Medieval Institute Publications @mip-medpub.bsky.social Literary, historical, and material analyses that employ innovative and interdisciplinary approaches. https://linktr.ee/mip_medpub
King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social News from King's College London | King’s is a multi-faculty research-led institution & one of the top 10 UK universities in the world | Contact: comms@kcl.ac.uk
Dr Anna Hegland @alhegland.bsky.social PhD on violence, language, embodiment, and EM drama. Writing and Tutoring Center director, adjunct, and social media manager. Snug’s mom. Being unserious about books, Middleton, and the Cubs. Co-founder of MEMSlib. she/her. Opinions my own.
Edward's Boys @edwardsboys.bsky.social King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon
Methuen Drama @methuendrama.bsky.social Play publishers for over 100 years, with books on acting, theatre performance and production. An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
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Sibylle Baumbach @sibyllebaumbach.bsky.social Prof of English Lit&Cult @unistuttgart.bsky.social, passionate about literary attention and Shakespeare, PI of @litattention.bsky.social, president of @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social. Views are my own.
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
http://research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/
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Drama Online @dramaonlinelib.bsky.social The award-winning digital library from Bloomsbury, the world's leading drama publisher. Exclusive Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare texts, streaming and more.
https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/home 
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.
Shakespeare in Philosophy @shakespeareinphilo.bsky.social Shakespeare in Philosophy (ShiP) is a non-profit public symposium series created by Richard Wilson. Events are held at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare on the banks of the River Thames or online.
Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social Podcaster, Women & Shakespeare
Author, Introduction, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (OWC)
Current Writing: British South Asian Shakespeares on Stage
The History of European Theatre Podcast @thoetp.bsky.social A podcast tracing the development of theatre since the Ancient Greeks in more or less chronological order.
www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com
iansdonnelly.bsky.social @iansdonnelly.bsky.social PhD candidate at the Shakespeare Institute. Researching classical tragedy and early modern English drama, particularly Senecan influences on Elizabethan Inns of Court dramas.
Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social Retired historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social associate prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social Medievalist. Early Modernist. Fan Scholar. Shakespearean. Interests: queenship, popular history, medievalism, fandoms, then&now
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.
Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is a professional organization for the advanced study of Shakespeare's works, times, and afterlife.
Visit linktr.ee/saaupdates for more information on events and member updates.
claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social ¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & dirty books ¶ accidental miltonist ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
Dr Jenny Stevens @drjennyst-hann.bsky.social Co-author of three Arden Shakespeare texts; Methuen Series Editor; Co-editor of Routledge volume on Shakespeare & Education. Literature Tutor @citylit.
Deborah Cartmell @deborahcartmell.bsky.social I publish in Adaptation Studies and am co-editor and founder of the journals, Adaptation (OUP) and Shakespeare (Routledge).
Thea Buckley @thea987.bsky.social Rhymes w Leia. Doc of Shakespeare, Keralan, She / her. bham.academia.edu/TheaBuckley
The RSC @the-rsc.bsky.social The Royal Shakespeare Company
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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/
Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org Our publications, research, and higher education solutions spread knowledge, spark curiosity and aid understanding around the world.
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
BADA | British American Drama Academy @badaonline.bsky.social BADA was founded in 1984 to enable students from the United States and around the world to study theatre with leading actors and directors of the British stage. http://www.bada.org.uk | https://lnk.bio/bada
Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social Oxford's English Faculty is the largest in the UK with a distinguished research and teaching record. Account managed by admin team.
Hailey @bachrach.bsky.social ttrpgs and actual play and dog pics
dndramaturgy.com
Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social Scholarly books from University Presses. News and info from across academia. Part of the Mare Nostrum Group. Based in Harrogate, UK.
Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, University of Glasgow. Old books, MSs, and ideas; classical music; and our cat. My views.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/adrianstreete/
SCLPostGrad2026 @sclpostgrad2026.bsky.social The Shakespeare Centre London’s postgraduate conference, hosted by King’s College London and Shakespeare's Globe. This year's theme is 'Networks'.
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social ⭕️Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe
📖Author of STRAIGHT ACTING, and rep’d by Eleanor Birne at RCW
👨🏼❤️👨🏻 Hitched to @pierstorday.bsky.social
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: scems@sheffield.ac.uk
Joe Maddocks @jxemadd.bsky.social Welsh PhD Student at Sheffield Hallam, studying disability and caregiving in Shakespeare. Also known to drink craft beer and watch bad films. 
@engenderstage.bsky.social @engenderstage.bsky.social 
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Shakespeare Institute @shakesinstitute.bsky.social The University of Birmingham's dedicated Shakespeare research centre in Stratford-upon-Avon
Simply the best place in the world to study Shakespeare.
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CJ @cjtm.bsky.social playwright, director, actor | creative director @apricitytheatre.bsky.social staging queer new writing & adaptations | postdoc research fellow, Bath Spa University | Shakespeare, disruptive dramaturgy, trauma-conscious practice & queer identity | they/them
Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
Shakespeare Bulletin @shaxbull.bsky.social Peer-reviewed quarterly journal, publishing articles at the cutting edge of early modern performance studies. Posts by Dr. Peter Kirwan and Siena Maxwell.
Jeffrey Masten @jmasten.bsky.social History of books, sex/sexuality, & English lit Prof, Northwestern. 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 @pennpress.bsky.social; 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 @cambridgeup.bsky.social
Editor: Marlowe's 𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘐𝘐 @Ardenpublisher.bsky.social now available.
Denison, @upenn.edu alum 🏳️🌈
Darryl Chalk @drdeelittle.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Theatre @ University of Southern Queensland | Shakespeare and early modern drama | conjuring, caregiving, and contagion (not always at the same time) | bonus points: Liverpool FC, record and video game collecting, tabletop board games
Rocío MR @romr30.bsky.social PhD student @linglittrad | Part-time lecturer UAX | Shakespearean heroines, Pre-Raphaelite painting, critical theory, adaptation studies, interart studies.
Skenè Research Centre @skenejournal.bsky.social This account charts the activities of the Skenè Research Centre including Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies (an open-access, peer-reviewed journal, https://skenejournal.skeneproject.it/index.php/JTDS) and its supplements
Randall Martin @rwfm.bsky.social Shakespearian. Ecocritic. Occasional dramaturge.
Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social Medievalist, feminist, dabbles in horticulture. Writing more and more about infertility/reproduction. Yorkshire.
https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/
My book is Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
Elizabeth Fraser @elizabethfr.bsky.social Assistant Commissioning Editor for
Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social Early modernist. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University. Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Views own. She/her.
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Clara Totten @tottencs.bsky.social Director at Kent State University Press. Library enthusiast. Cats and plants, too. (she/her)
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Mareile Pfannebecker @mareilep.bsky.social Renaissance literature and history of thought. Book on the way: Travel Humanism in C17 Literature (MUP)
Hollyann Pye @hollyannpye.bsky.social PhD candidate (minors!) in English (University of Bristol) ~ fooling, folly, EM households, mobility, disguise, rivalry, and 'nothing'ness ~ AFHEA & private English tutor ~
Dr Caroline Taylor @cazzert.bsky.social 📚🎭
17th Century Theatre
Oxford University
Professional Yorkshireman
“Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind”
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/caroline-taylor
(Dr.) Diana Henderson @dianahenderson.bsky.social Still the theater & words Prof. at MIT who now will be trying to reconnect w/ friends who left the other places….
Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social Writer and theatre type 
Elizabeth McDonald @drpastonsrus.bsky.social Commissioning Editor at Boydell & Brewer with particular interests in the period c.1450-c.1850. Primarily here to support the good fight via publishing enterprises. Will also be found "nerding out" over medieval churches and book history.
The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Publishing scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays since 1899. Home of the Third Series, Complete Works and cutting-edge Shakespeare & Early Modern research.
🎭 www.bloomsbury.com/theardenshakespeare
Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture @proverbialculture.bsky.social Account for the AHRC-funded project, Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture.
https://earlymodernproverbs.co.uk/
Anthony @noluckst2.bsky.social 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Toulousain/Godon
PhD student at Homerton College, Cambridge
(Working) Thesis Title:
'The Varying shore o’ th’ world’: Differing purposes of classical exempla in early modern French and English literature'
Cardiff University Alum '19
UCL Alum '20
Erin E. Kelly @eekelly.bsky.social Associate professor of English and director of the Academic and Technical Writing Program at University of Victoria. Associate editor of Early Theatre. Ask me about weird, old plays
Bridget Foreman @foremanwrites.bsky.social Playwright & Dr of Theatre. Senior Lecturer at University of York, Associate Director at Riding Lights Theatre Co.
bridgetforeman.co.uk
Dr. Benjamin Broadribb @benbroadribb.bsky.social Performance Reviews Editor for Shakespeare Bulletin | Shakespeare on screen(s) | Shakespop | metamodernism | performance | adaptation | cinema | theatre | he/him/his
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social Shakespeare / Early Modern / Digital Theatre / Musicals / Innovation / Marketing
S @deviousmeans.bsky.social York-based theatre maker/bricoleur/academic. Mystery Plays, medieval theatre, community performance. Makes a mess.
Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in Early Modern Literature at Durham University
Out now: Elizabethan Occult Poetics: Exploring Practice and Knowledge in English Poetry https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836244783
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Nicole Sheriko @nicolesheriko.bsky.social English prof and theater historian of Renaissance drama / puppet researcher / clown scholar / hellmouth aficionado / dragon enthusiast🐉
University of Leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social Celebrating what makes Leeds special ❤️🏳️🌈🌍
University of York @york.ac.uk We’re a leading UK university and part of the Russell Group 🦆
See news, events and find out more about York at: york.ac.uk
Anna Tarcher Demoux (she/her) @annatarcherdemoux.bsky.social PhD in EM English drama @ucauvergne.bsky.social | Associate Member @ihrim.bsky.social | Education Committee @bsashakespeare.bsky.social
@miss-aslan.bsky.social @miss-aslan.bsky.social BA English/History, MA Shakespeare and Renaissance Lit and PGCE grad. Former FE English/History lecturer and English Coordinator. Secondary English teacher in Sheffield 📚
Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social The Shakespearean Breeches Performance Catalogue | Curating records of Shakespearean breeches performance from 1660-1900 | Project Director: @aelagrand.bsky.social | www.pointslikeaman.com
EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social Shakespeare troll, now in Scotland
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/eoin-price
Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama out now with CUP
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/reprints-and-revivals-of-renaissance-drama/061B68B70ADC59CD5A6D9C3A0F9C0D40
Karen Ecky @eckyk.bsky.social Former teacher of English and former trustee of British Shakespeare Association. All round chatterbox and riot of colour in a dull grey world 😉
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. 
Caminey Kuropatwa @camineyk.bsky.social PhD candidate at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham | Wolfson scholar | English Teacher | Musician | Mother | Lover of cheese, quizzes, and Oxford commas
Claire Hansen @claireghansen.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (The Australian National University). Researcher: Shakespeare Reloaded. Author: Shakespeare & Place-Based Learning. Ecocrit, place, blue humanities, health humanities.
Domenico Lovascio @domlovascio.bsky.social Assoc Prof @UniGenova | FRHistS | early modern English drama | classical reception | John Fletcher | textual editing | Anglo-Italian cultural relationships
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
Natália Pikli @puckinspirit.bsky.social Associate Prof. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Shakespeare/early modern scholar, theatre and Star Wars nerd, rebellious bookworm. Author of "Shakespeare's Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2022).
M. Lizbeth C. S. @lizbethcalvario.bsky.social EN/FR-SP literary translation & Translation Studies, Shakespearean, Early Modernist
Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM
Traducción & Literatura Hispánica - CELL/Colmex
Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social Bereaved mom, Professor FSU Shakespeare, Performance, Book, and Theatre History, Irish Drama. Musical Theatre. General Editor: New Oxford Shakespeare. Author. Dramaturg. Amateur Astronomer. Private pilot.
Dr Wendy Lennon @shakeracepedagogy.bsky.social Education Initiative & Podcast
Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy
www.shakeracepedagogy.com
Insta: @shakeracepedagogy
https://open.spotify.com/show/13RTb0SeKBcQO6FkV9ZGGc?si=MRUP4M0FSy66PRzr_Vmd-w
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Karin Thomson @shakebiblio.bsky.social Librarian, M4C PhD student at Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham), contributor to books on film and Early Modern drama, screenwriter and photographer.
Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social Global Shakespeare, ethical AI, digital humanities, adaptations, Asian studies, film, theatre
Writer, educator, advocacy speaker
Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik @annakowalcze.bsky.social Assistant Professor, @UniLodz; #MulticulturalShakespeare Deputy Editor. Early modern drama, theatre, history of emotions, translation. All views my own. #wiasn
Shake-Scene Shakespeare @shakescenery.bsky.social All about cue-based performance!
Rebecca Mahar @rcmahar.bsky.social Theatre criticism & thoughts at speakthespeech.blog / speakthespeech.bsky.social . Also writing at @alledintheatre.bsky.social.
Actor, fight & intimacy director, lighting designer, Shakespearean, scholar, teacher, writer, runner, lifter, loon. she/her.