. @curtisperry.bsky.social .
Centre For New Writing @newwritingmcr.bsky.social Home to a range of programmes in creative writing & contemporary literature at the University of Manchester. Staff include author Jeanette Winterson.
For more information: https://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/centrefornewwriting/
Jonathan Gibson @jonathangibson.bsky.social Senior lecturer in English literature, The Open University, UK
Andie Silva @andiesilva.bsky.social Early modern print culture, book history, digital humanities, (digital) feminist pedagogy. Associate Professor at York College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. General Co-Editor of WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly) and Editor-in-Chief of SHARP News.
Finch Collins @finchinthestacks.bsky.social PGR at the Uni of Manchester, hosted at Chetham’s Library | libraries and data, early modern books and bodies | posts my own
Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social
Lancaster-based medievalist working on this Southampton project:
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=UKRI4381
📍🌊🌎
Author of this book: https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/writing-st-guthlac-hb/ 📖
Katherine Ingram @kating03.bsky.social PhD in History from QUB | Researching conflict and cooperation in the UK women’s suffrage movement, 1900-1918 | Studying suffrage militancy, suffragists’ relations with political parties, and feminists’ responses to war
Katherine Scheil @kscheil.bsky.social English prof at U of Minnesota, fan of dogs, cats, books, theatre, wine, Anne Shakespeare and her husband, all the good stuff in life.
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Fred Smith @fredesmith.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in Early Modern History @ Lincoln College, Oxford | Interested in early modern religious history; exile; transnational history; Catholicism
David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social Tutorial Fellow in English @regentsox.bsky.social. Early modernist. Interests around English literature, history and religion 1500-1800; allegory; rhetoric; neurodiversity; literature and theology. Oxford Handbook of Allegory out now!
Winter02 @winter02.bsky.social Politics, education, music, art and books. 
S.C. Kaplan @medievallitura.bsky.social XV s. France #medievalist, women's libraries. #editrice, #feminist, #reader, #foodie she/her/hers http://mftranscriptions.wordpress.com https://sckaplan.com
Alana Mailes @alanamailes.bsky.social Musicologist, classical singer, historian of extremely old-timey things 🎼🎵📚📜
Catriona Mackie @cmackie.bsky.social Lecturer in History & Heritage at University College Isle of Man. Doesn't fit neatly into disciplinary boxes.
Dr Philippa Earle @uncouthswain.bsky.social Miltonist | Research Associate at Uni of Exeter | FHEA
🔗 https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/35461-philippa-earle
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/
Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
The Deliberate Literate @kytchenwytch.bsky.social Passionate reader of books, baker of biscuits (both kinds!), and stirrer of pots.
Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com 🏳️🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain. 💯 Human-made art or it isn't art.
Debut novel LIGHTBORNE
(LA TRAICIÓN DE CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE)
Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social.
More at hessephillips.com
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
johnpmcloughlin.bsky.social @johnpmcloughlin.bsky.social London.Irish.Historian.Fun discovering #linguistics at QMUL.Interests too diverse: 17 cent.fundraising, hist/philanthropy, learning French, eccles. hist. In past: 12 century, amicitia, John of Salisbury.Career of major-gift fundraising, alumni relations.
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social Antifascist.
Lecturer in British History (https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/john-erik-hansson-fr/).
Intellectual Hist./William Godwin/Radicalism/Anarchism/18th-20th c.
Reviews ed. - Anarchist Studies (https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies).
Jon Dell Isola @medievaljon.bsky.social PhD Medieval Historian. I think about the meaning and purpose of history a lot in my newsletter Among the Ruins (http://among-the-ruins.ghost.io). Special Projects Assistant @medievalacademy.bsky.social. All opinions my own.
Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ships' surgeons.
Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Esther Kearney @estherkearney.bsky.social PhD researcher on Lucy Hutchinson at the University of Nottingham│Editorial Assistant for Women's Writing.
https://earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/the-sculpted-or-the-sculptor-lucy-hutchinsons-the-life-of-john-hutchinson-and-ovids-pygmalion/
@davisqmw.bsky.social @davisqmw.bsky.social 
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Peter Knight @beetroot.bsky.social Professor of American Studies at the University of Manchester. Research on conspiracy theories, and economic humanities. https://t.co/tAAlyS4zD6
J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social C19 literary critic & cultural historian. Author of Louise Michel in America (Rutgers UP 2027) + Sensational Internationalism. Editor of NY: A Literary Anthology + the CC to Literature and Food. UCU NEC member. She/her.
https://www.j-michelle-coghlan.com
Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social Literary academic, Director at Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester. Women's writing, feminism, modern and contemporary lit.
UoM English, American Studies & Creative Writing Department @uomenglish.bsky.social Home to interdisciplinary research, public engagement and a range of undergraduate and taught master's courses and PhD programmes.
Website: https://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/english/
Trudy Morgan-Cole 🫐 @trudymorgancole.bsky.social Newfoundland writer of historical novels and occasional plays. Four decades working in education. I love my province, my family, dogs, God, and as many people as I possibly can. LGBTQ+ ally. She/her. http://www.trudymorgancole.com
Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution | Director of Digital History at More Perfect | Narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down | Scotland Enthusiast | Views my own.
www.jimambuske.com
Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social Some time writer, educator, and curator; full time Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion
Faculty of Humanities @uomhums.bsky.social The Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester.
https://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/
Eithne Quinn @eithnequinn.bsky.social Socio-legal/cultural studies; antiracism; environmental justice.
Manchester Histories @mcrhistories.bsky.social Manchester Histories is an award-winning charity that works collaboratively to reveal, share and celebrate Greater Manchester’s diverse histories and heritage.
https://linktr.ee/manchesterhistories
Kostas Arvanitis @kostasarvanitis.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Museology at the University of Manchester. Interested in spontaneous memorials, collecting trauma and digital heritage https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/kostas.arvanitis
Dr Claire Robinson @mcrclaire.bsky.social Cultural and social historian of 19th and 20th Century. Mostly researches Victorian and Edwardian theatre and periodicals in Manchester. Historical Pantomime. Public Engagement. Fashion and costume history. Arty stuff. Foodie. Nature. 
Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social Social work academic at University of Manchester, Morgan Centre https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/ and Creativity, Health & Wellbeing Lead for Creative Manchester https://www.creative.manchester.ac.uk 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Jamie Robinson @rylandsesoterica.bsky.social Manager of the Rylands Heritage Imaging Lab
Multispectral | Photometric Stereo | 3D | Heritage Imaging
@thejohnrylands.bsky.social University of Manchester
DrVikkiG (she/her) @drvikkig.bsky.social Engagement Librarian. Knows a bit about music halls. Reader. Working on being a writer. Northern accent. #manchester
Roaa Ali @roaa-ali.bsky.social I am a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Manchester and Programme Director for the Creative and Cultural Industries MA. I research and write on race and diversity within the cultural sector.
Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy at University of Manchester. Soon to be Birmingham.
Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social Assoc prof at the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies UoM | Translation Multiples (Princeton UP, 2025) | Literature, translation, multilingualism, Central & Eastern Europe, Cold War writing
Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social AHRC-funded project ‘Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers’, based at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/
@manchester.ac.uk @uomhums.bsky.social
Professor Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social 🎵 Director of Creative Manchester, University of Manchester
🧬 Research: audiences, live music, music & Parkinson’s, music & neuroscience
🎓PhD Uni of Cambridge
📊Accountant 🎷Saxophonist
Www.WhyHumansNeedMusic.com- P Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social Historian - mainly researching refugee history in the 20c. … but it’s not just about refugees… oh, and still learning about what’s at stake then and now. Funded generously in the past by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust and enabled by UNHCR Records and Archives
Rob Richardson @drrobrichardson.bsky.social Lecturer in Urban Planning & Placemaking at University of @Manchester.ac.uk Department of Planning, Property & Environmental Management | MRTPI | Urban design, planning, place & policy | Own views
Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social Feminist academic and ECR. Lecturer in Sociology @ University of Manchester, UK. Author of Feminist Fandom (2024). Interested in youth, gender, digital/pop culture, platforms + anti/feminisms. She/her. https://linktr.ee/brionyhannell
CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social New account (migrated from @ctismanchester) for the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies @ University of Manchester.
Follow us for news about CTIS students & staff, research seminars, and all things translation and intercultural studies!
Digital Futures @digitaluom.bsky.social Highly interdisciplinary University of Manchester network of over 2200+ researchers across 30 disciplines and the whole range of digital research.
linktr.ee/UoMDigitalFutures
Kelechi Anucha @kelechianucha.bsky.social PhD in Literary Studies. Project examined time and care in contemporary end-of-life narratives. Lecturer @ UoM - contempory lit - race, health & environment.
Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social Historian: migration, refugees, humanitarianism, South Caucasus, Armenia. Sidelines in histories of Rochdale and of the Manchester Guardian. UCU Manchester equalities (disabilities) officer. Tired.
Gareth Clay @garethclay.bsky.social Professor of Geography, University of Manchester. Wildfires and peatlands.
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/gareth.clay
The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @uomsalc.bsky.social We are one of four Schools in the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester.
Infinite Women @infinite-women.com Allison Tyra: Creator of a database of 10,000+ women's biographies, author of Uncredited: Women's Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work and The View from the Hill (infinite-women.com/books), cat lady, AuDHD. She/her
www.infinite-women.com
Joshua Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social skitsau'si:mje / skit-so-SEM-EE-uh / writing on madness, mental illness, & culture • registered psychotherapist
Deirdre Mullane @mullanelit.bsky.social Agenting history, science, politics, culture, environment, nature, true crime, narrative, sports & society, mind/body/spirit, books with a story and an argument -- deirdre@mullaneliterary.com
Miray Philips - ميراي فيلبس @mirayphilips.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto
I study transnational religion, memory, rights & violence in the Middle East and its diasporas
📸 "our demise doesn't have to be like this"
www.mirayphilips.com
Elizabeth Graber @elizabethgraber.bsky.social Editor at Rutgers University Press
American Society of Church History @aschurchhistory.bsky.social The American Society of Church History
churchhistory.org
Angela Tozer (she/her) @agentlazero.bsky.social Prof @UNB. Historian of capitalism and settler colonialism. Book: The Debt of Nation: Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State (UBC Press, 2025). Work: Eels + the impacts of racial capital on Treaty in Wəlastəkwey territory. Tamil, eats lentils
Linda Braus @lindabraus.bsky.social Senior Editor for Literature at Palgrave Macmillan, aka professional book nerd.
Otherwise: Midwesterner in NYC & proud owner of a dog named after a (very good) beer.
Opinions mine.
Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social Historian of art & women, Faculty of Theology @UiO.no.
Author of Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (Routledge 2026).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
www.SJMoranEditing.com
Nick Buck @nrbuck.bsky.social Teaching and writing on religion, ethics, and politics. https://nicholasbuck.com
@pdouglassphd.bsky.social @pdouglassphd.bsky.social Scholar of Blackness, Gender and Sexual Violence. Author of "Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence" (Stanford UP, 2025) | patricedouglass.com
David Woodman @davidwoodman45.bsky.social Historian of medieval Britain, Robinson College, Cambridge (https://www.dwoodman.co.uk)
Dr Caitlin Vincent @caitlinvincent.bsky.social Librettist & lyricist. Author of OPERA WARS (Scribner). Senior Lecturer @UniMelb and ARC DECRA Fellow 2025-2027. Opinions own. She/her. ✍🏼👩🏻💻🎶
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.
Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social An independent history, mythology and folklore podcast hosted by Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux.
Gather round the campfire and listen in!
https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast
Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan.
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social Historian of modern Italy, Associate Professor at UCL, researching history of Italian emigration, the First World War, and difficult heritage of Italian Fascism.
https://selenadaly.com
Alix Beeston @alixbeeston.bsky.social Writer and academic | Author of *In and Out of Sight* (Oxford UP) and coeditor of *Incomplete* (U Cali P) | Coming in 2027: *Image Encounters* (Penn State UP) and *Women, Sisters and Friends: Selected Plays and Screenplays of Kathleen Collins* (U Cali P)
@rabbits2ravens.bsky.social @rabbits2ravens.bsky.social Hey! I'm your friendly neighborhood librarian. I like books of all kinds, but especially horror books. Scary movies, cats, plants, cooking and witchy stuff. Hit me up if you need some good book recommendations. (She/Her) #Booksky.
Guy Jordan @arthistoryguy.bsky.social Art History Prof; Quizzing Enthusiast; Philly Sports Fan; a follow is not an endorsement; posts and opinions here are my own and not those of my employer (or my cat) (or my other cat).
Esther Chan (she/her) @estherdchan.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Author of The Limits of Diversity (NYU Press)
Dr Kate Gibson @kategibson.bsky.social Historian of family and inequality at the University of Manchester, researching fostering, adoption, illegitimacy in 18th C Britain 
Amanda Cote @a-c-cote.bsky.social Associate Prof and Serious Games Certificate Director @ Michigan State University
Dr Marina Cano @drmarinacano.bsky.social Asst Prof English │ Long 19th C │ Writer │ Researcher
Theatrical Afterlives (OUP 2026), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/theatrical-afterlives-9780198992882?lang=en&cc=es
https://metode.academia.edu/MarinaCano
Daniel Amir @danamir.bsky.social Londoner in search of Gondi
'Jewish Iran: Modern Nationalism in Print' (Stanford) out July 2026
Eleanor Fitzsimons @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social Writer/Researcher. KeatsShelley Essay Prize, Rubery Book Award. Author Wilde's Women. Life & Loves of E. Nesbit, Selected Articles from The Woman’s World. Here for books, art, nature, laughter & tranquility.
Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social Crone, wastrel, lapsed (but twitching) novelist. Posts about art & lit.
Me: https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anne-denoon
My book: Back Flip, a novel about art & the 1960s: https://t.co/m7fQSOo6At or (with reviews) https://tinyurl.com/4dzwzpdp
Matthew Warner Osborn @nighthawkog.bsky.social Historian of early America. Author of Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic, and Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo271055968.html
Dr. Claire Richie @clairerichie.bsky.social PhD in English lit. Early modernist + digital humanist. Passionate about cheese, college basketball, and John Donne. Lady Macbeth did nothing wrong.
Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social US historian at Boston College. Author of CRACKED FOUNDATIONS: Debt and Inequality in Suburban America (Penn Press, 2025): https://tinyurl.com/yc5evxeh
Scottish Network for Religion & Literature @religionlit.bsky.social Sharing knowledge & developing research around the dynamic relationship between literature and religions @uoedivinity.bsky.social
Brandon Grafius @bgrafius.bsky.social Bible and horror scholar, associate professor and dean. Recent book: https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506481623/Lurking-Under-the-Surface. Words at Salon, Sojourners, and Tor.com.
Lucia Greco @luciagreco34.bsky.social Book expert passionate about storytelling, sharing honest reviews, and helping readers find books that inspire.
Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social Associate Professor of #Philosophy at the University of Bergen. 🇳🇴 Various philosophical interests. Kant’s theoretical philosophy is my field of specialty. Other interests: arts, science, music, literature, photography, and travels.
Elizabeth Darling @archhistdarling.bsky.social Architectural historian, lecturer, author, specialising in histories of modernist cultures in Britain, esp 20s/30s; expert on women & architecture 1890s to the present. New book out now: https://www.lundhumphries.com/products/palace-of-the-ether
Dr. Hilary Lennon @hilarylennon.bsky.social Literary historian, teacher of literature, working on a cultural history of Irish letter writing.