Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social Modernism | Woolf | Dance & Movement | Women’s Writing
ECR seeking postdoctoral opportunities
BAMS Steering Committee | Reviewer, Feminist Modernist Studies
sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne
19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social Official account for the 19th Century Studies Association. Come here for our CFP, prizes, and publication news. 
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
Aparna Prakashbabu Uma @aparnaup.bsky.social PhD researcher in English @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Studying humour in late-Victorian fiction: detective, realist, and humorous novels, 1875–1900. Close reading plus computational methods.
Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social Prof. 19th-C French art. Thinking about aerial & subterranean environments, materiality, & always gender | Books (UMinn Press): Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late 19th-C. French Art; Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris
Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Editorial Team @esprit-jeps.bsky.social | The Americanisation of W. T. Stead (EUP, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/5xmrxs2j
Punch's Pocket Book Archive @punchspocketbook.bsky.social Punch's Pocket Book Archive is an international ANR-funded project based at @universite-caen.bsky.social
It aims to deliver a fully searchable archive from a complete run of Punch's Pocket Books (1843-1881), an ancillary publication of Punch.
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)
Charlotte Boyce @c19thceleb.bsky.social Associate Professor in Victorian Literature. Research interests: hunger & masculinity | food & consumption | history of celebrity. Co-I on ‘Young Women & Body Image’. Dog person. 🏴 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/charlotte-boyce
Marion (Mary) Grant @mtgrant.bsky.social PhD (ABD) at York University
Jessica O’Toole @jessicaotoole.bsky.social Graduate teaching assistant in English Literature at North Carolina State University. 19th century British lit, women in the periodical press, dachshund enthusiast.
Kathryn Laing @kslaing.bsky.social Co-founder and curator of the Irish Women’s Writing Network
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social Encyclopedist, college librarian, writer, ttrpg writer. I like to talk about Mesopotamia & Vikings. Always outnumbered, never outgunned.
My podcast, "The History of Comic Books in 500 Issues," is at http://500issues.com
Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social Prof. of British History and Culture at @universite-caen.bsky.social
Victorianist. Newspapers & magazines. Labour and the illustrated press.
Principal Investigator (PI) of @punchspocketbook.bsky.social.
She/her
Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social Academic, Course Leader in English Literature at University of Portsmouth (but posts are my own, mind). Victorian literature, detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool UP, 2028).
Des FitzGerald @fitzgeralddes.bsky.social RHA Gallery | Dublin City FM (2003-23) | Le Cool Dublin (2010-16) | 🇪🇺
John Morton @drjmorton.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English Lit and Deputy Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uni of Greenwich. All views my own
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
Joshua Grey @joshua-grey.bsky.social Pronouns: they/he
PhD Candidate at Monash University and University of Warwick. Thesis: 'The Conservative Press and the British World, c.1780-c.1830'
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1913619/
Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social #DH, digital historian, data humanist. #Philanthropy, #Atlantic, Ireland, North America. From NJ. On occupied Wabanaki land. Opinions mine. She/her. Pro-worker.
Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own
drvicclarke.co.uk
Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social ❤️ editing texts 🎤 💃 Montréalaise in Nijmegen, Nederland
Dissertation doula • accompagnante au dépôt de thèse • hulp bij het afronden van je proefschrift
Book history • histoire du livre • boekgeschiedenis 
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian lit, and 19th century newspapers.
New book(s) coming soon, including Cambridge Companion to True Crime.
Rep: Aevitas
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Archives & Special Collections @ Ohio University @aldenlibdigital.bsky.social Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Preservation & Digital Initiatives, Ohio University Libraries @aldenlibrary.bsky.social, Athens.
https://bit.ly/m/archives-ohiouniversity
(Not that XL public uni in Columbus)
Chris Wells @cjwells9991.bsky.social PhD Student English Literature:James Joyce Queer Modernism
https://sheffield.ac.uk/english/postgraduate/phd/christopher-wells
JJ @jjustyna.bsky.social Meh vibes only
David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social 'His office hours are poorly attended, because he teaches it right the first time.'
Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social PhD Student at Université Clermont Auvergne (France). 19th century literature, Gothic, ghost stories, Victorian Gothic, Vernon Lee. Dissertation topic: "Vernon Lee's rewriting of Gothic literature." She/her.
Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social assistant professor of 19thc lit at Louisiana State University, formerly at University of Hong Kong and University of East Anglia, UK.
Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
Dr Janette Leaf @janetteleaf.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2023-2026. Weird cats, Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Hypnotic Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Shop Girls; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
Mara @mrlzbth.bsky.social Public librarian/cataloger, voracious reader, history buff.
LogosFan @logosfan.bsky.social I'm a logo artist of making logos in Paint since 2020, I made logos, and behind the scenes how I made these logos! and more!
Plus, I'm autistic support and my hobby is art because I like to be an artist!
Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Feminist Research; Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Lethbridge, Canada.
Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social Professor of English Literature, Bishop Grosseteste University - women’s life & travel writing, Victorian literary networks and transnational subjectivity, Margaret Collier, Janet Ross and multigenerational matrilineal legacies.
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Carolin Sternberg @carolinsternberg.bsky.social PhD student at University of Vechta | Victorianist
Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social 19C British literature; seriality; transmedia; popular culture; fictionality.
Assoc. Prof of English. Author of Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century, Palgrave 2022. Views are my own, not my employer's.
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
Dr Jennifer Jones @jenniferewc.bsky.social Substack Writer (see pinned post), Author, Writing Coach, and Kitten Herder. As the card on my desk says, I'll be post-feminist in post-patriarchy. She/Her.
https://substack.com/@jjonesewc
Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Helen McKenzie @helenmckenzie.bsky.social Associate Lecturer at the Open University; Victorianist; researcher on Mary Braddon, periodicals, women's writing; Secretary of @vpfa; dance teacher; and I love sewing.
Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social Victorianist, media history, literary & cultural theory, popular fictions. Emeritus Prof, Fellow of Institute of English Studies, UK.
Dr Anne-Marie Beller FRHistS @braddonite.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Victorian Lit and Culture at Loughborough Uni. Mental health in the 19th century; Victorian asylums; sensation and gothic fiction; Neo-Victorian-dabbler; dog-parent; Dahl-maker. (She/Her)
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social Visiting Fellow in Victorian Literature at Loughborough University @lboroenglish.bsky.social
#19thcentury & pre-war popular fiction
Author of Marie Corelli - https://www.eerpublishing.com/turner-marie-corelli.html
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4597-4354
Dr Helena Esser @helenaesser.bsky.social she/her. Victorianist & dandypunk. My books on #Steampunk London & #Ouida out now! Co-hosting @VPFAThirdSex #3rdSex.
Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social A forum for everyone interested in #Victorian and #Neovictorian popular fiction and culture. Hosts VPFJ Journal and Third Sex and Short Story Reading Groups 📚https://victorianpopularfiction.org/
Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family (Routledge, July 2024). Winner of the VPFA First Book Prize. https://www.routledge.com/James-Malcolm-Rymer-Penny-Fiction-and-the-Family/Nesvet/p/book/9781032431598?_ga=1674154651.1719792000
Emma Butler-Way @ebutler-way.bsky.social Dr | Lecturer - Aberystwyth University's Integrated Foundation Year Programme.
I mostly research and write about the corset in (neo-)Victorian fiction. Web Manager for the VPFA.
Clarinettist, pianist, recorder player. Occasional potter and painter.
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.
Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social social epistemology & political philosophy | mama to small people | disabled, chronically ill and audhd | professionally tired | founder and director of disabled-majority transcription and closed captioning social biz @aat-transcribes.bsky.social | goof