AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social Hanlon’s Razor II: Never attribute to intelligence that which is adequately explained by cynicism or greed.
COYS
About: aaronrhanlon.com
Ellie Collins @elleccollins.bsky.social Literature Editor at OUP. Publishing and book enthusiast. Opinions are my own.
Jacob Romm @rommennoodle.bsky.social Ph.D student at Yale in early modern trans studies, also an occasional translator, Yiddishist, pie baker, letterpress printer (letterandspiritpress.org), and lawn mower. Managing editor of Chrysalis Magazine (chrysalismagazine.org).
Dr. Katharine Landers @katharinelanders.bsky.social Instructional Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University | Researching the politics of dress in 17th c. women's writing | she/her
Nicole Sheriko @nicolesheriko.bsky.social English prof and theater historian of Renaissance drama / puppet researcher / clown scholar / hellmouth aficionado / dragon enthusiast🐉
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Nicolas Guyard @nicolasguyard.bsky.social Early Modern History - Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry - ANR JCJC "Abbesses, Seigneuresses et Réformatrices"
Wendi Hays @trafficbabe.bsky.social Rocking your traffic world since '95! Catch me 5a-1p in the 901, 615 & 404 - Memphis Alum 🐯 Opinions are my own, and funny ♐- Proud GenXr - Cat Mom - Umpire Wife.
MemphisWeather.net @memphisweather.net The best in Memphis weather for 25 years! Curated by meteorologists EP (National Weather Association Digital Seal), RH & #TeamMWN. Official weather for the biggest events in Memphis. We specialize in blue skies!
Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
🖋️ Writing a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1584
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
She/her
Cover image aislingjelinski.com
Micah Goodrich, All Trans On Deck @micahgoodrich.bsky.social Shrieks when pulled from earth. Transsexual. Premodern trans studies. English Prof at Boston University
Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
Caroline Koegler @carolinekoegler.bsky.social Chair of English Lit / Global Literature and Its Media
@ Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
Empire/post/colonial/18C/19C/affect/queer & gender stds/maritime fictions/lit&Economics/book stds
Website: https://tinyurl.com/bddnpakt
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social Shakespearean, fight director, actor, dramaturge. Assistant professor of theatre University at Buffalo.
Sarah Linwick @sarahlinwick.bsky.social
Saraya Haddad @sarayahaddad.bsky.social Final year M4C funded PhD in Shakesqueer and magic 🌈🔮- Shakespeare Institute 📚
👩🏻🔬 Woman in STEM (Shakespeare, The Early Modern) 👩🏻🔬
🌈 📚 Queer theory. Queer lit. 📚🌈
(she/her)
Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
Lee Hansen @earleemoderner.bsky.social Precariously academic. Work on bringing together queer/crip studies and early modern literature and drama. Ovidian afterlives. Whippets may also feature in my posting activities. He/him/his. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Christine Sukic @christinesukic.bsky.social Professeur de littérature anglaise à l’université de Reims Champagne Ardenne/Professor of early modern English studies at university of Reims
Derek Mong @derekmong.bsky.social Poet, essayist, editor, & translator. Latest poetry collection: When the Earth Flies into the Sun. Cont. Ed. at Zocalo Public Square. Prof. of English at Wabash College. Married to the inimitable Anne O. Fisher.
Shakespeare Census @shakespearecensus.bsky.social Locating and describing all extant copies of Shakespeare before 1700
Shakespearecensus.org
Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/- K Kat Lecky @katlecky.bsky.social Endowed at Loyola Chicago; seventeenth-century cheap print publics and common medical / botanical knowledge, weeds, and acts of general naturalization. Book: Pocket Maps and Public Poetry (OUP 2019).
@paulbudra.bsky.social @paulbudra.bsky.social Shakespearean, amateur rock star, aspiring playwright, enthusiastic cook.
Multicultural Shakespeare @msunilodz.bsky.social Official BSky account of Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance journal published by the University of Lodz Press.
https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir
#MulticulturalShakespeare
Hamlet Machine @hamletmachine.bsky.social linktr.ee/hamletmachine
queer ⓥ 18+/adults only nsfw comic artist & illustrator
🔞 Sensitive themes, all CWs apply 💋
nightmarelandpress@gmail.com
Venmo: @HamletMachine
Kit Marlowe @kitmarlowe1564.co.uk Canterburie, Cambridge & Banckes Syde. Occasionall spye. Elizabethan plaiemaker & poet of scurrilitie. Muses' darlinge. Wit lent from heauen, but vices sent from hell.
Loue@FirstWebsite: https://kitmarlowe1564.co.uk/
Delilah Bermudez Brataas @delabe.bsky.social Professor of English Literature, specialising in Shakespeare, Cavendish, and early modern literature in adaptation in film, science fiction, fantasy, and graphic novels.
Dr Ollie Jones @oelj.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Theatre at School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York. Working out what I want to be when I grow up.
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Christina Torres Cawdery @biblio-phile.bsky.social Mom. English Teacher. Scholar. Writer for hire. Runner. Pursuing a PhD in English for reasons beyond my understanding. Currently studying Shakespeare, queer/ecocrit theory, & critical pedagogy. Probably talking about my kids.
Yan Brailowsky @yanbrailowsky.bsky.social Shakespeare, theatre, politics… early modern. Prof @ Nanterre - tweets my own
Bradley Ryner @bradleyryner.bsky.social Scholar of Shakespeare, early modern drama, rhetoric of economics, performance and, most broadly, how theater and literature help us to conceptualize social and economic systems.
This is a personal account, reflecting my own opinions.
ValerieMFazel @veefaz.bsky.social ASU Sr. Instructor Dept. of ENG/Faculty Barrett Honors. Digital Shax Appropriation & Shax fandom. Dog lovr, plant eatr, desert landscapr sci-fi film fan and fantasy novel reader. she/her/views mine. All the Internet is a stage and we are but players in it.
Hollow Crown Fans @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social Fan group for BBC Shakespeare series #TheHollowCrown starring Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch. Founded #ShakespeareSunday
Dr. Jami Rogers @publicradionerd.bsky.social Author of "British Black and Asian Shakespeareans: Integrating Shakespeare, 1966-2018"
LAMDA trained; former PBS and "Masterpiece Theatre"
PhD in Shakespeare.
Nuts about public radio.
Proud West Virginian.
Lots of theatre and LiverpoolFC
Clear Shakespeare @clearshakes.bsky.social Akiva Fox takes you through Shakespeare's plays, word by word. A read-along podcast for students, readers, and performers.
https://clearshakespeare.com/
Soulton Hall @soultonhall.bsky.social House of Shakespeare's Old Sir Rowland, built in renaissance code. Historic manor - venue, centre for theatre & the arts. Hidden in Shropshire, revealed on our website www.soultonhall.co.uk
Jon Foster @jonfoster.bsky.social Spend my days reading Shakespeare and C19th literature, theatre-going and watching cricket (Middlesex CCC).
Dr Andrea Smith @audioandrea.bsky.social Shakespeare, drama, radio. Often all at the same time. Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at University of Suffolk. Formerly BBC producer. My views.
https://linktr.ee/audioandrea
Shakespeare fan Colin David Reese @colindavid.bsky.social Actor, director writer.
Author and performer of "Shakespeare Unbound - a gift to the future"
John Hemminges finds himself in a Zoom meeting and tells the story of what it was like to be friend and partner to the greatest playwright of all time.
Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.
Bryn Boice @brynboice.bsky.social Boston-based theatre director, Assoc. Artistic Director @commshakes, Wife, and Bulldog mom! Podcast ‘The ShakesDown’ available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc. — brynboice.com
Dr Chris Higgins @drchrishiggins.bsky.social Head of History; Kent History Teacher of the Year; PhD (Birkbeck, London); research interests, early modern female mobility & Countess of Arundel
‘Wide Wandring Weemen’ database: https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/
Will Rossiter @satyrane.bsky.social Professor at UEA. Medievalist, Early Modernist, Italianist. Views are very much not those of my employer, by some measure. Inglese italianato.
Jan Blonski @janblo.bsky.social Historian. I summon the spirits from #earlymodern taverns
PhD in history (European University Institute)
https://pan-pl.academia.edu/JanBlonski
#NaborowskiLetters Project
Izzy Goodman @izzlib.bsky.social 💼 Head of Collections at Gladstone’s Library. 📚 Rare books, libraries, Medieval French and women’s history fan 🧁 frequent baker, crocheter, and theatregoer. Views my own.
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social Celebrating women artists, past & present. Visit http://artherstory.net! Instagram, artherstorynotes. Online store at https://artherstory.net/shop/
Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social Leiden University, Professor of Chinese History 🐌 🇳🇱 🇨🇳🇩🇰
Joint PhD in History & Women’s Studies (Univ of Michigan)
Premodernist, 14-18th century political culture, gender, family, bureaucracy, religion, etc.
Natalie Grueninger @onthetudortrail.bsky.social Author & podcaster. Host of the podcast, Talking Tudors.
Latest book: The Final Year of AnneBoleyn. Support my work on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/TalkingTudors
Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former fellow @ihr.bsky.social; History Wrangler #HorribleHistories
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine
NEW BOOK: https://www.cambridge.org/9781009457231
Evan Bourke @evanbourke.bsky.social Early modernist. GOI Postdoc at Maynooth University. Women's writing, epistolary culture, DH, network visualisation, reception studies. Formerly RECIRC and MACMORRIS.
Ineke Huysman @inekehuysman.bsky.social Dutch history: Stadholders' wives, Constantijn Huygens, Johan de Witt, Willem van Oranje, Willem de Clercq, American Association for Netherlandic Studies, Early Modern correspondences; history of perfumery; 17th century history. No answers to DM.
Lieke van Deinsen @liekevdeinsen.bsky.social
Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Amy Froide @afroide.bsky.social History Prof.; Director Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC; early modern Britain, women's history, financial history
Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social She/her | Historian of colonial Mexico: Sor Juana; La Llorona; narratives of conquest/conversion | Hosts the Challenging Histories podcast
Trans inclusive feminist | Free Palestine 🍉
Called William H Prescott a dirty old man & Cortés a sociopath on the BBC
Louise Duckling @louiseduckling.bsky.social Editorial Services for Academics | www.louiseduckling.com Intermediate Member of the CIEP | Literary Historian (18c women writers) | Reviews editor for Women's Writing journal
Catherine Richardson @profcatheriner.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor University East Anglia and Professor of Early Modern Studies. Previously Director, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Kent; everyday life, material histories, creative heritage.
Esther M. Villegas de la Torre @evillegasdelatorre.bsky.social Scholar of Women’s Intellectual History | Multilingual Communication | Research Evaluation | Public Engagement
https://www.respublicalitteraria.com
Evelyne Verheggen @evelyneverheggen.bsky.social Erfgoeddeskundige en cultuurhistorica voor religieus erfgoed met een passie voor (devotie)prenten, devotionalia, sterke vrouwen, kerken, Leiden (en 🇪🇸 😉).
Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp
Claire McGann @clairemcgann.bsky.social Project Manager for Open Book Futures, a
@copim.bsky.social project [but currently on maternity leave].
Researcher of 17th-C women's writing, book history, & DH. Copy editor & indexer.
Jade Scott @huntingrebels.bsky.social Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | PI AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 @ UofGlasgow History |
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
Also: dogs, horses, books
Dr Elizabeth Schlappa @eschlappa.bsky.social Historian of 17th-18thc gender, medicine and sexuality at Newcastle University. Precarious ECR. Powered by tea, feminism and florid 18thc prose. Views mine.
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/)
Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/
Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social Historian ☞ @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on female collaboration in the first age of print ☞ #earlymodern gender, books, religion, DH, queer stuff ☞ she/her 🌈
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Karen Annette O'Brien @drka.bsky.social early modern history, popular medicine, petitioning, women’s narratives in manuscripts, customary knowledge, colonialism, sovereignty
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/petitioning-for-land-9781350010703/
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031440441 book
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Amy Sopcak-Joseph @amysopcakjoseph.bsky.social Historian of early America, women & gender, print culture, & consumers. Books, coffee, cats.
Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies
Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton, FRHistS; @musicasecreta.bsky.social
S.C. Kaplan @medievallitura.bsky.social XV s. France #medievalist, women's libraries. #editrice, #feminist, #reader, #foodie she/her/hers http://mftranscriptions.wordpress.com https://sckaplan.com
Norma Owens @normaowens.bsky.social PhD Research Historian | University of Galway College of Arts Fellowship | 2024 MacCurtain/Cullen Prize | Social Network Analysis | Lace & Textiles | Long 18th Century | Gaeilge is fáilte
Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary.bsky.social Historian of early modern & long c18th Britain. Bodies, sex, gender, medicine, motherhood & domestic knowledge. Lecturer, Uni of Herts. IHR Fellow. Lead Convenor of IHR seminars: Life-Cycles & British History in the Long c18th. Book forthcoming with MUP.
Susan M Cogan @susancogan.bsky.social Historian at Utah State Uni | Researching medieval/early modern grandparents & grandchildren, gardens, gender, material culture. Border collie mom, northwoods girl.
Dr Aurélie Chatenet-Calyste @achatenetc.bsky.social Rennaise
Maîtresse de conférences en Histoire moderne tout récemment habilitée à diriger des recherches
18e siècle
Genre
Culture matérielle et consommation
Cour de France
#ESR
Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social Australia's most important member of the BeyHive. Also do academic things. stephanierusso.net
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social London -> NYC -> Paris. PhD gone public. Writing GOOD LOOKS & BAD MANNERS, a history of American women in Paris. Previously: HOTBED; THE EXTRA WOMAN; FIREBRANDS.
A Writer in Paris: joannascutts.substack.com
www.joannascutts.com
Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social Historian of early modern England at University at Buffalo and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research in Undergraduate Education. Happy to talk DH, 1890s bicycling, and the history of Buffalo. Skiing and biking. Opinions my own. She/her.
Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social Cambridge History PhD student researching elite women's dress and the creation of fashionable female society in late 17th-century England ✨ aka the Pepys Girl ✨ Organizer of the Cambridge Early Modern Workshop
Dr Emma Lyons @ehlyons.bsky.social Historian of c17th&c18th Ireland: female inheritance, Catholic landownership & education during the Penal Laws. Also Irish horse racing, and Irishwomen & WWI war effort.
Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of History, TCD.
Website: emmalyons.ie
Amy McElroy @amymcelroy.bsky.social Author of:
☆Educating the Tudors - Jan 2023.
☆Women's Lives in the Tudor Era - Feb 2024.
☆Mary Tudor, Queen of France - Feb 2025.
☆ Desiderius Erasmus - March 2026.
All published by Pen & Sword
Working on the next book!
HWA Crown Awards Judge
Paris Spies-Gans @pspiesgans.bsky.social Writer, historian, & art historian, #womenartists, A Revolution on Canvas (YUP), writing A New Story of Art (Doubleday)
parisaspiesgans.com
Susan Dalton @susandalton.bsky.social Professeure d’histoire, Université de Montréal ; Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760-1830, Routledge, 2023 https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Mediation-and-Popular-Education-in-Venice-17601830/Dalton/p/book/9781032190969
Sian Hibbert @sianhibbert.bsky.social PhD University of York: early modern France, interpersonal violence, disputes and enmities, gender, social relations, urban and rural communities.
Carolyn Eastman @carolyneastman.bsky.social
Historian, professor, book review editor, and reader, currently writing a book about Black and white New Yorkers' experiences with yellow fever during the 1790s. - E Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social Law professor at Northwestern University, historian of early modern law especially English equity courts and the history of commercial practice, fan of the archives, now building an AI platform to tag historical sources.
Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social Early modern commercial London theatre; the King’s Women: discovering the wives, sisters & daughters at the heart of Shakespeare’s acting company.
StephanieCD @stecd.bsky.social Enseignante-chercheuse en histoire allemande: genre, femmes et corps
Du SERG à la Réforme de la Vie
#TeamRER
Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social Ex historian ( #SaintDomingue/ #HaitianRevolution / early #Haiti) at @unitrier.bsky.social / Uni Halle / Uni Milan.
Now PR, Press & science comm @mpici.bsky.social
From 🇮🇹, living in 🇩🇪
https://independentresearcher.academia.edu/MiriamFranchina