Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Rebecca Shipp @rebeccashipp.bsky.social doctoral researcher - writing on walking, C19/C20 rural cultures, land access, class identities — editor of the thomas hardy journals ✨🐅🌴
Dr Harriet Fletcher @harrietfletcher.bsky.social Writer & academic | Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication @ ARU | 💀⭐ #GothicCelebrity (Bloomsbury) | pop culture | horror | feminism | bimbo-ologist 💅 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/harrietfletcher
Fenna Imara Hoefsloot @fennaimara.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life and Department of Geography, University of Durham. Researching the digitising state, urban infrastructure, and data justice. (she/her)
www.fennahoefsloot.com
The Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies @irishgothichorror.bsky.social An informal network for promoting the work of Gothic and horror scholars (whether they be affiliated or independent) and creative practitioners from throughout the island of Ireland.
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
Mark Frost @markfrost.bsky.social Twin Peaks architect. Incurable storyteller. Stoic optimist.
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock @cypheractive.bsky.social I am professor of English at Central Michigan University, president of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic, and editor of American Gothic Studies. I am also the host of DJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio and the Psychobilly Family Power Hour.
19cprof @lauracstruve.com Professor of English literature at Wilmington College, lover of Victorian things, mother of two
Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social Lecturer (Teaching) at University College London | PhD in Film Studies | Aznavour fan with a love for classical musicals and all things dark and Gothicky.
International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Conor Reid @cedreid.bsky.social Podcaster, Writer, Researcher. Podcasts: 'The Greatest Matter' (Victorian Gothic Audiodrama) and 'Words To That Effect' (Narrative storytelling show on popular fiction). Head of Podcasts at HeadStuff/The Podcast Studios.
Sandie Mills @drsandramills.bsky.social Digital analyst | Gothicist | PhD on dolls & horror |
Rachael Squire @squirerachael.bsky.social Human geographer. Interested in states of precarity, oceans (and aquariums), feminist geopolitics, territory, Cold War science.
https://www.statesofprecarity
https://indoor-oceans.com/
Ruth Heholt @ruthheholt.bsky.social Prof of literature and culture. Gothic, crime, masculinity, ghosts. Lead of the Dark Economies Scholarly Association (dESA). Editor Rvenantjournal.com
Charlotte Bartle-McDaniel @ckbmcd.bsky.social 📚Postgrad/PhD researcher - Hair in 19thC & Neo-Victorian mourning/memorialisation • Anglo-American Literature • Material culture • Death & dying • Grief • Sensation fiction • Popular fiction •
Yorkshire 🏴 ➡️ Missouri 🇺🇸
💀 Taphophile
http://www.ckbmcd.com
Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Teesside University. Interests: fin-de-siecle literature; women’s writing; socialist writing and print culture; the Gothic; literary representations of insects.
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
Tariq Jazeel @rikjaz.bsky.social Geographer based at UCL who works on culture, politics, and space. Musings on diasporization, Sri Lanka, South Asia, and much more. coyg…
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/geography/tariq-jazeel
Dr Scarlett Butchers @scarlettbutchers1.bsky.social Early Career Researcher ◇ Ecocriticism, Folk Horror, Monstrosity, David Rudkin, (eco)gothic, C20th British theatre ◇ I run @makingitwyrd.bsky.social
John Savarese @johnsavarese.bsky.social Assoc Prof @ UWaterloo English. Romanticism, gothic studies, history of science, and sound studies
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Hellebore contributor • poems in NewPoetry.ca, Ekphrastic Review, South Shore Review • 🇨🇦 in Connecticut • /|\
Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography at UCL. Posting about geopolitics, popular culture, and cat memes
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
Gothic Studies @gothicstudies.bsky.social The academic journal of the International Gothic Association (www.globalgoth.org), published by Edinburgh University Press and edited by Emily Alder and Jamil Mustafa. Email gothiceditors@gmail.com
Dr Kathleen Hudson (she/her) @kathleenh42.bsky.social Adjunct professor, specialist in Gothic literature and media, usually pretty sleep-deprived. Bully your university library into buying a copy of “Religious Horror and the Ecogothic”.
Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social Fantasy writer. Working on a literary dark fantasy about fear, responsibility, and the Dead. M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin
https://linktr.ee/Thomas_Sheridan
Making It Wyrd @makingitwyrd.bsky.social A scholar putting a gothic spin on pop culture. Books, films, music - we're making it wyrd 👻
Check out our blog: https://makingitwyrd.wordpress.com
Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social Scholar of African Lit., Gender and Ecocriticism; wrote Fiction as History: Resistance and Complicities in Postcolonial Angolan Literature (Legenda, 2022); Career Dev. Fellow in Women's, Gender and Sexualities Studies at Oxford.
UCL Department of Geography @uclgeography.bsky.social UCL Department of Geography | One of the UK's largest and most prominent institutes for geographical study and research.
ucl.ac.uk/geography
Jin L. Li @jinlorili.bsky.social (Im)mobility | Uncertainty | Transmigrant families, parenting and education | international migration and financial infrastructure｜🇬🇧 - 下南洋ing - 🇸🇬
Johanna L. Waters @johannawaters.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography & Co-Director of MRU @ UCL | Editor of 'Global Networks' | Migration, transnational families, education & (international) students | Likes orienteering, running & vegan food | Views mine, not my employer's
Lindsey McClure ✨ @ghostiesghoulies.bsky.social PhD candidate studying 19th century Irish and British folklore and literature ☕️📚I Folk & Fairy Tales | The Gothic | Archives ~loves cats, coffee, and cold, rainy days 🌨️
Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social Professor of English, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
Barbara Chamberlin @barbarachamberlin.bsky.social Senior lecturer at UoB, talks, writes and enthuses about horror, comics and landscape. Happiest in water
She / they
Sovereign Collective of Ojibways @scojibways.bsky.social The Sovereign Collective of Ojibways (SCO) will be sharing news, upcoming events & progress focused on strengthening the sovereignty of Ojibwayland.
Robert Edgar @robertedgar.bsky.social Writer and Academic. Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University. Scriptwriting, Music Memoir, Hauntology, Folk Horror, Science-Fiction
Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social PhDing @BirkbeckUoL on Georgian/Regency courtesan-writers. First article now OA https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452X.2025.69.4
Book blogging https://ellethinks.wordpress.com/. Escaped bookseller, soprano, T1D, she/her 🇺🇸/🇬🇧
Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social Publisher, Executive Editor, and Senior Lecturer at a TX uni working on 19C British poetry, gender and sexuality, history of science, empire. Sometime watercolorist, 3 cat familiars, 3 sons. Views my own.
Ab @abparcellwriter.bsky.social PhD Student @ Salford researching the possibilities of autofiction in women’s self-fashioning / PhD Writer in Residence at The Portico Library / Big Fat Butch Dyke / Cat Mam.
I'm Welsh; of course my nan dated Tom Jones and I write poems and that
🍉
Harley Tillotson @harleytillotson.bsky.social PhD Student in English Literature 📚
Part of the OGOM crew
All things fairy, folkloric and gothic 🦇
23 | she / they | trainee powerlifter
GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social A spooky network interested in exploring all aspects of the Gothic at @unibirmingham.
Co-run by @katrinajan.bsky.social, @dremilyvincent.bsky.social.
Blog: https://uobgothica.wordpress.com/past-sessions/
Katrina Jan @katrinajan.bsky.social English Lit PhD & Project Manager @UniBirmingham
Jack the Ripper in #19c & Contemporary #Romance Novels, Serial Killers, True Crime, #Gothic
Co-runs @gothicauob.bsky.social 🦇 & cerealkillernet.bsky.social 🔪
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Rep @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Amy Coles @amycoles.bsky.social Doctor of English Literature | Gothic, Sci-Fi, Horror, Monsters, Popular Culture | Currently writing “Eight Archetypes of the Double” and “Dickens’s Gothic” | she/her
Dr. Craig Thomson @craigyboyt.bsky.social Writer, Editor and Lycanthropologist (Seriously).
NUFC sado-masochist.
PhD on Folklore, Werewolves and 19thC UK Gothic. Research interests: #Monsters #Folklore & #Gothic
Website: MonstrousFolklore.com
Brontë Schiltz @bronteschiltz.bsky.social 🖊: @bigissue.com @bigissuenorth.bsky.social 👻 PhD on the BBC’s Televisual Gothic @manmetuni.bsky.social 👩💼 Members Coordinator @igagoths.bsky.social
Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social Researching and writing about literature of the sea and the gothic: mostly coastly, the seabed and deep ocean, blue hums, and gothic voices. Co-runs the Haunted Shores network. Senior Lecturer at University of Birmingham.
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Roxanne Douglas @roxannedouglas.bsky.social Assistant Prof at IAS University of Warwick. World-Literatures, Feminism, Arab Feminism, Gothic, Apocalypses. Women in World-Literature organiser. She/her.
Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social PhD in 19th C gothic fiction. She/her. Displaced scholar working full-time in state government (public health). Theater and music performer. Adjunct professor. Ally.
Laura Pottinger @laurajpottinger.bsky.social Research Fellow in Geography @ University of Manchester
Currently researching #MakingSlowColour (slowness, activism, growing, crafting, seeds, textiles & creative methods). She/her.
Andrew Smith @andysheff.bsky.social Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield. Most recent book is 'Dickens and the Gothic' (CUP), currently writing a book on 'Vegetarian Gothic' (CUP).
Han O'Flanagan (they/he) @smaugish.bsky.social Final year PhD candidate in English Literature @ Lancaster University. Researching asexuality in fin-de-siecle ghost and Weird fiction. Big ol goff. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The Dundee Review @dundeegothic.bsky.social A twenty-first-century literary magazine for original gothic, terror, horror and fantasy fiction: dundeereview.com
Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social The #Gothic; #18thC - #19thC literature & sciences of the mind, occult & supernatural; digital Gothic 👻
Associate Professor & Director: Master of Research, Faculty of Arts, MQU, Sydney
Co-Editor: ANCR & INCSA Book Series
She/Her
https://kirstinmills.com
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Robert @roberre.bsky.social Accountant and recovering English prof. Dad. Python person. Academia fan. Reader of lit. philosophy and criticism. Keyboard and piano player. Aspiring music programmer. Lover of music theory. In a contra dance fiddle band. Been in a couple plays recently.
Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social Rare books and special collections at Furman Univ. in Greenville, SC, USA. U.S. and world book history. Am. Lit. Ph.D. Publishing Plates (PSU Press, 2023), In Dogs We Trust (USC Press, 2019). Book arts. Dogs, lots of dog pics (and cats). He/him
Kevin Lee Nelson @kevinleenelson.bsky.social Author, folklorist, adventurer, warlock, & psychogeographer. Co-author of the Back Roads Lore series, a deep dive into America's dark folklore, urban legends, and peculiar traditions.
Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social Oxford Law Research Admin, dabbler in history, philosophy & sociology of the life sciences & medicine.
Sarah @mugsofwine.bsky.social Book, film, television, and theater nerd. Film Studies PhD dropout. Can be bribed with photos of Paul Newman. 
Kristin Franseen @kmfranseen.bsky.social Musicologist. Sessional lecturer at Concordia and UVic, former postdoc at Western and Concordia. Currently working on fiction and anecdote in Antonio Salieri's reception history. I also wrote a book on the history of queer musicology! she/her
Claire Denelle Cowart @clairedenelle.bsky.social Literature professor specializing in Irish lit, Jane Austen, detective fiction and modern Brits. Twitter refugee (was ccowart1). Live close to NOLA. Married with grown children and grandchildren. Eyeing retirement. she/her
Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social A useless humanist with a love for art, astronomy, history, literature, science, human rights and social justice. I hate oppression.
https://linktr.ee/raimokangasniemi
Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social Based in SF Bay Area 🌁🌉
Computational Literary Studies
Postdoc at @berkeleyischool.bsky.social
Founding member of @fortextlab.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social
Editorial Ass. @jcls-io.bsky.social
Website: svenjaguhr.github.io
Meghan Kelley @iheartsmarties.bsky.social An American Psychoanalyst in London.
Doctoral student in Psychoanalysis and the Gothic,
Manchester Metropolitan University.
meghankelley-lcsw.com
Rose Summers @rosebeforehos.bsky.social "Thus I draw from the absurd 3 consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion." -Camus 🧷
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
AJ Kahr @headshrinker81.bsky.social Writer. Gothic Funk Celt
Dr Darren Gray @drdarrengray.bsky.social Researcher in Literature, Film and Cultural Studies | The Gothic, Horror, Technology, Disability | Currently writing ‘Horror and Disability’ for the University of Wales Press Horror Studies series.
Proudly neurodivergent (ADHD)
Ellesse Patterson 🐝 @elpatterson.bsky.social AHRC funded PhD student at the University of Sheffield, researching monstrous reproduction in long 19th-century British Gothic. She/Her.
Nicole M. Wolverton (she/her/hers) @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social Professionally unsettling | Philly-area writer of (mostly) horror & thrillers | MEAT SWEATS * MARCH 2027 | horror academic | scent-obsessed | nicolewolverton.com
Franz Potter @franzpotter.bsky.social Professor & Gothic chapbook enthusiast. Gothic publishing, bibliography & book history. Obsessed with Sarah Wilkinson's biography. All views are my own.
Jess @jane-ares.bsky.social PhD CANDIDATE dissertating about the Gothic and the internet. friendly neighborhood queer Gothicist. secret folklorist. she/her
Hwaet @cog1.bsky.social A nasty, forward minx.
I’m a random stranger on the internet, not a spokesperson for the State.
Emma L. Davies @edgarallanhole.bsky.social horror author | bristol | ahrc funded phd | bog gothic 🌱
lb: https://boxd.it/455UF
Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social English lit prof @uni-bamberg.de | pirate/collaborator/witch | law&lit-geek | 🍄 | reviews ed. Shakespeare JB | gen.ed. gender forum Cologne | assoc.ed. Neo-Victorian Studies | mum | colour-lover | doodler | she/her
https://www.wonderlink.de/@susannegruss
Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social used to work in museums, now works at School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds (she/her)
Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social Online digital media researcher (horror) with the worst taste in movies that you’ll ever see.
@ Newcastle University 💜
Dr Sean Travers @seanjetravers.bsky.social PhD in Trauma, Popular Culture and Postmodernism. Published with Palgrave Macmillan. Illustrator. Horror, movies, TV, games, cats. #mutantfam she/her
Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social Historian of art & ideas, Cambridge
FSA FRHistS. Sometimes on the radio.
📕 The Story of Tudor Art out now
views own 🥦👻🎻
https://www.christinajfaraday.com/
Dr Janice Deitner @janiceflux.bsky.social Scholar of Shirley Jackson and periodical culture, funded by Research Ireland. Research interests include periodicals, Horror, the Gothic, Science Fiction, popular culture in general, zombie bites in narrative and popular discourse. Opinions my own.
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 + Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Rosalind Crocker @rosiecrocker.bsky.social phd-ing @shefenglish with @WRoCAH. neo-victorian doctors, patients and clinical spaces. #medhums #litsci she/her
Innes M. Keighren @inneskeighren.bsky.social Professor of Historical Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-convenor of the London Group of Historical Geographers. Writing a book on the global lives of William Macintosh (1737–1813). www.inneskeighren.com
Leila Taylor @leilataylor.bsky.social creative director, library booster, writer, purveyor of gloomth, future crone.
Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.
Alex Mayhew @alexmayhew.bsky.social Assistant Professor @lsehy.bsky.social | Great War + Morale + Crisis + Resilient Gardening + Mesopotamia + Technological Innovation
Written a book for Cambridge University Press | Past me: University of Birmingham, LSE100 and LSE LIFE.
Carey Millsap-Spears 🖖🐎❤️ @careymillsapspears.bsky.social Author of Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic: Tell Fear No, Lexington Books, 2023. Views own
Doc Jacoby @docjacoby.bsky.social Unfiltered opinions and truths about the current world - with that certain something! And don’t forget to watch your daily dose of Twin Peaks 😉
Gail Davies @gailfdavies.bsky.social Prof in Human Geography at University of Exeter researching spaces of science & technology, human & animal health, research involvement & responsibility. Currently works on animal research & its replacements. Unexpected interest in chronic pain & FND.
Ashley R. Smith-Campbell @ashleyrsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College | PhD in Screen Cultures from Northwestern | Writing on horror, culture, race, and gender | True crime & media trash lover | Opinions are mine | Formerly @thehorrorfemme on Twitter