Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Hes Bradley @hesbradley.bsky.social lecturer in english and creative writing at @uniofbuckingham.bsky.social
writer, community gardener,
into vampires and the moon atm
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
@jazzkatzine.bsky.social @jazzkatzine.bsky.social zine maker. zine collector. zine advocate. (also loves Baywatch Nights, don't hate)
Charlotte Boyce @c19thceleb.bsky.social Associate Professor in Victorian Literature. Research interests: hunger & masculinity | food & consumption | history of celebrity. Co-I on ‘Young Women & Body Image’. Dog person. 🏴 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/charlotte-boyce
Veblen Director Programme @veblendirectors.bsky.social Helping ambitious people get their first board seats. Regardless of your background.
Sibylle Baumbach @sibyllebaumbach.bsky.social Prof of English Lit&Cult @unistuttgart.bsky.social, passionate about literary attention and Shakespeare, PI of @litattention.bsky.social, president of @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social. Views are my own.
Jon Foster @jonfoster.bsky.social Spend my days reading Shakespeare and C19th literature, theatre-going and watching cricket (Middlesex CCC).
Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social We are AAS: scholars of adaptation, intertextuality, intermediality & all the disciplines that involve them. Arguably the best sidebar chat game in online aca-conferencing.
Join us! https://www.adaptation.uk.com/
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Adaptation Today @adaptationtoday.bsky.social adaptive and responsive resource for adaptation studies scholars, as well as scholars in film, media studies, literary studies, and beyond!!
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
Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social Paralegal with masters in international maritime law, interested in languages, ethics, governance, environmental protection and human rights. Mythology-loving humanist.
Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture @proverbialculture.bsky.social Account for the AHRC-funded project, Shakespeare and Early Modern Proverbial Culture.
https://earlymodernproverbs.co.uk/
Sirui Xu @siruixu.bsky.social PhD student in Intermediality at the University of Edinburgh. Researching Adaptation, Intermediality, Biopic, Musical Theatre.
Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social Ed #Supersex for @utexaspress.bsky.social. Ed Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Words @comicsxf.com @sequentialscholars.bsky.social + lots more. Host of @GoshGollyWow.bsky.social. Kurt Wagner's (unofficial) PR Manager. she/her
Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social Academics reading and celebrating the style, substance, and sublimity of all kinds of comics. By scholars, for everyone. Led by @annapeppard.bsky.social & Dr. J. Andrew Deman.
Dr. Media @drmediaprof.bsky.social Associate Professor at Western State. Likes movies, dogs, coffee, and hiking. Opinions mine but should be yours.
AccordingLee @accordinglee.bsky.social Expatriated US postdoc in Europe. Overeducated hot takes, unpopular opinions, and unsolicited feedback. Shamelessly plugging the 'stack here: https://accordinglee.substack.com/
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Darren Freebury-Jones @freeburian.bsky.social FRHistS. Author. Public speaker. Shakespeare scholar. General Ed: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Ed: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. Welsh.
https://darrenfj.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/darren-freebury-jones-publications/
Linked Early Modern Drama Online @lemdo-uvic.bsky.social Expanding the canon of teachable and performable early modern plays, one open-access digital edition at a time. In partnership with UVic, DRE, NISE, MoMS, QME, and DSMP. lemdo.uvic.ca/lemdo
Nicholas Orsillo @nickorsillo.bsky.social I'm an academic copy editor, proofreader, and Czech-to-English translator; would-be historian; and keeper of life in glass boxes. www.nicholasorsillo.com
@waywardplant.bsky.social @waywardplant.bsky.social 
Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
Allison Lemley @allisonlemley.bsky.social PhD candidate at Goethe University researching EM history plays, cultural memory, and theatrical space. WissMit at the University of Bamberg. Opinions can only be blamed on me.
Jstor enthusiast and glass jar collector
DGabe @dgabe65.bsky.social artist, scholar, theatre director, professor, Shakespeare Geek, pet papa
www.acmetheatreco.com
Slow Moving Pictures @lewisbeerblog.bsky.social A film blog: I spent 2025 analysing Red Desert. www.slowmovingpictures.org
Eilís Smyth @eilissmyth.bsky.social W.B. Yeats Fellow in Irish Literature @ The Keough-Naughton Institute, Notre Dame | Writing about the politics of performing Shakespeare at Dublin’s Theatre Royal, Smock Alley in 17c-18c and all things Smock Alley promptbooks
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
Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social Producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; expect broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art
Images: Magic Rays of Light / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
Shakiba Barghi @shakibabarghi.bsky.social Graduate Researcher Academic Associate & PhD Candidate at University of Melbourne |
Media Studies | Book History | Publishing Studies | Social Media | Fan Studies 📚✒️
Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social Asst Prof at Trinity College Dublin | Shakespeare and Performance Studies | Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association | Dramaturg | Views own.
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
German Shakespeare Society (DSG) @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social The German Shakespeare Society / Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (DSG), founded in Weimar in 1864, is open to everyone interested in and enthusiastic about Shakespeare. Join the DSG today! https://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/?lan
Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social Writer. Author. Bond Fan.
CATCHING BULLETS - MEMOIRS OF A BOND FAN
WATCHING SKIES - STAR WARS SPIELBERG & US
BOND, QUEER BOND - THE FABULOUS OTHER HISTORY OF A SPY
Rep'd by Vivienne Clore
#JamesBond #WatchingSkies #BondQueerBond
www.markoconnell.co.uk
Deborah Cartmell @deborahcartmell.bsky.social I publish in Adaptation Studies and am co-editor and founder of the journals, Adaptation (OUP) and Shakespeare (Routledge).
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Charlotte Bartle-McDaniel @ckbmcd.bsky.social 📖Asst. Professor of English
📚PhD researcher - Hair in 19thC/Neo-Victorian mourning/memorialisation • Anglo-American Literature • Material culture • Death & dying • Grief • Sensation fiction •
Yorkshire 🏴 ➡️ Missouri 🇺🇸
💀 Taphophile
http://www.ckbmcd.com
Travis Bedard @travisbedard.bsky.social Theatre maker. Currently encamped in Madison, Wisconsin.
AugustSork @augustsork.bsky.social 
Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social Visiting Fellow in Victorian Literature at Loughborough University @lboroenglish.bsky.social
#19thcentury & pre-war popular fiction
Author of Marie Corelli - https://www.eerpublishing.com/turner-marie-corelli.html
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4597-4354
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Sofia de Melo Araújo @sofiameloaraujo.bsky.social Literary Studies scholar (Research interests: Ethics and Literature, Contemporary Narrative, Education)
Adjunct Professor at Porto Polytechnic and University of Porto
Head of the Foreign Languages Department at the School of Education- Porto Polytechnic
Dammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social Retired Curmudgeon at Large. Ne’er do well of questionable morals. Proud purveyor of unmitigated tommyrot. Prone to exaggeration and totally unnecessary embellishment.
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
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Philip Teacher @hokemosely.bsky.social English Teacher
Lansing @majintails.bsky.social Call me Lansing | Just chilling here, willing to talk about anything | 21, Any/All Pronouns, AroAce Agender
https://linktr.ee/majintails
Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) @emilyjlm.bsky.social Digital Humanities Lecturer @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Victorianist, periodicals scholar, Dickensian
David L. Orvis @davidorvis.bsky.social Professor and Assistant Chair of English, Appalachian State University | Early Modern Studies & Queer Studies | *Shakespeare against Love* (under contract with Routledge)
Ian Burrows @irburrows.bsky.social Fellow in English @ClareCollege
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www.shakespeareforsnowflakes.com
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www.beyondthetrigger.org
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www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/affective-encounters
James Hanover @jameshanover.bsky.social Words. History. Coffee.
Acknowledging Dja Dja Wurrung Country.
Samuel Webster @samuelwebster.com Artist, dramaturg, knowledge worker
BA(Hons)/MA Writing/B Teach/M Theatre
Ph D. Candidate
Matt Williamson @mattmarlingford.bsky.social 
Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social Prof in Renaissance Lit & Textual Studies @ U Leeds. Antiquarian books, letterpress, linocut, uilleann pipes, and computational humanities. Fur-dad to a corgi puppy and three rescue guinea pigs. notwithoutmustard.net 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 He/Him
Rachel M. Hartnett, PhD @rmhartnett.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at the College of Coastal Georgia. Research includes postcolonialism, U.S. empire, popular culture, & adaptation studies. She/her/hers.
Shyam Sundar Pal, PhD @shyam97.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology
PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Indore
#adaptationstudies #Indiancinema #Bengalicinema #SatyajitRay #intermediality
Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
Jemma Forster @jemlf.bsky.social AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in EM England, Spain and Italy 🌈 she/her
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
Hidden Track @hiddentrack.org.uk Multi-award-winning interactive theatre company.
Live shows and online games available now at https://hiddentrack.org.uk
Keshav Bansal (he/him) @keshavbansal.bsky.social ‘I took a breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.’ // Reader/Student @University of Delhi & Indira Gandhi National Open University // Literary/Cultural Studies | South Asian Languages/Histories
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social English lit prof @uni-bamberg.de | pirate/collaborator/witch | law&lit-geek | 🍄 | reviews ed. Shakespeare JB | gen.ed. gender forum Cologne | assoc.ed. Neo-Victorian Studies | mum | colour-lover | doodler | she/her
https://www.wonderlink.de/@susannegruss
Duncan+ @kingduncan.bsky.social Playwright, Screenwriter, Photographer, man-about-town. Here, Queer, Not going anywhere.
www.duncanpflaster.com
https://newplayexchange.org/users/1657/duncan-pflaster
https://linktr.ee/duncanpflaster
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🍁 MADE in CANADA 🍁 @kare710.bsky.social Proudly CANADIAN 🇨🇦
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Dr Tom Drayton @miserchristmas.bsky.social Doctor of Theatre, Metamodernism and Millennials / Very proud dad / Wannabe distance runner (he/him)
Metamodern Theatre📙out now
Sufjan Stevens’ Metamodern Music📘 out Feb ‘26
Performance & Postdigital Extremism 📗 out soon
https://linktr.ee/miserchristmas
Dr. Carla Della Gatta @carladellagatta.bsky.social Dramaturg | Arts Advocate | Writer | Theatre Historian 💃🏻
Associate Professor | Author: Latinx Shakespeares
Co-Editor: Shakespeare & Latinidad
https://www.latinxshakespeares.org/
https://www.carladellagatta.com/
Michelle Ephraim @michelleephraim.bsky.social Professor of English. Mom of 4. McSweeney's. Moth Radio Hour + Moth podcast. Author of GREEN WORLD: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare (Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction). Cohost, Everyday Shakespeare podcast. www.michelleephraim.com
Dr. Benjamin Broadribb @benbroadribb.bsky.social Performance Reviews Editor for Shakespeare Bulletin | Shakespeare on screen(s) | Shakespop | metamodernism | performance | adaptation | cinema | theatre | he/him/his
David Henderson @theatrescot.bsky.social Actor. Teacher. Dreamer. Father. Husband.
Bluegrass, Shakespeare, Guinness and good whisky are a few of my favorite things.
http://honestpinttheatre.org
https://shorturl.at/wSEnD- 2 24x/sec @24xasec.bsky.social
Ashley D. Polasek @sherlockphd.bsky.social PhD in Sherlock Holmes Adaptations. Executive Director, The Ken Ludwig Company. Teacher/Writer/Editor/Consultant. Swordfighter. Wheaten Terrier Mom. Hawksian Woman. She/Her.
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)
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.
Eliza Cubitt @elizacubitt.bsky.social Occasional Victorianist (urban literature, cultural + environmental history). Bad autobiographer.
MrHansW @mrhansw.bsky.social Publicity and marketing fella, dog ❤️er, Robyn+Björk 😍, book+film nerd, and lib libra. Married 2 @tim_wohlgefahrt. Augy = our senior-dawg-son. 🐶❤️🏳️🌈
Dr. Mike Sell @profmikesell.bsky.social Digital Humanities, Playful Literatures, and Decision Education • English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Founder of the The Digital Storytelling Project • Unionized Faculty (APSCUF)
Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social Teaching film and writing at U Birmingham. Co-Convenor BAFTSS Adaptation SIG (https://bsky.app/profile/adaptationsig.bsky.social) and MHHRN (mhhrn.bham.ac.uk). Podcast: B Film Queer Pod 🏳️🌈(https://tinyurl.com/2bbw5ywd) 
Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Former Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
Pete Orford @peteorford.bsky.social English Lecturer and Course Director of the MA in Charles Dickens Studies. 'The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens' available to buy at https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-life-of-the-author-charles-dickens/pete-orford/9781119697459
Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social. He/him
Seda Öz @ssedaozz.bsky.social Film & Adaptation Scholar | Asst. Prof. @BilkentCOMD
Treasurer, Association of Adaptation Studies
Founding Editor, Adaptation Today
Dr Jenny Stevens @drjennyst-hann.bsky.social Co-author of three Arden Shakespeare texts; Methuen Series Editor; Co-editor of Routledge volume on Shakespeare & Education. Literature Tutor @citylit.
Kathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva. Author of Shakespeare in Tongues. National Humanities Center Fellow 26–27.
kathrynvomerosantos.com
borderlandsshakespeare.org
Nicole Perry @intimacychoreofl.bsky.social Choreographer (dance and intimacy). Movement Educator. CLMA, MFA. Cancer survivor. She/her(s).
Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her
Robert Catto @robertcatto.com Canadian/Kiwi/Australian photographer on Gadigal land, specialising in theatre, dance, opera and music. Member of Kage Collective. Oh, and silent film researcher, who also likes Formula One. 📷🇨🇦🇳🇿🇦🇺🏁
https://www.robertcatto.com
https://www.rupertjulian.com
Julie Sanders @profjsanders.bsky.social Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Trustee of London Higher and Board member for Universities UK, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.
Dr Ollie Jones @oelj.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Theatre at School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York. Working out what I want to be when I grow up.
Heather Knight @heather1576.bsky.social Archaeologist with a penchant for 16th and 17th century playhouses of all shapes and sizes, FSA and Faversham Society Trustee 🎭🏺
Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social Teaches Early Modern Drama at Cardiff Uni. Writing a book about Mucedorus. Will probably post music when I don’t know what to say. he/him. New OWC Cymbeline: https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/cymbeline-9780192882868?cc=gb&lang=en&
Christine Varnado @eyweltschmerz.bsky.social Spread the Weltschmerz! Buffalo / The Shapes of Fancy (https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-shapes-of-fancy) - H Huw Griffiths @huwgriffiths.bsky.social Literature; piano; 🏳️🌈; Blue Mountains; Associate Professor of English Literature at University of Sydney
@drwillsharpe.bsky.social @drwillsharpe.bsky.social 
Maria Juko @mariajuko.bsky.social 18th/19th ct and self-help lit, Neo-Victorian, adaptation studies, biofiction, and teacher (Eng/Bio) in Potsdam (Germany), she/her
Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social Dragonboater, paddleboarder, Dartmoor walker, Aare-swimmer. Also editing Titus Andronicus and interested in all things Shakespeare, performance, theatre broadcasting, post-COVID-19 creative industries. Never able to see enough shows or read enough books.