Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
Kristy Baxter @kbax.bsky.social Vintage Internet Time Traveler
Newspapers, magazines, museums, and ephemera
Also cats & whimsy
Pennsylvania girl
Other Account: Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social
Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DamesAndDahlias
Zoë Eckman @hedgerows.bsky.social Media-loving blatherskite. Ex-Duke PhD of 18th-c lit & film. Likes: searching for ecstatic truth, making strangers laugh, rambling about.
@prof-k-griscom.bsky.social @prof-k-griscom.bsky.social she/her; CC Prof; #translation; #17th century literature and culture; #18th century literature and culture; #early modern women writers; #networks; #intersectional feminism; #empathy
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
parsonwoodforde.bsky.social @parsonwoodforde.bsky.social Eighteenth century diarist.
Also on Twitter as @jameswoodforde1
Account not affiliated to Parson Woodforde Society.
Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
Laura H @ninewitchknots.bsky.social 18th cent public historian; woodworker; long time fiber artist (knitting, sewing, handspinning, etc); chronic reader and occasional writer
Nic Walsh @nicwalsh.bsky.social Teacher, reader, sometimes surfer. 
Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social a grumpy melange of personality defects who gets paid to make people's writing better; or, failing that, to not make it appreciably worse.
Courtney (Dr. Version) @cakrolik.bsky.social • medieval historian • history of medicine • unapologetic cat gal • quick with a gif • “she probably deserves a raise” - student eval • Tar Heel • feels WAY too much • thoughts are mine and mine alone •
Brigitta Schvéd @brigittaschved.bsky.social Historian exploring early modern politics & ideas ▪︎ PhD (University of Pécs) ▪︎ Based in Budapest, researcher @lupspolitics.bsky.social ▪︎ Editor @esprit-jeps.bsky.social & @ceraejournal.bsky.social
Franziska Bergmann @bergmann.bsky.social Germanistin und Komparatistin in Erlangen
(Ich nutze diesen Account privat.)
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
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
Natalie Roxburgh @natalieroxburgh.bsky.social 
Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social Printer-Scholar, Bibliographer, & Librarian | Trans* Histories of the Book in 19C America | Owner of @meanwhilelttrpress | he/him | Opinions my own.
Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social poet•author•artist•fool. aging, tr^ns, qu♾️r, sick/disabled, autistic. he/they.
🛑DO NOT ADD TO STARTER PACKS WITHOUT CONSENT!🛑
http://www.jaybesemer.net
ryan kaveh sheldon @oxidentalist.bsky.social opinions my own etc
c18 lit / slavery, ameliorationism, and quantification /
hyphenated iranian.
Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social Postdoc on Research Ireland-funded project ‘Minerals’, UC Dublin School of English. PhD in English. Research global 19c, extraction, infrastructure, petition, periodicals, travel writing, Trollope, emotion history. Adore dogs. she/ her.
Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social At Johns Hopkins University Press, we envision a future where knowledge enriches the life of every person.
Home to @projectmuse.bsky.social
press.jhu.edu
April Girling @girlinga.bsky.social PhD Student (University of Worcester). Researching heterotopias in the work of John Milton and Lucy Hutchinson. Associate Lecturer.
Michael Gavin @michaelgavin.bsky.social Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Univ South Carolina. Author of Literary Mathematics (Stanford UP). Quiet poster, usually. Website: https://literarymathematics.org/
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York @crems-york.bsky.social 📜 The largest centre for Renaissance & Early Modern studies in the UK
👩💻 Director: @emilieKMmurphy.bsky.social
🧑🏫 Over 100 staff & students across 8 depts
📖 Home to our pioneering interdisciplinary MA
🤓 Research seminars hybrid & open to all
york.ac.uk/crems- R @rachelgevlin.bsky.social @rachelgevlin.bsky.social
UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social 📖 The University of North Carolina Press
💚 Est. 1922 | First University Press in the South
📚 Publishing books & journals for academics, students, and general readers
Stéphanie Sauget @ssauget.bsky.social Historienne, spécialiste du 19e siècle et des imaginaires spatiaux, université de Tours. 
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social At Risk of Redundancy Associate Prof at Exeter Uni | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social Assistant Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum || ABD in art history || art & architecture of early modern Spain & Italy || she/her || heads up: there will be Red Sox posts
Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston University
🪦Mourning 👑 Monarchy 🧠 Memory
1680s-1820s | Britain
Guillaume Cot 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸🇧🇪 @guillaumecot.bsky.social Maître de conférences/Associate professor en arts du spectacle @univpaulvalery, visiting scholar at Miskatonic University, Unseen University & Universität Muri, parfois dramaturge 🌿🌻
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
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).
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe writer, musician, intellectual
www.leannesimpson.ca
Cassie Osei is Writing a Book @tropigalia.bsky.social Writer, historian, and assistant professor of Latin America, African Diaspora, and Brazil. Info + Inquiries: https://www.cassieosei.com
Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian of northern and western Canada. Associate professor @ SFU. Author: *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North.* New research: oil & queer histories🛢️👩❤️👩 More @ tinaadcock.com
Maddi Chan @maddichan.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Thinking alongside, feeling with, and writing about 19th Century Caribbean Feminisms, Queer Intimacies and Diasporic Inheritance | Pedagogies of Hope Collective | Lover of roti | her granddaughter 🇬🇾
Eliza Alexander Wilcox @easays.bsky.social It’s a double first name!
genderqueerfemme
crip
they/she
studiatrix of all things disability, queer/trans, 18th and 19th century, and TTRPG. 
Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto, Postdoc at UTokyo.
Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
hamrevofbooks.bsky.social @hamrevofbooks.bsky.social Online literary journal publishing great writing about books and book culture in Canada. Launched Fall 2016.
Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social Associate Professor of English @ Harvard. Medieval literature, queer theory, fan fiction & fan studies. She/her. Support trans rights.
http://www.drannawilson.com/
Aleksandra Ugelstad Elnæs @aleksandraue.bsky.social Writer, historian & reclusive escapist haunted by all things lost, fragmented and shipwrecked. Lapsed 18th centuryist interested in queer classical reception, gothic fiction & the sea.
https://linktr.ee/aleksandraue
Eric Parisot @eparisot.bsky.social Associate Professor in English at Flinders University.
Eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Death and suicide. Graveyard poetry. The Gothic. Vampires. Jane Austen. In another life would make a killing as a wedding DJ. https://shorturl.at/GWY35
Benoît Melançon @benoitmelancon.bsky.social Professeur émérite, chercheur, éditeur, auteur, blogueur, conférencier, bibliographe. Préfère Jackie Robinson à Maurice Richard. Site : https://benoitmelancon.quebec. Blogue : https://oreilletendue.com. ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3637-3135.
Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social PhD in Victorian Studies. Currently writing a book about Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the novel of manners. They/Them
linktr.ee/emmaprobett
Emma Kalb @emmakale.bsky.social Postdoc at Uni Bonn. Historian of slavery, gender, and sexuality in early modern South Asia. 
Tim Chamberlain 🧭 @waymarks.bsky.social Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/
Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online (EMCO) @montaguletters.bsky.social Digital edition of the letters of Bluestocking socialite and literary critic Elizabeth Robinson Montagu (1718-1800).
https://emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/about/
Charlotte Emily Edgeshaw @ceedgeshaw.bsky.social • she/her • NBC Funded Northumbria University PhD student • EMCO Research Assistant • Women’s Education and the North •
Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social Writer/Prof/Other. All pronouns. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/jbattis
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.
centrevictorian.bsky.social @centrevictorian.bsky.social The UK's oldest Centre for Victorian Studies based at the University of Leicester. Follow to stay up to date with the community!
Our next event: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cssahevents/1581232
Find us: linktr.ee/centreforvictorianstudies
Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social Visual Culture & Human-Animal History - SSHRC Postdoc Fellow at Trent U 🇨🇦 Co-editor of GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE https://uncpress.org/9781469694757/globalizing-wildlife/
Previously: https://moving-animals.nl
Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social "Race Politics & Irish America" (Oxford UP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Winner: 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award. Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Page: https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burk
Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social #EnvHist & #Parks Historian. NiCHE Editor-in-Chief. Chacruna Institute Managing Editor. SHFS President. SURJ YXE. Social Media. Editor. Writer. Consultant. Mischief. Organizer. Mom. Cook. Queer. Femme. #YXE. She/Her.
Albert Rolls @albertrolls.bsky.social "A tattered coat upon a stick"
See https://independentscholar.academia.edu/AlbertRolls
See instead https://hcommons.org/members/albertrolls/
Kelly Robson @kellyrobson.com 100% human science fiction, fantasy, & horror writer. Stories galore. Books: Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, High Times in the Low Parliament, Alias Space https://kellyrobson.com/books
Trans rights are human rights ffs
she/her in Toronto, Canada
Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social Ex historian ( #SaintDomingue/ #HaitianRevolution / early #Haiti) at @unitrier.bsky.social / Uni Halle / Uni Milan.
Now PR, Press & science comm @mpici.bsky.social
From 🇮🇹, living in 🇩🇪
https://independentresearcher.academia.edu/MiriamFranchina
Sara Read @saralread.bsky.social Historical fiction novelist #hisfic; senior lecturer #earlymodern & #creativewriting; mum; grandma; gardener; open water swimmer.
www.sararead.co.uk
Elizabeth Greeniaus @elizabethcg.bsky.social asst. lecturer at Skidmore. Operator of this, a Vernon Lee fan account.
Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social Historian & teacher | PostDoc at the University of Lucerne, early modern hair | PhD'ing in Bremen, slavery and people of color in Hamburg | banner: Tariq Safieh
Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social Academic: 18thC literature, book history, critical digitization. Bath, UK. Accomplices Sid the greyhound 🌈 and Turner the whippet.
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org
Selena Mercuri | Writer, Editor, Book Publicist @selenamercuri.bsky.social 📝 MFA Candidate @uguelphcwmfa
💼 @thenewquarterly @therightsfactory @river_street_writes @warlandaward @vancouver.manuscript.intensive.
Emily Isaacson @emilyrisaacson.bsky.social Small college prof. Early modernist. Director of Honors program. Sometimes professional. Always seeking delight.
Views entirely my own.
Marielle Birks @mariellebirks.com MA in Victorian Studies, Birkbeck
Writer, Game Designer, Publisher
Blue Fox Comics I Fox Red Comics I Blue Fox Tabletop
https://linktr.ee/mariellebirks
@bluefoxcomics.com I @bluefoxtabletop.bsky.social
Lucy Cogan @lucycogan.bsky.social UCD English. PI of Wellcome Trust “Drinking Cultures” project. Medical Humanist. Blakean. Romanticist. New here
IRCL Montpellier @irclmontpellier.bsky.social Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-Classical Age, and the Enlightenment (IRCL), a joint #research centre of @CNRS.bsky.social (UMR 5186) and @univpaulvalery 📚🎭 🎼
https://ircl.cnrs.fr/
Rachel C. Evans (ABD) @ BSU @rcevans.bsky.social PhD candidate in literature at Ball State University. Primary area of study is transatlantic 19th-century Gothic literature. Current research interests: depictions and uses of gender and domestic space in Gothic and horror media. She/her. 
Antoine Huerta @antoniohuerta.bsky.social
art by @gleo_co
Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social Historian, and author specialising in true crime, Victorian and Edwardian detectives, and the history of forensic science. Also, linguist 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹. Rep: Past Preservers. http://drangelabuckley.com
Warwick EMECC @emeccwarwick.bsky.social The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc- A Angus Crawford @angusrcrawford.bsky.social History PhD student at Warwick looking at the Lord Leycester Hospital in early modern England
Kriti @soykriti.bsky.social Doctor of Romantic Periodicals. @UArizona
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
Rosemond Cates @rosemondcates.bsky.social PhD candidate @ut-dallas. 19c Anglophone Lit. Posts my own/reposts not endorsements
Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social Professor; Bibliography, women and libraries, early modern books and storage; book trade, histories of information; playbooks; Shakespeare; English literature, drama, cats, horses, bees, and little furry critters
Brendan Tam @brendantam.bsky.social PhD candidate (History) University of Warwick (2022-2026) || Political friendship in Britain 1760-1837|| 🇦🇺 || PG Co-Convenor IHR British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar
Sarah Ailwood @sarahailwood.bsky.social Feminist law and literature academic. LLB Program Director, University of Wollongong
Lydia Smith @lydiasmith.bsky.social PhD student, King’s College London
Entertainment in C18th landscape gardens
Funded by AHRC/LAHP
Anna Myers @annamyers.bsky.social Art Historian | People + their Things | PhD in Shakespeare + c18
MMontier @madamamontier.bsky.social En el siglo XVIII, con las escritoras olvidadas.
Electronic Enlightenment @eenlightenment.bsky.social With over 80,000 letters and documents and 10,300 correspondents as of Spring 2025, EE is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period.
https://www.e-enlightenment.com
Based at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
@amewington.bsky.social @amewington.bsky.social Russian lit prof. at Davidson College. Author: A Voltaire for Russia (Northwestern UP), Russian Women Writers of the Eighteenth & Early Nineteenth Centuries (ITER-Toronto). Current: women, friendship, 18th-century Russia. #standwithUkraine
Claudine van Hensbergen @claudinevh.bsky.social Associate Prof in English Lit, C17th & C18th. Current projects include a cultural history of Aphra Behn's grave, editing Behn for OUP, and a study of public monument in Britain, c.1640-1740. 
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Dr Imogen Knox (she/her) @imogenknox.bsky.social Historian of suicide, emotion & gender
Teaching Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern History, Warwick
Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social Executive Publisher for Humanities journals at Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
Lucia McMahon @luciamcmahon.bsky.social Lady historian and author of The Celebrated Elizabeth Smith;
Yoga, coffee, and hiking enthusiast
https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5808/
Nora J. Williams @norajw.bsky.social Academic & theatre kid| Canonical Misogyny out now from Edinburgh UP! | less funny half of @nashaxpodcast.bsky.social | she/her | 🇱🇧
Brent Rosenstein @bmrosenstein.bsky.social PhD from University at Buffalo | Early Modern/Modern French views of North Africa | Education, translators, and community/belonging | They/He
NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social North American Victorian Studies Association
www.navsa.org- E English @english.bsky.social
Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social Professor of United States literature, Arizona State; co-editor, ALH Review & The Dial; author, America’s England (2013) & Emerson’s Memory Loss (2018); allegedly storied; will bell the cat.
Petra Clark @petrabclark.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian, former/forever Victorianist (Aestheticism & periodicals), and inveterate cat documentarian. Probably haunting the rare books stacks or stress baking.
She/her
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner