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 🤬
@landshark11.bsky.social @landshark11.bsky.social
We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social A weekly reminder that we’re just normal men. Each & every Monday. We’re just innocent men.
Jumped ship to 🦋
https://x.com/wejustnormalmen 👋
Ceasefire now 🇵🇸
Jemma Field @jemmafield.bsky.social Associate Director of Research, Yale Center for British Art | Early modern English women | politics of dress and bodily display | 📚Anna of Denmark (MUP, 2020) | currently preoccupied with the wardrobe of Charles I (1600-1649)
Jeff Noxon @jeff.noxon.cc Coffee, Code, Computing, Community, Cats, and a Greyhound
@sidbyrd.bsky.social @sidbyrd.bsky.social
Emily Wing Rohrbach @emilyrohrbach.bsky.social 🍃Associate Professor of English, Durham University
📋 Director, MA in English Literary Studies
📚Author of Codex Poetics (2026) & Modernity's Mist (2016)
💕#adoptdontshop 🐕🦺💕
Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social Modernist & avant-garde visionary aesthetics | Writing PhD on Mina Loy & spirituality @eui-history.bsky.social Florence, Italy | Organiser Mapping Mina Loy Studies I Past PG Rep @modernistudies.bsky.social
Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social Writer, Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern (2023). Co-founder of arts & craft platform Decorating Dissidence. linktr.ee/lottiewhalen
Julia Heinemann @julia-heinemann.bsky.social Doctoral researcher & lecturer @LeipzigUniversity. Writing about Mina Loy's modernist metaphysics. Organiser of "Mapping Mina Loy" Symposium: https://loysymposium2023.wordpress.com
Genevieve Smart @genevievesmart.bsky.social CHASE-funded PhDc in early-20thC queer and non-female childbirth @Birkbeck. Co-organiser of the Broadly Conceived research network. P/T jazz vocalist 🎶. She/her.
Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social Associate Prof of English; author of Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (OUP, 2022) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/crafting-feminism-from-literary-modernism-to-the-multimedia-present-9780192857835?cc=us&lang=en& 🌈
Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social Light, politics, aesthetics, & gender in the city, sexology and creepiness. Canadian in Oxford (ish). Come for the typos, stay for the wit.
Dr Farah Nada | فرح @farahanada.bsky.social Mostly Egyptian
Reader | Writer | Editor
Space | Movement | Modernism
Phd from @exeter.ac.uk
Secretary of @bowensociety.bsky.social
Part-time Professor @uottawa.ca
Anna Devereux @annadevs.bsky.social PhD on Doris Lessing's archive: communism, decolonialism & literary practice, University of East Anglia & the Harry Ransom Center, CHASE-funded
interested in postcolonialism and global anglophone literatures
https://mountainsbound.substack.com/
she/her
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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural with CUP: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/sylvia-plath-and-the-supernatural/3DDD698437DA20C6AA40FF47D27247D3 | 20th c. poetry | witches | ecocriticism | American studies | dorkatamas.com
Amanda Golden @plathpoem.bsky.social Associate Professor of English; Author of Annotating Modernism; Co-Editor of The Poems of Sylvia Plath (2026), a new edition of Plath’s Collected Poems.
Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social Researching modernism, queer networks, literature and silent cinema 📚🎞️ writing about the POOL group 🌊 teaching film and poetry. She/her.
Marie Allègre @marie-s-allegre.bsky.social 🕸️ Writer • Eng Lit Dr & researcher • Senior Teaching Fellow in French at the Uni of Portsmouth • sometimes translator & interpreter • seaside dweller 🌊
🔗 https://linktr.ee/mariesallegre
Rachel Fountain Eames @rfeames.bsky.social Author & bookseller @ Hart Books (www.eBay.co.uk/str/hartbooks) - Author of ‘Physics and the Modernist Avant-Garde’ - writer, gamer, cat mom, frog enthusiast. 🐸😌 #LongCovid / ME/CFS endurer (she/her)
Alex Goody @alex-goody.bsky.social Academic, killjoy feminist, dog owner, mum to neurodivergent kids; working in modernist studies, sf and speculative fiction, technology studies, poetry
Melissa Johnson @majknits.bsky.social Art historian, professor, former archivist, killjoy feminist, typist, knitter, embroiderer, sewist. Trying to live a life that's sustainable. Exploring research-creation by reading/re-reading/re-writing/re-working the writing of Virginia Woolf.
Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social Professor, English, opinions own.
1900-1950 scholar of literature, sociology, & propaganda; roller derby athlete; cat enthusiast.
Chapter President., AAUP-AFT Wright State
Books: Psychographic Turn (OUP, 2021); Midcentury Women's Writing (MUP, 2024)
Melissa Bradshaw @missybradshaw.bsky.social Feminist modernist studies, American poetry, material culture, textual studies, periodical studies, DH, and all things diva at Loyola University Chicago. President of the Modernist Studies Association, Director of the Amy Lowell Letters Project.
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley @cleohanaway.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, writer, thinker.
Collector of autoimmune diseases.
I share a birthday with James Joyce (and I quite like his books, too). Mostly a modernist. Also sensory studies, disability, and medhums.
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social Senior Publisher for STS, Digital/Medical Humanities and Literary Studies at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Andrea Pérez Fernández @andreaperez.bsky.social Intellectual historian at @uocuniversitat.bsky.social
Rebecca Bowler @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in C20th English Literature at Keele | Working (slowly but surely) on Critical Eds of May Sinclair | Past Chair of BAMS | Modernist Wellness | She/Her
Catherine H @chollis.bsky.social Feminist Modernist Studies, Team Orca
dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social Woolf Doctor | Turns squiggles into angle brackets | modernism, digital humanities, bad puns | he/him | would prefer not to
Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.
Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social Matmos guy with my husband @lordchiefjustice / English professor at Hopkins / also known as The Soft Pink Truth.
Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
Margo Hendricks @elysabethgrace.bsky.social Black Shakespearean/EM scholar; As Elysabeth Grace --writer of Black historical, Black, paranormal & contemporary romance & historical cozy mysteries.
www.patreon.com/cw/TheMargoHendricks
Experiencewww.elysabethgrace.com
Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social feminist bibliography, old books, mutual aid, and doikayt // author, Studying Early Printed Books 1450–1800: A Practical Guide; editor, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America; organizer, consistentmoneymoving.org // sarahwerner.net
Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social your trans professor
Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social pizza advocate; english professor
Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/
🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course)
bio.site/martinevanelk
https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/
https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.w
Laura Ingallinella @lauraingalli.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Italian & Renaissance at the University of Toronto. Working on forgery and women's literature; transregional encounters; drama, gender, race in #earlymodern Italy. book in progress: #FraudulentMuse
emer @emer.bsky.social writer, professional shakespeare opinion haver, shoegaze fan, film dyke. she/her. my book is called IRISH SHAKESPEARES: GENDER, SEXUALITY, & PERFORMANCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (out Oct). all my opinions are great actually x
Ari Friedlander @arifriedlander.bsky.social Assoc Prof, UMiss. Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics (OUP '22). New work on Milton, gender, disability, race. he/him. ari-friedlander.com
Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures
Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social Professor. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop. "Mad for the books."
Mira ‘Assaf @miramiraculous.bsky.social Book: Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens,& Constructions of Race in Early Modern England, under contract @ACMRSPress | 23-24 Long-term Fellow, @FolgerLibrary | Arab | dilettante
Yasmine Hachimi @yasminehachimi.bsky.social PhD in Early Modern Literature & Culture | Popular Representations of Premodern Queens | Period Dramas | Pop Culture | Romance Reader | Fangirl
Probably talking about the Tudors. 👑
https://linktr.ee/yasminehachimi
Steve Mentz @stevementz.bsky.social #bluehumanities, Shakespeare, swimming, eco-poetry. English prof at St. John's (NYC).
Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University who works on book history, premodern critical race studies and early modern English drama. I spend a lot of time with Barnabe, an adorable dog. These posts are my opinion.
ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social Things I like, make, or grow; assorted wokery; C16-17th religion, literature, and history. UK prof of English. 🏳️🌈
Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center. Bibliographer, book historian, and VHS guy.
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
Nora J. Williams @norajw.bsky.social Academic & theatre kid| Canonical Misogyny out now from Edinburgh UP! | less funny half of @nashaxpodcast.bsky.social | she/her | 🇱🇧
Ambereen Dadabhoy @drdadabhoy.bsky.social Anglophile, Ottomaniac, Fangirl, Early mod prof. One of these is not like the others.
Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social Professor; Bibliography, women and libraries, early modern books and storage; book trade, histories of information; playbooks; Shakespeare; English literature, drama, cats, horses, bees, and little furry critters
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint
Lara Dodds @laradodds.bsky.social English Prof and Department Head at a University in the South -- Early Modern Lit -- Cavendishista -- she/her/ hers
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.
Ben Robertson @benrobertson.bsky.social
Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social Chronicler of bookwomen (misc.) Currently 17thC women printers. Previously SHAKESPEARE'S 'LADY EDITORS' (CUP). Freelance indexer/editor/researcher. A remarkably Independent Scholar.
Kathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva. Author of Shakespeare in Tongues. National Humanities Center Fellow 26–27.
kathrynvomerosantos.com
borderlandsshakespeare.org
Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social Book history, Shakespeare etc. Views my own, not my employer's. Header is: https://shorturl.at/FtfZQ / Gen Ed., Arden Shakespeare / https://pennmaterialtexts.org / http://shakespearecensus.org / http://deepplaybooks.org
Jason Kerr @jakerr35.bsky.social he/him Professor of 17th-century British literature, composer, occasional homilist. Author of Milton’s Theological Process (Oxford, 2023) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/miltons-theological-process-9780198875086
Katie Murphy @manymanyplies.bsky.social Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Out in summer 2027: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.
Curtis Perry @curtisperry.bsky.social Professor of English lit; anti-Zionist Jew; amateur of song; watcher of myriad kdramas; introvert; featherless biped; he/him.
Adam Zucker Again @adamzucker.bsky.social As Stated - The Professor one at UMass Amherst. Shakespeare, Jonson, et al. Journal co-editor, English Literary Renaissance. Author: "Shakespeare Unlearned" (OUP 2024). Music: Outro; The Young Old; The Father Figures; Bring It To Bear.
Jessica Goethals @jessgoethals.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of medieval + early modern Italian Studies | author *Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court* (2023) | women, spectacle, violence, prophecy, weird stuff | currently writing on the 1527 Sack of Rome
Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social Early modernist; lit professor. Lover of stage directions, textual instability, revenge tragedies, rain, Star Wars, gravy, Oregon, banana slugs, seagulls, and beards! I support trans rights. Thoughts mine own.
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social Literature prof | currently writing on: medieval plant grafting; worm reproduction | they/them | science before 1700, book history, sci fi, whale facts 🐋
🌐 aylinmalcolm.com 📍Toronto
Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • Unemployed Lecturer • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
Laura @lleigha.bsky.social Illegitimi non carborundum
Christine Varnado @eyweltschmerz.bsky.social Spread the Weltschmerz! Buffalo / The Shapes of Fancy (https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-shapes-of-fancy)
Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social Free Palestine, Sudan, DRC. End settler colonialism. Black Atlantic, Caribbean, slavery, white supremacy in the long 18thc. Holistic abolition. Wear a mask!!! Lib free zone.🇹🇹🇮🇪
Mark Empey @memps2.bsky.social Early Modernist to the bitter end #Bookhistory Female Book Owners; Women Writers; British & Irish historical writing; early Stuart peripheral governments
Forthcoming book: Sir James Ware: Royalism, History & Antiquarianism (Boydell)
Coined #HerBook
Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social Academic and climate activist, born 325 ppm, flight free since 2018. #4BD. Fight for a free press: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061 -- https://mediasovereignty.org/
Dr Stephen Curtis @earlymodernhorror.bsky.social Part time lecturer, full time anxious wreck. Writing a/the book on Early Modern Horror. Also research videogames and contemporary Horror. Reviewer for TheSixthAxis.com
Pete Kirwan @drpetekirwan.bsky.social Performance, theatre reviewing, early modern drama, film watching, editing, cat wrangling, immigrating. General Editor at Shakespeare Bulletin; professing at Mary Baldwin Uni. He/him
Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social Scholar of the early modern now in south Texas. My book, English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution, came out with Palgrave early in 2024. Posts represent my personal opinion, not my employer’s.
Holger Syme @literasyme.bsky.social Historian of European theatre, working on early modern England and 20th & 21st-century Germany. Lover of archives. Professor at U of Toronto. Occasional theatre maker. Haphazard gardener. Full time dog person.
More: https://syme.dispositio.net
Janelle Jenstad @janellejenstad.bsky.social Early Modernist at UVic. Editor. Book historian. Text encoder. Director of LEMDO and MoEML. Fan of Garry Oak meadows, motorcycles, and XML.
Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social AHRC project: premodern contact btwn England & Islamic Worlds. Led by Lubaaba Al-Azami & Samera Hassan. Book: https://bit.ly/3ZEIy6L OA Journal: https://rb.gy/wlrcie. Website: https://memorients.com/
Prof Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social Professor of English and Cultural Studies @ University of Southern Queensland. Shakespeare scholar. Finder of lost playhouses. FSA FRHistS. He/him.
Laura Jayne Wright @laurajaynewright.bsky.social Writing about early modern sound, women’s voices, screams, prophecies, and hallucinations at Newcastle University.
she/her.
Kate Allan @katefallan.bsky.social Early modern women’s poetry, scientific writing, and alchemy.
Sawyrrrr @hamlethologram.bsky.social Transgender Shakespearean; Baseball Enjoyer; West Virginia's Greatest Disappointment.
It can't all be dirtbikes and Mountain Dew.
Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield
Marshelle Woodward @mwoodward.bsky.social Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.
Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social lit+material texts. balliol, oxford + london
Rep'd RCW Literary Agency
THE BOOK-MAKERS (2024)
co-ed INSCRIPTION: The Journal of Material Text
adamsmyth.substack.com