George McKay @georgemckay.bsky.social Prof Media Studies. Writes about popular music, festival, disability, jazz, peace, protest, gardening, + most recently Oxford Handbook of...Punk Rock. Charcot Marie Tooth. Plays music: double bass, bands (jazz, folk)
Laurel Plapp @laurelplapp.bsky.social Senior Acquisitions Editor for Language, Literature and Culture, Peter Lang Oxford
Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social • Author of SURRENDER (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018) & GREYHOUND (Fitzcarraldo Editions & Soft Skull Press, 2025).
• Words in Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman, TLS, The Nation, etc...
• Creative Writing tutor at the University of the Arts, London.
Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer.
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin, (Little Toller)
Luce Leonard @luceleonard.bsky.social I really love the teachings of the Dalai Lama and the great spiritual masters around him. They make me feel good.
Photo: The Dalai Lama
To my right is Yahne Le Toumelin, Matthieu Ricard’s mother.
Amy Bergman @amy-bergman.bsky.social doing a PhD in French, thinking about the real, watching the football | from Meanjin; in Kent
Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz @juliarsct.bsky.social
Researcher in Anthropology, French Studies, History & Digital Humanities, working on the poetry of the Great War 📚 Rugby player/coach 🏉 Cat person 😻 
Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social Writer, Humanities Prof, University of Birmingham
Vice-President, British Academy
WE ARE FREE TO CHANGE THE WORLD: HANNAH ARENDT'S LESSONS (2024),
OLD WOMEN: A HISTORY OF OUR FUTURE (COMING 2027)
Rep Zoë Waldie RCW
https://lyndseystonebridge.com/
Juan Wu @jwuau1103.bsky.social Assistant Professor in English literature @ Tsinghua U
Travel writing studies/women writers crossing borders/ global modernism/digital humanities
Rebecca du Plessis @rebeccadp.bsky.social Copy-editor, proofreader | Advanced Professional Member CIEP | academic humanities | fiction translations from French
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Charles Arthur @charlesrarthur.bsky.social writer & editor
https://www.charles-arthur.com/
@a-niloingsigh.bsky.social @a-niloingsigh.bsky.social Educator in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. Teaching in primary teacher education and also researching the environmental humanities. Figuring out what the hedgeland, the commons, the garden, the woods can teach us about pasts and presents.
Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social Sales, marketing, and distribution for university presses.
@livunipress.bsky.social
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/distribution-services
AULC - Association of University Language Communities @aulc.bsky.social Bringing together language teaching and learning professionals in the UK and Ireland.
https://aulc.org/
Leeds City of Languages @leedscitylanguages.bsky.social 
Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social Associate Prof in French at St Catz, Oxford. Works on imagination, posterity, death, self-fashioning, theatre in C18. Mother of 4yo & 7yo. Views my own.
Sofia Martinho @sofiamartinho.bsky.social Associate Professor of Portuguese | Director of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies | Languages, Cultures and Societies | University Leeds | President of TROPO UK | Co-founder of the Language Scholar Journal.
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
sophie | PhD student @sophiecairns.bsky.social AHRC english lit PhD researcher | glasgow | she/her
research interests: long 19thC literature, travel literature, romanticism, history of empire & imperialism
usually found playing Baldur’s Gate 3 somewhere
CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social New account (migrated from @ctismanchester) for the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies @ University of Manchester.
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Carl Thompson @carlethompson.bsky.social Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
Petre Breazu @petrebreazu.bsky.social Asst. Research Professor @ University of Cambridge | Online Hate Speech, LLMs, CDA & Multimodal Analysis | Former Marie Curie Fellow.
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history.
Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
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Ángeles Carreres @angelescarreres.bsky.social Language teacher, translator, diletante a mucha honra.
Tariq Modood @tariqmodood.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, University of Bristol
Leading author on multiculturalism, secularism, Islamophobia and cultural racism
RTs are not endorsements and may be sent while I print it to read later.
@redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social 
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social AHA is an association of learned societies working together to promote the Arts & Humanities in higher education. Posts by @emmacayley.bsky.social and @TheaPitman.bsky.social Find us at: http://artsandhumanitiesalliance.org- P Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social Historian - mainly researching refugee history in the 20c. … but it’s not just about refugees… oh, and still learning about what’s at stake then and now. Funded generously in the past by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust and enabled by UNHCR Records and Archives
@hannahewalz.bsky.social @hannahewalz.bsky.social 
Wendy Michallat @wmichallat.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages, Arts & Humanities, Sheffield. Writing a book about northern working class women & languages education in inter-war Britain. Detectorist, allotmenteer, cyclist. Rheumatoid Arthritis doesn't slow me down 😄 🚴♀️👨🌾
German at Cambridge @germancambridge.bsky.social Official account of the German Section of the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics at the University of Cambridge
https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/german
AlrikDaldrup @alrik.bsky.social PhD student in German literature. Working on affects, violence and resistance in literary texts.
Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social X: @jrhentschke. Chair of Latin American History and Politics, Newcastle Univ. UK; Specialisms: History of Brazil, Southern Cone and Colombia, late 18th-mid 20th cc.; SLAS President 2015-17; Chair of UK Standing Conference of LA Centres 2017-19. Own views.
Bloomsbury Education @bloomsburyed.bsky.social We publish the education books everyone’s talking about 📚✨
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org I research scholarly communication at Cambridge University Library / Cambridge Digital Humanities
PI: @morphss.bsky.social
New book: PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET https://press.umich.edu/Books/P/Publishing-Beyond-the-Market
https://www.samuelmoore.org
Stanley Bill @stanleysbill.bsky.social Professor of Polish Studies, University of Cambridge
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Dr Liam Rogers @liamrogers95.bsky.social Higher Education and Research Policy at British Academy.
Independent researcher of film-philosophy, PhD from Warwick FTV.
New book out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/screening-technology-theorizing-posthumanism-9798765162941/
Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social Contemporary Literature, Novels, Theory, Time, Reading, Sociology of Literature.
Nicki Hitchcott @nickihitchcott.bsky.social Professor of French and African Studies/Head of School of Modern Languages at University of St Andrews
Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social 18th-century cultural history, French literature, art etc. Currently Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford/All Souls College
Jonathan Kasstan @jrkasstan.bsky.social Reader in Sociolinguistics, Westminster | Research on language in society | Associate Editor, Journal of Sociolinguistics | Research Notes Editor, Journal of French Language Studies.
https://sites.google.com/view/jonathan-kasstan/home
Viatica Revue @viaticarevue.bsky.social Viatica, première revue française dédiée à la littérature des voyages / Viatica, the first French scholarly journal dedicated to the literature of travel: https://journals.openedition.org/viatica/
Universities UK @universities-uk.bsky.social The voice of UK universities
University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk Official account for the University of Cambridge. Follow us for research, news, events and student stories from the Cambridge community 🎓📚
Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (just done: #MoonMad); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
Marion Coderch @mncod.bsky.social Assistant professor in Catalan studies at UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia). SFHEA.
Medieval Occitan, Catalan and French. Gender studies. Women's studies. SoTL in Modern Languages.
Louisa Semlyen @lousem.bsky.social Senior Publisher of English Language, Linguistics, Literature & Translation studies books @Routledge. Brighton based.
Translation at Warwick @warwicktranslation.bsky.social Translation and Transcultural Studies at University of Warwick
AUBUCU: Solidarity Machines + Fun Memes. Also Art. @aubucu.bsky.social Arts University Bournemouths UCU Branch
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Nick Evans @nicholasevans.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Diaspora History at the University of Hull.
EneidaLinguist FHEA FCIL (she/her) @eneidalinguist.bsky.social Teacher Trainer & Chartered Linguist #EstelleBrisard 2021 winner #Translation #PSIT #ConferenceInterpreting #Languages #Education #ECR #Research RT≠Endorsement
Zara Fahim @zarafahim15.bsky.social AHRC Midlands4Cities-funded PhD linguistics (modern languages) @ uni of nottingham 🗣️🇦🇹🏔️• activities secretary @ LAGBPSC • linguist • language contact | MFL uptake & policy • she/her •🪴☕️🐹🌷🦍
https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/zara-fahim/
Languages, Society and Policy @lspjournal.bsky.social LSP publishes high-quality peer-reviewed language research in accessible and non-technical language to promote policy engagement.
Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social Poet, editor, critic
https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/tag/pavilion-poetry/
https://www.serenbooks.com/seren-author/deryn-rees-jones/
https://thamesandhudson.com/paula-rego-the-art-of-story-9780500021378
David Orrego-Carmona @dorrego.bsky.social Translation, Technology and Communication. Sometimes climbing.
Associate Professor at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
Research Fellow at University of the Free State
Martin Hurcombe @fhmjh.bsky.social Professor of French Studies, University of Bristol. Specialist in early twentieth-century French history, culture and politics with a particular interest in sports history and writing.
Bonaventure Munganga @bonavmuz.bsky.social Early Career Researcher in African and Afro-diasporic Literatures, Comparative Black and Indigenous Race, Cultures, Literatures and Arts, with a focus on epistemologies, (eco)aesthetic and poetics, posthumanism, postcolonialism, and decolonial critique.
Weibing NI @weibingni.bsky.social PhD in French @Cambridge| wn235@cam.ac.uk
Caribbean literature, comparative literature, critical race theory, gender study, and migration study.
Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social Assoc prof at the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies UoM | Translation Multiples (Princeton UP, 2025) | Literature, translation, multilingualism, Central & Eastern Europe, Cold War writing
Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social Publishing Manager, @themhra.bsky.social
Co-editor of the MHRA Style Guide
Posting about scholarly publishing • History and future of the book • Book design, typography, typesetting 📚
Also work on the history of witchcraft & magic 🌒
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Lynne_SCILT @lynnescilt.bsky.social Professional Development Officer at SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages https://scilt.org.uk. Primary languages. Professional learning. Leadership Development. she/her/hers. Joined Aug2024. Reposts ≠ endorsements
Alexandra Pugh @allypugh.bsky.social Hamilton Junior Research Fellow in French @ The Queen's College, Oxford
Languages Direct @languages-direct.com HQ for Languages Direct Ltd's posts on anything and everything to do with learning foreign languages.
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Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social writer, journalist & broadcaster 📝
Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje.
Mancunian 🐝
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Ruairí Cullen @ruairicullen.bsky.social HE policy @ The British Academy.
Coralie de Souza Vernay @coraszav.bsky.social Conservatrice du patrimoine à la @fondationme.bsky.social. Brésiliano-française.
Musées, culture. #coraçãobrasileiro
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & all 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered ex-academic historian, folkie, morris dancer & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
Saskia Huc-Hepher @svshh.bsky.social French Studies, Migration, Translation, Digital Humanities, Health Humanities, Citizen of Europe and bonne… maman. Views my own. She/her/elle
Lynton Lees @lyntonlees.bsky.social Senior Policy Manager, Public First. Previously British Academy, PhD history of universities and education in modern Britain, Columbia. Views my own.
Chelsea Stieber @chelseastieber.bsky.social Author, Haiti's Paper War, NYU Press 2020
Co-Editor, Haiti for the Haitians, LUP 2023
NOLA <—> DC
Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
@connormckenz.bsky.social @connormckenz.bsky.social 
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social Caribbeanist. Literary translator. Lecturing Translation and Translation Studies @NantesUniversité. ❤️ in 🇵🇷.
Author of The Caribbean in Translation @PeterLangBooks. She/her.
Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social Dad; Senior Lecturer in European History, University of Stirling; UKRI Future Leaders Fellow studying the history of global HIV activism; writes in personal capacity
UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics @ucdslcl.bsky.social Keep up to date with the #UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics #UCDSLCL
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Maika Nguyen @maikanguyen.bsky.social Postdoc @CEFRES (Prague), examining literature and film by Vietnamese diaspora across Europe. PhD in francophone autofictional return narratives. She/her 🏳️🌈
Sharae Deckard @sharaerua.bsky.social UCD English. Marxist lit crit, postcolonial & world lit, env hums, world-ecology, sf/f, gothic, weird. Singer, gamer, addicted to open world RPGs, feminist, CC and still masking, immunosuppressed w/RA, cat-guardian. Saoirse Palestine!
Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social Journalist and affiliated lecturer at Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. US/UK policy in Latin America.
Now researching: Environmental social movements, corporations, greenwash, water. https://www.grace-livingstone.com/
JeminaNapier.bsky.social @jeminanapier.bsky.social Jemina Napier, PhD, FaCSS, FAHA, FASLI
Associate Director, @Scottish Graduate School of Social Science & Professor & Chair of Intercultural Communication @HeriotWattUni feminist, EDI, sign languages, mediated communication, research methods. Views my own
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social Reading, writing, & thinking about cosmopolitanism, internationalism, decadence, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, modernism – & Una Marson, Nancy Cunard, Edith Wharton, & other people & things like that. Leverhulme ECF in English at University of Edinburgh.
Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of German, University of Leeds. Former Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. Chair/Trustee: Word Up North, Skipton Music. #bwfc
The Queen's Translation Exchange @translationexch.bsky.social Welcome to QTE, an outreach and research centre @queenscollegeox.bsky.social offering translation and international literature initiatives for schools, students and the public.
QAA @qaa.ac.uk The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) is the UK's expert quality body for tertiary education.
🖥️ https://www.qaa.ac.uk/
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Claudia Jünke @claudiajuenke.bsky.social Spanish, Latin American and French Studies | Literature, Culture & Memory | Prof @ #uniinnsbruck #romanistik | 🌱 🌳
Current research project (FWF-funded) on literary translations and/in transcultural memory: @littransmemory.bsky.social
Holly Langstaff @hollylangstaff.bsky.social Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford.
I run the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and Oxford Translates Summer School.
Naomi Wells @naswells.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Languages and Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
Translating Women @translatingwomen.bsky.social Helen Vassallo 🇲🇹
Researching the translated literature sector of the UK publishing industry
Writing about intersectional gender bias in translation
Translating women writers
Always learning
https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/translatingwomen/
MLL Teacher 🌏 @ellteacherlearner.bsky.social Always, always learning, and sometimes a teacher. 🍎📚❤️
Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social Reader in English at City Uni London. The Broken Promise of Infrastructure (2023), Graphic Refuge (2025). Convening Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social
More info: www.drdomdavies.com
James Kennedy @jameskennedy.bsky.social Musician, author & podcaster
Album : http://linktr.ee/makeanger
Book : http://linktr.ee/noisedamage
Podcast : http://linktr.ee/jameskennedypodcast
Official site: http://jameskennedyofficial.com