Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social James Barrow Professor of French and Head of Department of Languages, Cultures and Film @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Co-founder http://ilesmondes.wordpress.com
To be found somewhere between the prison and the beach.
Ricki O'Rawe @rickiorawe.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies. Interested in the fantastic, surrealism, esotericism, decoloniality, and other modes of unsettling binaries and being in-between.
Musician: -ence, Many Souls, Not Squares
Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social Historian of Modern France at QMUL
The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social A podcast telling the history of France from 3 million years ago to present. https://www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/
Ry Montgomery @rymontgomery.bsky.social PhD researching Francophone trans’ and queer visual cultures • 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social I teach French lit sometimes in English @ Boston U. Also history, visual, popular & material culture, gender & sex at the fin de siècle, photography & mass press. Books: Before Trans; Having it All in the Belle Époque; The Hysteric’s Revenge.
Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social Historian of France and its overseas empire. Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. RTs not necessarily endorsements. 
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ . Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Robin Mitchell @parisnoire.bsky.social Very tired Historian. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact my PA @keanuheydari.bsky.social for talks.
Robinmitchellhistorian.com
Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social Historian | 18thc France, sci/med, gender | Author: Sentimental Savants (UChicago) | Currently: Enlightenment public health & medical authority | she/her | My views | meghankroberts.com
Patricia Tilburg @proftilburg.bsky.social Historian of France/labor/gender/sex, history prof and chair. Author, _Working Girls_ on sexual politics of 19c-20c Parisian garment trades; & _Colette’s Republic_ on belle epoque popular culture. she/her https://patriciatilburg.com/
Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
User #396,109 :)
Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
CNRS @cnrs.fr Organisme public 🇫🇷 de recherche pluridisciplinaire, le Centre national de la recherche scientifique c'est 33 000 personnes qui font avancer la connaissance. #HelloESR
roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social assoc prof-sfu history; rutgers phd; c20-21 france & empire; nuclear harm/fear/memory; fiction/film/art/music; thievery; founding/former host-new books in french studies; brown; settler; NOT my employer
roxannepanchasi.com
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Carolyn Eichner @eichnercarolyn.bsky.social Historian 19th c. France & empire; gender, race, & sexuality; social movements; Paris Commune;
names.
Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
French History (Journal) @frenchhistory.bsky.social French History is an international forum for major new articles on the entire range of French history from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.
Andrew Israel Ross @aiross.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. History of Sexuality, Modern Europe, Feminist and Queer Studies. http://www.andrewisraelross.com 🏳️🌈 
K R @kringelberg.bsky.social they/them, Art Historian
I care a lot (too much?)
Not repping any institution
Christine Adams @profchrisadams.bsky.social Historian of early modern and eighteenth-century France who sees historical parallels everywhere. Interested in fashion, gender, politics, food. And cat photos.
Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social historian, modern France, gender, loves goldens, cats, knitting, gardening, & justice. she/her. trans rights are human rights.
Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social Assistant Prof of French @ Harvard. c19-20; gender/sexuality; print culture; queer lit & reading. Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France shipping now from Cornell 🌈🌱 😷♾️
Jennifer Heuer @jenniferheuer.bsky.social Historian, especially of France, gender, revolution, colonialism, and much else. Co-editor of French Historical Studies (send good articles our way!)
Low-key hiker and biker, mystery novel reader, traveler. 
Caroline Sequin @carolinesequin.bsky.social Historian of France—race, gender, sexuality, empire, migration. Author of Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950 (Cornell University Press). https://tinyurl.com/ejs3udt2. Views expressed are my own.
Annabel L. Kim @annabel-l-kim.bsky.social French prof at Harvard // UNBECOMING LANGUAGE (OSUP 2018) // CACAPHONIES (Minn 2022) // dua lipa stan & miley cyrus enthusiast // VERY into cats // vegan climate griever
Juliet Bellow @julietbellow.bsky.social Associate Professor of Art History at American University; author of Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde (2013) and Rodin's Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris (forthcoming from Yale University Press, 2025).
The Siècle history podcast @thesiecle.com A history podcast by @dhmontgomery.com covering France's overlooked century between Napoleon and World War I. Annotated transcripts at thesiecle.com!
Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net
Brent Rosenstein @bmrosenstein.bsky.social PhD from University at Buffalo | Early Modern/Modern French views of North Africa | Education, translators, and community/belonging | They/He
Colin Foss @cofo.bsky.social Cultural history of the French 19th century @ Austin College. Book review editor @ NCFS. “Culture of War” now out in paperback https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-culture-of-war-9781837644131
Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.
Kylie Sago @kyliesago.bsky.social Assistant Professor of French, San Diego State University. Web Editor, H-France Forum. Interested in the histories and legacies of empire. Author of "Revising Race through Literary Adaptation in the French Empire" (under contract with Liverpool UP).
Cheryl Krueger @cherylperfume.bsky.social Academic perfumista. Reader, writer, professor, adult child of the linguistic turn. Not necessarily in that order. I am my dog’s human.
Author of Pefume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France.
Susan Hiner @srocher.bsky.social French and Global 19C prof. Accessories to Modernity and Behind the Seams. Dogs know best.
Ryan Pilcher @ryanpilcher.bsky.social Recovering Academic. French and Francophone Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, C19 researcher, feminist, queer, coffee addict.
Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social Historian of France, the Atlantic world, language, food. Squirrelly cyclist, slowfooted defenseman, working dad. Worried about the 21st century.
https://utoronto.academia.edu/PaulCohen
Pernille Røge @pernilleblues.bsky.social Historian of the French and Danish colonial empires, political economy, slavery, and abolition. Mom of two little vikings. Author of "Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire".
@nigelharkness.bsky.social @nigelharkness.bsky.social 
Pierre Salmon @pierresalmon.bsky.social MCF en histoire contemporaine (ENS-PSL - IHMC)
Guerre d'Espagne (1936-1939), trafic d'armes, histoire transnationale
Compte personnel
Patricia Goldsworthy @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism
My book, Colonial Negatives: Picturing History & Identity in Morocco, is available now! https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501785320/colonial-negatives/#bookTabs=1
Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social | Historian of France, technology, and cities | e/ludd | 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷🇸🇬🇪🇸 | You can find out more about me at http://www.patrickdeoliveira.com | ICE is a terrorist organization |
Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social Pursuing an M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary | Ph.D., History, University of Michigan (2026) | PC(USA) Inquirer | Modern Europe & Iran | Reformed systematic theology, Karl Barth, New Testament studies
🌐 www.keanuheydari.com
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Itay Lotem @ilotem.bsky.social Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
Anne O’Neil-Henry @anneoneilhenry.bsky.social Associate Prof of French & Francophone Studies @Georgetown; Works on 19thC pop culture. Current MoCo resident; from Walla Walla. Opinions my own.
Maria Scott @mariascott.bsky.social Dubliner in SW England. Commuter. Often found at weekends on strangers' doorsteps, asking questions. Otherwise, head regularly found in nineteenth-century France.
Prof. Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social Art Historian| Professor of French Art History| author of Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity (2025)| MY VIEWS| Arsenal ♥️🤍
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/historyofart/berry-francesca
SDN @uksdn.bsky.social The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (SDN) offers a lively forum for the dissemination of research on French and Francophone studies in the long 19th century.
Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social Historian of early modern French law & society at Reed College. Prattles on about history, dogs, politics, soccer, & hoops. H-France Editor-in-Chief (www.h-france.net)
Matthieu Boisdron @mtthboisdron.bsky.social 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇭🇺🇷🇴 Docteur en histoire (Sorbonne Université) | XXe s. | Histoire politique | Histoire des relations internationales | Histoire de l’Europe médiane | 📚➡️ https://cv.hal.science/matthieu-boisdron
Christina Carroll @chcarroll.bsky.social Associate Professor of History @kcollege. Modern France, imperialism, politics, culture. Views my own.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501763083/the-politics-of-imperial-memory-in-france/
Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social Associate Prof in French at St Catz, Oxford. Works on imagination, posterity, death, self-fashioning, theatre in C18. Mother of 4yo & 7yo. Views my own.
Olivier Ritz @olivier-ritz.bsky.social Maître de conférences en littérature française
Université Paris Cité
Histoire littéraire de la Révolution française
Imaginaires de la Révolution de 1789 à nos jours
Literary History of the French Revolution
Imagining the Revolution (1789 to Present)
Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/ 
Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social Historian of 19th-c France—incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia) 📕Dangers of Youth www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php
Professional editor www.brionyneilson.com
Sydney, Australia
Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social Writing about freedom, uncertainty, and precarity in early modern France.
https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/content/dr-luke-osullivan
Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social Prof. 19th-C French art. Thinking about aerial & subterranean environments, materiality, & always gender | Books (UMinn Press): Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late 19th-C. French Art; Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris
MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social f. 1886 as Modern Language Notes • Published @hopkinspress.bsky.social • Issues: Italian, Yiddish & Hebrew, Spanish & Portuguese, German, French, and Comparative Literature
MLNJournal@jh.edu
@sonsteph.bsky.social @sonsteph.bsky.social 
Journal of the Western Society for French History (JWSFH) @jwsfh.bsky.social JWSFH is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal featuring scholarship n France & the francophone world. The journal is published once annually in an open-access, online format.
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/
Jessica Tanner @jessicatanner.bsky.social Associate Prof., UNC-CH. 19th-c French lit, novels, theory, history of sex and sexuality, weather and climate. Minnesotan in NC. First gen. Herder of aged cat. Book: SEX WORK, TEXT WORK (Northwestern UP, 2023).
Sara-Jane Vigneault @sjvigneault.bsky.social PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950)
Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH)
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
Darío Varela Fernández @dvarelafdez.bsky.social Docteur en histoire | Enseignant et chercheur (CRIMIC @sorbonne-universite.fr)
Histoire de l'hispanisme et circulation des idées réactionnaires (Espagne-France-Amériques)
Heather Williams @heatherhmw.bsky.social Literature in French and Welsh/Cymraeg, travel writing, translation studies, comparative literature, minority studies, nineteenth century, Brittany/Breizh, Society of Dix-neuviémistes 
Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social Writer, Educator, DEI Practitioner. Starting fall 2026 Asst Prof at CSU Long Beach. Author of Reproductive Citizens & A Just Future w/Cornell University Press. Co-President of Coordinating Council for Women in History. Rogue scholar. Rage writer.
Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
Christie Margrave @christiesmbc.bsky.social Solo Mum By Choice to gorgeous boy, Associate Dean of EDI @Cardiff University, Academic in French Studies,18th and 19th century France scholar, Medical Humanities, Narrative Reproductive Medicine, 21st century life writing around donor conception
Dr Amy McTurk-Starkie @amymcturkstarkie.bsky.social Big fan of nineteenth-century France. I also like writing about women who make art.
H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social All things related to the study of French & Francophone History & Culture. The official BlueSky feed of the H-France website (www.h-france.net).
Amaleena Damlé @amaleenadamle.bsky.social Associate Prof in French, Durham University. Poet, in Acropolis, Atrium, After, Dust, Dreich, IceFloePress, Indigo Dreams, Ink, Sweat & Tears, others. Editor at Paragraph, EUP.
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies @ilcs.bsky.social The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/
Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: https://go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social Film historian in German cinema. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the Universität Leipzig researching German cultural diplomacy at film festivals during the Cold War. Lecturer at the Europa-Universität Viadrina.
www.elizabeth-ward.com
Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social 18th-century cultural history, French literature, art etc. Currently Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford/All Souls College
French Studies @frenchstudies.bsky.social Society for scholars and students of French in higher education
https://www.sfs.ac.uk
Emma Cayley 谷曦 @emmacayley.bsky.social Professor of Medieval French and Head of School of Languages, Cultures & Societies at Uni of Leeds; Chair of UCFL; Co-Chair of AHA; playing card collector; MSS & cat-lover.
SCILT @scilt.bsky.social Scotland’s national centre for languages. Sign up to our weekly email for all our latest news http://bit.ly/SCILTbulletin.
Visit our website: https://scilt.org.uk/
Olivia Glaze @oliviaglaze.bsky.social MHRA Visiting Research Fellow | @ilcs.bsky.social @themhra.bsky.social
contemporary portuguese literature, photography, & film 🇵🇹
empire | medical humanities | trauma | illness | disability | women’s writing
Dr Sarah J Young @sarahjyoung.bsky.social Russophone culture & history, prison/gulag writing, and C19 literature. Also cats. And needlework. Author/translator of Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlissel’burg Prison, 1884-1906 https://uclpress.co.uk/products/173021
Andrea Capovilla @ibc-london.bsky.social Ingeborg Bachmann Centre, London
Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social Researching digital culture, data activism, documentary - in Brazil. Fan of places where the mountains meet the sea.
http://go.qub.ac.uk/toriholmes
Also at https://bsky.app/profile/rebracweb.bsky.social
Steven Wilson @profstevenwilson.bsky.social Professor of French Studies and Medical Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast | President @asmcf.bsky.social | Views my own.- M Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social Author of "What Proust Heard" & the Misfit Trilogy: "The Misfit of the Family," "Never Say I," "Someone." Throw in some translating, piano, yoga, and cats.
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
Eivind Engebretsen @eivinden.bsky.social Dean of Circle U. European University Alliance Ι Professor & Head of the Sustainable Health Unit (SUSTAINIT), University of Oslo Ι Medical Humanities Scholar
Alex Thomson @byebyepride.bsky.social Prof of Modern Literature & Critical Theory | Head of School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, University of Edinburgh | Deputy Chair, English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social
Joseph Ford @drjoeford.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in French Studies @ilcs.bsky.social | literature, culture and post/colonialism, comparative/world literature, Algerian culture/history | multilingualism and environments 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Ainhoa Montoya @ainhoamontoya.bsky.social Anthropologist at CSIC & CLACS/ILCS. Currently researching enactments of care in transboundary watersheds*Also interested in postconflict violence & legal disputes over territory & subsoil materials *Author: The Violence of Democracy bit.ly/3sxwlQ7
Katia Pizzi @katiap.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
New! MA Languages and Cultures Across Borders.
Forthcoming: Venice Tales (OUP, 2025).
Caroline D. Laurent @carolinedlaurent.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the American University of Paris; 20th & 21st-C 🇨🇵/Francophone Literatures & Cultures; Comparative Genocide Studies; Graphic Narratives/Novels; PhD @Harvard
Laura K Lawless @lklawless.com #Teacher at LawlessLanguages.com, #author of "French Workbook for Dummies," and #vegan chef at theVeggieTable.com Also love #travel #reading #laughing
#langsky #LearningFrench #LearningSpanish #LearningItalian #language #EduSky #Guadeloupe
she/her
Joanne Brueton @joannebrueton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in French Studies, ULIP; 'Geometry and Jean Genet: Shaping the Subject' (2022); Co-author 'Le compas et la lyre: regards croisés sur les mathématiques et la poésie' (2019); Co-editor French and Francophone Section, Modern Languages Open
M. Ella @incredimella.bsky.social @incredimella on the old gross creepy site
and
@incredimella@mstdn.social
historical linguistics, phonetics, physics & classical raga music
(and I follow politics on here when life gets too fun IRL)
Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies @UCL | Environmental Humanities | Utopia | Apocalypse | Anthropocene Studies | World Literature
Naomi Wells @naswells.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Languages and Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies @sfps.bsky.social The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies promotes research on the Francophone world. Links & RTs ≠ endorsements.
Website: https://sfps.org.uk/
Upcoming Conference "Fanon at 100: Revolutionary Afterlives": https://sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-events/
Michela Ardizzoni @mardizzo.bsky.social Associate Professor - University of Colorado Boulder. Italian media and art, exploring intersections of race, gender, and the Black Mediterranean. Co-director of MA in Media and Public Engagement.
Marie Adolesco 💞Languages and Cultures @marieado.bsky.social #languageimmersion #culturalexchange #youthexchangeprogram #French #German #Italian #Spanish #langchat #earlylang #languagelearning #bilingual #GiftedStudents #giftededucation #giftedandtslented #AdolescoAdventure @marieado.bsky.social www.Adolesco.org
Chartered Institute of Linguists @ciol-linguists.bsky.social For languages and linguists. The Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL) serving linguists and language professionals in the UK and worldwide since 1910.
French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social Account of the Department of French at the University of Bristol.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/french/