Angelina Del Balzo @adelbalzo.bsky.social Asst Prof of English @ Utah Valley U | Prev @ Bilkent U | UCLA PhD, Wellesley BA | 18th c Brit lit and drama, adaptation, imperialism, gender | lady detective | she/her 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston University
🪦Mourning 👑 Monarchy 🧠 Memory
1680s-1820s | Britain
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Cassidy Holahan @cassidyh.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at UNLV ❧ c18 literature, book history, digital humanities, media studies, theatre and performance ❧ she/her
Chris @wattswheelhouse.bsky.social Ride Bikes
Trust Science
Love Cats
Eat Pizzas
Play Musics
Support Libraries
Embrace Wonders
Hannah HM @sekhmet611.bsky.social Queer crazy cat enby. Autistic af.
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
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
michaela marshall dungey @michaela-brianne.bsky.social 
Dr Abigail Fine @onceuponafine.bsky.social PhD in Comp Lit, MA in History. Fairy tales, material culture, (fast) fashion, gender, children’s literature. Special interest in fairy godmothers and American Girl brand.
The Wild Gees @thewildgees.bsky.social On a mission to seek out women's histories, prehistories and mythologies and share our adventures. Interested in under-told stories of all women 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Check out our blog: http://thewildgees.com/
Dr Rachel Murphy @rachelmurphy.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Irish History @unioflimerick.bsky.social | Landed estates, history of family, local history, digital humanities | Historical GIS | Genealogist | Learning about biodiversity | Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 🇪🇺🌍🌳
Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social Extinguished Perfesser of Anguish at Ruckers–Nork; mooseophile; wine guzzler; author of many books, a few of them readable; harmless eccentric.
C18 BritLit, dictionaries, book history, fakery, life-writing, political smartassery.
https://jacklynch.net
Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
Isle of Skye Daily @wednesday1966.bsky.social Live on the Isle of Skye
Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Getty Museum, UPenn art history PhD; major nerd. Opinions, especially the spicy ones, my own. 
Jennifer Pederson @jenped.bsky.social Poet, musician, etc. Repository of useless information re: the long 18th century. Fermentation enthusiast. Compulsive reader of news. Recording second album.
Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
🖋️ Writing a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1584
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
She/her
Cover image aislingjelinski.com
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social • Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for almost 30 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, since 1994
Dr Dan O’Brien @drdan.bsky.social Historian of undertakers and funerals in Eighteenth Century England. Researching the trade and their goods. Visiting Research Fellow at CDAS, University of Bath.
Associate Fellow of Royal Historical Society
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Bridget Bohnson @okayseeyou.bsky.social 
Dr. Emily MN Kugler @emnk.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Howard
Explores how people imagined themselves in the past & how we (mis)remember them.
I’ve a book on #c18 representations of the Ottomans, articles on Black Britons, teach gender/sexuality, & talk games with @friede.bsky.social
Al Coppola @qu1x0tical.bsky.social 18c Lit at John Jay CUNY. First book: Science, Spectacle, Stupidity. Lately, it's the little things.
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
Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social Senior Fellow | German Maritime Museum
Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship
Research Coordinator (on leave) | Prize Papers Project
Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University
Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
@jayferron.bsky.social @jayferron.bsky.social 
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com Helping you 🫵 make sense of higher education 🎓 Follow for the latest news, opinions, jobs and resources.
Visit insidehighered.com for more.
Charlotte Sussman @charlottesussman.bsky.social Chair, Duke English. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Migration Studies, Blue Humanities. Author of PEOPLING THE WORLD: REPRESENTING HUMAN MOBILITY FROM MILTON TO MALTHUS. Remembering the Middle Passage Project. Knitting, running, hopeful cook.
Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social professor @ Wesleyan, editor @ History & Theory and Norton Anthology of English Literature, mother @ home, lover of poetry and tv and good cheese @ all the times…
ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social ECF is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly devoted to the critical and historical investigation of literature and culture of 1660-1832. Editor Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University. Posts by ECF editors; contact: ecf@mcmaster.ca.
Kathleen Alves @katalves18c.bsky.social english associate prof, 2YC stan, 18c lit and med, unapologetic Filipinx, optimistic misanthrope, petty moralist. Opinions my own. She/her
Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social Associate prof of ENGL, Marquette U • c18 lit • disability studies • cat dad • gay married to @nyitray • frequenter of mosh pits and libraries
Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social eighteenth-century scholar in Heatstroke, TX. let's see how this goes.
Book: Making of Modern Cynicism, now in paperback from UVA press: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social Writer, editor, & English professor in Dayton, OH. Chair, School of Humanities & Cultural Studies. Artifacts: How We Think & Write About Found Objects. Co-founder: the-rambling.com. From rural Appalachia.
Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social Finally on Bluesky. The last time it took this much effort to join the uncool kids I went to grad school.
Sheri Harrison @sherimariephd.bsky.social 
Kathleen Lubey @kathylubey.bsky.social i study pornography, profess literature, cook food, sip cocktails. kathleenlubey.com
Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com
Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social Digital humanist; literary historian; early modernist; collaborator; feminist; parent; FEA. Deputy Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities. She/her
Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social Welsh 🏴 Early Medievalist. Manuscripts, Archives, Text Technologies, Early British literature. Author of Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts (OUP, 2021) and Disrupting Categories, 1050-1250 (ARC, 2024), etc. Living in California, but Ceredigion forever.
Kirsten Saxton @kirstensaxton.bsky.social 18/19th lit, pop culture & out of order history, queer studies, crime fiction, hometown Oakland she/her/they
Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social Professor of eighteenth-century lit and culture; person who studies pirates; dragon aficionado; proud parliamentarian dork. Opinions are my own and no one else's.
LadySmatter @ladysmatter.bsky.social Studies 18th century theatre, gender, performance, sexuality, and does far too much administration. Dramaturg, lover of dogs, and cooking with reckless abandon. @R18Collective. ASECS
Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social Mama. Partner. Writer. Professor of Victorian literature at Dartmouth. Former dean and provost, enjoying another run at faculty life. Co-founder of Dever Justice LLC. 
Dr. Nicole Infanta Keller @nicolekeller.bsky.social part-time lecturer | wannabe memoirist | scuba enthusiast | 18c lit, book history, and history of astronomy nerd | she/her
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian; I like my books and cookie dough rare; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social Working on a book about how magazines organize info. C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, WPA, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. First book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social English prof, mama & wife, reader/writer, 18C, pop culture, progressive, cyclist, hiker, yoga. NC. My views are my own. She/her
Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social Associate Professor; 18thc Brit Lit & Science. Author of Botanical Entanglements (UVA Press). New project on marine ecology in the works. Super into plants, running, art museums, libraries, cheese, pandas, and video games.
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 🐕🦺💕
Noah Chaskin @chaskin.bsky.social Weary academic studying queer/crip narrative form in the loooooong 18th century. Chronic illness my significant other, a cat named Fudge my familiar. They/them
Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently in Edinburgh
Kelly Fleming @fleminist.bsky.social VAP, c18 literary historian, meme curator.
She/her.
Emily Spunaugle @embrarian.bsky.social Librarian, book history, PhD, library history, blah blah at Oakland U. 
Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
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.
Jennifer Golightly @jengolight.bsky.social 18th-C literary and cultural history. Digital Teaching & Research Specialist and Lecturer in History @ Colorado College; Instructor at U of Denver. Technologist by day, scholar whenever I can. I have a lot of animals. 
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social (he/him/his) Associate Professor, Crip Queer Poet: c18/c19 British Literature and Culture / Disability Studies / Health Humanities / History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)
travisclau.com
Travis Knapp @tknapp.bsky.social Erstwhile early modernist. Current instructional designer.
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
ODSECS @odsecs.bsky.social The Open Digital Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies: https://www.odsecs.org
Kelly Swartz @kellmswartz.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University / 18C Lit & Philosophy
Emily B. Stanback @emilybstanback.bsky.social Romanticism / long 18th c (mostly) British literature, disability studies, history of medicine, health humanities, disability & race
Associate Prof English + director of minors in Disability Studies / Health & Medical Humanities, U of Southern Mississippi
Chris Loar @chrisloar.bsky.social English Prof, Western Washington U. Eighteenth-century lit and culture, ecology, histories of empire, race, and slavery. Co-Editor at Digital Defoe.
Dr Corrina Readioff @fierengraw.bsky.social Literary detective & long 18th-centuryist. Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool.
Currently working on early modern whales
She/her
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/corrina-readioff#tabbed-content
https://18thcparatext.wordpress
Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English @cam.ac.uk. Irish woman baffled by the fens and the English middle classes. Emotional support/ emotional manipulation provided by a terrier.
Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social Professor, Dickensian, reader, gardener, servant of cats. Opinions expressed here are solely my own and invariably correct.
Danielle Spratt @dlspratt.bsky.social 18thcenturyist, English prof, CSUN; history of science + medicine, Austen, satire, public humanities. Engaging the Age of Jane Austen (w/Bridget Draxler), Histories of Science (ed. w/Dave Alff), Reading Austen. She/her.
Midwest Victorian Studies Association @mvsa.bsky.social Dedicated to studying the Victorian period, including history, literature, art history, music, philosophy, and religion. We welcome members and participants from across the world: https://midwestvictorian.org/.
Lisa Maruca @lmaruca.bsky.social C18 English professor, student of old and new media, SHARPist, tree hugger, dog lover, mom, cook, eater, hiker, reader. Not in that order.- A @aphrabehnsociety.bsky.social @aphrabehnsociety.bsky.social
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
Laura @lleigha.bsky.social Illegitimi non carborundum
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 is a quarterly journal published for Rice University by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Submissions: https://sel.rice.edu/submission-guidelines-faq
Marginalia: https://marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/
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
Rebekah Mitsein @rebekahmitsein.bsky.social Teacher and scholar of 18th-century literature and culture at Boston College. Britain, Africa, New England, Caribbean.
African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment (UVaP 2022).
Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social C18-19 Historian, EH&DHGeoHum, Cambridge & CAMPOP- comparative 🇪🇺 econ development, Ind Rev, econ norms, lighthouses, gamification, data extraction and AI applied to Hist. 
Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social An account about 18th-century history, flowers, historical fashion, art; can contain traces of poetry and cake. #ChandelierSunday
I blog at: http://regency-explorer.net
S. M. Carroll @smcarroll.bsky.social Academic Blue Sky for Siobhan Maria Carroll. Victorian Studies, Romantism, 18C Studies, Science Fiction, Environmental Humanities. Short reviews of things I love and occasional gardening complaints.
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social Research Fellow @ies-sas.bsky.social, Bougie London Literary Woman, cat concierge. Book on 18th-century women's letters forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. natashasimonova.com
Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social Open-access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to scholarship, pedagogy, #dh on all aspects of women, gender and the arts (esp. lit, visual, music, performance, film, criticism), 1640–1830. Editor Laura Runge, USF. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo
Jenny Buckley @jennybuckley.bsky.social Lecturer in literature of the long 18thC at University of Galway. Research: periodicals, fiction, material texts, sociability. Author of Periodicals, Fiction, and the Novel: Ecologies of Print, 1700-1760 (EUP)
Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social I teach 18th-Century Literature at SUNY Oneonta. Trying this out but I am also on Mastodon here: https://c18.masto.host/@jsadow. In theory if you follow me at @jsadow.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy you can interact with me on Mastodon from Bluesky.
Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social Senior Development Officer, Samaritan Health Foundation. Historian of 20th-Century Germany.
Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social New book: Wild for Austen (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).