Alexia Mandla Ainsworth 🦇 @alexiamandla.bsky.social PhD Student at Stanford | Studying the literature, theatre, and games of the (very) long early modern period | Gothicist | Shakespeare+ | she/her
Killian Quigley @k-c-quigley.bsky.social oceanic form
Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World.
Insta: @bydreamphd
Lamin @modoulaminjaiteh21.bsky.social With God Nothing Is Impossible With God Everything Is Possible
Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social Intellectual historian, political theorist, inarticolato informatore. I also have a Substack covering French politics and history: https://samuelharrison.substack.com/. All views are those of my employer. he/him.
Dr Katie Aske @katieaske.bsky.social Lecturer in English at Edinburgh Napier University, specialising in 18th-century beauty and skincare. Instagram: @drkatieaske
Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield. Romanticism, Gothic, author and general co-ed of Ann Radcliffe for forthcoming Cambridge edition and gen co-ed of Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. PL AHRC project ‘Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now’
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
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)
Katie Noble @katienoble.bsky.social Dr of 18th C ephemera & theatrical culture; actresses; media history, mediation, adaptation; printing and book history ✨
Day job in education policy and Editor of BSECS Criticks
(she/they)
katiernoble.com
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social Quondam Prof. English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
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
Nicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor @ University of Sydney | Editing a scholarly edition of Harris’s List, forthcoming in 2027.
Alexander Larman @alexlarman.bsky.social Author, journalist, refugee from elsewhere
Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
#QMCECS
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 C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
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.
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Lecturer in early modern literature at University of Cambridge and Shakespeare’s Globe. “Yes I am the metals person” ⚒️ Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making ✝️
LONDON's HowToEnjoy @howtoenjoylondon.bsky.social 2026: LONDON's TECH (Sept) BOOKFAIR (July) CRAFT/ART FAIRs (May) AUTHORs/BOOKs (April) linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyLDN: WANDSWORTH SOUTHWARK LAMBETH GREENWICH Camden Ealing Hackney Hammersmith/Fulham Islington Kensington/Chelsea Lewisham Tower Hamlets Westminster
Lawrence Warner @lawrencewarner.bsky.social Professor of Medieval English @ King’s College London; US / Oz; producer of Dolly Collins / Maureen Duffy ‘Missa Humana’ world premiere 
F U L L P E R M ✨🚀 @fullperm.com Hello Avatar ! 🖖👽
Let's build the REAL #Metaverse with #Secondlife ! ✨🏝️
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DrBree Robertson-Kirkland @breerob-kirk.bsky.social Musician and musicologist obsessed with 18th-century singers.
Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
pkucasper @pkucasper.bsky.social 
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Reader in 18th and 19th Century Literature at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social Victorianist, media history, literary & cultural theory, popular fictions. Emeritus Prof, Fellow of Institute of English Studies, UK.
Ruoyi Yang @ruoyimarineyang.bsky.social PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, 18th-Century Studies, Voltaire’s rewritings of Asian texts, King’s College London
love my cat🥰😻
Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social 18th/19th C. Literature and History: Poetry, Nature, Science, Medicine, and Emotion 🌿✨
Lover of Romanticism, Fantasy, Folklore, and the Gothic 🖤🥀
James Harriman-Smith @jharrimansmith.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature (especially theatre) at Newcastle University; trustee of BSECS; likes cats and learning languages.
Matthew Bell @matthewgbell.bsky.social Prof of German and Comp Lit, KCL. Fellow of the British Academy. I do: Goethe, the classical tradition, histories of the human sciences. And for pleasure: cricket, birds, German wine, Cornwall.
Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Richard Kirkland @richardnw5.bsky.social Professor of Irish literature at King's College London. Lives in Kentish Town.
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Jodi Johnson @jodijohnson.bsky.social Irish poet. Teach at Harvard. Poetry Editor at *Tampa Review*.
Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS).
Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals.
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
John Morton @drjmorton.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English Lit and Deputy Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uni of Greenwich. All views my own
King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social 🌍 Official Bluesky account for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London, consisting of 11 academic departments. #KingsArtsHums
kcl.ac.uk/artshums