Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
Yunah Kae @yunahkae.bsky.social assistant prof college of charleston | early modernist |
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences @dornsife.usc.edu The original, largest and most diverse of USC’s academic schools ✌️
Jamie Watkins @jamiewatkins22.bsky.social Christopher Marlowe Fan Club
Captain Sole-O @captainsolo577.bsky.social www.ticklehisfeet.com
https://onlyfans.com/captainsoleo
Hi, I’m Michael! I have some of the most ticklish feet around, size 10, very soft. I love soles!🦶🏻Wanna meet? DM me!
📍Los Angeles,CA
https://linktr.ee/Captainsoleo
Mary Laven @marylaven.bsky.social Historian of Italy, religion and material culture. Thinking about a more diverse Renaissance.
Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social The largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Use #RenSA27 to join the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia conversation and #RenTwitter (still!) for all things Renaissance studies.
Robert Shaughnessy @robshaughnessy.bsky.social Shakespeare, performance, then and now. Music, media now and then.
Max Riviera @maxriviera.bsky.social PhD on Richard Barnfield at UCL
@erikacarbonara.bsky.social @erikacarbonara.bsky.social Newly minted PhD/
Visiting Assistant Professor of early modern literature at Kalamazoo College/
Gender, sexuality, and queerness/
Guinea pig mom
Tom Roberts @tchrob.bsky.social Haberdashers' Company Archivist. Early modern London, migration, drama.
Jeremy Green @jbrgreen.bsky.social Political Economist at the University of Cambridge.
The Guild of Queer Early Modernists @emqueerguild.bsky.social The Guild of Queer Early Modernists is dedicated to the support and advancement of queer scholars and scholarship in early modern studies. Join us! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Logo by Jasmine Kular, cover image from Art Institute of Chicago. gqem.org
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Sally Hines @sallyhines.bsky.social Gender Studies & Sociology Academic, UK. Proudly deflecting from the nasty place. She/her
Lewis Roberts @lewisproberts.bsky.social Teaching literature at Trinity College, Cambridge https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people//Lewis.Roberts
Karen Tongson @inlandemperor.bsky.social Author of NORMPORN, WHY KAREN CARPENTER MATTERS, and RELOCATIONS. Food motivated. Expert Homosexual. Prof by day. Cohost of The Art of Grief and The Gaymazing Race podcasts, formerly of Waiting to X-Hale. #Gaylor curious.
ACFC ⚽️ & Dodgers ⚾️ 
Micah Goodrich, All Trans On Deck @micahgoodrich.bsky.social Shrieks when pulled from earth. Transsexual. Premodern trans studies. English Prof at Boston University
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
Namratha Rao @namrao.bsky.social 
Katharine Craik @kcraik1.bsky.social Prof of Shakespeare and early modern lit, Research Director and Think Human Festival Director at Oxford Brookes. ‘Lifelike Shakespeare’ coming soon from OUP🏴
Rebecca Yearling @beckyyearling.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University. Shakespeare, Jonson, Marston, etc., early modern satire, violence, and audiences. All opinions my own.
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
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Liz Pollock: bookseller, non-fiction writer. @lizpollockbooks.bsky.social Specializing in unique books & ephemera on gastronomy, wine, menus, kitchens, and American theater history. Proud to be a member of the National Writers Union. https://www.cooksbookcase.com
Hannah Merlander @hannahmerlander.bsky.social PhD student researching the early modern tiring house at KCL
Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
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&
@edelsemple.bsky.social @edelsemple.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies @ UCC, Ireland • Shakespeare on screen • Women in early modern drama • Shakespearean biofiction • Cat-owner, cake-lover, books, plants • she/her
Holly Crocker @dr-mid-evil.bsky.social The human version of a crow. 
Katherine Gillen @katherinegillen.bsky.social Prof at Texas A&M-San Antonio | Free Palestine, Sudan, and DRC | Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva: https://borderlandsshakespeare.org/
Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social | 📖 Invisible Rainbows out May 21 | He/him | opinions are my own
https://linktr.ee/theastroholic
Natacha @natacha.bsky.social Dr Natacha Kennedy 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist/Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. Opinions expressed here are my own. Block Early Block Often 🇵🇸
Publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social English prof, Uni of Exeter. Prone to talk about UK politics, higher education policy, the 17th century, the excellence of English studies, & Aussie sports.
Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
Helen 🏳️⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social Passionate about acceptance for #transgender people & #trans kids 🏳️⚧️ equality & saving our planet 🌍 Inclusive cis feminist ⚧
➡️ https://linktr.ee/mimmymum
Rob Myles @rob-myles.bsky.social Craft & Graft. Multi-Award-Winning Director, Actor, Fight Director, Writer. PhD Candidate LJMU. Certified Teacher BASSC.
Known for: Owning Shakespeare Podcast, Shakespeare Deck, Illuminated Text, The Show Must Go Online, Stage Fight Scotland
Dr Doom(scrolling) @drews.bsky.social (they/them)
On the bad island but not leaving.
Academic, boulderer and cat dad.
Young people call me a trans elder but I'm literally just some guy.
Philip Schwyzer @philipschwyzer.bsky.social 
Chris Talbot (they/them) @mxchristalbot.bsky.social Queer, mixed-race, trans nonbinary creative. Editor of @thebkmagazine.bsky.social and Community-Centric Fundraising. Membership Program Lead of Next 100 Colorado. Board member of Summit for Action. But all my posts are my own.
Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
K Biswas @bizk.bsky.social Critic - words in The Nation, New Statesman, New York Times, The Baffler, Le Monde Diplomatique, Times Literary Supplement, The Observer & Chair of Resonance FM
Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS out now! Words in Huff Post, The Normal School, Foglifter, and more. Tin House ‘21. They/she.📍NJ.
Saraya Haddad @sarayahaddad.bsky.social Final year M4C funded PhD in Shakesqueer and magic 🌈🔮- Shakespeare Institute 📚
👩🏻🔬 Woman in STEM (Shakespeare, The Early Modern) 👩🏻🔬
🌈 📚 Queer theory. Queer lit. 📚🌈
(she/her)
Emily Sharp @emilysharp.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
Thomas Willett @thomaswillett.bsky.social ✨ LGBTQ+ advocacy 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | Trans rights are human rights | Occasional gym thirst traps | All views are my own
Frank Wynne @terribleman.com Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com 🏳️🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain. 💯 Human-made art or it isn't art.
Debut novel LIGHTBORNE
(LA TRAICIÓN DE CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE)
Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social.
More at hessephillips.com
AJ West Author @ajwestauthor.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling novelist: THE BETRAYAL OF THOMAS TRUE #AlwaysTogether 🦚 📚 Broadcaster 🏳️🌈 Homosexual
Linktr.ee/ajwest
David Murphy @davidmurph115.bsky.social PhD candidate at Lancaster University researching queer British response to queerphobia in Uganda, and notions of international queer solidarity. He/Him 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/davidmurph115
Emma Kalb @emmakale.bsky.social Postdoc at Uni Bonn. Historian of slavery, gender, and sexuality in early modern South Asia. 
Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social Oxford City Councillor and Associate Professor in Law at the University of Warwick. Research: gender, sexuality, law; migration; legal theory; and law and popular culture. Views my own, obviously.
@siobhankeenan.bsky.social @siobhankeenan.bsky.social Lover of old books, buildings, films and theatre history
Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Literature at American University. Aesthete and queer humanist. Author of *Before Queer Theory* and co-editor of *Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s*. He/him/his 🏳️🌈🐻👨❤️👨
Sierra Carter @dramaticletters.bsky.social they/them | PhD from University of York | early modern epistolary literature, playbooks, and performance | writing about trees, walking, and textiles in my spare time 
@helenostovich.bsky.social @helenostovich.bsky.social 
Grace Murray @mazinggrace.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @ Birkbeck, working on plant-writing in c16th London 🌷
Also: print culture | marginalia | recipe books | practical knowledge in early modern England ⚙️
Emily Millwood @emilymillwood.bsky.social they/she
https://app.spotlight.com/5013-1203-4763
Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social Historian in Roll Tide country. (Almost always) all things early modern Caribbean. Currently foraying into the late eighteenth century while working on THE DUCHESS AND THE DANDY. She/her. Always 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Currently🇺🇸 Views are my own etc.
Ben Blyth @benblyth.bsky.social Ph.D. Scholar-Practitioner of Medieval & Early Modern Drama @ UCalgary, Treaty 7 🍁 ⚔️ 🎭
Elizabeth Elliott @elizabethelliott.bsky.social Medieval literature, history of emotion and medievalism. UCU rep. She/her
Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social Non-binary researcher supporting trans kids and challenging cis-supremacy
Gabriel, Sunset Lover @renaissancehomo.bsky.social Jack of all trades, Masters in history
they/he
Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
Lesel Dawson @leseldawson.bsky.social Associate Professor of Literature & Culture at the University of Bristol
Arts and Culture Lead of the Good Grief Festival
I am interested in the relationship between grief & creativity, early modern literature, the history of the emotions & gender. 
Ricky Dukes @rickydukes.bsky.social Theatre director, practitioner, teacher & artistic director (@lazarustheatre.bsky.social) from the West Midlands living in Greenwich, London.
Love big epic theatre, big tea drinker.
Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
Sara Read @saralread.bsky.social Historical fiction novelist #hisfic; senior lecturer #earlymodern & #creativewriting; mum; grandma; gardener; open water swimmer.
www.sararead.co.uk
Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social Tudor food & garden historian 👩🌾 Author of 📕Eating with the Tudors. PGR @ University of East Anglia. Working on becoming *the* authority on the Chamberlyns of BB.
gabriel b @gyzyby.bsky.social early modern lit prof / fka vogelfrei vocal fry / https://letterboxd.com/gyzyby / scriptural exegesis and queer shit
Rachel Warburton @rwarby.bsky.social English prof, Early modern, histories of sexuality
Bradley Ryner @bradleyryner.bsky.social Scholar of Shakespeare, early modern drama, rhetoric of economics, performance and, most broadly, how theater and literature help us to conceptualize social and economic systems.
This is a personal account, reflecting my own opinions.
Josh Mcloughlin @drjoshmcloughlin.bsky.social Writer, editor and scholar ⁍ PhD in early modern literature from UCL ⁍ Words: The Fence, New Statesman, Prospect, The Times, Engelsberg Ideas, The London Magazine &c ⁍ Editor: New Critique ⁍ London via Merseyside
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) 🏳️🌈
Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?
Emma Whipday @emmawhipday.bsky.social Writer of books and plays. Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, interested in all things Shakespeare and early modern drama. BBC New Generation Thinker. Working on a book about step-families. She/her.
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024).
Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
KayeMcLelland @kayemclelland.bsky.social Late-onset Theology student; otherwise researcher of 17thC sermons; sometime lecturer in Ren Lit; ordinand (CinW); queer; disabled; parent of 5; contralto; liminal creature; now living in Wales; owned by a galga; she/they.
kayemclelland.com
AmandaRose V. PhD @amandarosevphd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Performance & Pedagogy. I think of myself as an Ethical Paladin but am known for intimacy choreography, larp, immersive theatre, laughing loudly, teaching teachers, adopting dogs, & editing the Journal of Consent-Based Performance
Transgender World @transgenderreport.com 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 News, articles and resources on trans, gender and LGBTQ+ issues curated by Jack Molay. Blogging over at https://www.crossdreamers.com/ Web version of news stream here: https://transgenderreport.com/ Link≠endorsement. Not a bot.
Lizzy Williamson @lizzywilliamson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature and Digital Humanities, Exeter. Keen on C16th letters & archives, and their digital manifestations. Author of Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/26759-elizabeth-williamson/
Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress.
Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
Tim Kendall @timkendall70.bsky.social BLACK OPS & BEAVER BOMBING: ADVENTURES WITH BRITAIN'S WILD MAMMALS (Oneworld, 2023) | Ed. POETRY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (OUP, 2024) | Ed. WILLIAM GOLDING: THE FABER LETTERS (Faber, Nov. 2025) | Prof. at University of Exeter | Conservation | Poetry | PAFC
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social History Assistant Prof. & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social Literary critic at University of Oxford, St Catherine's College | Poetics | Transnational drift of verse forms | Digital Humanities & Digital Editing | General Editor, OUP Complete Works of Tennyson.
Views are my own. www.michaeljsullivan.net
@kavikumra.bsky.social @kavikumra.bsky.social 
Alun Withey @dralun.bsky.social BBCRadio3/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Award-winning historian of early modern medicine, the body & beards! Senior lecturer at Exeter Uni, loves guitars, drums & *good* coffee.
Blogs at DrAlun.Wordpress.com. TikTok & Instagram: @dralunwithey
barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social Shakespearean (derogatory) 💀
Lecturing in Auckland, hanging out everywhere else
Late romances defender. Currently into ecocrit things, charismatic megafauna, and hellmouths.
דאָיִקייט
Emily Carding @emilycarding.bsky.social Actor, author, artist, mystic. Mostly made of Shakespeare, magic, immersive theatre and Tarot. Nerd.
#keyofdreams
#transparenttarot
#richardiii
#returntosilenthill
www.emilycarding.com
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.