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/
Scholastica @scholasticahq.bsky.social Easy-to-integrate journal peer review, production, and hosting solutions to help scholarly publishers work smarter (used by 1,300+ journals).
Law review updates: @scholasticalr.bsky.social
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Jeff Fields McCormack @jfmauthor.bsky.social Interim Writing Center Director and Ph.D. Student at East Texas A&M University. Active reader and researcher of all things horror, popular culture, and Writing Center studies.
D. Lengua Española y Teoría de la Literatura @lengesyteolitucm.bsky.social Departamento de Lengua Española y Teoría de la Literatura, en la Facultad de Filología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Difusión de eventos y actividades del departamento.
Dr Amy Burge @dramyburge.bsky.social Associate Professor of popular fiction. Romance specialist. Managing Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Network Lead for Muslim Women's Popular Fiction project. She/her. Currently writing about bonkbusters with @jodimca.bsky.social
OASPA - The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association @oaspa.bsky.social Representing a diverse community of organisations engaged in open scholarship, we work to support open access becoming the predominant model of publication.
oaspa.org
Conference registration at https://buytickets.at/oaspa
Media and Communication @cogitatiomac.bsky.social Media and Communication is a peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to a wide variety of research in communication.
2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 (Q1)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication
Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism @migratingminds.bsky.social Peer-reviewed, #open-access humanities journal exploring forms of belonging and spaces of difference that challenge both universalist and exclusionary paradigms.
web: https://migratingminds.georgetown.edu
email: migratingminds@georgetown.edu
Cahiers d'histoire. Revue d'histoire critique @cahiers-histoire.bsky.social #HelloESR
Revue trimestrielle d'histoire critique. Dominations, mouvements sociaux et pensées critiques
Revue OpenEdition, SHS / Science ouverte
https://journals.openedition.org/chrhc/
Comparative American Studies @compamstudies.bsky.social Comparative American Studies is an international, interdisciplinary journal. Edited by @rachmclennan.bsky.social and @thomasruyssmith.com. Send us your articles and special issue suggestions!
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ycas20
Journal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social Scholarly journal of world literature literary criticism, 1900-present. Published quarterly by Indiana University Press, with digital editions on Project Muse. https://iupress.org/journals/jml/
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
Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social At Project MUSE, we believe that knowledge has the power to enrich lives and that a sustainable scholarly ecosystem is essential for advancing humanity. 
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
Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on C19 literature & culture
Send submissions to submissionsvr@gmail.com
Website https://victorianreview.org/
Issues https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journal/508
New Area Studies @newareastudies.bsky.social 🌍The New Area Studies Research Centre at the University of East Anglia, UK - an interdisciplinary centre for scholarship on people, place and culture.
newareastudiesuea.com
🌎Home of New Area Studies, an open access journal.
newareastudies.com
IASPR International Association for the Study of Popular Romance @iaspr.bsky.social The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance is dedicated to fostering and promoting the scholarly exploration of all popular representations of romantic love. Publishes @jprstudies.bsky.social
https://www.iaspr.org/
@diacritics.bsky.social @diacritics.bsky.social 
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies @assayjournal.bsky.social Assay publishes the best critical, pedagogical, and craft-conversational work exploring everything #nonfiction
Posts by Jay Kibble and @karenbabine
Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social A journal devoted to the literary culture of Europe & Colonial Latin America (1200-1600), with an emphasis on vernacular translations, Romance letters & the Latin tradition.
https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/tl/
Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal published by Johns Hopkins UP. Cultural & material contexts that shaped the production & reception of Edgar Allan Poe's work.
https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/poe-studies-history-theory-interpretation
Frontière·s | Antiquité-Moyen Âge @frontiere-s.bsky.social Revue d’Archéologie, Histoire & Histoire de l’art. Un espace de réflexion en Open Access sur les sociétés antiques et médiévales
Journal of Archaeology, History & Art History. An Open Access space to reflect on ancient and medieval societies
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.
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
Victorian Poetry @victorianpoetry.bsky.social Victorian Poetry is a peer-reviewed quarterly dedicated to Victorian poets and poetries (broadly & experimentally construed). Edited by Devin Garofalo, UC San Diego (victorianpoetryjournal@gmail.com). Learn more: https://victorian-poetry.scholasticahq.com
MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social f. 1886 as Modern Language Notes • Published @hopkinspress.bsky.social • Issues: Italian, Yiddish & Hebrew, Spanish & Portuguese, German, French, and Comparative Literature
MLNJournal@jh.edu
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 is a quarterly journal published for Rice University by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Submissions: https://sel.rice.edu/submission-guidelines-faq
Marginalia: https://marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/
Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies @jcmsjournal.bsky.social Media studies for all. Print & online open access content. We value accessibility, transparency, diversity, & community. Published through SCMS
Online at: https://jcmsjournal.org
Claire Parnell @claireparnell.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Publishing at the University of Melbourne. Researching digital book publishing, popular fiction & platform economies.
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Beth Driscoll @bethdriscoll.bsky.social 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. Ullapoolist. Researching contemporary book publishing and reading practices. 
Sandra Schwab @scribblingsandy.bsky.social Historical romance author with a PhD, a piano, & a very large library. Expert on dragons & PUNCH. Writes stories with happy endings and loves her caravan Miss Hetty. 🌈 She / her.
Newsletter: https://sandraschwab.eo.page/newsletter
Tina Fetner @fetner.bsky.social Sociologist of sexualities. McMaster U 🇨🇦.
Author of Sex in Canada: The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North.
https://tinafetner.ca/sex-in-canada/#read-sex-in-canada
K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social writer, professor, medievalist, lgbtq romance author, happily married bisexual, she/they pronouns, fan of craft beer & board games
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships @clsrleeds.bsky.social We are a research centre within the University of Leeds. Let’s think about intimacy together. - https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/420/centre_for_love_sex_and_relationships
Philippa B @synaesthezia.bsky.social Aussie artist, podcaster & member of Romancelandia. She/Her
Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social Editor @Mira Books (views are my own). Staff Writer @Night Tide. Notes & Queries Editor @JPRS. Rep'd by Danai Christopolou and Lane Heymont. Writing about romance in horror movies: Love Never Dies (Beacon Press): September 29, 2026. editrixemma.com
Tyne Daile Sumner @tynedaile.bsky.social ARC DECRA Fellow: literary studies | digital humanities | surveillance | President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/ | current project: surveilit.com | everything else: tynedaile.com
Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social juniorprofessor of anglophone literatures and cultures (university of trier) • views my own • she/her • #firstgen
website: https://www.jenniferleetsch.com/
“soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."
Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social I'm Sarah from Smart Bitches, and I like Trashy Books | Daily SBTB email: http://bit.ly/SBTB-feed | Reviews, Cover Snark, & Recs: http://sb-tb.com |
Lucynka @lucynka.bsky.social Of the blog “Lucynka Reviews Obscure Bullshit.” Girls don’t want boys, girls want feminist analyses of Cornell Woolrich stories. Currently also reviewing stories from the romance pulps.
lucynka.wordpress.com
Newsletter: https://lucynka-staron.beehiiv.com
Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social Asst. prof. at Utrecht U. Book review editor at the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. American poetry, popular fiction, love studies, animal studies. Reader of books, drummer of drums. Currently obsessed with Vikingism in popular culture. She/her.
Fiona Hartley-Kroeger @fhartleykroeger.bsky.social Scholar, chai drinker, human. Curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. PhD, MLIS; reviewer @ The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. She/her.
All opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.
Emily Corbett @dremilycorbett.bsky.social Academic specialising in children's and YA literature. Head of the MA Children's Literature programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. General Editor of The International Journal of Young Adult Literature.
Ben O'Dell @benodell.bsky.social Associate professor of English in Atlanta, Georgia. Interested in Victorian literature and culture, genre, narrative time, the historical novel, the gothic.
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
Midwest Victorian Studies Association @mvsa.bsky.social Dedicated to studying the Victorian period, including history, literature, art history, music, philosophy, and religion. We welcome members and participants from across the world: https://midwestvictorian.org/.
Lis Beavis @lisbeavis.bsky.social PhD researcher at City, University of London. Gothic studies. Victorian fiction. Periodical literature. Short stories. 
Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation (Heritage and Creativity) at the University of Reading, and Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture
Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social Teacher, researcher, writer on Victorian literature, culture, and politics; hot takes my own
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
Rebecca Romney @rebeccaromney.com Your bookish enabler. Rare book dealer, Type Punch Matrix. Author, JANE AUSTEN’S BOOKSHELF. Co-founder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. Pawn Stars, The Booksellers doc.
Dr Alison Garden @notsecretgarden.bsky.social Writing about love & politics at Queen's University Belfast 💘 | Writing in UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | PI on 'Acts_of_Union' | All views personal.
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
Julia Neugarten @julianeugarten.bsky.social Researcher of fandom studies, fanfiction, computational literary studies and literary reception. Currently a PhD candidate at Radboud University. Views are my own.
Jessica Pryde @jessisreading.bsky.social Romance enthusiast. Founder @whychoose-tucson.bsky.social Book Riot Contributing Editor. BLACK LOVE MATTERS and SOMEPLACE GENEROUS out now! She/her 🩷💜💙
Weston Leo Richey 🕊️ @westonleorichey.bsky.social PhD candidate & poet at The University of Texas at Austin // American lit, speculative fiction, queer theory, disability studies, game studies, much more // they/them
Pilar Lopez-Cantero @lopezcantero.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie/YUFE4 Fellow (Antwerp). Thinking about love, heartbreak, narrative, cities & travel. From Jaén 🫒
My project: @affectinthecity.bsky.social
My publications: https://philpeople.org/profiles/pilar-lopez-cantero
#philosophy #philsky
Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social Chaotic good w/ redneck roots. Medievalist/teacher/PhD candidate/worker/overexplainer/aspiring pícara.
Personal account; loud opinions (which is all of them) my own.
she/her
📍 North Carolina (in the woods somewhere instead of doing my work)
Joanne Knowles @joanneknowlesuk.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, Communication @LJMU. Research interests in culture, media & literary studies #C19 to now. My views, RT ≠ endorsement.
Dr Bill Hughes (William the Bloody) @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Gothic fairies, vampires and paranormal romance; co-organiser Open Graves, Open Minds Project @ogomproject.bsky.social
https://hcommons.org/members/billhughes/
www.opengravesopenminds.com
Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety, distant comms and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives, College of Humanities & Arts; Prof, 19c Lit & Digital Humanities. Co-ed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.* Author of *Forget Me Not* <triproftri.wordpress.com>
Jessamyn Neuhaus @geekypedagogy.bsky.social Helping academics & introverts nerd out about teaching. SoTL author + editor, professor of history/education/pop culture & Syracuse University Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Director. #AcademicSky IDIC https://jessamynneuhaus.com
Susanne Korbel @skorbel.bsky.social contemporary history | cultural studies | gender studies | popular culture
historian @UniversityofGraz
principal investigator @FWF
Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social Historian of US women & gender, race & citizenship in the GAPE. Currently working on a graphic history. 🖍️I’ve lived in all 4 continental time zones, but CA in the redwoods 🌲is home. 
Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. Writing MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
laurabmcgrath.substack.com
Dr Jane Bonsall @janebonsall.bsky.social Post doc on ‘The Seven Sages of Rome’ at St Andrews University | Genre, gender and magic in medieval romance | she/her
Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social Writer. Researcher. Editor. Genderqueer femme. Crip. She/they.
// medieval lit / media / gender / disability / pop culture //
https://linktr.ee/aspencerhall
Meaghan Landrigan-Buttle (she/her) @meaghanlb.bsky.social PhD student - history/Irish Studies - Concordia University
Masculinities, romance novels, sex, and smut.
Likes dogs more than people.
@thesmutstorian on Insta
Crystal Jordan, PhD @crystaljordan.bsky.social Academic librarian / award-winning author. Writer of spicy PNR and SFF romance. Lover of tea, travel, books, yarn, and plants. Unapologetic nerd. California native. Proud citizen of Romancelandia. She/her. Demi 🖤🩶🤍💜
www.crystaljordan.com
Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
Jennifer Clement @jenlyn.bsky.social Middlebrow reader; knitter; cat lover; secondhand bookstores are as close to heaven as heaven allows. Pronouns she/her. Opinions mine.
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
The Smut Report @smutreport.com We are three crones who have been swapping smut since we were maidens and therefore spend a lot of time yelling about romance books.
Primarily managed by Holly.
Blog at smutreport.com
Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social
📍 central Appalachia
matriarch, [redacted, WFH]
Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor of Popular Literature and Culture at Falmouth University
Carey Millsap-Spears 🖖🐎❤️ @careymillsapspears.bsky.social Author of Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic: Tell Fear No, Lexington Books, 2023. Views own
Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen, and Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.
little dracula @lurrel.bsky.social old fandom hag (gender neutral). lurrel on ao3 (https://archiveofourown.org/users/lurrel), blanket podcasting/translation/remixing permissions on everything. currently in a k-pop k-hole. enthusiastic 'liker.'
Rhonda J. Garcia aka RJ Joseph @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award winning, Shirley Jackson award nominated writer/professor/editor. She/Her. Literary representation: Natasha Mihell, at The Rights Factory
Renee Dahlia @reneedahlia.bsky.social Queer Romance Author. No gen-AI. All human made and HEA guaranteed.
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social Former Victorianist/current HS teacher. ✍🏻 romance. Rep by Tara Gelsomino. Tell me all your Austen jokes. Free romance 👇
https://linktr.ee/colleenkellyauthor
Penny Hampson Author @pennyhampson.bsky.social Regency mystery romance and contemporary mysteries with a hint of paranormal. History nerd
❌👑 Suz Brockmann @suzbrockmann.bsky.social romance writer, indie film & tv writer & producer, mother of a SAG strike captain & a nurse, liberal Dem, activist, she/her. Still masks.
Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
Disney, Culture & Research Network (DisNet) @disnet.bsky.social International network for scholars & students examining Disney in culture and society 🏰 tag us to share your Disney Studies research/events/posts! #DisNet
https://dis-net.org/
Susannah Brooks @onelouder.bsky.social Writer, reader, performer, professional trivia shockwave, Person of Pallor, Lady About Town. BLM. she/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦
Shelf Love Podcast @shelflove.bsky.social A podcast & Substack about romance novels, and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Host: Andrea Martucci (she/her) #romancebks #romancereader
https://linktr.ee/shelflovepodcast
In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social A Journal of Yiddish Studies 🦚(www.ingeveb.org)
Esme Shaull @esmeshaull.bsky.social Transforming into my final form of Mysterious Book-Aunt. Romance writer, neurospicy. 99 projects and I can't finish 1. 
Tara Kennedy @taratlk.bsky.social Author, reader, book evangelist, knitter, hapa kanaka, holiday nerd, etc.
Pronouns: she/her/ia
More: http://www.talkapedia.com/p/hello.html
Michele Hall @michelelbh977.bsky.social Math teacher, mom of twins, wife, coach of FRC Team 178, proud grad of Western Michigan. Avid reader & listener of podcasts. I love learning- history, language, cultures, math!
Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Yiddish at UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies. Book: It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity (Stanford UP). Working on Yiddish plays by women. Yiddish, German, dance, theatre, gender studies. https://soniagollance.com
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Jayashree (she/her/they) @profromance.bsky.social Ambedkarite, romance reader and scholar, annihilate caste
Jana @artsyreadergirl.bsky.social 38. Romance reader. Queen of Christmas. Graphic designer. MLIS. Art lover. Crocheter. Cat whisperer. Whale watcher. Reviewing books at That Artsy Reader Girl since 2010.
ThatArtsyReaderGirl.com