German Studies at the University of Oxford @oxfordgerman.bsky.social Willkommen! Follow us for news from the largest German department in the UK at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, with the Taylor Institution Library. Posts by Henrike Lähnemann
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Institute of Advanced Study Warwick @iaswarwick.bsky.social University of Warwick IAS is dedicated to advancing new research ideas, interdisciplinarity, innovation, and international connections.
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PLL: Papers on Language and Literature @paperspll.bsky.social A fully peer-reviewed print academic quarterly on language and literature: comparatist and generalist. Founded in 1964.
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German Studies Association @thegsa.bsky.social The German Studies Association is the multi- and interdisciplinary association of scholars in German, Austrian, and Swiss history, literature, culture studies, political science, and economics.
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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social Stanford University Press has been publishing books across the humanities, social sciences, law, business, and other areas since 1892.
Weibing NI @weibingni.bsky.social PhD in French @Cambridge| wn235@cam.ac.uk
Caribbean literature, comparative literature, critical race theory, gender study, and migration study.
German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de.
Open Mo-Fri, 9.30am-5pm
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Henrike Lähnemann @hlaehnemann.bsky.social Eclectic mix of German Studies; medieval miscellany; Oxford news; manuscript studies. Blowing my own French horn & that of German and Medieval Studies at Oxford
https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/laehnemann
Christoph Pretzer @christophpretzer.bsky.social Medievalist / historian / philologist. Working on 13th and 14th-century fall of city narratives, loss, lament, and memory / crusades / City of Acre |Academic Assistant at TU Chemnitz | formerly at Bern (MSCA), KCL, Cambridge (PhD), Bamberg (BA & MA).
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social An international community at the heart of the University of Edinburgh bringing together over 3,000 staff and students.
https://llc.ed.ac.uk/
Laura Bradley @laurabradley.bsky.social Professor of German & Theatre at the University of Edinburgh. Brecht, GDR culture, censorship, ghost stations.
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Oswald's Raven @oswaldsraven.bsky.social Account of the AHRC-funded project "Liturgical and literary landscapes: the cult of St Oswald of Northumbria in the German-speaking world" run by Johanna Dale & Sarah Bowden (KCL).
www.oswaldusrex.co.uk
UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) is a centre of advanced research, debate and dialogue across any kind of boundary, intellectual or institutional.
UCL History @uclhistory.bsky.social Dating back to 1830, UCL History sits in the heart of London and welcomes the best researchers and students from around the world 🌎
Sarah Bowden @sarahbowdenkcl.bsky.social Medievalist at King’s College London. One half of Oswald’s Raven.
Women+ in German Studies (W+IGS) @wigsblog.bsky.social W+IGS was established in 1988 to bring together female+ Germanists in Great Britain and Ireland and to support them in all aspects of their professional life.
womeningermanstudies.wordpress.com
Joseph Cronin @j-cronin.bsky.social Director of the Leo Baeck Institute London. Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.
German and Jewish history. Much else besides.
www.lbilondon.ac.uk
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social One of the largest, most diverse Schools of Languages, Cultures & Societies in the UK. A leading centre for Languages, Classics, Film, Intercultural Studies, Translation & Linguistics.
Anna Saunders @profannasaunders.bsky.social Professor of German, University of Liverpool. Memory and memorialisation, eastern Germany, promoting languages.
Deutschlernerblog @deutschlernerblog.bsky.social Materialien zum Deutschlernen online und zum Herunterladen.
Wortschatz, Grammatik, Leseverstehen, Hörverstehen, Redewendungen, Nomen-Verb-Verbindungen, Dialogkarten, Musik und vieles mehr.
University of Leeds UNISON @uolunison.bsky.social The official BlueSky page for UNISON at the University of Leeds. Promoted by UNISON, 130 Euston Road, NW1 2AY.
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/
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
Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe. The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany (University of Chicago Press, May 2025). Things German, musical, historical, political, with some bicycles and mountains https://bit.ly/3ZwwJlM
Dr Jieun Kim @jinikim.bsky.social Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds. PI of the Hematopolitics Project (hematopolitics.org; @hematopolitics.bsky.social).
Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Yiddish at UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies. Book: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford UP). Working on Yiddish plays by women. Yiddish, German, dance, theatre, gender studies. https://soniagollance.com
Dr Sara Barker @sarakbarker.bsky.social Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies @ilcs.bsky.social The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/
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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social The Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI) has been promoting research into women's history in Ireland since 1989.
UCFL Early Career Academics Special Interest Group @ucfl-eca.bsky.social A UK network for PGRs & ECAs working across languages 💬🌏
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@oliviaglaze.bsky.social
@llewelynhopwood.bsky.social
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Twentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social Twentieth Century Communism is a journal of communist history and theory from across the globe. Posts about radical history, and its writing and research. Published by Lawrence & Wishart.
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
The DDGC Collective @ddgc.bsky.social Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum is an international scholarly collective dedicated to critical approaches to German Studies.
https://www.ddgccollective.org
Maureen Gallagher @maureenogallagher.bsky.social Academic. Immigrant. Feminist Killjoy. Cat Fancier. Lecturer in German Studies at Australian National University. Not in Kansas anymore.
Sigrid G. Köhler @sigridgkoehler.bsky.social (Noch) enthusiastische Germanistin: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Dekolonialität • Atlantische Welt • Ästhetik • Recht • Populäre), NdL-Professur, https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/111274
Elystan Griffiths @elystan.bsky.social German Studies academic at University of Birmingham. Co-editor German Life and Letters. Working on a book on obedience. Interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany, cats, food, film, pottery. Cymro. My views. 🏳️🌈- H @hilarypotterphd.bsky.social @hilarypotterphd.bsky.social
V&Q Books @vqbooks.bsky.social Publishing remarkable writing from Germany
Continuing the Love German Books tradition
Find out more at https://vq-books.eu/ 
Ingrid Sharp @profingrid.bsky.social Gender and Cultural Historian at the University of Leeds: likes dogs and cake 
Marie Kolkenbrock @mariekolkenbrock.bsky.social Branco Weiss Fellow at King’s College London in DLLC. Cultural Politics of Distance. Therapy Culture and its Critics. Viennese Modernism (Freud and Schnitzler). 
ari linden @arilinden.bsky.social Professor of German in Kansas. Author of a book on Karl Kraus. Into critical theory, Marxism, and German Jewish Studies. Look left
Also like basketball
The radical is the rational
Jon Hughes @riderjon.bsky.social Academic in German + Cultural Studies, Royal Holloway Uni. of London, researching film, lit, history, sport. Books on Joseph Roth, Max Schmeling. Latest book: PEOPLE ON SUNDAY, out now with Bloomsbury/BFI Film Classics. Cyclist, cat person, European.
Emma Bond @efbond.bsky.social Professor of Italian & Comparative Studies, University of Oxford. Interested in migration, museums and empire. New book CURATING WORLDS out Dec 2024.
UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social The University Council For Languages: the national voice of research & teaching in languages, cultures, societies, and related disciplines in UK HE.
British-German Association (BGA) @britgerassoc.bsky.social Founded in 1951, the BGA is the civil-society hub for British-German relations in the UK.
Robert Craig @robcraig400.bsky.social Coordinator of Curriculum Transformation for the EUPeace European University Alliance: https://eupeace.eu. Based at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen in Germany.
Germanist by training. All opinions borrowed and turgidly rephrased. He/his.
Karolina May-Chu @karolina-mc.bsky.social German Studies scholar. Thinking about 20th & 21st century literature, borders, cosmopolitanism, and world literature. Author of Border Poetics in German and Polish Literature: Cosmopolitan Imaginations since 1989.
Joanna Raisbeck @joannaraisbeck.bsky.social Lecturer in German Studies, UCL. (Photo: Stuart Bebb)
Sascha Stollhans @saschastollhans.bsky.social Linguist | Pro-Dean for Student Education (Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds) | @inmfl.bsky.social co-lead | Own views | he/him
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/staff/4328/professor-sascha-stollhans
Eleoma Bodammer @eleoma.bsky.social Reader in German at the University of Edinburgh. Leverhulme Research Fellow (2023-25): 1750 to 1830, German Romanticism, disability, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Schiller, Goethe. Joined Bluesky in November 2024.
Weimar Film Network @weimarfilmnetwork.bsky.social https://weimarfilmnetwork3.wordpress.com
Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social The AGS is the biggest professional association for university-level German Studies in GB and Ireland. We seek to support, foster, and increase the visibility & vitality of German Studies. Membership open to anyone with teaching/research interests in GS.
Universität Hamburg @uni-hamburg.de Hier postet die Social Media-Redaktion der Abteilung Kommunikation und Marketing der Universität Hamburg. | Impressum: uhh.de/impressum
Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social The Leo Baeck Institute London is a research institute dedicated to the study of German-Jewish history and culture, organising research projects, fellowships and public events. Affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London
https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk
Monja Stahlberger @monjast96.bsky.social Early Career Researcher in German & Austrian Exile Studies
Postdoc at Leo Baeck Institute London | Bithell Fellow at the ILCS
Undercurrents – Forum für linke Literaturwissenschaft @undercurrentsforum.bsky.social Undercurrents fragt seit 2012 nach dem Verhältnis von Literatur, Literaturwissenschaft und emanzipatorischen Bewegungen: https://undercurrentsforum.com – open access.
Ausgabe 20 (2025) zur politischen KJL ist jetzt online!
German at Bristol | University of Bristol @germanatbristol.bsky.social Welcome to the Department of German at the University of Bristol! Follow us for student and research news, events, and collaborations! | www.bristol.ac.uk/german
Sabine Egger @sabineegger.bsky.social Associate Professor of German Studies, MIC, University of Limerick | Irish Centre for Transnational Studies | Interested in Literary & Cultural Studies, Memory, Borderlands, Europe, Contested Spaces, Embodiment, Technology/Media
Mary Boyle @maryrboyle.bsky.social Postgraduate Admissions Tutor and Fellow, Homerton College, Cambridge. Outreach Coordinator for German and Affiliated Lecturer in MMLL at Cambridge. Medievalist (English/German). Pilgrimage book: bit.ly/MedPilg 🇪🇺 Migrant justice. Own views.
Elif Oezmen @elifoezmen.bsky.social Prof. für Philosophie in Gießen, aktuell Senior Fellow am WiKo Greifswald. NuBuks: Was ist Liberalismus? 2023; Über Wissenschaftsfreiheit, 2027.
Love interests: auf / im / am Meer.
PSA German Politics Specialist Group @psagermanpol.bsky.social We are the German Politics Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social)
Web: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/german-politics
LMU München @lmu.de Offizieller Account der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München
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Cultural Production & Social Justice @cpsjcam.bsky.social A collaborative series of projects asking: can art destabilize prejudice and open new opportunities?
Based @germancambridge.bsky.social
Views own.
https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/german/research/cultural-production-social-justice
German at Cambridge @germancambridge.bsky.social Official account of the German Section of the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics at the University of Cambridge
https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/german
Dr. Maha El Hissy د. مها الحصى @mahaelhissy.bsky.social Writing non-fiction on fiction
curator „Vorzeichen“
editor “Die ganze Geschichte fasse ich an der Hand”
author “Getürkte Türken”
mahaelhissy@yahoo.com
Jon Cho-Polizzi @jpolizei.bsky.social translator. literature professor.
californian in exile ☀️🌲🌊⛰️🌆
traveler, lebenskünstler, punk.
he/him.
Ayça Türkoğlu @aycatur.bsky.social Literary translator from German & Turkish, little woodland creature and professional dweeb.
Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social Literary translator from German to English, occasional publisher, Berlin lover, appreciator of wallets on chains. She/her.
Photo © Nane Diehl
Dr Hugo Fagandini @sonetlumiere.bsky.social PhD on Krautrock in the New German Cinema. Lover of films and music of all kinds. Collector and occasional reader of books. Writings on film music @ sonetlumiereblog.wordpress.com.
Meindert Peters @meindertpeters.bsky.social Honorary Faculty Research Fellow at @UniofOxford | Book: Habituation in German Modernism: https://shorturl.at/LYKFy | Co-Curator: Kafka: Making of an Icon (Oxford/New York) | Editor: Bodies & Abilities (Brill) | www.meindertpeters.com
Stephan Ehrig @herrehrig.bsky.social Glasgow Germanist working on remediations of architecture in film and literature | DEFA | Kleist | Urban Humanities | East(ern) Germany | Transnationalism | Formerly Dublin, Durham, Bristol, Leipzig | he/him
Tom Smith 🏳️🌈 @tomsmithgerman.bsky.social Lecturer, writer, mostly German and queer stuff, some radio, lots of music 🎶 he/him 🍉
Aida Baghernejad @aidabaghernejad.bsky.social actually literally award winning journalist. writer to the many, lover to the few. podcaster, presenter, professional dilettante. 🧿
https://linktr.ee/aidabaghernejad
Dr Tara Talwar Windsor @ttw1984.bsky.social Lecturer in German Studies @lcsleeds.bsky.social.
All views my own. She/her.
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanities-cultures/staff/9915/dr-tara-talwar-windsor
Jeannette Oholi @jeannetteoho.bsky.social she/her | postdoc | literature | Black Europe | (post)migration | antiracism and literature | dogs | plant-based food | www.jeannetteoholi.com
Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social media studies, literary studies, film studies, queer studies; post also in Bosnian/German; plant dad and dog mom; vegan but not annoying about it; writing a book of personal essays 🏳️🌈
https://www.ervinmalakaj.com
Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature at Kiel University, deputy editor for @c21literature.bsky.social , contemporary life writing/fiction, English & German, seriality, modernism • she/her •
Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
Mithu Sanyal @mithu.bsky.social writing and talking to plants
Ben Schaper @chewschaper.bsky.social Academic on hold ⏳Book and film lover at ♥️ Formerly Lecturer in 🇩🇪 at Oxford and Durham
Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies @UCL | Environmental Humanities | Utopia | Apocalypse | Anthropocene Studies | World Literature
Joe Twist @joetwist.bsky.social German Studies lecturer
Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Germanist
jonathanblakefine.com
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Asal Dardan @asaldardan.bsky.social Kulturwissenschaftlerin & Autorin | sie, she | “Betrachtungen einer Barbarin” (2021) |
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Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social German Studies, U of Edinburgh. Translation History, Holocaust testimony, archives, interpreters at Holocaust trials. Audio drama and the Holocaust. Occasional Scottish political nonsense. He/him
Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social Holocaust, Jewish, feminist, and queer history. She/her. Ukraine stan. Author of The Last Ghetto and People without History Are Dust
Daniele Vecchiato @profvecchiato.bsky.social 📖 Associate Professor of German and Translation Studies at the University of Padua, Italy
🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇬🇧
he/er/lui | views my own
Dr. Molly Harrabin @mharrabin.bsky.social All things gender and sexuality in Weimar Cinema! Currently a Postdoc at IAS (Warwick) & German Screen Studies Network (St. Andrews)
German Screen Studies Network @g-s-s-n.bsky.social Founded in June 2012 as an international platform for informed comment and German-language film promotion amongst researchers, educators, film professionals, and the interested public. Based at University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Laurel Plapp @laurelplapp.bsky.social Senior Acquisitions Editor for Language, Literature and Culture, Peter Lang Oxford
AlrikDaldrup @alrik.bsky.social PhD student in German literature. Working on affects, violence and resistance in literary texts.
Katya Krylova @katyakrylova.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in German, Film & Visual Culture @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social. Linguist. Austrianist. Literature, film & visual culture scholar. Views my own.
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Katherine Calvert @katherine-calvert.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in German Studies. Research interests: 19th/20th/21st-century political writing, print media, and the history of emotions. 
Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Book news from the Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing team in London and New York. 📚 Home of the Object Lessons series.
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