Ruairidh McKay | Ruairidh MacAoidh @rumckay.bsky.social Expat translator/lecturer | classical guitarist | optimist |GD/EN/DE/ES
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." – E. F. Schumacher
ERC Nudgers @erc-nudgers.bsky.social ERC Starting Grant exploring creatively active new users of Celtic languages in the 19th and early 20th century. PI Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social, Charles University, Prague
Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social News and announcements from the Modern Language Association. If you have a question for MLA staff members, please visit http://mla.org/About-Us/Contact
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Souhaila Jouhar @souhailajouhar.bsky.social Senior Assistant Editor for Philosophy, Art & Visual Culture and Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University Press
she/her
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg
Emily Brady @emilybrady.bsky.social American Historian, JRF at Rothermere American Institute and Christ Church College, University of Oxford. Researching Black women photographers in the Civil Rights Movement.
Andrew Michael Gorin @andrewgorin.bsky.social writer, assistant professor of poetics, media, public sphere andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org
Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social A global community of publishers whose mission is to ensure academic excellence and cultivate knowledge. Read UP! https://aupresses.org/ Got a question about university press publishing? Ask UP! https://ask.up.hcommons.org/
Catriona MacLeod @catrionamac.bsky.social Lover of paper and porcelain, Romanticist. Editor, Word&Image. Hebridean, not there often enough.
Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor of Popular Literature and Culture at Falmouth University
Laura Scott @laurakatherine95.bsky.social PhD candidate at Glasgow Uni researching race and nation in contemporary Scottish women’s lit. Sitcom addict, cat mum, made of red wine and wotsits.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social Publishing exceptional research since 1899.
Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/livunipress
Edinburgh Futures Institute @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of Edinburgh Futures Institute: A futures-focused space for learning, research, and innovation at the University of Edinburgh.
Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social Writer & academic at University College Cork, where I am also Director of Creative Writing. Author of Pathfinding and Wanderers. Editor of Way Makers + Nan Shepherd’s letters. Walker, reader and single mum. Signed copies of all books: kerriandrews.co.uk
Lucy Weir @lucygweir.bsky.social Reader and Head of History of Art @edincollegeofart.bsky.social
📚 Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury - out now
📚 A Global History of Modern Dance - out 2026
linktr.ee/lucygweir
Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Faculty in English @ U of Iowa | co-director of @nysnetwork.bsky.social | editor of books w/ Fonograf, City Lights, & Nightboat | book with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
Dr Darren Gray @drdarrengray.bsky.social Researcher in Literature, Film and Cultural Studies | The Gothic, Horror, Technology, Disability | Currently writing ‘Horror and Disability’ for the University of Wales Press Horror Studies series.
Proudly neurodivergent (ADHD)
The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social The University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States and a distinguished publisher of trade and scholarly books and journals. Refining minds since 1891!
International Virginia Woolf Society @ivws.bsky.social The International Virginia Woolf Society exists for the benefit of readers and scholars of Virginia Woolf throughout the world.
https://v-woolf-society.com
Laura Salisbury @laurasalisbury.bsky.social Thinks about Modern Literature and Medical Humanities, especially time, waiting, and ending.
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
James Machin @jfmachin.bsky.social Editor, proof reader, writer, researcher etc.
Recent books:
The Strange Stories of John Buchan (British Library Publishing, 2025)
The Stark Munro Letters by Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Atifa Jiwa @atifajiwa.bsky.social Commissioning Editor for Politics, Current Affairs & International Relations at Bloomsbury. Durham & St Andrews Grad. Email me: atifa.jiwa@bloomsbury.com
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’
Mathew Nicolson @eyjarskeggi.bsky.social Did a PhD in Scottish island political & constitutional history, now working in public sector. Shetlander.
Can be found doing things at:
@EuropeElects.bsky.social
@ShetlandElects.bsky.social
@HistoryofElections.bsky.social
@ScotHistNetwork.bsky.social
Dr Harriet Fletcher @harrietfletcher.bsky.social Writer & academic | Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication @ ARU | 💀⭐ #GothicCelebrity (Bloomsbury) | pop culture | horror | feminism | bimbo-ologist 💅 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/harrietfletcher
Women's Writing Association @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social Women's writing Association is a community of women focused on celebrating and uplifting women in writing and academia.
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
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social Art Historian ¶ Medieval & Early Modern PhD, FSA Scot, FRHistS
¶ Edinburgh Uni writing about Scottish MSS
¶ Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance (EUP, 2024)
¶ Anselm Adornes (Brepols, 2026)
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/BryonyCoombs
https://bryonycoombs.com
The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social bsls.ac.uk
Dan Wall @kindabluesky.bsky.social English Dept., Aberdeen University. Scottish and Irish Lit., Romantic & C19th fiction, poetry, biography and periodicals; Co-Director, AU Centre for the Novel. Wannabe culinary innovator & occasional wanderer o'er vales and hills. He/him. Views own.
University of Aberdeen Centre for the Novel @aucfn.bsky.social The Centre for the Novel is a research centre dedicated to the study of the novel in all its forms, based at the University of Aberdeen. Visit our homepage here:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/llmvc/research/novel/
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Ruth-Anne @ruthannereads.bsky.social Gothic, Ecology and Theology in 19th century literature
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Warwick University
She/They 📚🏳️🌈🐶
Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course)
bio.site/martinevanelk
https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/
https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.w
Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social Professor of English, specialising in Esotericism Studies,Victorian Literature, and History of Spiritualism & Occultism. Fan of Indian cinema and all things horror related. Based in Glasgow
Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature at UWE Bristol. Neo-Victorianism, ecocriticism, colonial writing. Lover of country houses. Agatha Christie fan.
Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social Recently retired senior lecturer in English at the University of Bordeaux, France. 19th C. Scottish literature, RL Stevenson, travel literature, afterlives, literary tourism. Occasional French-English conference interpreter.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Project ERSKINE | Radical Gaelic Magazines 1900s – 1930s @erskineproject.bsky.social Exploring Gaelic magazines founded by Ruaraidh Erskine (1869–1960) | erskine.glasgow.ac.uk | Marie Curie Actions postdoctoral fellowship, guaranteed by UKRI, carried out at the University of Glasgow | investigated by Dr Petra Johana Poncarová
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robertbohan.etsy.com
@gillmurray.bsky.social @gillmurray.bsky.social 
Emma Brennan @emmaeditorial.bsky.social Editorial Director, Manchester University Press. Commissioning art and design history, British Pop Archive and creative writing guides. Big fan of cats.
British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
https://www.bars.ac.uk/main/
Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social Theological Monsters (University of Wales Press), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
Dr. Rebekah Greene @drrcgreene.bsky.social Things I like: #Victorian Studies, Adventure, #Scottish Studies, Material Culture,Technical Writing, #Classic Film. Trivia. Cute Pets.
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian lit, and 19th century newspapers.
New book(s) coming soon, including Cambridge Companion to True Crime.
Rep: Aevitas
Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social Literary, social, and cultural studies of 19C Britain and beyond.
Online submission portal: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/victorianstudies/index
Please direct all inquiries to victstu@iu.edu
Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com Victorianist • Utopianist • Environmentalist • Essayist • 100% AI-Free
Links to All the Things: linktr.ee/doctorwafflewrites
19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social Official account for the 19th Century Studies Association. Come here for our CFP, prizes, and publication news. 
NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social North American Victorian Studies Association
www.navsa.org
Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto. The novel, literature and philosophy, gender and sexuality.
THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=37186
GREAT EXPECTATIONS https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324046721
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social Public historian, editor, & literary critic. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Popular Film & Television. Associate Editor, The Complete Letters of Henry James @ctrhjstudies.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social.
Jonathan Ellis @jonathansellis.bsky.social Author/editor of things on Elizabeth Bishop. Yes, I still write letters & postcards. Paid and sometimes unpaid academic. He/him.
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 •
Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge (https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-richard-fallon). Author of "Contesting Earth's History", "Reimagining Dinosaurs", and more. Also, graptolites.
Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature| Interested in all things arboreal | Trees in C19 English Fiction (2021) | she/her
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
Becky Richardson @beckyrichardson.bsky.social Romantic/Victorian lit, ecocriticism, medical humanities/disability studies, self-help discourse, writing/rhetoric studies & pedagogy. Also lots of amateur bird photography (and whatever wildlife will pose for me).
Matthew Thompson @drmatthewthompson.bsky.social Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media. He/Him
Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Editorial Team @esprit-jeps.bsky.social | The Americanisation of W. T. Stead (EUP, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/5xmrxs2j
Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU @empiressdu.bsky.social Welcome to Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU - a research group at the University of Southern Denmark
#empiressdu
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.
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social acquiring editor for environmental studies, food studies, and regional books at the University of Pittsburgh Press
career in publishing resource doc: tinyurl.com/2jmmharu
bluesky list of university and indie presses: tinyurl.com/3y829vxv
Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.
Michelle Houston @mlhouston.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Literature, Film, Theatre, Performance, Culture. Manchester University Press. 
Andrew Smith @andysheff.bsky.social Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield. Most recent book is 'Dickens and the Gothic' (CUP), currently writing a book on 'Vegetarian Gothic' (CUP).
International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org
Gothic Studies @gothicstudies.bsky.social The academic journal of the International Gothic Association (www.globalgoth.org), published by Edinburgh University Press and edited by Emily Alder and Jamil Mustafa. Email gothiceditors@gmail.com
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Founded 1969. News & highlights from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/
#arts #humanities #socialscience #academicsky
Emily Alder @emilyalder.bsky.social 
Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social Early medieval archaeologist | Viking trade PhD (Gla) | History MA Oxon. Balliol, Oxford | Author: A Viking Market Kingdom; Treasures of the Vikings | Co-Editor / Co-Author: The Viking Age in Scotland | The Govan Stones
Dr Anne-Marie Beller FRHistS @braddonite.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Victorian Lit and Culture at Loughborough Uni. Mental health in the 19th century; Victorian asylums; sensation and gothic fiction; Neo-Victorian-dabbler; dog-parent; Dahl-maker. (She/Her)
Katie Garner @kgarner.bsky.social 
Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network @eehnetwork.bsky.social Hello Bluesky! We are a network for research and teaching in Environmental Humanities at University of Edinburgh 🌱✨🌞🐛❄️
International Research Society for Children’s Literature @irscl.bsky.social The International Research Society for Children's Literature is an international scholarly organization established to support and promote research in the field of children's literature.
Visit us here: https://www.irscl.org/
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social Research network for literary & cultural modernisms | info@bams.ac.uk | Join http://bams.ac.uk/join-bams | The Modernist Review tmr@bams.ac.uk I #ModWrite
Takeshi Morisato @takeshimorisato.bsky.social Lecturer in Non-Western Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Interested in decolonising philosophy & higher education with world philosophies.
Monika Szuba @monikaszuba.bsky.social literary scholar
environmental humanities
Associate Professor at the University of Gdańsk
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society fellow 2023/4
Author of Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World (2019) and Landscape Poetics (2023)
Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
International Society for Cultural History @ischistory.bsky.social Founded in 2008, International Society for Cultural History (ISCH) is an academic society that aims at connecting and supporting cultural historians and their research with, e.g., annual conferences and Cultural History journal.
https://www.culthist.net/
Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social Research, graduate training and teaching on Scottish history and Scottish culture, with special emphasis on their global dimensions - at the University of Guelph.
News & Events: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/scottish
History Scotland @historyscotland.bsky.social History webinars, email updates, and more.
UHIHistory.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social A history department committed to its students and wider community. uhi.ac.uk/history 
St Andrews School of English @standrewsenglish.bsky.social School of English at the University of St Andrews
Institut français d'Ecosse @ifecosse.bsky.social 80 years of sharing French language and culture in Scotland! Enjoy our wide offer: French courses, cinema, library, talks, concerts, kid’s activities and more
Scottish Contemporary Art Network @sca-n.bsky.social We are SCAN – we connect, champion & cultivate Scotland’s contemporary art community: https://sca-net.org/
📩 Sign up for our Circular newsletter: https://sca-net.org/about/email-newsletter/
Canadian-Scottish Studies/Études canado-ècossaises @csschair.bsky.social Canadian-Scottish Studies/Études canado-ècossaises at McGill University
https://www.mcgill.ca/canadianscottishstudies/
Publishing Scotland @publishingscotland.bsky.social Trade assoc & charity supporting book publishing.
Foillseachadh Alba in Gaelic.
https://www.publishingscotland.org/