Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda @alejandrofabregastejeda.com Philosopher & Historian of Biology 🇲🇽 • Postdoctoral Fellow @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052825/the-organism-environment-pairing/ • #philsci #HPS #philsky
Amy Wilcockson @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social MHRA Research Fellow - 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley', Queen Mary University of London
Communications Officer - BARS
PhD on letters of Thomas Campbell
(she/her)
https://www.amywilcockson.com/
Tim Milnes @tmilnes.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature and Philosophy, University of Edinburgh. Writer of books. Reposter of other people's cool stuff. Connoisseur of Romantic trash and the excremental sublime.
Elizabeth Fraser @elizabethfr.bsky.social Assistant Commissioning Editor for
Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
Katie MacLean @katiemaclean.bsky.social PhD student at Stirling Uni researching Jane Austen and queer performance / Editor-in-Chief, Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 📚✨🎭
Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social William Blake's Mysticism, Palgrave • Scottish Romanticism • Incoming 2026-7 VRF, Durham University • 2025 VRF, University of Glasgow • Gender, Spirituality & Prophecy • she/her • email: jodie.l.marley@gmail.com
Hannah Catterall (she/her) @hannahcatterallwg.bsky.social Events Officer on the Curatorial & Learning team at Wordsworth Grasmere. Leading the adult learning and universities programmes. https://wordsworth.org.uk/
Dr Ellen Gallimore @emgallimore.bsky.social Recently completed PhD at @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, studying early medieval literature, tithes, 19th C. medievalism, tithes, English church history, tithes, historiography, and tithes.
p/t PS staff at @manchester.ac.uk & @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
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)
Dave @davejeeping.bsky.social 🌞
Laura Rocklyn @lauralostintime.bsky.social I’m a writer, actress, and first person historical interpreter who loves to share stories — true and imagined!
Currently a PhD researcher in English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of York Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies.
Emma Mason @emmalrmason.bsky.social 18th centuryist, AHRC funded PhD 'Collecting the Counter-Revolution' with Courtauld Institute of Art + the Fitzwilliam Museum. Interested in all things French Rev + social and political histories. KE Manager at UoSheffield.
| MCR | Sheff | LDN | Cambridge
Frost Carter @frost-carter.bsky.social 25 - Student interested in history, philosophy, science, and culture - Communist - Interested in an enactive approach to marxism & critical theory
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social Professor, Department of English and Related Literature and Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. Books, running, messiness, cats
Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social poet and musician
www.grzegorzkwiatkowski.com
Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social Prof in 18th Century & Romantic Literature at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, she/her, Pākehā/settler scholar, #toitūtetiriti, 🏀
Books on Romanticism + settler colonialism + Indigenous studies
https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/nikki.hessell
Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social Academic @york.ac.uk
Sociology of Professions / Critical Management Studies / History
Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social PhD on class & alcohol in 18th cent. art & literature / a Manc studying at the University of Sheffield / very grandma-esque / BSECS PGR Representative
Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social MA-ing in Romanticism @ York || Interested in PB Shelley; self-injury in Romantic lit; protest poetry || Comms fellow @bars.bsky.social
Autistic, she/they 🛼
Rachel Xhemajli @rachelxhemajli.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate at Oxford | Long 18th-Century British Literature | English Romanticism | 18th-Century Theology and Political Philosophy | Digital Humanities
Paul Stephens @paulstephens.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English @ University of York.
C18-19th Literature and Culture. He/Him
https://www.york.ac.uk/english/people/paulstephens/
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
@z-kilic.bsky.social @z-kilic.bsky.social
Francis Taylor @frankietaylor317.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of York, Department for English and Related Literatures. Working on weeding in early modern agriculture, and natural philosophical, theological, and devotional prose.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Words For That @forloulou.bsky.social Linguist (HEL but it all gets me), retiring academic, epic cyclist, ngo worker, farmer. You can work out the rest.
School for Business and Society 🏫 @uoysbs.bsky.social It's what we're for. For better business. For fairer societies. Based @york.ac.uk.
People in the School - Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/enRmVo
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/uoy-sbs/
🔗 www.york.ac.uk/business-society
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Writer.
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social
Hagioptasia: Perception & Meaning @hagioptasiatheory.bsky.social Exploring the hidden force of perceived 'specialness' - a natural illusion shaping human belief, behaviour, & culture.
https://hagioptasia.wordpress.com
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Mikelyn Rochford @mikelyn.bsky.social Host of a moderately cool radio show. Record collector. Illustrator. PhD student in Irish literature + narrative theory @ Uni of York
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
What is life without Books?! @wherearethebooks.bsky.social Promoting #OpenScience practises (in the Arab States) & #LordByron (everywhere else). Ravenous bibliophage lurking in the desert (with cats)
Chief Academic Officer, Knowledge E | Director, The Byron Society | Director, Forum for Open Research | BARS Exec
Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social ‘Curious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Wales and Scotland’. An AHRC-funded research project (CAWCS, University of Glasgow, Natural History Museum London)
Histories of Enlightenment Travel
https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/
Marxism in Culture @marxisminculture.bsky.social The Marxism in Culture seminar series was conceived in 2002 to provide a forum for those committed to the continuing relevance of Marxism for cultural analysis. We meet 3-4 times a term on Fridays at 5.30pm at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL
Maddy Mikinski @mikinski.bsky.social Bachelorette of English & Journalism | Mistress of Romantic & Victorian Lit | Wannabe doctor of Austen and gossip @ York. Currently accepting either 1 very good bit of gossip, 2 moderately good bits of gossip, or 3 bits of gossip very dull indeed
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social Official account for the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Celebrating the lives & works of Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, & their circles
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @ucc.ie • Scottish Romanticism, the Novel, Reading / Book History • IASSL Membership Sec • AFHEA • She/her
Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social Environmental Humanities researcher. @LeedsUniEnglish @LeedsEnvHums
#Wordsworth #JohnClare #Romanticism
#walking #birdwatching #naturewriting
Ascending with the Earth 🌍.
writerharrison @harrisonwriter.bsky.social 🍁 #Canadian - #Author - #Poet 🍁
amazon.com/author/phillipharrison
I try to write in ways that feed both the mind and soul. ♊ & #GenX #stationaryaddict
💫 Creator of imagined worlds 💫
Emily Whittingham @emily-whittingham.bsky.social PhD student at the Uni of York, department of history | The microscope in knowledge creation and visual culture, 1660-1830.
PG Rep for BSECS, @bsecs.bsky.social
Seminar Co-Convenor for NEHN, @northernenvhistory.bsky.social
AHRC funded through WRoCAH
Pablo Hernández Sau @hernandez-sau.bsky.social Postdoc. Junta de Andalucía, Univ. Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla| Alumni EUI| Historian of Eighteenth Century Iberian Worlds| Spanish Louisiana| Colonial Mozambique| #MobilityHistory, #PoliticalEcology, #GlobalHistory, #BlueHumanities| My own views 🇺🇦🇵🇸 | He/him
Studies in Romanticism @studiesinrom.bsky.social Committed to advancing the study of literature and culture in the dynamic "Romantic Century" of 1750-1850. International in sympathies and interdisciplinary in approaches, SiR publishes the highest caliber scholarship on Romantic-era studies.
Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social Green Party Member. NHS Worker. Wells. Somerset. Green Runner. Late Rosette Adopter. Hot Fuzz Superfan.
British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
https://www.bars.ac.uk/main/
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/
Lydia Shaw @lydiashaw.bsky.social Teaching & Research Fellow @ University of Tübingen. | Specialising in the Romantics & environmental humanities. 🌿🌊 | My recent article on Byron's arboreal imagery & exilic identity: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/966053 🌳🌲
David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Leeds, UK. Working on culture and environmental crisis. Writing a book about birds, loss, and restoration. Worried parent. Luddite. Opinions my own. Reposts ≠ endorsement.
Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network @e-cen.bsky.social The Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
Find out more: https://hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-century-e
Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social Associate Professor in an academic library. Publishes on British romantic literature, climate change, plant humanities, librarianship, social justice, and pedagogy. Not gay as in happy, queer as in free Palestine.
Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social 18th/19th C. Literature and History: Poetry, Nature, Science, Medicine, and Emotion 🌿✨
Lover of Romanticism, Fantasy, Folklore, and the Gothic 🖤🥀
Elisabeth Ansel @elisabethansel.bsky.social Art Historian at @uni-jena.de | Art & Politics, Irish & British Art, Transcultural Romanticism, Art & Blindness, Postcolonial & Gender Studies, Epistemic Images | Berlin, Jena
Gus @gustavelester.bsky.social historian of geosciences & US empire, long 19th century.
Postdoctoral Researcher (2024-2026): Center for Anthropocene History, Stockholm
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
Adam Bridgen @adambridgen.bsky.social Studies working-class poetry and letters from 1650-1850, in context of empire and slavery, land politics, ecology, and the non-human world.
-- Now https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/adam-j-bridgen/
-- Next: international fellow @lias1.bsky.social
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social PhD researcher in Romantic Literature 🖋️ Thinking/writing about clouds, climate, affect, and ecological consciousness ⛅️Co-convener @e-cen.bsky.social