Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
Justin Bengry @justinbengry.bsky.social Historian of Capitalism and the Pink Pound (he/him)
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Rachel Hogan @rnhogan.bsky.social Instruction & Research Librarian for the Arts & Digital Humanities @ William & Mary Libraries. Passionate about dh in and out of the library, arts-based research, academic librarianship, information literacy, medievalisms, arthurian lit, and victorian lit
Benjamin Saltzman @b-a-saltzman.bsky.social Prof. at the University of Chicago
Author of TURNING AWAY: THE POETICS OF AN ANCIENT GESTURE (Out this April, 2026)
www.bsaltzman.com
Jessica Minieri @jessicaminieri.bsky.social PhD candidate Binghamton University • Editor @hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social • News Editor, @memorients.bsky.social • Historian of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean world.
https://www.jessicalminieri.com/
Wendy Matlock @wmatlock.bsky.social Middle-aged medievalist in the US Midwest 
Dr. Bryan C. Keene (they/elle/iel) @wtfarthistory.bsky.social Queer nb parent, art historian, curator 🦸♂️🔎🏛
Professor of🏺🏰🏯🗿🖼📸 🎭
My own views on art/activism
Wan-Chuan Kao @wanchuankao.bsky.social 
Mary Kate Hurley @marykatehurley.bsky.social Medievalist, Associate Professor of English, Ohio University; author of Translation Effects (OSU Press, 2021); The Speculative Medieval, in progress.
Views, of course, my own. 
Jason Jacobs @drjjacobs.bsky.social Academic medievalist, fiction reader, woke gay leftist.
Alum of martyred New College of Florida and will seek revenge.
Hudson Valley and Providence, RI.
Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UCCS. Old books. Digital humanities. And my doodles.
MAA Graduate Student Committee @gsc-maa.bsky.social The Grad Student Committee of the @medievalacademy.bsky.social of America offers programming and opportunities for grads across disciplines of medieval studies. https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/Graduate_Students
De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social A leading academic publisher in the humanities and beyond. Browse our pinned starter pack and visit our website: www.degruyterbrill.com
Arthuriana @arthurianajrnl.bsky.social The Journal of Arthurian Studies
https://www.arthuriana.com/
The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social The NCS is a scholarly community committed to fostering research and interest in the age of Chaucer broadly speaking. We welcome any and all members to join our community! https://newchaucersociety.org/
Viking and Medieval Norse Studies Programme @oldnorse.bsky.social International Nordic Master’s programme, offering an interdisciplinary approach to Viking and Medieval Scandinavia.
oldnorse.is
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession @newchaucer-pandp.bsky.social Academic journal offering brief essays on teaching, service, and institutional cultures for teachers and scholars of Chaucer and his age. Peer-reviewed, open access.
https://escholarship.org/uc/ncs_pedagogyandprofession
Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social Bot; Posting hourly.
Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
Jon Dell Isola @medievaljon.bsky.social PhD Medieval Historian. I think about the meaning and purpose of history a lot in my newsletter Among the Ruins (http://among-the-ruins.ghost.io). Special Projects Assistant @medievalacademy.bsky.social. All opinions my own.
Jessie Summerhayes @jessiesummerhayes.bsky.social PhD-doer, Uni of York, working on distributed cognition and nature in Old Norse and Old English poetry (mostly).
Perry Zurn @perryzurn.bsky.social Prof @AmericanU. Interested in political theory, social movements, LGBTQ life, and fungi. Author @UMinnPress @mitpress @dukepress https://www.perryzurn.com/
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
Elizabeth Elliott @elizabethelliott.bsky.social Medieval literature, history of emotion and medievalism. UCU rep. She/her
The Nitrate Diva @nitratediva.bsky.social Classic movies. Vintage pop culture. Cats.
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Damian @byrhtferth.bsky.social 
Katie Urquhart @katie-urquhart.bsky.social Commissioning Editor at Yale University Press London. Commissioning medieval and early modern history. (views my own)
SUNY - The State University of New York @sunyofficial.bsky.social College should set you up for success, not bury you in debt. Discover the State University of New York.
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Dr. Timothy Liam Waters @liamh2os.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Charles University || Ph.D. in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures & Medieval Studies || Literary Materialist approaches in Old Norse || Professional Kolbítr.
Melissa Glass @melissa-glass.bsky.social PhD candidate studying early modern English history at the University of Calgary. Working on the intersection of property law and social status in the 17th century.
melissaglasshistory.com
Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers. 
Mary Catherine O'Connor @marycoconnor.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Old Norse at Balliol College, University of Oxford | Arthuriana | romance | translations
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
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
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social A public-facing, digital publication focusing on the ‘whys’ and ‘so whats’ of medieval studies and pedagogy. Affiliated with Arthuriana.
Hes Bradley @hesbradley.bsky.social lecturer in english and creative writing at @uniofbuckingham.bsky.social
writer, community gardener,
into vampires and the moon atm
they/them
Joanne Barker @joannebarker62.bsky.social Lenape (Delaware Tribe of Indians). Writer, artist, cat staffer, grumpy prof, anti-imperialist, sci-fi nerd. Rebellions are built on hope. Everything else requires tequila and chocolate. Art page: https://artofjoannebarker.squarespace.com
Nic Helms @docsprock.bsky.social Independent Scholar in NH; Shakespeare, disability, and board games. (They/them)
https://nrhelms.org/
ARL @queebees.bsky.social européenne. historian*arthistorian*medievalist (sie/hon/she) #norrlandliebe
Erfurt & Ansbach – Europe
❤️sometimes 🟰Bookmark
Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social Historian of the Hospitallers, Templars, crusades, and Jews in medieval England.
rorymaclellan.com
videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
Verening van Oudgermanisten (VOG) @oudgermanisten.bsky.social Society for Old Germanicists in the Netherlands and Flanders
Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
https://dolly.jorgensenweb.net/
Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social no borders, no police, no prisons. no occupation of palestine. transsexual, aspiring inanimate object. also a theorist of trans and queer mobilities and social reproduction. gaza will be free.
Skaldic Project @skaldic.org A feed for the Skaldic Project - automatic stanza of the day posts, updates on progress and service interruption information.
Daniel Sawyer @danielsawyer.bsky.social Lecturer, Birkbeck; Academic Visitor, Oxford.
Buy How to Read Middle English Poetry for £14/$20 using the code AAFLYG6: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-to-read-middle-english-poetry-9780198895244
Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social Editor at Columbia University Press. I acquire in Film and Media Studies, Journalism, and Literary Studies. Opinions my own. 
Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social Faroe Islander Seabird ecotoxicology, biodiversity and invasive species. Hoarder of bird skulls, feathers & eggshells. Natural history books and taxidermy are my love languages. University of Aberdeen and Glasgow alumni - Menieres
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HI Student Conference on the Medieval North @histudentcon.bsky.social An interdisciplinary forum for graduate students and ECRs in Old Norse held in Reykjavík every April | 📙👉 http://histudentconference.wordpress.com/e-book-release/
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Jap-Nanak Kaur Makkar @jmakr.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kentucky
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
Great Album Art @goodalbumart.bsky.social Sharing aesthetically pleasing album art. Totally subjective. Expect a lot of metal (sorry). NO AI! Ran by @pretendeer.bsky.social
Alan Davey @armslengthal.bsky.social PhD researcher in Old Icelandic at Birkbeck College, University of London. Chair at Trinity Laban Conservatoire; Chair, Hall for Cornwall. Formerly Controller, BBC Radio 3, CEO Arts Council England, Director of Culture at DCMS. Great Art For Everyone.
Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social Professor & Founding Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Stony Brook University.
“An opinionated bastard” —Kay Walkingstick
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social Helping scholars write & publish outstanding books since 2015 📚
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Courses + free resources at manuscriptworks.com
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Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social PhDing: Vikings and white supremacy, IHR London | trans dykefag | they/them
Hwæt! @hwaet.info Translations of the first word of Beowulf. Created by @jesse.lansner.com. See more at https://hwaet.info. 
Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
Christine Varnado @eyweltschmerz.bsky.social Spread the Weltschmerz! Buffalo / The Shapes of Fancy (https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-shapes-of-fancy) 
Leah Pope Parker @parkerchronicle.bsky.social Baker of hand pies. Scholar of medieval literature and disability: www.leahpopeparker.com She/they. Views: own. Cat: Æthelthryth. Book: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12571891 Banner: close-up of swirling shades of yellow in oil paint, vaguely floral.
Gustavs Strenga @strenga.bsky.social Medievalist. Cultural historian. Interested in the late Middle Ages, collective memory, commemoration, gift-giving, medieval heroes after the Middle Ages, medieval Hanse and Livonia. Associate professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture (Riga)
Meanwhile...Letterpress @meanwhilelttrpress.bsky.social Trans and Queer owned letterpress studio resisting erasure through the power of print. 
Ann Sheffield @turtlegrrl.bsky.social Retired chemistry professor and current researcher of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. Childless cat (and dog) lady. Agnostic Heathen with Buddhist tendencies. Occasional knitter.
@jdavissecord.bsky.social @jdavissecord.bsky.social 
chilton 👁 @chiltonm.bsky.social Former boy adventurer, now Unwinnable columnist, Exploits books editor. Also found at PC Gamer, Kill Screen, Bullet Points, Heterotopias. chiltonm.bearblog.dev
CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education (CADHE) @cadhe.bsky.social https://cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
https://www.standtogetherhighered.org/
https://www.umass.edu/senate/madcs-tracker
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Adam Cook @adamcook.bsky.social Medievalist interested in 12th century frontiers, particularly Yorkshire and Northumberland. PhD from the University of Hull, Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Hull City fan.
All views my own, not those of my employer.
dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com award-nominated senior writer/narrative designer 🎮📝
presently: Meow Wolf 🩷🧩
previously: Blizzard 💛⚔️ Bungie 💙💫 and Arkane 🧡🐀
english lit phd 🎓🗡 personal account 🍞🌹 she/her 🌑✨
nyc 🍕🐁 to atx 🌻🦇
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Giorgio Basciu @philologeek.bsky.social PhD in Scandinavian studies @stockholm-uni.bsky.social | Old Norse/Germanic philology, Digital Humanities, translation studies
Download my monograph on Word Pairs in Old Norse: https://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1942868&dswid=4878
Hana Videen @hanavideen.bsky.social Writer, medievalist and hoarder of words, author of THE WORDHORD: DAILY LIFE IN OLD ENGLISH and THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY. (she/her)
linktr.ee/hanavideen
Vince Vasudevan @vasudevan.bsky.social SF&F Writer | VT ‘22 🦃 | ND ‘26 ☘️
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF, Library of Congress NRPB; Director, New Terrain at Sundance; Assoc Prof, University of Colorado
Ashley Castelino @ashleycastelino.bsky.social Food & Medieval Dogs
Public Humanities Fellow at Notre Dame
Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social Medieval historian: religion, cities, heresy, intolerance, inquisition, environment, medievalism. Associate Professor (Career-Track), Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Views my own. he/him. https://eugene-smelyansky.com/
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social Paleobiologist. Evolution and paleoclimate. Coffee enthusiast. Snail evangelist. Visiting Prof @Syracuse University. Paleontological Research Institution Research Associate. Dartmouth, KU, Cornell alum. He/him. Opinions my own. https://www.brendan-anderson
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)
SUNY Oneonta @suny.oneonta.edu We nurture a community where students grow intellectually, thrive socially and live purposefully.
Kashaf Qureshi @kashafq.bsky.social teaching fellow at uchicago working on late medieval literature and affect | kashafqureshi.com
Alan van Beek @thiliel.bsky.social Medieval Literature, Games, Data. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Alex West @ajw87.bsky.social Cosmopolitan in Portugal. PhD. Middle Ages in Afro-Eurasia; Columbian exchange; manuscripts, Malay, Tupi...
Old site: https://indomedieval.medium.com/
New site: https://medium.com/@WestsWorld he/him/ele
Book: https://brill.com/display/title/68202
Clint Morrison @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social PhD | Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin - Whitewater | writing about video games, play, dance, and John Lydgate
Trans News Network @transnews.network Trans News Network (TNN) is a worker-run nonprofit LGBTQ+ newsroom publishing articles that impact trans communities.
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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.
Lisa Cruikshank @lisavc.bsky.social (She/Her)
Medieval Historian | Late medieval queenship, image, reputation, gender & power, women's history
Fan of long walks, good books, crafts, & baking
The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast @mmapod.bsky.social An anthology-style podcast sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America and co-produced by Will Beattie, Loren Cantrell, Jonathan Correa Reyes, Reed O'Mara, and Logan Quigley.
http://multiculturalmiddleages.com
Instagram: @multiculturalmiddleagespod
The Haskins Society @haskinssociety.bsky.social International scholarly society studying the peoples of early & high medieval Europe & their encounters in the Mediterranean, Baltic & larger medieval world.
https://thehaskinssociety.wildapricot.org/
SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social The official account of the President of the SUNY University Faculty Senate, SUNY Fredonia Associate Professor of English Bruce Simon, 7/1/2025-6/30/2027. Fund, price, staff, and govern higher ed as the indispensable public good it is. #PublicGoodU #MADC
Holly Crocker @dr-mid-evil.bsky.social The human version of a crow. 
Nathan Phelps @tenescio.bsky.social 
Charlie S. @charlieserigne.bsky.social PhD Student // University of Notre Dame // Old English & Queer Studies // he/they
Lynn Butzlaff @lynnbutzlaff.bsky.social PhD Student | Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame | Old Norse and Eco-Criticism
International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social and online. Communities, 5-8 July 2027.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
Courtney Berger @ccberg.bsky.social Executive Editor, Duke University Press
Lover of big ideas, lifter of heavy objects
Opinions are my own (duh)
Siobhan Poole @siobhanmup.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Medieval Studies, Premodern History and Law at Manchester University Press. She/her
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.