Jessica O’Toole @jessicaotoole.bsky.social Graduate teaching assistant in English Literature at North Carolina State University. 19th century British lit, women in the periodical press, dachshund enthusiast.
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction @novelforum.bsky.social A literary studies journal focusing on the theory and history of the novel. Published by Duke University Press. All submissions to novel_forum@brown.edu
Dickens Notes @dickensnotes.bsky.social online scholarly edition of Dickens's Working Notes dickensnotes.org
NEH supported (2026-27) | directed by: @annagk.bsky.social & @adamgrener.bsky.social
@erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University. Literary translator. Here for all things academia, football, and Maghrebi lit. Personal account/opinions my own, etc.
NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social Unit of AFGE Local 3403 representing staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Local 3403 represents federal workers supporting art, research, and culture across the United States and territories. 
Justin Tackett @justin-tackett.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University
justintackett.org
The Dickens Fellowship @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social Founded in London in 1902, The Dickens Fellowship is a worldwide association of people who share an interest in the life and works of the novelist, journalist and social reformist Charles Dickens (1812-1870). 
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social A national coalition from all ranks of higher education workers across the country organizing to guarantee higher education for all. 
NEH Office of Digital Humanities @neh-odh.bsky.social Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Funding experimentation with technology in the humanities. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
Bryan Gilmer @bryangilmer.bsky.social Hiker. Tool and car guy. Former reporter. Believer that there's enough for everybody if we share. Opinions posted on this account are mine personally and do not represent organizations I'm affiliated with.
@kcarlsoneastvold.bsky.social @kcarlsoneastvold.bsky.social 
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
@ashhammell.bsky.social @ashhammell.bsky.social 
@thebramily.bsky.social @thebramily.bsky.social 
National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social A federal agency, National Endowment for the Humanities supports research, preservation, public programs, and education in the humanities. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social Aftermaths: https://navsa.georgetown.edu/
#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social here because formerly-twitter is trash. and still, just like a magazine, i got issues. artsy. writersy. professory.
S. Swogger @greenegret.bsky.social (she/her), librarian, occasional quilter, parent, cat lover. Writer of bland social media bios
Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social New book: Wild for Austen (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).
Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social Teaches at Duke University, sometimes works for Norway's National Library, writes for various magazines.
@kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social Professor, Dept. of English, Michigan State University. Aestheticism, Decadence, modernism. Editor, with Kate Hext and Alex Murray, of Cusp: Late 19th-/ Early 20th-Century Cultures.
Kyle McAuley @kylemcauley.bsky.social Oceans guy. ACLS fellow. Fan of the SF Giants and the G train. Opinions mine.
https://www.acls.org/fellow-grantees/kyle-mcauley/
Monique Morgan @moniquemorgan.bsky.social Nineteenth-century British literature, science fiction, narrative theory, poetics, literature and science
Danielle St Hilaire @docsthilaire.bsky.social Hockey fan, early modernist, neophyte metal head, sighthound enthusiast. Not necessarily in that order. She/her.
If you ask me for feedback, it will always be 100% from me: I will never use AI to read your work nor to provide feedback.
Abby Clayton @abbyclayton.bsky.social Visiting Asst Professor @ W&J College
transatlantic 19C media + nationalisms
explorer at heart
Yi-Chen Andrea Lay @yi-chenlay.bsky.social English PhD Candidate and Victorianist @ Indiana University Bloomington
Managing Editor @victstudies.bsky.social
Amber Bowes @arbowes.bsky.social PhD candidate at Indiana University studying British literature and book history of the long 19C 📚🦇
book review editor @victstudies.bsky.social
reference assistant at Bloomington IN's Lilly Library
Ashley Farris Trimble @afarrist.bsky.social Phonologist at Simon Fraser University. Expat. I like to read things and sing along (badly) with the all the lyrics.
Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social Publisher, Executive Editor, and Senior Lecturer at a TX uni working on 19C British poetry, gender and sexuality, history of science, empire. Sometime watercolorist, 3 cat familiars, 3 sons. Views my own.
Cat Warren @cat-warren.bsky.social North Carolina politics and organizing, science writing, good journalism -- and all dogs good and bad. Author of NYT bestseller What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World and its young readers' version
Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social https://www.renata-keller.com/
Assoc Prof of Latin American History, UNR. Author of *The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War* and *Mexico’s Cold War*. Co-editor of InterConnections book series at UNC.
@akz77.bsky.social @akz77.bsky.social 
voiceofthebanshee.bsky.social @glorbeansidhe.bsky.social Science is real! Also, cats.
Leigh McKagen @emckagen.bsky.social PhD + theorizing empire, narrative, science fiction, and Star Trek + I also crochet, bake, and spend time in the forest with my kids +
I'm mostly here for cat pictures + she/her
Bess Vlaisavljevich @bessvlai.bsky.social #CompChem #Radiochem at the University of Iowa. Loves cats and avoiding the news. UMN Alum. Former Air National Guard member. 
Jenni Lieberman @thenjennishared.bsky.social Here goes nothing!
Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology @ Oxford Brookes University, UK // Research on cognitive & evolutionary science of religious, secular, political, conspiracy belief & imagination. #COVIDisNotOver
Professor Carbie she/her @profcarbie.bsky.social Teacher educator, social studies enthusiast, ally, co-conspirator, mom, knitter/crocheter.
Summer Pennell (she/her) @summerpennell.bsky.social Queer & critical education researcher; cross stitch fanatic; member of the MotherScholar Collective; blogger at Vermont Moms. Find my cross stitch patterns on Etsy https://gayborhoodstitches.etsy.com
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Mike Tondre ❌👑 @mltondre.bsky.social English Prof. Oil (Bloomsbury, Object Lessons series), Oil! (Penguin), The Physics of Possibility (U of Virginia)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/oil-9781501386626/
Richard Palmer @rd-palmer.bsky.social Tech Lead in Digital Media at the V&A, but not speaking for them. Waiting for the return of Usenet but until then testing out all the social media platforms to find the least worst.
Frankie G. @frankiefurter.bsky.social Birdbrain at Te Herenga Waka @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social
Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social I study 19th c periodicals (fr India & Britain), print culture, illustrations, British colonialism, book history. Always on the lookout for woodcuts, lithographs, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides. 
Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social Professor, Dickensian, reader, gardener, servant of cats. Opinions expressed here are solely my own and invariably correct.
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Sumita Chakraborty @notsumatra.bsky.social www.sumitachakraborty.com • poet, scholar, general doer of things with words, faculty at the University of Virginia • wherever I am, I'm not Sumatra • opinions mine, including that nobody’s free until everybody’s free
Dr Anne-Florence Quaireau @afquaireau.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in British literature and translation. Travel writing / women’s writing / 18th and 19th centuries / environmental literature / history of motherhood and childhood
@univAngers
Sarah Mead Leonard @smeadleonard.bsky.social Associate Director of Fellowships and Academic Programs, Newberry Library (all views my own). PhD. Victorian Art History, #MaterialCulture, #HistoricLandscapes, those kinds of things. Also @morris-on-screen.bsky.social
Katelyn E. Knox @katelynknox.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., c20&21 Francophone immigration literature and culture; author of Race on Display in 20th and 21st Century France and The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook. She/her. https://go.dissertationtobook.com
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
Skeuomorph Press & BookLab @skeuomorphpress.org An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social lit and media prof @WSU — science fiction, buddhism, william blake, science & tech studies, polyamory.
Jim Knowles @jimknowles.bsky.social Medievalist, dad, Man United fan, real ale preferred. NC State English. Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. Co-author with English Knowles (my sis) of Beer Hiking Virginia, North Carolina, & DC (Helvetiq 2025). 
Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social Executive Director of the MLA. Book reader. Bike rider. Please renew your membership! www.mla.org/Membership/About-Membership
profchander @profchander.bsky.social bad at most things- R @rachelgevlin.bsky.social @rachelgevlin.bsky.social
Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social Bringing a community of scholars committed to interdisciplinary research and innovative teaching about the Victorian period together since 1972.
Our journal is @victorianreview.bsky.social
Our website is https://vsawc.org
Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social A collector of things worth knowing and things not worth knowing. Independent IT consultant and software developer. Digital Humanities/UX/IIIF/Image Annotation/Open Source. https://rainersimon.io
IIIF Consortium @iiif.bsky.social International Image Interoperability Framework #iiif
www.iiif.io
Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen + Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Dr Barbara Franchi @barbarafranchi.bsky.social Contemporary literature scholar, feminist, wannabe eco-criticist. Career Development Fellow in Postcolonial and World Literatures at Durham University. she/her
Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social Researching modernism, queer networks, literature and silent cinema 📚🎞️ writing about the POOL group 🌊 teaching film and poetry. She/her.
Dr Bill Hughes (William the Bloody) @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Gothic fairies, vampires and paranormal romance; co-organiser Open Graves, Open Minds Project @ogomproject.bsky.social
https://hcommons.org/members/billhughes/
www.opengravesopenminds.com
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
RJ Boutelle @rjboutelle.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at University of Cincinnati. Author of The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny (UNC Press 2023). Stray Cat Whisperer. Slap Bet Commissioner.
Joshua Gooch @joshuagooch.bsky.social Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film (U Minnesota Press, 2025) https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917975/capitalism-hates-you/
Once interviewed Wesley Willis
he, him
views my own
Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social Lecturer in English Lit, focusing on Victorian poetry and the weirdness of subjective time.
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge (https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-richard-fallon). Author of "Contesting Earth's History", "Reimagining Dinosaurs", and more. Also, graptolites.
Victorian Poetry @victorianpoetry.bsky.social Victorian Poetry is a peer-reviewed quarterly dedicated to Victorian poets and poetries (broadly & experimentally construed). Edited by Devin Garofalo, UC San Diego (victorianpoetryjournal@gmail.com). Learn more: https://victorian-poetry.scholasticahq.com
Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social Literary detective & long 18th-centuryist. Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool.
Currently working on early modern whales
She/her
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/corrina-readioff#tabbed-content
https://18thcparatext.wordpress
Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social C19th literature. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelitism. Caregiving / Care. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website https://carerspoetry.org/ for poems by caregivers.
Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social Dr.Dr. (no, really!) Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social Lecturer in English: C19 US & Oz Lit, racial transformation, white supremacy, the speculative.
Melbourne. she/her
‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now!
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-liminal-whiteness-in-early-us-fiction.html
Charlotte Boyce @c19thceleb.bsky.social Associate Professor in Victorian Literature. Research interests: hunger & masculinity | food & consumption | history of celebrity. Co-I on ‘Young Women & Body Image’. Dog person. 🏴 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/charlotte-boyce
Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social Historian, and author specialising in true crime, Victorian and Edwardian detectives, and the history of forensic science. Also, linguist 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹. Rep: Past Preservers. http://drangelabuckley.com
Grace @gracefmarks.bsky.social she/her 🌹
PhD researcher looking at Friendships at a Distance, 19th Century.
Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Forever a member of @EHUNineteen
Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social Historian of US women & gender, race & citizenship in the GAPE. Currently working on a graphic history. 🖍️I’ve lived in all 4 continental time zones, but CA in the redwoods 🌲is home. 
Annmarie Valdes, PhD @avaldes725.bsky.social Education & Learning Design #HEAdmin at a land grant university. 1stGen BA-MA-PhD; #HigherEd; Historian of the 19thc #wmnhist #histed; DACA ally; #blacklivesmatter; Hecho en Chicago
Should be writing...
Teresa Mangum @teresamangum.bsky.social Emeritus Prof still cooking with gas on 19th-century studies, animal studies, age studies burners. Co-editor U Iowa Press Humanities and Public Life book series.
Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety, distant comms and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social Univ. HH.Am.Studies.The long 19th c;author of “Producing Mass Entertainment:The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid” (OSUP 2019).Eisner Award nominee.President of ComFor e.V. Gardening.she/her
https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/iaa/personen/meyer-christina.html
Ayesha Gaye @ayeshagaye.bsky.social PhD candidate at Durham University Department of English Studies, researching Representations of Black Identity in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Literature📚 | Victorianist🎩 | Occasional poet🖋️ | she/her ✨
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Sohini Chattopadhyay @popeyed.bsky.social Historian at Union college. In an avoidant attachment style relationship with writing.
Quintus Immisch di Padua @imqu.bsky.social Postdoc German and Comparative Literature, UCLouvain
PhD Universität Tübingen & Aix-Marseille Université
Sarah Handley-Cousins @sarahbelle721.bsky.social History prof in Buffalo | Civil War era, disability, medicine | Exec Editor, Nursing Clio | Prod, Dig: A History Podcast | she/her
Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social Habsburg historian, occasionally, some of the Successor States. Fan of Baroque architecture, cats, good coffee, wine, the Austrian Riviera, Kyoto, NYC, Paris, Prague, & Vienna. Diehard fan of the Oxford Comma. You should be, too.
Susie Steinbach @susielaurie.bsky.social Jewish, Minnesotan (via the Bronx), widow, historian (c19 Britain). Understanding the Victorians 3e now out!!
https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-the-Victorians-Politics-Culture-and-Society-in-Nineteenth-Century/Steinbach/p/book/9780367421021 
Emily Coit @emilycoit.bsky.social Book history & literary history of the long nineteenth century. Teaching at UChicago.