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Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him) Solving real word problems
Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social Creative Writer & Academic Researcher | 30s | she/her | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 | Reviewer @ Strange Horizons | Fiction Editor @ Divinations Magazine | Debut Novella with Spaceboy Books, THE INESCAPABLE MARCH (2025) https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/the-inescapable-march/
Dr. Céleste Callen @celestecallen.bsky.social 'Metaphysical Dickens: Temporality, Memory, Subjectivity' forthcoming with Manchester University Press. Editor of the Dickens Society blog 🖋️
Kate Kane @katekane1542.bsky.social PhD researcher in Scottish Literature | Writing about the cultural afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👑 | AHRC-funded @ University of Glasgow
Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic. PhD student in Creative Writing. Cinema Worms podcast co-host. She/they Repped: @lzats.bsky.social (literary) Kim Yau at Echo Lake (film/TV) Wife: @pegasusunder.bsky.social www.lindzmcleod.co.uk
Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social Women's History Scotland exists to promote study and research in women's and gender history, particularly for those working in Scotland or on Scottish themes. https://womenshistoryscotland.org/
Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social A national charity dedicated to changing lives with reading and writing. Home of Bookbug, Book Week Scotland and Reading Schools.
CNCSI @cncsi.bsky.social Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International supports research, collaborative exchange, & professional training opportunities around the globe | INCSA Partner | linktr.ee/CNCSInternational
Anna Fancett @annafancett.bsky.social Storyteller, audio describer, Romanticism scholar.
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
EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social Research Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies at Edge Hill University • Co-Directors: @catherinequirk.bsky.social, @DrBeard79.bsky.social @DigiVictorian.bsky.social Founding Co-Director: @VictorianMasc.bsky.social • https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/
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/
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social Writer. Latest Book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024). Teach 19thc Lit & Culture at Uni of St Andrews. Writing for a greener world.
Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social Victorianist. President of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and Editor of the Curran Index for the RSVP. Author: Darwinism's Generations. The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909 (2024). Check me out at profmartinhewitt.com
Tabitha Stanmore @magicnotwitches.bsky.social Postdoc at Exeter Uni on the Seven County Witch Hunt Project 🧙‍♀️ Author of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic ✨ First Gen 👩‍🎓 Cats 🐈‍⬛ Trees 🌳 Books 📚She/her https://linktr.ee/tabithastanmore
Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor of Popular Literature and Culture at Falmouth University
Lari Don @laridonwriter.bsky.social Children's writer based in Edinburgh. Adventure novels, pic books, trad tale retellings. Passionate re stories, politics, feminism. #longcovid. she/lher
Ruth-Anne @ruthannereads.bsky.social Gothic, Ecology and Theology in 19th century literature AHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Warwick University She/They 📚🏳️‍🌈🐶
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)
sophie | PhD student @sophiecairns.bsky.social AHRC english lit PhD researcher | glasgow | she/her research interests: long 19thC literature, travel literature, romanticism, history of empire & imperialism usually found playing Baldur’s Gate 3 somewhere
Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social William Blake's Mysticism, Palgrave • Scottish Romanticism • Incoming 2026-7 VRF, Durham University • 2025 VRF, University of Glasgow • Gender, Spirituality & Prophecy • she/her • email: jodie.l.marley@gmail.com
Nicola Wilson-Torch @nicolawilsontorch.bsky.social AHRC SGSAH PhD researcher looking at social media and the publishing ecosystem. Also interested in literary history, platform economies and digital culture. Usually found talking about disability awareness, food, books or 00s TV
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 🖤🥀
Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) @sahavoice.bsky.social The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance brings together 12 HEIs, The RSE and SGSAH to provide a collective voice for Arts & Humanities in Scotland. 🌐 Visit our website saha.scot 🎙️ Listen to our podcast #SAHAConversations on Spotify
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683. Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Pat @swottypat.bsky.social SGSAH funded PhD researcher in early modern Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. I've been known to knit. Whiles I cook. I sometimes take pictures. But mostly I read.
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
The TLS @thetls.bsky.social The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
Sarah Dunnigan 🍃 @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social hopeful gardener. trainee therapist. mamma of dogs and cats. teaches & writes about Scottish lit - children's, medieval, women's, fairy tales, folklore 🌿 she/her
Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social researcher, writer, literary historian 📖 early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 📜 book reviews editor at The Bottle Imp 📚 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻 https://bio.site/roslynpotter
Naomi @naomiwallace.bsky.social MLitt Medieval Studies @ StA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🤓
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
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
EnglishScotland @englishscotland.bsky.social Resources, chat, networking and CPD for English teachers and primary teachers with an interest in Literacy.
Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social Writer, poker player and accidental quiz show host.
Kate Ash-Irisarri @kateai.bsky.social Medievalist. Older Scots researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Memory, Identity, Emotion
BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the study of the long #c18th. Check website for details. https://www.bsecs.org.uk/
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
Dr Amy Waterson @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social BAVS Newsletter Editor | RRR Journal Academic Editor | 19C Matters Fellow (24-25) | Researching Victorian science, altruism, and the novel. https://19clegacies.wixsite.com/19centurylegacies
Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social MA-ing in Romanticism @ York || Interested in PB Shelley; self-injury in Romantic lit; protest poetry || Comms fellow @bars.bsky.social Autistic, she/they 🛼
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
19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social Official account for the 19th Century Studies Association. Come here for our CFP, prizes, and publication news.
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni & Dir. of MA in Eng Lit. I research alcohol in 19th Century. Co-Dir. Drinking Studies Network (https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/). https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social Scottish. Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, and National Flash Flood.
Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @ucc.ie • Scottish Romanticism, the Novel, Reading / Book History • IASSL Membership Sec • AFHEA • She/her
Amy Wilcockson @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social MHRA Research Fellow - 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley', Queen Mary University of London Communications Officer - BARS PhD on letters of Thomas Campbell (she/her) https://www.amywilcockson.com/
Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social Theological Monsters (University of Wales Press), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
Museum of Curiosities @curiositiesmuseum.bsky.social 🕯️ Monsieur Pompier’s Museum of Curiosities 🎪 35 Pembroke Street Lower — Dare to Enter? 🎟️ Tickets: https://museumofcuriosities.ie/tickets View more
The Centre for Robert Burns Studies @glasgowburns.bsky.social Est. 2007 at the University of Glasgow for the development of research, scholarship and teaching in the area of Robert Burns (1759-96). Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, 2023.
The Dundee Review @dundeegothic.bsky.social A twenty-first-century literary magazine for original gothic, terror, horror and fantasy fiction: dundeereview.com
SCROLL | Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature @scroll-scotlit.bsky.social SCROLL brings out new work in Scottish Studies. Published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. brill.com/SCRL
Romance, Revolution & Reform @rrrjournal.bsky.social Nineteenth-century, O/A journal welcoming Humanities and Social Sciences research from scholars at all career stages. www.rrrjournal.com EiC @katiemacleann | Dep Ed Andie Lloyd
Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social associate prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
University of Aberdeen Library @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social Providing access to millions of items in paper and electronic format for staff and students to support research, teaching and learning.
University of Aberdeen @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Est. 1495. News, research and study opportunities from the University of Aberdeen. We RT to share, not to endorse. linktr.ee/UniOfAberdeen
Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social 'The Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies', Leverhulme Trust-funded project at University of Glasgow PI Prof Rhona Brown.
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
SELCIE @selcie.bsky.social Scotland's Early Literature for Children Initiative 🦉 Edinburgh University working with Edinburgh Museum of Childhood 🤎 blogs.ed.ac.uk/selcie/about 🌿 NEW EXHIBITION 'Nurture through Nature with Children's Books' @ Museum of Edinburgh 1 May to 7 Sept 2025
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian ◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale ◦ host, This Guy Sucked ◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028) all opinions my own. https://www.ceaubin.com https://thisguysucked.com
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present. https://asls.org.uk
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/
SWINC @swinc-edi.bsky.social Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century. A research group at the University of Edinburgh, co-directed by Professor Penny Fielding and Dr Robert Irvine. https://www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk.
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/
British Association for Romantic Studies ECRs & Postgraduates @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social British Association for Romantic Studies Early-Career & Postgraduate account. Posting news of interest to @bars.bsky.social members/followers. Admin: PGR/ECR Officers.
BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies
The Portobello Bookshop @portybooks.bsky.social An independent bookshop by the seaside in Portobello, Edinburgh. 🌊 Open 7 days, 10am - 6pm. 📚 Browse millions of books on our website. 👉 https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/links
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️‍🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space. Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
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