World Shakespeare Congress 2026 Verona @wsc2026verona.bsky.social 12th World Shakespeare Congress, 20-26 July 2026, Verona. International Shakespeare Association. Local Committee: Skenè Research Centre @skenejournal.bsky.social. Website: https://www.wsc2026.org
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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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/
Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at @bristoluni.bsky.social. Working on Shakespeare biography and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social Advancing knowledge, fostering collaboration, informing the future
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SCLPostGrad2026 @sclpostgrad2026.bsky.social The Shakespeare Centre London’s postgraduate conference, hosted by King’s College London and Shakespeare's Globe. This year's theme is 'Networks'.
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
The Alan Turing Institute @theturing.bsky.social The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.
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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social Digital humanists, loves python, making data, talking to data, reusing data.
Researcher @ ALMAnaCh, Inria Paris.
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
The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome.
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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.
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Emily C. A. Snyder @emilycasnyder.bsky.social “Hamlet to Hamilton” Host | PhD Shakespeare Institute | Author, Actor, Educator | they/them
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
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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social Book history, Shakespeare etc. Views my own, not my employer's. Header is: https://shorturl.at/FtfZQ / Gen Ed., Arden Shakespeare / https://pennmaterialtexts.org / http://shakespearecensus.org / http://deepplaybooks.org
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/
Margaret Bartley @maisieb65.bsky.social Editorial Director of The Arden Shakespeare, Drama Online and more...
Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social Global Shakespeare, ethical AI, digital humanities, adaptations, Asian studies, film, theatre
Writer, educator, advocacy speaker
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
Prof Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social Professor of English and Cultural Studies @ University of Southern Queensland. Shakespeare scholar. Finder of lost playhouses. FSA FRHistS. He/him. 
Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social Bereaved mom, Professor FSU Shakespeare, Performance, Book, and Theatre History, Irish Drama. Musical Theatre. General Editor: New Oxford Shakespeare. Author. Dramaturg. Amateur Astronomer. Private pilot.
Société Française Shakespeare @shakespearefrance.bsky.social Association loi 1901 fondée en 1975, la Société Française Shakespeare (SFS) a pour but de promouvoir l'étude des œuvres de Shakespeare et des auteurs de la période Tudor / Stuart, dans le contexte littéraire, politique et social européen à la Renaissance. 
Drama Online @dramaonlinelib.bsky.social The award-winning digital library from Bloomsbury, the world's leading drama publisher. Exclusive Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare texts, streaming and more.
https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/home - H Huw Griffiths @huwgriffiths.bsky.social Literature; piano; 🏳️🌈; Blue Mountains; Associate Professor of English Literature at University of Sydney
Rhodri Lewis @rhodrilewis.bsky.social Literature, ideas, history, the arts | Reading & writing & teaching | Bylines here & there | At work on a life of Frank Kermode | bit.ly/2vbBoIN
English Literary Renaissance @elrjournal.bsky.social Tri-quarterly journal publishing scholarly articles and textual studies on matters English, Literary, and Renaissance (broadly construed, 1500-1700). Current issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/current
Alice Equestri @draliceqst.bsky.social Early modernist at Padova Uni | ex MSCA Researcher at Sussex Uni | author of 'Lit and Intellectual Disability in EM Lit' (Routledge, 2021) | editor of 'Shaping IDs in EM Culture' (EUP, 2025); current projects on early mod novella translation and law and li
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
Olivia Henderson @olivia-henderson.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Studying Early Modern English Literature and Neurodiversity
she/her
neurodivergent
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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
Bloomsbury Study Skills @bloomsburystudy.bsky.social 
HAMLET EU Project @hamleteuproject.bsky.social An EU-funded project bringing AI to the CCIs. Through HAMLET's Hub, artists, creative directors, writers, game developers, and AI experts co-create with tools for adaptive storytelling, dance analysis, 3D assets and more. https://hamlet-project.eu/
Rob Carson @robcarson.bsky.social Early modern literature, mostly Shakespeare; philosophy and theory; book history and digital humanities; contemporary performance and politics. Current projects: thinking in threes; the sociable syllable; Marlowe's material remains. (he/him)
De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social A leading academic publisher in the humanities and beyond. Browse our pinned starter pack and visit our website: www.degruyterbrill.com
British Shakespeare Association @bsashakespeare.bsky.social Professional association for teachers, researchers, practitioners and writers interested in Shakespeare.
https://linktr.ee/BSAShakespeare
Shakespeare Institute @shakesinstitute.bsky.social The University of Birmingham's dedicated Shakespeare research centre in Stratford-upon-Avon
Simply the best place in the world to study Shakespeare.
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social Academic and climate activist, born 325 ppm, flight free since 2018. Fighting for a free press: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061 -- https://mediasovereignty.org/
New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social One of the oldest editorial projects in Shakespearean studies, now in a digital format. Based at Texas A&M University. newvariorumshakespeare.org
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social Early modernist. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University. Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Views own. She/her.
Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
Lyn Tribble @lyntribble.bsky.social Prof @ Uconn, Shakespeare, distributed cognition, basketballg
claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social ¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & dirty books ¶ accidental miltonist ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Early modernist and Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London + Shakespeare’s Globe. “Yes I am the metals person” ⚒️ Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making ✝️
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Mark Beatrice Kaethler (they/iel) @mbkaethler.bsky.social Assistant Director, Mayoral Shows, for the Map of Early Modern London; Book Review Editor for Early Theatre; Acting President of Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies/Société canadienne d’études de la Renaissance.
Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social Assoc Prof @ Ohio State | writing about Shakespeare, masques, women writers, disability | Book reviews editor @ Shakespeare Bulletin | spreading the good word about Hester Pulter
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Digital Renaissance Editions @dreditions.bsky.social Scholarly editions of early modern English drama and literature | Open Access | Woodcut Whimsy
Deyasini Dasgupta (Deya) @deyasini.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Toronto | Writing on the intersections of early modern disability, race, gender in Shakespeare, Spenser, and Middleton | Views my own | Mostly here for the pet pictures
EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
ValerieMFazel @veefaz.bsky.social ASU Sr. Instructor Dept. of ENG/Faculty Barrett Honors. Digital Shax Appropriation & Shax fandom. Dog lovr, plant eatr, desert landscapr sci-fi film fan and fantasy novel reader. she/her/views mine. All the Internet is a stage and we are but players in it.
Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/
🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."
Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social Early modernist; lit professor. Lover of stage directions, textual instability, revenge tragedies, rain, Star Wars, gravy, Oregon, banana slugs, seagulls, and beards! I support trans rights. Thoughts mine own. 
Bridger Bartlett @allo-nothing.bsky.social They/them guy with a PhD. 🏳️🌈
~Tudor-Stuart lit + neurodivergence~
Hailey @bachrach.bsky.social ttrpgs and actual play and dog pics
dndramaturgy.com
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.
Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center. Bibliographer, book historian, and VHS guy.
Nora J. Williams @norajw.bsky.social Academic & theatre kid| Canonical Misogyny out now from Edinburgh UP! | less funny half of @nashaxpodcast.bsky.social | she/her | 🇱🇧
Jim Marino @jamesjmarino.bsky.social early modernist, Shakespeare nerd, moonlighting fiction writer
living the good life in Cleveland
Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social At Johns Hopkins University Press, we envision a future where knowledge enriches the life of every person.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
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Laura B @botherrantsretreat.bsky.social mad & nachtaktiv;
critical scholarly editions & critical ADHD studies
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Pete Kirwan @drpetekirwan.bsky.social Performance, theatre reviewing, early modern drama, film watching, editing, cat wrangling, immigrating. General Editor at Shakespeare Bulletin; professing at Mary Baldwin Uni. He/him
The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Publishing scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays since 1899. Home of the Third Series, Complete Works and cutting-edge Shakespeare & Early Modern research.
🎭 www.bloomsbury.com/theardenshakespeare
evey reidy 🐌 @eveyreidy.bsky.social PhD & playwright formerly of Roehampton/Shakespeare's Globe | early mod. women performers, festive performance cultures, protest-performance
Berkeley for now, Chicago forever | always knows where to get ice cream | usually found in a graveyard (she/her) 🏳️🌈
Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social teacher, writer, mom, scholar // medieval & early modern, lyric, disability // she/her // virgo sun, ADHD rising
Nic Helms @docsprock.bsky.social Independent Scholar in NH; Shakespeare, disability, and board games. (They/them)
https://nrhelms.org/
Nathan Pensky @nathanpensky.bsky.social Writer. / First-gen CMU Ph.D. adjuncting at Pitt and Duquesne. / Host at Third Person Limited podcast. / Columnist at The Pittsburgh Review of Books. / He/him.
First book, 'Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds': https://tinyurl.com/2pxhu7cu
Print and Probability Project @print-and-prob.bsky.social developing tools, data, and machine learning methods to discover new bibliographical evidence in early printed books
Dr J. E. Nicholson @justjenerally.bsky.social she/her | research: multilingual drama in Ren London, incl. Shax; genre; whiteness, affect & ecology in The Winter’s Tale; Modernists reading Ren texts | pedagogy, film, Ghibli, puns, cats | jenniferenicholson.wordpress.com | ORCID: 0000-0002-4375-2961
Shakespeare Bulletin @shaxbull.bsky.social Peer-reviewed quarterly journal, publishing articles at the cutting edge of early modern performance studies. Posts by Dr. Peter Kirwan and Megan Parlett.
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
Ewan Fernie @efernie.bsky.social Prof at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham; also interested in 19th & Scottish Literature - &, well, thinking forward
Kim Gauthier (she/her/elle) @teamaufidius.bsky.social PhD student @ UQAM. MA Shakespeare Institute. Early modern drama enthusiast. Will bore you to tears about Shakespeare adaptations in Quebec at the slightest provocation. 
Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at USC. Early modern childhood, race, gender, education, and performance. Book on boy actors with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. Next book sometime, somewhere. https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/harry-mccarthy/
susan rojas @susanrojas.bsky.social Independent scholar exploring affective ecologies and transitional thresholds in early modern drama (she/her)
MA English / FGCU • Co-editor / Kritikon Litterarum • Certificate in Editing / University of Chicago
Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social your trans professor
Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is a professional organization for the advanced study of Shakespeare's works, times, and afterlife.
Visit linktr.ee/saaupdates for more information on events and member updates.
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social Bankside's first theatre
Built by Philip Henslowe 1587, rediscovered 1989
Original home of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd & many others
Scheduled Monument & Registered Charity
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Rose Theatre Trust
56 Park St, London SE1 9AR
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