Dr. Jami Rogers @publicradionerd.bsky.social Author of "British Black and Asian Shakespeareans: Integrating Shakespeare, 1966-2018"
LAMDA trained; former PBS and "Masterpiece Theatre"
PhD in Shakespeare.
Nuts about public radio.
Proud West Virginian.
Lots of theatre and LiverpoolFC
Dr Kate Newey @dr-kate-newey.bsky.social Nineteenth century scholar. Eternal ballet student and weightlifter. Reader and writer. Sometimes.
The R/18 Collective @r18collective.bsky.social Re-Activating Restoration & 18th-Century Theatre for the 21st-Century. Find out more at: www.r18collective.org
Banner photo: Charlotte Munson & Shinnerrie Jackson in Addison's Cato, dir. Charles Pasternak (photo by Taryn Farro).
Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social Sports journalist
Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social Shakespeare and Donne scholar, Humanities advocate, library and museum acolyte, erstwhile ballerina: "To be or not to be, that is the question . . . "
Caroline Koegler @carolinekoegler.bsky.social Chair of English Lit / Global Literature and Its Media
@ Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
Empire/post/colonial/18C/19C/affect/queer & gender stds/maritime fictions/lit&Economics/book stds
Website: https://tinyurl.com/bddnpakt
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Harriet McKinley-Smith @harrymcksm.bsky.social Women writers, disability studies and the history of emotions in the long eighteenth-century.
DPhil English and French Literature at Jesus College Oxford
@amygarnai.bsky.social @amygarnai.bsky.social Academic researching the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Teaching but soon to retire.
(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social Open University Classical Studies lecturer. Recovering Oxford don. Critical Ancient World Studies person. Podcast host @ Radio ReOrient. Children’s author by night.🌙 🍉She/her. Writing a 📗 on the Islamophobia of Classicism.
Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, English Literature (University of Lincoln).
Ageing in Victorian lit; 19th- century paper ephemera; valentines; material/visual cultures; history of emotions; masculinity studies; Japanese fiction | FRHistS. FHEA.
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Tim Gao @timgao.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 | Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol | Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel (2021, CUP) http://ow.ly/laM150ErNZ0
Susan Taylor @sataylormd.bsky.social 
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.
Nicholas Seager @nick-seager.bsky.social Professor of English and Head of Humanities, Keele University
Pope's Grotto Preservation Trust @popesgrotto.bsky.social Award-winning charity looking after Alexander Pope's 18th-century Grotto in Twickenham UK.
Winner, 2024 Civic Trust AABC Conservation Award.
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Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History
eds Gill Partington, Adam Smyth, Simon Morris
email: inscriptionthejournal@gmail.com
purchase at https://inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
Michèle Mendelssohn @mendelight.bsky.social Armchair cosmopolitan & literature professor @ox.ac.uk @engfac.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk • MAKING OSCAR WILDE book https://rb.gy/hjps64 • MAKING HISTORY exhibition http://makinghistory.magd.ox.ac.uk
Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social Oxford academic. Medievalist. European. Lover of cats. 3am atheist. Easily amused; loud laugh. Never knowingly underdressed. Newish book Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy (OUP, 2025)
Ian Burrows @irburrows.bsky.social Fellow in English @ClareCollege
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www.shakespeareforsnowflakes.com
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www.beyondthetrigger.org
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www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/affective-encounters
Laura Runge-Gordon @lauralrg.bsky.social Prof of English at U of South Florida Restoration and 18C British literature, esp that by and about women. #OpenAccess Digital concordance research, music and stage performance, esp in works by Aphra Behn
Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about the War on Terror and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own.
https://www.jayshelat.com
John Savarese @johnsavarese.bsky.social Assoc Prof @ UWaterloo English. Romanticism, gothic studies, history of science, and sound studies
David Scourfield @jhdscourfield.bsky.social Classicist and Modernist, Em. Prof. Working on a monograph on E. M. Forster and Classics, and a new edition of his novel The Longest Journey for Cambridge UP. Welsh/Irish.
Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social C19th literature. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelitism. Caregiving / Care. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website https://carerspoetry.org/ for poems by caregivers.
Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social Restoration is a peer-reviewed journal open to all critical, scholarly, and theoretical approaches that lead to new insights into English literature and culture, 1660-1700.
https://blog.umd.edu/restorationstudiesjournal/
Oxford English Faculty Outreach @engfacoutreach.bsky.social The official account for the Oxford English Faculty Outreach team.
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Craig Campbell @craigdcampbell.bsky.social Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at Oxford. Lover of practical science, curly arrows, puns, vibrato and Scotland's greatest invention, the deep-fried battered Snickers (with chips) 🏴 #ChemSky #ChemEd #OrgChem
Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social. He/him
Tommaso Sabbatini @tommsabb.bsky.social Writer, music historian, volunteer lock-keeper. Pour le pain, la paix, la liberté.
Book: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780197267738; https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98059
Dr Hamish John Wood @drhamishjwood.bsky.social "Ornamental Hermit" | c18 literatures of embodied identities of race + gender + sexuality, epistolary + dialogic fiction, women's literary marginalias + ephemera | Frances Burney's Evelina (1778) is 'Brat' and I will die on this hill. Lapsed tweeter
The Laurence Sterne Trust @lsternetrust.bsky.social The Laurence Sterne Trust at Shandy Hall - charity, museum, gallery and gardens. Former home of Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) vicar of Coxwold & author of Tristram Shandy.
Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk
Dzavid Dzanic @eintellection.bsky.social Associate Prof. France/Empire | PhD @Harvard | Film Photo | Literature | Spiritually Vancouverite | All views are my own: repost/like/follow/link≠endorsement
Helen Dallas @helcdall.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at University of Galway working on Romantic theatre. Current project on history plays. Writer, theatre fan, cat aunt. she/her
Emma Jude Harris (she/her) @emmajudeharris.bsky.social director / dramaturg |
currently: Revenge: After the Levoyah at Soho Theatre |
The Stage Fringe 5, 2024 |
https://linktr.ee/emmajudeharris
Chris Warren @chriswarren.info Head of English/Prof. of English & History@Carnegie Mellon. Knowledge-monger: clandestine print, weird data, book history, computational humanities, political thought. Author, Literature & the Law of Nations. 6 Degrees of Francis Bacon. Humanities for all.
Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social Associate Professor in an academic library. Publishes on British romantic literature, climate change, plant humanities, librarianship, social justice, and pedagogy. Not gay as in happy, queer as in free Palestine.
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social Poetry Critic for the Sunday Times. Anglican Priest. Poetry Collection, "Dirt Rich", out from Carcanet. TLS contributor since 2010. All views very much my own.
Gareth Prior @garethprior.bsky.social Poet. By day, Bursar at St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
Nia Broomhall @niaandthepoems.bsky.social Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize winner 2023, ‘Backalong’ out now with Bloodaxe. Poet in Residence at Painshill Park with ACE. Co-Head of English. Brass bander. Somerset sonneteer. Cheese fan. Hi!
Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) @emilyjlm.bsky.social Digital Humanities Lecturer @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Victorianist, periodicals scholar, Dickensian
Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social Oxford's English Faculty is the largest in the UK with a distinguished research and teaching record. Account managed by admin team.
Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social Poet: 'The River', 'When the Tree Falls', 'A Change in the Air' (Bloodaxe 2015, 2019 & 2023) https://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/
Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001.
🔗 bryanwaterman.org
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betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Kristin Girten @kmg23.bsky.social 18c British scholar (of literature, science, etc.) Also a university administrator. Author of https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/sensitive-witnesses . Bird lover and aspiring public humanist. Proponent of the sublime of the small.
Mercedes Cerón @mercedesceron.bsky.social Art Historian, teaching at Universidad de Salamanca. Goya, antiquaries, collecting, books, prints
https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/157360/detalle?lang=en
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032068392
Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social Work: @HarvardLibrary.bsky.social. Study: @Harvard.edu. Curator of stories: early modern women’s writing, Restoration theatre, cinema/tv, intimacy/consent, myth/vampires. Upcoming podcast: @CineStoryteller.bsky.social. Website: EricaRobertPallo.com.
ASECS TaPS Caucus @asecstaps.bsky.social This is the account for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ Theatre and Performance Studies Caucus. Interested in dramatic literature, history, and theory across traditions in the 18th century and its afterlives. Posts by @adelbalzo. 🎭📚
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
Roland Allen failed one aptitude test and here we are @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
Josh Mcloughlin @drjoshmcloughlin.bsky.social Writer, editor and scholar ⁍ PhD in early modern literature from UCL ⁍ Words: The Fence, New Statesman, Prospect, The Times, Engelsberg Ideas, The London Magazine &c ⁍ Editor: New Critique ⁍ London via Merseyside
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Katie MacLean @katiemaclean.bsky.social PhD student at Stirling Uni researching Jane Austen and queer performance / Editor-in-Chief, Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 📚✨🎭- E Ecotopian @ecotopian.bsky.social
Pernille Strande-Sørensen @spstrande.bsky.social 18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Folklore, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts. MS.
Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon.online
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.
Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress.
Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
Prof Deborah Simonton @deborahsimonton.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth century, women, gender, towns and childhood, usually Scotland and Europe (which does include Britain).
Pamela K Gilbert @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.
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 🐕🦺💕
Helen A. Hopkins @helhopkins.bsky.social Shakespeare and cultural heritage institutions, material culture, and soft power. Writing lots of things about the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s international collections. Home is Worcester, UK, with Bert the spaniel and some other people
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @wsguk.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary international group promoting the study of women and gender in the early modern period and long eighteenth century.
https://womensstudiesgroup.org/
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Cassidy Holahan @cassidyh.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at UNLV ❧ c18 literature, book history, digital humanities, media studies, theatre and performance ❧ she/her
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. 
Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social Pre-order TRADE WORLD! https://lnk.to/TradeWorldBook
Dr Crystal Veronie @crystalveronie.bsky.social 19c British Lit + Native American Lit; bibliophile; researcher of all things Mary Shelly, Sara Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning & women and medicine; registered nurse; literary tourist
Miguel Gaete @mgaetec.bsky.social Social Art Historian. European Romanticism, colonisation, arts, and race. Leverhulme ECF. Winner of the Klaus Heyne Award 2023. Latino power.✊🏽
Leonie Hannan @leoniehannan.bsky.social Teaches History/Public History at Queen's University Belfast. 18thC, gender and material culture.
Author of open access: A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the eighteenth-century home https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526153050/9781526153050.xml
Robin E. Field @robinfield.bsky.social English professor at King's College, PA 📚 Fiction writer 💻 Optimistic pessimist ✊ Editor of Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts
https://zeal.kings.edu/zeal
Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social Curator of Works on Paper, Vanderbilt University Museum of Art | Art Historian studying intersections between print media and textiles, especially in the early-mid nineteenth century
James Morland @jameswmorland.bsky.social Researcher & writer of many things including 18th-century poetry, grief, medicine & solitude 🏴🏳️🌈
Currently writing a memoir about chronic illness and shared connective solitudes.
Human to a very cute corgi.
https://linktr.ee/jameswmorland
Louise Duckling @louiseduckling.bsky.social Editorial Services for Academics | www.louiseduckling.com Intermediate Member of the CIEP | Literary Historian (18c women writers) | Reviews editor for Women's Writing journal
S. Biareishyk @sbiar.bsky.social Spinoza and Marx; German Romanticism; Soviet culture; Formalism and Morphology. I teach stuff at UPenn. 
Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social Pro VP U.Glasgow, personal views and evidence-based judgements only. 'You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass'-John Buchan. https://murraypittock.com
Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social Franco-Scot 🇫🇷🏴| Lecturer in Scottish culture and literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands | Poetry, Politics, Metaphysics
Anna Pilz @apilz.bsky.social Researcher Developer at Edinburgh | Researching Irish & Scottish writing & environmental history 
Catriona MacLeod @catrionamac.bsky.social Lover of paper and porcelain, Romanticist. Editor, Word&Image. Hebridean, not there often enough.
Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social Edinburgh Literature Prof. Scottish writing, spy novels, cocktails, music.
DrBree Robertson-Kirkland @breerob-kirk.bsky.social Musician and musicologist obsessed with 18th-century singers.
Sarah McAllister @sarahmca11ister.bsky.social she/her | Undertaking a PhD on the depiction of Old Norse Imagery in British Culture c. 1750-1830 
Dr Ellen Gallimore @emgallimore.bsky.social Recently completed PhD at @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, studying early medieval literature, tithes, 19th C. medievalism, tithes, English church history, tithes, historiography, and tithes.
p/t PS staff at @manchester.ac.uk & @imc-leeds.bsky.social
Synthia Hynes @misshynesight.bsky.social PhD student at Uni of Liverpool researching the wives of c18 British Diplomats. C18 fashion enthusiast • neurodivergent • views mine. 🇵🇪🌎
Dana @danalai6.bsky.social PhD Candidate Simon Fraser University English
Novels and non-fiction, 1800 to c.1850.
#geocriticism #workingclass #ScottishLit #Romanticism #nineteenthcentury
Book Review Editor: @StudiesinHogg.bsky.social
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Daegan Miller @daeganmiller.bsky.social Essayist and Critic. For all the beautiful radiant things. Book: *This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent* http://bit.ly/2HYSaSK | Essays: http://bit.ly/2Gn3EPM 
Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social Things I like, make, or grow; assorted wokery; C16-17th religion, literature, and history. UK prof of English. 🏳️🌈
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
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
Dr. Niall Allsopp @niallallsopp.bsky.social Early Modern English literature, English Civil Wars, Restoration, literature and political, social, local history.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/NiallPSER
Work: https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/allsopp/
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social www.IlyaKaminsky.com
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
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