City.
New York Times, Gannett, and ABA reporting bookstore.
We also offer Group, Bulk, and B2B Sales. booksoncallnyc@gmail.com
Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
DARIAH-IS/CDHA | Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts @mshl-cdha.bsky.social The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts (Miðstöð stafrænna hugvísinda og lista) promotes the development of and access to infrastructure in #DH.
DARIAH-IS/CDHA - The DARIAH National Coordinating Institution for Iceland
linktr.ee/mshl_cdha
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social Literature prof | currently writing on: medieval plant grafting; worm reproduction | they/them | science before 1700, book history, sci fi, whale facts 🐋
🌐 aylinmalcolm.com 📍Toronto
Jim Marino @jamesjmarino.bsky.social early modernist, Shakespeare nerd, moonlighting fiction writer
living the good life in Cleveland
Mary Catherine O'Connor @marycoconnor.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Old Norse at Balliol College, University of Oxford | Arthuriana | romance | translations
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
⭐️ For book updates & UK OFFERS join the Yale in London newsletter: bit.ly/YaleBookNews ⭐️
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025)
She/her
Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher
LeVar Burton’s Teaching Assistant @readingrainbowz.bsky.social Former arts & culture journalist and magazine editor | PhD candidate | 20th & 21st century Black queer lit and visual media practices. 🌈📚🎞️🎥
📸shikeith
Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Danièle Cybulskie @5minmedievalist.bsky.social Author of Chivalry and Courtesy, How to Live Like a Monk, and Life in Medieval Europe. Creator and host of The Medieval Podcast. Professional nerd. she/her.
danielecybulskie.com
http://ko-fi.com/5MinMedievalist
Micah Goodrich, All Trans On Deck @micahgoodrich.bsky.social Shrieks when pulled from earth. Transsexual. Premodern trans studies. English Prof at Boston University
James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social early modern historian, following civet cats and other species - humans included - through time and space, animal resources, racialization of hair, multispecies history / assistant professor , University of Lucerne
Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (just done: #MoonMad); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Society for the Study of the Past @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social The Society for the Study of the Past is a new subject organisation that believes solidarity with the oppressed, liberation of the occupied and a more just future are core concerns of the historian. 🍉 Join us! ⬇️
societyforthestudyofthepast.com
Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social Medievalist and Comics Historian
PhD Candidate working on an intertextual analysis of monster encounters with dragons, dwarfs, and the undead in Old Norse fantastical sagas at the University of Leeds
Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social Advisor and Lecturer @ UVA
Working on early Christianity, slavery, & Roman Palestine
Cat dad | Minnesotan | 🏳️🌈 | http://chancebonar.com
Books: bit.ly/3R8LXbo + bit.ly/4iMBSwy + bit.ly/4dBmCSk
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social Hello from Medievalists.net, the leading online resource for the Middle Ages - check out our website at www.medievalists.net
Dr. Emily Zarka @dremilyzarka.bsky.social Writer/host/producer for PBS 'Monstrum.' Monster expert. PhD British Romanticism & Gothic literature. Faculty at Arizona State University. 
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social author 🏳️🌈 | race & regency scholar | fiction editor @mentmagazine.bsky.social | lillyluwrites.com | rep: @palindrometodd.bsky.social | she/they
David Bullivant @bradford-lad.bsky.social Aficionado of medieval history and Middle English prose and verse but not adverse to poking around in Paleozoic rock formations.
Data Warehouse Architect. Proud UCLA & UC Davis dad. Born & raised in Bradford, Yorkshire.
Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚
MUTING THOSE WHO DON’T ALT-TEXT
nicolagriffith.com
Banner ID: B&W image—pint of Guinness flanked by 2 books flanked by 2 tabby cat
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Dr. Carly Maris @vintagehistorian.bsky.social Assistant Professor of World History at Wilmington College, researching ancient women in Rome, fashion, and empires
Also known as Vintagehistorian
Alice Heggie @aheggie.bsky.social Creative Education | Cultural Capital | Social Mobility | Access to the Arts
PhD student at the University of Dundee. Day job in College-Based HE leadership. Other interests: cats and hedgehogs.
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social Professor of English at Rhode Island College (views my own). I’m a nerd for medieval things, biblical apocrypha, Star Wars, LotR, & Magic (TCG). He/him.
“Read some fucking apocrypha.”
https://linktr.ee/brandonwhawk
Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
Neil Tarrant @neiltarrant.bsky.social Historian of early modern science, medicine and magic. Author of Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science (UCP, 2022).
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused; loud laugh. Never knowingly underdressed. Newish book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)
Danielle Fosler-Lussier @dfosler.bsky.social Director, Imagined Futures initiative at Ohio State, for grad students finding rewarding careers in many lines of work. Musicology, global history, diplomatic history, women's history. She/her. Opinions my own. Repost ≠ endorsement.
David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
Podcast: https://milkweed.org/between-the-covers
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
Pernille Strande-Sørensen @spstrande.bsky.social 18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Folklore, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts. MS.
Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon.online
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Daphne Tarabiscoté*e ("independent researcher" era) @freihanddenker.bsky.social PhD on Metaethics. Virtues, Moral Phenomenology, The Good Life. Currently unemployed. GER/ENG They/She | Dey/Sie 🪻🖤 🏳️⚧️
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Historian Around Town @kellyms.bsky.social Everything I know about pop culture is 350 years out of date. She/her
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Amanda Madden @amandamadden.bsky.social Asst Prof of History/affiliate fac @chnm and GMU. Author of Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy (Cornell UP, 2025). Co-PI of Mapping Violence in EM Italy and La Sfera. Rock climber, heavy metal enthusiast, KPop fan
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Megan Cassidy-Welch @megancw.bsky.social Medievalist, historian, writer. Working on ideas of home and homelessness in premodern societies.
Dean of Research Strategy, University of Divinity
President of the Religious History Association
FAHA, FRHistS
Wendy Dossett @wedossett.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Chester. Addiction Recovery Spirituality, Buddhism, Religious Education/Religion & Worldviews. Poetry, Cymru, Kingfishers, Corncrakes, Curlew, Coastguarding. She/her. www.wedossett.com
Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social
Performance historian, disability historian.
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024)
30% off with code NYUP30
https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/
https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social Printer-Scholar, Bibliographer, & Librarian | Trans* Histories of the Book in 19C America | Owner of @meanwhilelttrpress | he/him | Opinions my own.
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
irinadumitrescu.com
Leila K Norako @profmaleficent.bsky.social Medievalist. Mom. Harpy. Five hissing possums in a trenchcoat. Author of “rewarding but frustrating” scholarship ;)
Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/
🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."
Ruth Nisse @rnisse.bsky.social Medievalist at Wesleyan U. Book Jacob's Shipwreck. Year-round beach enthusiast.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social anarchafeminist archaeologist PhD Michigan, Prof. Emer. Portland State (((she/elle))) Fuck ICE. Articles and (award-winning!) books at http://linktr.ee/karen.eva.carr. Coming soon: a history of gender and money, and a new take on ancient slavery.
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
annaeclark.com
Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social Director of the Undergraduate Research Center—Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences @ UCLA. Dog Lady. My book Avidly Reads Poetry is out from NYU Press! She/her.
www.jacquelynardam.com
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Dr. Martha Johnson-Olin @peronelle.bsky.social Medievalist/composition prof, fairy tales and sci-fi (She/her) Editor of The Cinderella Bibliography https://d.lib.rochester.edu/cinderella. Also M. Weigel. All views mine. 
snackowski @snackowska.bsky.social environmental humanities, urban / spatial studies, American studies, post-1945 literature. president of an imaginary Raymond Williams Fan Club
Dr. Rebekah Greene @drrcgreene.bsky.social Things I like: #Victorian Studies, Adventure, #Scottish Studies, Material Culture,Technical Writing, #Classic Film. Trivia. Cute Pets.
David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social Historian of the Reformation, early modern world, social movements, uprisings. Helped create the permanent exhibition at Holocaust Museum in DC, ages ago. Union activist. Amateur cook and photographer. Opinions are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. 💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🚫👑🚫🧊🚫🥭
Catherine Heiner @cateheiner.bsky.social Theatre scholar, dramaturg.
Agent of chaos and manager of expectations.
Opinions are my own.
Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social Academic librarian, velocireader, cat parent, increasingly pagan.
Anthony Bale FBA @realmandeville.bsky.social Medievalist & wanderer. 🏳️🌈 Travel, literature, history, cats.
📖’A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ - ‘stunning’ (The Times)
University of Cambridge; Girton College Cambridge; London. Views mine
https://linktr.ee/realmandeville
Brooke Thomas-Hollahan @medievalappalachia.bsky.social PhD Candidate in medieval literature at CUNY Grad Center | writing a dissertation on medieval romance, game studies, and premodern race
She/her
🌺 Okinawan/Ryukyuan diaspora
✨Professional Yapper
👩🏫 Dork Academia
Dr. Jenny-2026 version @jennyflyrocks.bsky.social Boo! (she/her) medievalist, Old and Middle English LITERATURE, medieval medicine; job seeker; educator; I love LONGFORM fiction: Beowulf, SGGK, Borgen, Supernatural (Destiel), Foundation; HATE FREE ZONE, unless you hate the patriarchy: I support that!
Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social Medievalist. Early Modernist. Fan Scholar. Shakespearean. Interests: queenship, popular history, medievalism, fandoms, then&now
Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social I'm an education-focussed academic & Head of School, Culture & Communication, at the Uni of Melbourne. Talk to me about decolonising education, inclusive pedagogy, workload models, process mapping, and management as praxis. Views mine not my employer's.
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles, helped start #DHmakes. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social Writing and teaching about C19 literature, empire, race, and climate collapse. Editor of Victorian Poetry (JHUP). Lover of all things goth. She / her.
Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social • Research Coordinator at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Musicologist & book historian
• MSCA Alumna
• Opinions mine
• She/her
Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social Librarian, literature geek, knitter, opera fan, book history person. Writing a book about commonplace books and poetry readers. Opinions here are my own. She/her/hers. Queer and furious. 🏳️🌈
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. Views mine, history for all.
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Amanda French @amandafrench.net PhD in English Lit. Villanelle = poetic form, not serial killer. Currently @ror.org at @crossref.bsky.social. Formerly COVID Tracking Project and THATCamp. Views my own. Folk, Americana, roots, oldtime, bluegrass. https://amandafrench.net
Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com Freelance art and architectural historian with focus on English medieval churches but love poking around all buildings. ALL BUILDINGS!
www.stainedglassattitudes.com
https://ko-fi.com/stainedglassattitudes
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
CatsAndDragons @catsanddragons.bsky.social Cats, dogs, books, faeries, dragons. Cool Ranch Doritos and the BVM
Also teach medieval and other kooky literature to students who don’t know yet how much they will love it. #teamgrendel
Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social Slips between medieval York & the Pacific NW without warning. Writer. Owen Archer & Kate Clifford mysteries. Rep'd by @JVNLA Owned by The Maggie. Talks to trees. Reveres crows & owls. Matriarchy now. Seattle Insight she/her www.candacerobbbooks.com
Timothy Hyde @hydetimothy.bsky.social Historian of architecture, urbanism, modernity / MIT / Author of Ugliness & Judgment / research: architecture & law, building sites, ugliness, Antarctica
johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
TannerRitchie Publishing 🍁 @tannerritchie.bsky.social Publisher of Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) and Scotland's History Online (SHO). Distributor of Scottish Record Society & the Red Book of Scotland (RBS). Designers of MEMSO Shell, custom software for researchers.
www.tannerritchie.com
Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social Cat lover. Late antique / early medieval history / theology / archaeology, especially environment and climate in the past. PI of ERC Consolidator Grant @SSE1K@bsky.social at Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. Despair at the state of the world
Faith S. Harden @faith-harden.bsky.social early modern Iberia & beyond | author: Arms & Letters: Military Life Writing in Early Modern Spain (U Toronto Press) | amateur aerialist, circus enthusiast, poetry fan
Citizen Dundus @citizendundus.bsky.social
Top monkey. A companion to owls.
Mainly history, folklore, 📚. Catty with a chance of owls.
Patron Saint: Mathurin
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social Boston-area academic librarian. Cloud advocate. Fan of marine mammals.
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com