Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/professor-james-mussell
Karavan Press @karavanpress.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Cape Town.
Ancient paths. New literary journeys.
AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social Reader; Emperor of Solitude; self-ironising Don of #NorthJozi; Anarchosyndicalist Czar of All Tolstoyan Russian Multiverses; House Fuller-Hallim; Mr Havisham.
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Obsolescent isolate losing hearing & sight at the end of this brief life.
Brendon Moorhouse @bmoorhouse.bsky.social Environmental lawyer. Author. Born 323 ppm. I don't generally respond to DMs.
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)
English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social THE LOVELY DARK is nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2026 | Kirkus ★ | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | No AI |🌱
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Wigbertson Julian Isenia @julianisenia.bsky.social assistant prof in anthro Queer/Postcolonial/LGBTQ politics @uva_amsterdam Cocurator #nostei #houseofhiv he/they 🇨🇼
Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social Strategy/Creative/Content/Branding @ rovélo creative. Lectures on reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety, cities and mobility.
Devout follower of The Jesus and Mary Chain
Creativebyrovelo.com
Satirical news at The Rovélo Record
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social Physician. Honorary Professor of Geriatric Medicine. Delirium. Dementia. Quality improvement. Book lover. Northerner. Mum to daughter with PKU.
Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social Teacher, novelist, short story writer, published by Salt, Zagava, and Raphus Press. Possibly mad about art, film, fiction, and cycling.
Gemma Curto @gemmacurto.bsky.social Affiliated Researcher @Sheffield Uni, PhD English Literature ∣Researching intersections between contemporary literature, scientific methodologies and unpredictability in ecological systems ∣Climate&Energy ∣ASLE-UKI PG/ECR Officer ∣#envhum #envlit #litsci
Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester, researcher of haunting and spectrality in contemporary literature and culture. Currently thinking a lot about ghost children.
Stefani Koorey @drstef.bsky.social PearTree Press, Theatre prof, Author, Historian, Librarian, Progressive, Arthur Miller scholar. Florida born, New England transplant. Font/Grammar Police.
@jrriver.bsky.social @jrriver.bsky.social Retired English professor. UT Austin (Philosophy) and URI (English/Contemporary Critical Theory). Currently living in a rural red state and trying to be loud against the fascists. I read history. Dog Mom. Border Collies (past), now German Shepherd.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/henry-miller/
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social Dr Jennifer Young,
TV Flannelist specialising in humour & the law.
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Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social Pratt Fellow in History, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Author of Musical Warriors: British Military Music and the Napoleonic Wars (McGill-Queen's, 2027).
Previously a Research Fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge.
https://eamonnokeeffe1812.com/
Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-unstitch/9780231219648
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social Falling off bikes, fighting men in swimming pools, history and rampant imposer syndrome. PhD at UoGlasgow. Interested in transformations within 20C Britain. Awful spelling all my own. Constantly distracted.
Thomas P. Stephens @tpstephens.bsky.social PhD in British, Commonwealth, and Empire History from IU Bloomington, Assistant Editor of the Journal of American History, and Editor of The American Historian. Studies gender and military culture. Cat dad and nerd (he/him).
Francis van Berkel @fvanberkel.bsky.social PhD Candidate. Researching India’s contribution to the First World War and its after-effects in the 1920s and 1930s.
James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social Writer, London
Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
https://www.callandavies.com
Kiron Ward @kironward.bsky.social lecturer in modern & contemporary literature at @standrewsenglish.bsky.social
author of _Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction_
co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social w/ @kdclewin.bsky.social
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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Huw Marsh @huwmarsh.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at QMUL | contemporary fiction, comedy and work http://tinyurl.com/32zydzav | he/him
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/marshhuw2.html
Gabriele Lazzari @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social senior lecturer in contemporary lit (uni of surrey) // writing on novels, migration, realism
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Ysabel Muñoz @ysabelm.bsky.social She/her
PhD Candidate at NTNU.
(Queer) Ecocritism. EnvHum. Caribbean. TransEcology. Futurisms.
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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies, U. Otago | President International Flann O’Brien Society & ISAANZ | PI Marsden Project ‘Modern Immunity’ | co-author w/ Matthew Hayward of The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonisation, Radical Campuses and Modernism
English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social Department of English, UoB 📚
Top 10 UK university and 54th in the world (QS Rankings 2025)
GAPS @gapsnet.bsky.social GAPS - Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien).
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social Book jockey
Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social Research Ireland postdoc @ UCD in contemporary literature, affect, and late capitalism | Previously postdoc @ JLU Giessen | PhD @ Trinity College Dublin | Tuirseach, traochta agus cáite amach | Free Palestine
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Lucy Huber @clhubes.bsky.social
Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social Professor of English, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
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New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
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Anisa Mustafa @mussi1010.bsky.social Research Manager with a background in Sociology and media. Working on creative non-fiction projects and endless crochet WIPs. Dreams of winning Bake-Off but keeps forgetting to apply.
Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social Medievalist. Chaucerian. Lover of pigeons. Researching ideas of Virtue in Chaucer’s Literature @ University of Bristol
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Dr Liam J. L. Knight @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social Doctor of dystopian fiction, post-truth, and "endotexts" working behind the scenes in HE.
Co-host of @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social.
Former teacher - GCSE revision materials available at https://youtube.com/@dystopiajunkie
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Nicholas Seager @nick-seager.bsky.social Professor of English and Head of Humanities, Keele University
Steve De Hailes @stevedehailes.bsky.social Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol. Interest in medieval mountains, environments and the supernatural, Middle English and Early Modern literature. Mountain walker. He/him.
Max Minerva's Bookshop @maxminervas.bsky.social Indie bookshop in Bristol, UK. All readers welcome 📚
Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Sexuality and Visual Culture, Loughborough University; 19th-20thC literature (esp. poetry), genders/sexualities (esp. queer femininities), portraiture, photography, fashion & celebrity. She/her.
Morag Shiach @moragshiach.bsky.social Literature, cultural history, modernism, music. Emerita Professor at QMUL.
Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer @hannahpalmer.bsky.social Working on abortion, maternal histories, & women’s health in 19&20c Britain. Interests include histmed & surgery, obs and gynae, lived experience, & women's writing. Also posting on @healthhumslboro.bsky.social 🫀🦋🧚♀️
(women) In Parenthesis @inparenthesis.bsky.social We are a research centre that supports scholarly work, philosophical engagement, and projects on Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley & Iris Murdoch. Follow up for updates and join our network Mapping the Quartet!
Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley @smawdsley.bsky.social Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
SWWDTP @swwdtp.bsky.social South, West & Wales (Arts & Humanities) Doctoral Training Partnership. We are a partnership of 9 universities and other orgs, providing AHRC funding for PhDs.
Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks @remakingbritain.bsky.social Bluesky account for the Bristol University, Queen Mary University of London and British Library AHRC project, Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830s to the present'
Lola Artacho Martín @lola-am00.bsky.social PhD candidate at University of Málaga - Anglophone literature - Life writing, illness and care
Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast.
foxedquarterly.com
Timothy C. Baker @timothycbaker.bsky.social Lectures on Scottish and contemporary literature, writes about animals, tries to be hopeful. He/they. Currently trying to open a cinema in Aberdeen.
Bristol PGR Medieval Conference 2026 @bristolcmspgr.bsky.social The Bristol University Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social) annual PGR conference, 'Power and Performance’ 2026. Questions to cms-conference-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk.
CFP: https://medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/pgr-conference-2026/
PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
https://linktr.ee/brihughespoet
Sam Thomas @literarymetal.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Studies
Pynchon | Film & TV | Metal & Experimental Music | Genre & Franchise Culture | Political Violence | Star Wars
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Denise Wong @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social Reviews and Roundtables Co-Editor @c21literature.bsky.social | Author of 'Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Time, Gender and Race' (2025) @edinburghup.bsky.social
Sandro Eich @sandropology.bsky.social Scholar at St Andrews | Whistleblowing & writing | Academic Policy Officer (Quality) 📄 | Interdisciplinary humanities 📚🔬🌍 | 🌈🏴🇩🇪🇪🇺| Secretary of @BACLS_official
Oliver Haslam @olihaslam.bsky.social Assistant Professor @UEvansville | PhD from @LboroEnglish | Reviews Co-Editor @c21literature.bsky.social | Researching 20th and 21st-century American fiction | Author of 'Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)
Erin Elizabeth Greer @erin-e-greer.bsky.social lit prof at UT Dallas working with novels, ordinary language philosophy, political theory, eco/animal stuff, and ethics| book: https://tinyurl.com/IdealOfConversation (30% off w code PAPER30)| https://profiles.utdallas.edu/erin.greer
Kristin J. Jacobson @drkj.bsky.social (She/Her) Professor of American literature, American studies, and women’s, gender and sexuality studies. Author of *Neodomestic American Fiction* and *The American Adrenaline Narrative.* Working on a book about regional cli-fi.
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings is the official journal of @bacls.bsky.social. The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication, and circulation of 21st-century writings. Published by @openlibhums.org
Stef Craps 🕊️ @stefcraps.com Professor of English Literature at UGent | Memory & trauma studies, ecocriticism & environmental humanities, postcolonial & decolonial theory | How stories help us reckon with loss & imagine more just, liveable futures | Born at 335 ppm | www.stefcraps.com
emma short @emmashort.bsky.social thinking about hotels, modernism, and the environment. not necessarily at the same time.
assistant professor of modern & contemporary literature at durham university.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22129-4
Catherine Lacey @catherinelacey.bsky.social stoic chaos / books
Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social Thinking through infrastructure – energy, transport, water, waste, housing, health – with methods from the arts, humanities, & social sciences. https://researchcentres.citystgeorges.ac.uk/thinking-through-infrastructure-network
Amy Martin @amymartin13.bsky.social Cat mom, book lover & academic book editor. Disappointed USian.
Debra Rae Cohen @debraraecohen.bsky.social Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, Modernism/modernity. Modernism and media, especially the BBC; women's writing in war and crisis. Fuck ICE and all its works. Eat the rich. Protect your neighbors. 🍉
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Nathalie Olah @nrolah.bsky.social Reader and writer. Author of Steal As Much As You Can 2019, Class 2021 and Bad Taste 2023
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
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Lort Burn Specials @lortburnspecials.bsky.social Newcastle's occasional night of books, politics and culture
digging countercultural modernism from its grave and watching it punch a police horse in the face outside St James' Park
on Insta as @lortburnspecials, on the fash site as @LortBurns
Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Former Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social English Lit PhD student @ UoLiverpool: contemporary trauma literature and theory, online reading communities and affects 💫 amateur internet archaeologist 🔎 writer: Refinery29, VICE, i Paper, Dazed
Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social We are the Department of English in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. We are a top 10 department with excellent teaching and world-leading research. More information here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/
Alex Henry @alexbhenry.bsky.social Interested in chronic illness, crip theory and contemporary lit. Bookseller. He/Him.
MA in Gender and Sexuality Studies @ Dublin City University @magendersexuality.bsky.social Explore and analyse cultural, artistic and social expressions of sexual orientation and gender identity from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
Applications are now open:
https://www.dcu.ie/courses/postgraduate/salis/ma-gender-and-sexuality-studies
Namratha Rao @namrao.bsky.social
Susanne Ferwerda @susanneferwerda.bsky.social Assistant Prof Comp Lit, Utrecht University. Researching anti-colonial oceanic imaginaries and the blue/environmental humanities. Dutch, queer & feminist. She/they.
Lesel Dawson @leseldawson.bsky.social Associate Professor of Literature & Culture at the University of Bristol
Arts and Culture Lead of the Good Grief Festival
I am interested in the relationship between grief & creativity, early modern literature, the history of the emotions & gender.
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy
https://amcreamer.net
Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social ECR, Visiting Scholar at Uni of Leeds. Feminism, modern & contemporary lit, affect, activism in literature, env hums, med hums, place writing, transnationalism. She/her