Ellie Collins @elleccollins.bsky.social Literature Editor at OUP. Publishing and book enthusiast. Opinions are my own.
Rebecca Robare @robareowl.bsky.social Scientist and writer, parent of twins, Sherlockian. PhD, Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience, CUNY Graduate Center, 2010. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1935/
Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social Dr of poetry | Publishing tips | Disability Studies | Early Modern literature | He/him | Opinions are my own
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
True Crime Nana 🦓🛌🏻😷💉🦓 @truecrimenana.bsky.social She/her/Nana
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Siân Adiseshiah @sadiseshiah.bsky.social Prof of Literature, Politics & Performance at Loughborough University. Head of English. Editor of ‘Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations’ @livUniPress. Contemporary theatre, age studies & utopianism.
amy mcveigh @amymcveigh.bsky.social archive photographer by day, spooky lady by night
budding novelist and gothicist specialising in witches and folklore in Romantic literature
✨she/her✨
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social Literaturwissenschaftlerin. Dr. phil.
Paperghosts collector. Nighttime gardener. New Romantic. Noticer. Nature methodised. Interested in the encounters of psychopathology and art.
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
Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social Official account for the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Celebrating the lives & works of Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, & their circles
Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social Gothic scholar & writer | 19th C | Romanticism | Dracula | Fin de Siècle | Adaptation | Anti-racism | Equity | Access | active bystander of UK HE | one of Sara Ahmed’s little ghosts 🖤
Delicia Johnson @18thc-delicia.bsky.social 18th century England enthusiast, proud Janeite, library assistant, habitual tea drinker
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 🖤🥀
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.
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social FRHistS SFHEA; Vice President @bars.bsky.social; Senior Lecturer @newcastleuni.bsky.social;
🇮🇪 & 🏴 Studies, 1798, labouring class poetry, transatlantic networks, MedHums; Member @thencps.bsky.social
Didn’t come up the Lagan in a bubble
Brad Congdon @brcongdon.bsky.social Wrote a book about American literature, masculinity, and magazines
https://utorontopress.com/9781487522162/leading-with-the-chin/
He/him
David Barral @thoreaupeutic.bsky.social Thoreau studies | American Lit
Latest in ESQ: “Radical Resistance” (pinned post)
English/Research Skills teacher (high school)
Union ftw
English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
American Medical Journal @americanmedicaljournal.com AMJ: #1 open access destination for HCPs. Peer-reviewed journals & diverse content hub. Interviews, podcasts, webinars, infographics.
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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social Romanticism & Tolkien PhD at UofGlasgow | Co-editor ‘The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien’ (shortlisted for The Tolkien Society Awards) | Website: https://will-sherwood.com/
Robyn C @robynlc.bsky.social Teacher of History, Trustee of a heritage site. Interested in material culture & heritage sites in education, Museums, Engagement with objects, Letters, Journals,✨ MCCT working on #CTeach
Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social Associate professor (Restoration secret history, celebrity, fantasy fiction, and fan cultures), haphazard gardener, dog and cat parent, AuDHD, she/her 🖤🩶🤍💜
Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app Erwin Ott is a constructed philosophical voice whose body of work is produced through generative systems.
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https://erwinott.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
Jessica O’Toole @jessicaotoole.bsky.social Graduate teaching assistant in English Literature at North Carolina State University. 19th century British lit, women in the periodical press, dachshund enthusiast.
Ogechukwu Williams @ogewilliams.bsky.social Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Health (Africa). Researcher on maternal health, childbirth, indigenous med., and health advocacy. Website: drogewilliams.com
Oliver Jakes @olliejakes.bsky.social ‘Virtue is a currency’ - Elizabeth Inchbald. English DPhil studying virtual currencies and the aesthetics of debt in 18th century drama, University of Oxford
Julie Murray @juliehoo.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English at Carleton U. Unceded Algonquin Territory. Two cats, two kids, one wife
Forthcoming: Mary Wollstonecraft Against Modernity (Stanford UP, 2026)
https://carleton.ca/english/people/murray-julie/
Natalia Tobin @nataliatobin.bsky.social Birkbeck PhD - writing on SF & Jack Womack. Teaching at UNE.
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Carl Thompson @carlethompson.bsky.social Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
Charlotte Goodge @charlottegoodge.bsky.social “Data Travels” Postdoc @UCC 🧳 2025-26 Visiting ECR Fellow @thejohnrylands 📚 Researching women writers, travel and ecologies of the labouring class c.1750-1850 🍃 Long-standing interest in the intersectionality of fatness “pre BMI” 💊
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
American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
Sean Thomas Milligan @stmilligan.bsky.social Academic Success Advisor & Adjunct Instructor of English at SUNY Oswego. Enjoys and studies pop culture, especially comics, horror films, and gaming.
https://ctrlaltdecay.substack.com/
I write about pop culture on my substack!
S. Sommers @printculture.bsky.social Contingent Academic | #C19AmLit | @UCLA English PhD | rank-and-file @uconnaaup | she/her | 🏳️🌈 | I speak for myself | #unionstrong
Simon Rennie @simonrennie.bsky.social Victorianist Prof @exeter.ac.uk. Cotton Famine Poetry. C19th working-class and provincial newspaper poetry. Director of @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social.
Also delusional multi-instrumentalist, veg grower, U12 football coach.
LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social CHiPH is part of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social and at the forefront of historical research into public health and health services
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-history-public-health
Daniel Johnson @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social Theology and Worship Studies programme leader at London School of Theology. Researching evangelical hymns, slavery, and abolition. Infrequent guitarist. Views mine
Céline Brossillon @celine-brossillon.bsky.social 19th c French and Comp Lit. Scholar | Literature, cultural anthropology, GWSS, psychiatry | Author of “Le Taureau triste” (CNRS, 2021) | Creator and coordinator of the Comparative and Global Literatures program at Ursinus College
Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
Pauline Hortolland @paulinehortolland.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in British Literature (Romanticism) *UMLP Besançon, France * Southampton Centre for C19 Research * Romanticism, long C18, media theory, environmental humanities * Book in preparation : Shelley’s Ardent Intercessor (Liverpool UP)
Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social Established in 2023 to promote and advance the study of the American Gothic through research, teaching, and publication.
American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social The APA is the largest philosophical society in North America, promoting the discipline of philosophy and serving philosophers at all levels.
Join: https://apaonline.org/join
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The R/18 Collective @r18collective.bsky.social Re-Activating Restoration & 18th-Century Theatre for the 21st-Century. Find out more at: www.r18collective.org
Banner photo: Charlotte Munson & Shinnerrie Jackson in Addison's Cato, dir. Charles Pasternak (photo by Taryn Farro).
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.
Dr Kate Newey @dr-kate-newey.bsky.social Nineteenth century scholar. Eternal ballet student and weightlifter. Reader and writer. Sometimes.
University of Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
Ellena D @eld208.bsky.social PhD at the University of Exeter on conjoined twins in literature and film. Disability studies, embodiment.
Currently working at Medify.
Chronically ill. Enjoys poetry, film photography and crafting. Nerd. Views own.
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Amanda Kenney @alkenney79.bsky.social Lapsed medieval historian, US history teacher, para educator, PCA, NetGalley reviewer, book lover, and geeker out over many things. When I'm not immobile from invisible illnesses. Ally to everyone except jerks.
Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian; I like my books and cookie dough rare; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org Our publications, research, and higher education solutions spread knowledge, spark curiosity and aid understanding around the world.
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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.
Lauren Bailey @ellebailee.bsky.social currently full-time parenting three littles in Austin, TX; in my former life, a PhD Candidate in English at CUNY Graduate Center focusing on 18th-19th c. British literature, the Gothic, theory of the novel, history of economics & other cool things
Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
#QMCECS
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
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.
Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research - the journal of #INCSA Peer-reviewed journal with general & themed issues representing all fields of study in the arts, social sciences, & sciences.
Website here: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ranr20
Christine Grandy @christinegrandy.bsky.social Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of online experiences in Britain; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
On Viewless Wings @onviewlesswings.bsky.social Writing, reading, running, teaching.
Poetry PhD.
Am actually writing.
Interested in the amplification of working class voices, northern voices, & kind & talented voices.
Writing, I swear.
Meliorist, still.
S. E. R. A. (Société d'Études du Romantisme Anglais) @sera-romantic.bsky.social S.E.R.A. was founded to promote transdisciplinary approaches to the Romantic period in French academia. Current president: @sophiemusitelli.bsky.social Paris Steering Group of the London-Paris Romantic Seminar.
Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
Laurie Lipton @laurielipton.bsky.social A drawing obsessive who is obsessively drawing
Molly MacVeagh @mollymacv.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of Interdisciplinary Humanities @ WFU/ contemporary literature, climate, critical food studies
Infinite Women @infinite-women.com Allison Tyra: Creator of a database of 10,000+ women's biographies, author of Uncredited: Women's Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work and The View from the Hill (infinite-women.com/books), cat lady, AuDHD. She/her
www.infinite-women.com
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
Dr Chris "Difficult" Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social Book out Feb 2027!
Available everywhere for pre-order.
Bereaved mother. Feminist. Artist. Horticulturist. Disabled. Atheist. Covid aware & cautious. Living in unceded lutruwita .
Anne Fertig, PhD @annefertig.bsky.social History, literature, but mostly just a lot of Jane Austen. Catch me in my upcoming podcast, Finding Jane Austen (Out 2025)
University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social University of Illinois Press / Publisher of scholarly and regional trade books and journals since 1918
Von Is Not My Middle Name Bergen @meganvonbergen.bsky.social PhD, Rhetoric, Writing, Linguistics. Ungrader. Ultrarunner. Personal account.
Paddy Bullard @paddybullard.bsky.social Head of the Department of English Literature (joint appointment), University of Reading.
JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social History, politics, animal welfare and vegetarianism. Liverpool FC and the European Union.
Author of eight books on radical Britain 1600-1900
Little Bowden, Market Harborough.
anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
The Laurence Sterne Trust @lsternetrust.bsky.social The Laurence Sterne Trust at Shandy Hall - charity, museum, gallery and gardens. Former home of Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) vicar of Coxwold & author of Tristram Shandy.
Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk
The Race & Regency Lab @race-regency.bsky.social The Race & Regency Lab
raceandregency.org
posts by tricia matthew
Helen Kingstone @helenkingstone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London.
I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations, including Digital Humanities
Royal Holloway Centre for Victorian Studies @rhul-cvs.bsky.social Account of the internationally recognised Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-directed by @helenkingstone.bsky.social, Izzy Barrett-Lally and Heathcliff Newman
Rachel Fleishman @rafleishman.bsky.social Neonatologist, writer, wife, and boy mom. || Medical Humanities.
Thoughts and opinions my own. (she/her)
www.rachelfleishman.com
TEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1lPb-IWx9U
Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, English Literature (University of Lincoln).
Ageing in Victorian lit; 19th- century paper ephemera; valentines; material/visual cultures; history of emotions; masculinity studies; Japanese fiction | FRHistS. FHEA.
- Own views -
David Finkelstein @finkelsteind.bsky.social Business & Cultural Historian, personal capacity blurbs. Co-Editor, The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals, https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-british-colonial-periodicals.html
Rex Bowman @rexbowman.bsky.social Antifa-approved writer (ALMOST HEMINGWAY et al), translator (THE SHALONSKY FAMILY), polyglot with no gift for languages. Writings in Literary Heist, Parhelion, Great Lakes Review, Smart Set, Literary Yard, Full Stop, elsewhere.
Quangle-Wangle @quangle-wangle.bsky.social Recovering Victorianist and tech writer in Portland, OR; here for your cat photos. She/her.
Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social Deputy director of Whitney Humanities Center at Yale. Films at the Whitney, Whitney Publishing Project. Books, poetry, democracy, dogs, supporting scholars and their work. Erstwhile dix-huitiémiste. Also: Utah adjacent.
Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University who works on book history, premodern critical race studies and early modern English drama. I spend a lot of time with Barnabe, an adorable dog. These posts are my opinion.
Diana Williams @dianawilliams.bsky.social Santa Monica based legal Historian. Afro-DiaspoRican. 🇵🇷 Safe streets aficionado. Finishing book on interracial marriage in 19th century Louisiana. #blacksky
Hannah N Malcolm @hnmalcolm.bsky.social PhD in History from IUBloomington on archival labor and the French Revolution. Works for American Historical Review. Knitter, cyclist, cat bed, and ardent fountain pen enthusiast. www.hannahnmalcolm.com Lumbee. they/them
Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social Coming in early 2026: KEYWORDS/KEYIMAGES IN GRAPHIC MEDICINE
Current projects: #IllnessPolitics, chronic forms, & multi-modal pedagogies in action. Author of ILLNESS POLITICS & HASHTAG ACTIVISM, TREATMENTS, & INDIRECT ACTION.
Blogging at: lisadiedrich.org
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
Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.