Ethel Rackin @erackin.bsky.social poet
Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society @torontosri.bsky.social Integrative research. Human-centred solutions. We're a U of T institute working to ensure that powerful technologies make the world better—for everyone.
Travis LaCroix @travislacroix.bsky.social Dr // Asst. Prof // Philosopher @ Durham University (UK)
(I am also a human being)
Language Origins // AI Ethics // Autism
ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social Feminist scholar who coined the term: know-your-place aggression. Author of LIVING WITH LYNCHING + FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Editor of IOLA LEROY + INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Literary & Cultural Critic. Runner.
KorithaMitchell.com
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social Open-access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to scholarship, pedagogy, #dh on all aspects of women, gender and the arts (esp. lit, visual, music, performance, film, criticism), 1640–1830. Editor Laura Runge, USF. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
⬇️ buffer.com/bluesky
Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature| Interested in all things arboreal | Trees in C19 English Fiction (2021) | she/her
Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social Light, politics, aesthetics, & gender in the city, w/ hist of sci/tech. Co-host LitSciPod. Canadian in Oxford (ish). Come for the typos, stay for the wit.
Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social Scholar of the 19th c & other things. English prof at Vanderbilt U
Author of _Picture World_ (Oxford UP 2020) and also
_Writing on Fire_ (Broadview P 2024)
www.rachelteukolsky.net
Paul C. Jones @paulcjones.bsky.social Professor of 19th-Century American Literature | Ohio University
Author of Poe, Queerness, and the End of Time
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social Booklover, blathering at http://www.bookgaga.ca - literary news, reviews, discussion, poetry posted daily (aka #TodaysPoem http://bit.ly/2J4ym4C), member of a thriving silent book club group (aka #SilentBookClub http://bit.ly/2NSBVtw) ... oh, and I crochet
@ivory1.bsky.social @ivory1.bsky.social Educator emeritus. Literature, media, music, art, history, environment, food.
Banner: view from highway of underside of a girder bridge
PFP: person with back to camera standing ankle-deep in water beside a mangrove tree
Indigenous Editors Association @indigeditors.bsky.social Serving & advocating for Indigenous editors & storytellers. Tag us in your PAID opportunities for Indigenous people and we'll share!
https://linktr.ee/indigeditors
Kate Koppy @katekoppy.bsky.social Assistant Prof & Writing Center Director @ New Economic School
Research at the nexus of narrative and community
Teaching composition & world lit
Words in FAIRY TALES: How We Hate to Love Them & PASTORS, CHIEFS, AND WARLORDS: The Ministry of Being With
Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social Professor of early modern British history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Hon Prof, IMEMS, Durham U; Associate Fellow, University of King's College.
ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, established in 1969, is the foremost learned society in the United States for the study of all aspects of the period from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.
Eric Parisot @eparisot.bsky.social Associate Professor in English at Flinders University.
Eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Death and suicide. Graveyard poetry. The Gothic. Vampires. Jane Austen. In another life would make a killing as a wedding DJ. https://shorturl.at/GWY35
Emma Butler-Marr @19thcenturyem.bsky.social PhD researcher studying nineteenth-century (literary) seaside resorts ⛱️ | @bars.bsky.social PGR rep 2026-28 | 2025 BARS Visiting Fellow at Chawton House | chronically ill 💛 (she/her)
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social Writing and Rhetoric faculty at GMU. Digital Rhetoric, Games/Gaming, Tech Comm. Wine and Chinese tea. Tai chi student.
Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social Historian. Archivist. Teacher of public humanities. Author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024).
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugi
Dr. Black's Medieval Remedies @winstonblack.bsky.social Haligonian, Medievalist, Author, Historian of Medicine, Science, and Religion. Dad to kids and cats. Playing piano, MTG, D&D, BG3
Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social eighteenth-century scholar in Heatstroke, TX. let's see how this goes.
Book: Making of Modern Cynicism, now in paperback from UVA press: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
Finch Collins @finchinthestacks.bsky.social PGR at the Uni of Manchester, hosted at Chetham’s Library | libraries and data, early modern books and bodies | posts my own
Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social The OG. Feral essayist. Genderclear. Publicist. They/Thembo. Instructor/Professor. Words: @MarieClaire_sa @Guardian @The_Rumpus etc.🖖
Anne Fernald @fernham.bsky.social Woolf scholar, editor, feminist. 
Mark Beatrice Kaethler (they/iel) @mbkaethler.bsky.social Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, for the Map of Early Modern London; Book Review Editor for Early Theatre; Acting President of Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance.
Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social University-Policy Engagement & ARIs at UPEN/UCL ∣ Impact at the RCA ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her
https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
Stephanie Peebles Tavera @wheretaverawrites.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M, Kingsville. Author of (P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship (Edinburgh UP, 2022). Honorable Mention for 2021 SSAWW Book Edition Award for Helen Brent, MD.
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni & Dir. of MA in Eng Lit. I research alcohol in 19th Century. Co-Dir. Drinking Studies Network (https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/).
https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social Literature prof | currently writing about: medieval plant grafting | they/them | science before 1700, book history, sci fi, whale facts 🐋
🌐 aylinmalcolm.com 📍Toronto
Helen Pinsent @heleninwords.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Dalhousie - American Gothic - Mobility Studies - we are here and it is now
English: Journal of the English Association @englishjournaloup.bsky.social English is dedicated to new developments in English Studies. It publishes work that speaks to the discipline as a whole, including reflections on pedagogy and on the place of English Literature in the world beyond academia https://academic.oup.com/english
Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social Universitair docent 1 at Leiden University (🇳🇱); olim University of Ottawa (🇨🇦). Author of books on manuscript history📝 (Oxford UP, 2025), medieval England's lit 🏰 (Boydell, 2021) and medieval guide dogs 🦮(forthcoming 2025). She/her.
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."
Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social Prof in Renaissance Lit & Textual Studies @ U Leeds. Antiquarian books, letterpress, linocut, uilleann pipes, and computational humanities. Fur-dad to a corgi puppy and three rescue guinea pigs. notwithoutmustard.net 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 He/Him
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social Writer/Prof/Other. All pronouns. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/jbattis
Emily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social assoc prof of English at Penn (c19 British lit, novel theory, mass politics, labor, history of science), author of Populating the Novel
Sarah Allison @sarahdallison.bsky.social English & DH in New Orleans--
new book out on celebrity authorship, 19C print culture, antislavery:
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-rise-of-celebrity-authorship/9780231209717/
Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social Last name is two words, one name: Hanley Cardozo. I teach writing and literature and study Victorian brutes. My views do not represent those of my employer. Website: khandozo.com
Robert Higney @roberthigney.bsky.social english @ cuny | VP @moderniststudies.bsky.social | modernism, cold war, contemporary lit, media, the novel | INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER, uva press (https://bit.ly/inst-char)
Petra Clark @petrabclark.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian, former/forever Victorianist (Aestheticism & periodicals), and inveterate cat documentarian. Probably haunting the rare books stacks or stress baking.
She/her
Matthew Scully @matthewscully.bsky.social Lecturer at the Université de Lausanne | C19 to C21 American literature, film, and visual art | Literary theory | First Book: Democratic Anarchy (Fordham UP, 2024)
https://people.unil.ch/matthewscully/
Jenny Schollaert @jeschollaert.bsky.social Outreach and Engagement Librarian in Special Collections.
Writing about plants and abortion in American Fiction. Yinzer. She/her.
www.jschollaert.com
Rob Montoya @robdmontoya.bsky.social Breslauer Endowed Professor of Bibliography at UCLA | Director, California Rare Book School (CalRBS) | Book History, Libraries, Knowledge Organization | Fulbright
Dr. Laura Davidel @lauradavidel.bsky.social Interested in vampires, witches, and ghosts.
Ph.D. thesis: Monstrosity, Liminality and Queerness in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles.
Probably away taking pictures 📷
Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); noncanonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.
ZLibrarian @zolam.bsky.social Librarian, history researcher, writer, OER, gardening, arts, collaboration, communities, speculative fiction, dancing. Reader. ALA, ACRL. She/her. No DMs.
Adam Kaiserman @realkais.bsky.social Professor, Teacher, Writer
Post-45 US Lit & Mass Media
Ideas are my own and not necessarily those of my employer
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
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. 🏳️🌈
Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social New book: Wild for Austen (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).
Erin Kappeler @erinkappeler.bsky.social English prof turned instructional designer
The Enclosures of Free Verse: Racializing Poetic Form in the Modernist Era (UNC Press, 2026), available here: https://tinyurl.com/2jj23a4a
She/her/fix your hearts or die!
Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social Professor of English. _Melodramatic Imperial Writing from the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes_ (2014). Current project on cosmic romance. Books, TV, running, biking, 🦖, 🏳️🌈
Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Culture, and History; scholar of slavery, empire, and natural history; Stalwart of BSECS, ASLEUKI, the Linnean Society, and Alnwick FoE. From Cornwall, now living in Alnwick, Northumberland. Website: https://www.brycchancarey.com
Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social Vampires, mummies, things that come back to life; anything with chocolate chips. Associate professor of literature, co-director of the Dickens Project, co-director of the Center for Monster Studies at UCSC
Ingrid Horrocks @ingridhorrocks.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Aotearoa. Likes the sea & other stuff. Latest book Where We Swim. Fiction debut, All Her Lives: Nine Stories, on its way from THWUP & UQP. www.ingridhorrocks.com
Paul Mazzocchi @abensourreader.bsky.social Long suffering adjunct faculty in Toronto. Political theory. Puppies. Pizza. Pasketball.
https://sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Politics-of-Emancipation
https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442650046
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social PhD candidate @ UNC-Chapel Hill - C19 Anglophone literature; lover of information, narration, sensation, and interpretation - He/him
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
Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield. Romanticism, Gothic, author and general co-ed of Ann Radcliffe for forthcoming Cambridge edition and gen co-ed of Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. PL AHRC project ‘Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now’
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, and Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Randy Schiff @randyschiff.bsky.social Medievalist. Middle English / Romance /King Arthur / Old French / Theory. TV, Theater & Film fan. Ex-Angeleno Buffalonian. Personal account: opinions my own.
Alex Wagstaffe @green-romantic.bsky.social Indigenous academic studying Gothic Romantic literature. Also interested in expanding into Indigenous literature. Genderfluid, pansexual, greyro (they/them)
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Sarah J. Purcell @sarahjpurcell.bsky.social (She/her) Historian-Teacher-Sometime Digital Humanist. Latest book: Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era from @UNC_Press
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Anna Pilz @apilz.bsky.social Researcher Developer at Edinburgh | Researching Irish & Scottish writing & environmental history 
Rebecca Bowler @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in C20th English Literature at Keele | Working (slowly but surely) on Critical Eds of May Sinclair | Past Chair of BAMS | Modernist Wellness | She/Her
🐌 John Wright 🐌 @badlibrarian.bsky.social BadLibrarian on 🐦. Retired Librarian and Civil Servant. YYJ. British & Canadian. Blocker of empty accounts.
History/PoliSci/LIS -> uni instructor-> 🇨🇦 policy analyst/advisor -> academic librarian.Fox not hedgehog. Often unserious
⚽️🔴⚪️🚴🏻♂️🏏
Carrie SpookyAtADistance Lynn @carrielynnland.bsky.social #PhD candidate in #ScienceFiction; master's on #Dune; podcaster & host of New Books in #Secularism; #academicsky
@thelifeofwords.bsky.social @thelifeofwords.bsky.social Poetry. Dictionaries. Toronto & Waterloo. http://thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca. Book on modern poetry and etymology from OUP in 2020.
Sally Blackburn Daniels @drsallybd.bsky.social Academic interested in Vernon Lee, pacifism, the future of intelligence, performance, memory & Digital Humanities. Jack of all trades, master of none. Impact Acceleration Fellow at ICPL, TU.
She/Her
Michael Riches @michaelriches.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Appalachian State University | writing on California, African American literature, frontiers, crime fiction | straddling uncomfortably the intersection between Bartleby the Scrivener and Gonzo the Great
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
Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social Extinguished Perfesser of Anguish at Ruckers–Nork; mooseophile; wine guzzler; author of many books, a few of them readable; harmless eccentric.
C18 BritLit, dictionaries, book history, fakery, life-writing, political smartassery.
https://jacklynch.net
Lara Dodds @laradodds.bsky.social English Prof and Department Head at a University in the South -- Early Modern Lit -- Cavendishista -- she/her/ hers
Dr. Bethany Qualls @bethanyqualls.bsky.social PhD in #18thC gossip. Recent postdoc at l'Université de Caen. Writer. Editor. Re(un)Covered Podcast Creator. Lover of archives, book history, #c18 smut, snark, intersectional scholarship, and the Oxford comma. Feminist. Bethanyqualls.com she/her/elle
Melanie Teaches @melanieteaches.bsky.social TEFL-Q, Freelance, Online
EAP, IELTS, Cambridge exams, Duolinguo
Mediocre clarinetist, enthusiastic crocheter, easily-distracted gardener held hostage by badgers.
Bianca ⚔️🍉 @bookhoarding.bsky.social Costume Designer.
Crafts. Books. Swords. Jane Austen fan. she/her. Biz: biancahknight @ gmail - https://linktr.ee/bookhoarding
Shannon Draucker @sdraucker.bsky.social Associate Prof., English & Gender/Sexuality Studies @ Siena U. Clarinetist. Author of Sounding Bodies: Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature (SUNY Press, 2024). All views my own.
Ruth Scobie @ruthscobie.bsky.social Mostly eighteenth-century; she/her. Writing a book: NOVELS AND THE RISE OF CELEBRITY, which is not about the rise of the novel
Emily B. Stanback @emilybstanback.bsky.social Romanticism / long 18th c (mostly) British literature, disability studies, history of medicine, health humanities, disability & race
Associate Prof English + director of minors in Disability Studies / Health & Medical Humanities, U of Southern Mississippi
Mary Jo MacDonald @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social Political theorist at Mount Allison University, previously JYU and UofT
maryjomacdonald.com
Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social Animal history. Stellenbosch University. Lion’s Historian.
Melissa Raines McCauley @drmcraines.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool; interested in literature and psychology, crime fiction, horror, film and television adaptations, and Victorian realism (yes, I'm a little all over the place); dog mom; views my own; she/her
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.
Rafael Walker @rafaelwalker.bsky.social I write on literature and issues in higher ed || Associate Professor at Baruch College, CUNY || Editor of Nella Larsen’s *Passing* for Broadview Press https://tinyurl.com/2s3kt7w9 || Still fun! 🎡 🌈
baruch.academia.edu/RafaelWalker
Tina Loo @lootina.bsky.social Mountain itinerant and photog who teaches and writes Canadian and environmental history at the University of British Columbia. [I chose the photo of Sycamore Gap not knowing what would soon happen...]
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
Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social Political Theorist. Author of Plutarch's Prism (CUP, 2022). History of ideas and moral psychology. Tennis fanatic.
Brad Britvich @bradb42.bsky.social PhD. Student in English, studying post-war American novels 
Kate Fama @kfama.bsky.social C19-20 American fiction at University College Dublin. Singleness, domestic architecture, aging, emotions, creative critical praxis.
Also swims, makes prints, binds books.