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Robert Viking @robertviking.bsky.social Pen name of Robert Viking O'Brien, novelist, musician, and emeritus professor of English literature. Exploring fiction writing and music-making on robertviking.substack.com. Exploring Shakespeare's plays and film adaptations on ShakespeareFlix.net.
Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Brais Lamela, Denise Rose Hansen, etc. Est. 2009. dorothyproject.com
Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com Two Lines Press is a book publisher committed to daring and original literature in translation. We're part of @catranslation.org. Browse our books at www.catranslation.org/books/.
Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social Intelligent cultural criticism and literary analysis intended for the reading public.
Pittsburgh, PA.
http://www.pghrev.com
Andrew Alden @geology.bsky.social Geology lifer
Book: Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
Monthly newsletter: deeperoakland.substack.com
Fortnightly blog: deepoakland.com
aboutgeology on Xitr
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Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
Austin Tichenor @austintichenor.bsky.social Actor/Author. PURITANS; FOOL (stage adaptation); COMEDY OF HAMLET! (a prequel); DAISY THE LITTLEST ZOMBIE. Writer @folger.edu. A.D. @reduced.bsky.social + host of world's longest-running theatre podcast.
TheShakespeareance.com
ReducedShakespeare.com
Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social Editor-in-chief, Washington Independent Review of Books. Loser-in-chief, "Jeopardy!" season 39. "Making it worse? How could it be worse? Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!"
Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social Feeling literary? Come see us at www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com!
Vladimir Makarov @vmakarov.name Shakespeare and Early Modern English Literature
Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social Fiercely independent bookstore in Cambridge and Boston, MA
https://linktr.ee/portersqbooks
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Books Inc. @booksinc.bsky.social The West’s oldest bookstore (since 1851!) 🎉
8 Neighborhood shops + 2 @flysfo✈️
Community support matters — currently reorganizing under Chapter 11❤️
www.booksinc.net
nina sabak @ninasabak.bsky.social MFA-haver and lowercase deadpanner. I don't want the world, I just want your half. (all views expressed here are mine, not my employer's.)
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social film & 20th C lit scholar, CUNY prof, culture writer, sometimes editor, higher ed unionist, author of Elaine May (U of Illinois Press, 2025) and Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio UP, 2019).
Heyday @heydaybooks.com Indie press publishing books on California culture, nature, Indigenous perspectives, and social justice | Publisher of @newsfromnativeca.bsky.social
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Vroman's Bookstore @vromansbookstore.bsky.social Southern California's Oldest & Largest Independent Bookstore. Open & serving the Pasadena community since 1894. Vroman's Bookstore is your one stop shop for books, magazines, gifts, and more!
Visit https://vromansbookstore.com and hope to see you soon!
Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Avalon Free Public Library @avalonlibrary.bsky.social The official account of the public library for Avalon in Cape May County, NJ.
Website: www.avalonfreelibrary.org
Blog (book reviews, movie reviews, and more): AFPLJournal.com
Dr Varsha Panjwani @handle.invalid Podcaster, Women & Shakespeare
Author, Introduction, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (OWC)
Current Writing: British South Asian Shakespeares on Stage
Katherine Scheil @kscheil.bsky.social English prof at U of Minnesota, fan of dogs, cats, books, theatre, wine, Anne Shakespeare and her husband, all the good stuff in life.
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
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social Film critic, out-of-print author, 🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇮🇪Londoner. Let's be parasocial acquaintances immediately
Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social Mom, El Cerrito Mayor Pro Tem, Bike East Bay Co-Executive Director of Development and Engagement, and former BART Director
Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social Freelance writer and editor. Contributor to Pitchfork, Paste, Vulture, The Guardian, etc. Author of two books. Still sitting in a room. Email: zschonfeld@gmail.com.
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
Alyssa Christian Ⓥ @veganmoviesnob.bsky.social Rhode Island-based childless vegan & animal lover. Film critic for Next Best Picture. Actor & flutist. Atheist. Neurodivergent. Anti-MAGA, Pro-Palestine. Aspiring digital nomad.
UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social 📖 The University of North Carolina Press
💚 Est. 1922 | First University Press in the South
📚 Publishing books & journals for academics, students, and general readers
Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social Director of Publicity and Communications at UNC Press 📚📣
Currently reading: Fed Up: A History of Why You're So Stressed About What to Feed the Kids by Carla Cevasco (Spring 27, a W. Hodding Carter III book) and Maria, Maria by Jennifer Galvão (2/27, RHPG)
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern and Restoration literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
COYOTE @coyotemedia.org Independent Bay Area journalism — with a BITE!
www.coyotemedia.org
Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social Culture writer at Slate, published in LA Times, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, THR, and points south. Member: New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, WGA East
New York Film Critics Circle @nyfcc.bsky.social We are the oldest awards-bestowing film critics organization on the planet.
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
Esther Zuckerman @ezwrites.bsky.social writer, etc.
estherzuckermanwrites.com
Bob Marshall @bobmarshall.bsky.social Sr. Director of Social @ign.com | Plays with Store Front | 🇨🇱
"The G train, Nermal!"
Sally Barnden @sally-barnden.bsky.social Early modern drama enthusiast. Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at Swansea University. Aspiring climber and successful cat person. 
Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas about kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
Brad Johnson @ahablives.bsky.social A part of the Twitter Diaspora.
Also run East Bay Booksellers in Oakland, CA - @ebbooksellers.bsky.social
Elaine Low @elainelow.bsky.social Reporter @ The Ankler. I write Series Business, a newsletter about the TV industry. Alum of Variety, Business Insider, Investor’s Business Daily. Talk to me at elaine@theankler.com
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
My newsletter: StringinaMaze.net
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
Signal: willoremus.24
Michael Lange @michaellangenyc.bsky.social NYC born & raised || Writing about local politics || #BillsMafia
All tweets, views and writings expressed are my own
www.michaellange.nyc
Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social Advancing support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
Jemma Forster @jemlf.bsky.social AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in EM England, Spain and Italy 🌈 she/her
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social Hello I used to Tweet but now I only tweet
Extremely Gay, extremely Scottish, mostly angry queerposting, no Yanks in the replies (Nice Americans welcome)
Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social Let’s count the rings around my eyes
Joanna Robinson @jowrotethis.bsky.social Writer and podcaster at the @ringer • one of Cameron Crowe’s Uncool • taller than you think • author of MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios for W. W. Norton
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
Find out more: massobs.org.uk
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Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Scott O'Neil @bluecollarscholar.bsky.social Shakespeare professor. Tired.
Michael Helquist @mhelquistwriter.bsky.social Activist, historian, author, "Marie Equi: Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions," Stonewall Honor Book for bio of 1900s lesbian doctor & activist., worked for CDC WHO, served as director of AIDSCOM.
#women'shistory, #LGBTQ, #AIDS #gayhistory #memoir #USAID
Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social Research Associate in the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University / Researcher for DRAGON at Swansea University.
Research interests: #radicalright, #politicaldiscourse & #onlineharms.
https://drkeighleyperkins.co.uk
Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social Critic @nytimes.com. The kind of girl who goes to a late movie in the middle of the week, I'm crazy. Author of WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES (paperback out now!), SALTY (2022), AFTERGLOW (forthcoming). Teaching at NYU XE.
Barbara Henderson (new WIP 6831) @scattyscribbler.bsky.social Author. Scottish historical fiction and eco- adventures for kids. 2x Young Quills Winner. 🎭 Teacher, ✝️, 🏴 🇩🇪, Highlands.
www.barbarahenderson.co.uk
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social Bay Area Current covers working-class life and culture across the Bay Area. Support working-class journalism: https://bayareacurrent.com/
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
PatsE @pkayecreative.bsky.social writer, editor, consultant ✨ creative nonfiction mfa ✨ ma candidate in counseling psychology ✨ oakland art murmur board of directors ✨ #equity #sustainability #thearts 🩷💛💙 born and raised on Ohlone Land 🪶🌞 Oakland, California 🌳🧜🏻
Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social I'm @hyphy_republic on Twitter, aka The Oakland Observer, an Oakland journalist. Newsletter @ https://oakland-observer.ghost.io/ :One time contributions to the OO instead of subscription https://oakland-observer.ghost.io/#/portal/support
Giorgi Ninos @giorgininos.com Independent Journalist focused on LGBTQIA+ rights; Human rights and EU enlargement. 🇪🇺🇬🇪
☕️ Support me: https://ko-fi.com/giorgininos
💼 Portfolio: https://muckrack.com/giorgininos
🕸️ Website: www.GiorgiNinos.com
Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org \O/
Thinking from the Oakland Bay Area
Read us: https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/
Email us: ORB@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives and Library @waygayarchives.bsky.social Arts & Culture at William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia, PA. Art, Archives, Library. waygay.org
OutHistory @outhistory.bsky.social Queering history in every imaginable way!
linktr.ee/outhistory
Darren Freebury-Jones @freeburian.bsky.social FRHistS. Author. Public speaker. Shakespeare scholar. General Ed: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Ed: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. Welsh.
https://darrenfj.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/darren-freebury-jones-publications/
aki 🏳️⚧️ @ajth.bsky.social on Wurundjeri land
Kevin Finkelstein ☭ @kfinkelstein.bsky.social Director/Writer/Historian (Shakespeare/disability). CU Boulder: MA, Theatre and Perf (2026); MA, English (2028). Hard-of-hearing. Views my own. he/him #cwa7799 #blm #transrightsarehumanrights
Kimber Ryburn🏳️⚧️👠🧚♀️ @kimberryburn.bsky.social Out, proud, and unapologetically Trans/Poly and QAF!
"I look back on where I'm from, look at the Woman I've become, and the strangest things seem suddenly routine."-Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social Researcher / History of Sexuality and Intimacy / State-Socialism / East Central Europe / @eui-eu.bsky.social and @cuny.edu
Ben Blyth @benblyth.bsky.social Ph.D. Scholar-Practitioner of Medieval & Early Modern Drama @ UCalgary, Treaty 7 🍁 ⚔️ 🎭
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
Giselle Bernard @gisellebernard.bsky.social PhD Researcher at the European University Institute History Department
@eui-history.bsky.social
Women's and Queer Histories
https://www.eui.eu/people?id=giselle-bernard
Co-convenor of the EUI Queer and Feminist Studies Working Group @eui-qfg.bsky.social
Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social Playwright, mostly.
Current projects: Simon & Schuster (nonfiction), Hallmark (movie).
My first movie as a screenwriter aired on 2/3/2024!
https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/paging-mr-darcy
Are my reps on Bluesky yet?
More at www.reinahardy.com
David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social blank check // the atlantic // hits different let’s go mets
Alexander Courtney @dralexcourtney.bsky.social #Earlymodern historian | FRHistS | IHR Fellow
📚James VI, Britannic Prince (Routledge, 2024) | James VI & I: Kingship, Government & Religion (2025) | Co-editor: Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters (forthcoming, Routledge)
https://bio.site/alexandercourtney
Theatre Bay Area @theatrebayarea.org By-and-for theatremakers since 1976. Connect with the Bay Area theatre community! TheatreBayArea.org
Danish Sheikh @dansheikh.bsky.social Law, theatre, queerness, repair | Lecturer at La Trobe, Melbourne
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/dsheikh
Christine Sukic @christinesukic.bsky.social Professeur de littérature anglaise à l’université de Reims Champagne Ardenne/Professor of early modern English studies at university of Reims
@lutchique.bsky.social @lutchique.bsky.social english teacher by training, degree in literature, Shakespeare studies, trying to figure out my place amidst this tempest of absurdity
Dr. Molly Harrabin @mharrabin.bsky.social All things gender and sexuality in Weimar Cinema! Currently a Postdoc at IAS (Warwick) & German Screen Studies Network (St. Andrews)
NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project @nyclgbtsites.bsky.social The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project is documenting places associated with New York City's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.
Visit us at www.nyclgbtsites.org
Shannon Murray @shannonkmmurray.bsky.social I teach Shakespeare and children’s lit on the beautiful Prince Edward Island — and I write about teaching for hope in higher ed.
Heather M. Haley @heatherhaleyphd.bsky.social historian of Cold War social movements and the U.S. military | plant & cat mom | views expressed are mine alone
Sarah D. Wald @sarahdwald.bsky.social environmental humanities prof at U of Oregon | Environmental justice | Living with MBC (she/her)
Ani Kokobobo @akokobobo.bsky.social Russian literature and culture professor, dean, mom — in no particular order. Reposts not endorsements, all opinions my own.
Dr Georgie Rowe @georgieblythe.bsky.social Just completed a PhD @ Uni of Bham (genre fiction, copyright + folk music). She/her 🏳️🌈
https://lnk.bio/georgie_blythe
Pieter Verstraete @pieterverstraete.bsky.social Tenured Senior Lecturer Arts, Culture and Media University of Groningen, elected Excom member of EASTAP, Associate Editor of EJTP, Chair of MCAA Benelux Chapter, critic at Theaterkrant, member of opera committee at Dutch Council for Arts
@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 📚