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LA Forward @laforward.bsky.social We're a community of Angelenos fighting for policies that will make LA County a fair, flourishing place for everyone.
Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social Video game archaeologist + game dev// Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming // Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology they/them 💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing 💚 Promoting humanities scholarship 🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars 🪢 Facilitating bookish community sharpweb.org
Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social Head of Student Programs, @scholarslab. DH, pedagogy, videogames. Co-VP @ach.bsky.social. Board @JITpedagogy. _Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change_ F26 w/ Open Book Publishers. More info at walshbr.com.
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.
Stephanie Smith @biffybeans.bsky.social Writer / Visual Artist. Solo board / historical game enthusiast & designer - 2024 Zenobia Award semifinalist. TEDx Speaker. Amateur genealogist. Late dx Autistic/AuDHD
Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social Inscription: the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History eds Gill Partington, Adam Smyth, Simon Morris email: inscriptionthejournal@gmail.com purchase at https://inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/
Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social Writer. THE BEWITCHING (2025), SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME, MEXICAN GOTHIC, and others books. https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/
pam lach @plach.bsky.social Digital Humanities Librarian/DH Center Director living/working on unceded Kumeyaay land (San Diego). US historian (PhD) + info scientist (MSIS). Disappointed UNC-CH alumna. Podcast teacher. Still masking. Dogs are my jam. @ach.bsky.social Co-Prez. she/her
Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social
Jeffrey Austin @jaustinedu.bsky.social Literacy Consultant | Growing Researchers of Environment Equity Network (G.R.E.E.N.) Co-Founder | Former ELA Department Chair, Writing Center Director, Instructional Coach + Humanities Teacher | Views are my own | Pronouns: He/Him
Annette Vee @anetv.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English at Pitt, writes on computation and writing, teaching, tech. https://annettevee.substack.com/ https://www.english.pitt.edu/people/annette-vee
Dr. Amanda Licastro @amandalicastro.bsky.social Head of Digital Scholarship Strategies and Visiting Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore, Fellow at Rare Book School, Editor at JITP
Kirstyn Leuner @kleuner.bsky.social Assoc. Prof at Santa Clara Univ., long 18c, book history, women's writing, DH, cats. Stainforth Library of Women's Writing stainforth.scu.edu. she/her
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.
Book Arts Lab @bookartslab.bsky.social Book Arts Lab in the Department of English at California State University, Northridge
Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com Freelance book editor and crowdfunding consultant https://glog.glennf.com/editing-services Eisner-nominated How Comics Are Made. hcwm.ink/HCW Two-time Jeopardy! champ. Latest book: That One Matt Bors Comic http://kck.st/4ttpVAQ My store: Aperiodical.net
Nat McGartland @natmcgartland.bsky.social PhDing @ UMD English HBIC @UMDBookLab book history, STS, digital studies linktr.ee/natmcgartland
Molly Schwartzburg @bibliomolly.bsky.social Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts, Houghton Library. Minimalist on even days, maximalist on odd ones. Don’t lick green books.
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social Publisher, Executive Editor, and Senior Lecturer at a TX uni working on 19C British poetry, gender and sexuality, history of science, empire. Sometime watercolorist, 3 cat familiars, 3 sons. Views my own.
Halle O'Neal @halleoneal.bsky.social Japanese art history, Co-Director of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies. Reuse/recycling, paper, palimpsests, fragments. Book: Word Embodied (Harvard 2018) Edited vol: Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose: The Afterlives of Japanese Material Culture (Ars Orientalis 2023)
Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social Teacher and researcher of literature and material texts 1550-1830, Oxford. Author of *Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature* (Penn, 2025) https://shorturl.at/5D7VY https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/georgina-wilson
Malcolm Schmitz @malcolmschmitz.bsky.social Author, artist, game dev. Querying middle grade trans thieves; writing adult short fic about lacemaking orcs, nebbish unicorns, trans sky captains, and more. Half of VaporwaveGothic Studios; worked with Black Chicken Studios and small indie teams.
Brian Halley @brianbhalley.bsky.social Executive Editor at University of Massachusetts Press, based at UMass Boston. Views here don’t reflect them. Feminist, progressive, 🏳️‍🌈, into books, dogs, ocean, print culture, lit studies, environmental studies/climate justice, and more.
Petra Clark @petrabclark.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian, former/forever Victorianist (Aestheticism & periodicals), and inveterate cat documentarian. Probably haunting the rare books stacks or stress baking. She/her
Microcosm Publishing @microcosm.bsky.social Based in #Portland and Cleveland. A Publisher's Weekly's fastest growing publisher 2022-2024. #Autistic founded/owned #ownvoices idealism; Change your life then the world around you; since 1996. Microcosmpublishing.com Microcosm.pub/newsletter
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social Professor&Chair, Gender&Sexuality Studies, University@Buffalo. Awards: Lora Romero (ASA'13); Best Book in Food Studies (ASFS'13); Choice (2022); Alan Bray (MLA&ASA'26); Hon. Mention, Rene Wellek (ACLS '26); James Beard essay award ('23), NHC Scholar 26-27.
Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social Associate prof of ENGL, Marquette U • c18 lit • disability studies • cat dad • gay married to @nyitray • frequenter of mosh pits and libraries
Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social Book history, disability studies, and digital humanities. Specialty in tactile reading. Certified braille transcriber. she/they. ocd & chronic pain & cane user.
Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social Bibliographer & historian with broad interests, incl. business and economic hisotry, queer print, oral history, co-operative HE. he/him www.malcolmnoble.co.uk
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography close reading forever helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
Dr Sam Bailey @18thcenturysam.bsky.social Antiquarian bookseller @keelrowbooks /Visiting Fellow of Bibliography and Book History @newcastleuni / fan of weird books/ she/they
Liz Ott @elizott.bsky.social Director of the Rose Library, Emory University, she/her
Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social Historian ☞ @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on female collaboration in the first age of print ☞ #earlymodern gender, books, religion, DH, queer stuff ☞ she/her 🌈
Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social Librarian, literature geek, knitter, opera fan, book history person. Writing a book about commonplace books and poetry readers. Opinions here are my own. She/her/hers. Queer and furious. 🏳️‍🌈
Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social ‘Curious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Wales and Scotland’. An AHRC-funded research project (CAWCS, University of Glasgow, Natural History Museum London) Histories of Enlightenment Travel https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
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
Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social SWE building decision intelligence for gov + health + social care / PhD 18c History / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. ✡️ 🇬🇧 in 🇳🇿 (Waimauku)
Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social Prof in 18th Century & Romantic Literature at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, she/her, Pākehā/settler scholar, #toitūtetiriti, 🏀 Books on Romanticism + settler colonialism + Indigenous studies https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/nikki.hessell
Elisa Cozzi @elisacozzi.bsky.social Irish Romanticism, Italy, the Byron-Shelley Circle, manuscripts, literary coteries. https://irishstudies.nd.edu/scholars/neh-fellows/elisa-cozzi/
Paul Stephens @paulstephens.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English @ University of York. C18-19th Literature and Culture. He/Him https://www.york.ac.uk/english/people/paulstephens/
Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social Environmental Humanities researcher. @LeedsUniEnglish @LeedsEnvHums #Wordsworth #JohnClare #Romanticism #walking #birdwatching #naturewriting Ascending with the Earth 🌍.
Brecht de Groote @brechtdegroote.bsky.social Assistant Professor TT of English at Ghent University. Romanticism and 19Ce//theory//lit, media, trsl. Author of De Quincey: Romanticism in Translation (Edinburgh). I am totally horrified, and so on.
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social Historian of ideas and culture, hovering between the 18th century and the 21st - and between Oxford, Berlin and London. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/associate-professor-avi-lifschitz
Sam Wesner 𓃰 @sswesner.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher (no longer NEH-funded) at the Science History Institute. Previously at U of Toronto. 18th-century revolutions. Electricity. Interested in nearly everything.
SKL🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @sklafon1.eurosky.social Pr. of 18th-century studies at Université Paris Nanterre: literature and the sciences; translation and history thereof. Biographe officielle du Traducteur Fou™. Translator myself. Opinions my own. Influenceuse ☔️
Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg
Dr Angela Muir @drangelamuir.bsky.social Academic historian, writer, sometimes musician, full time cat lady. Interested in gender and deviance in long 18th century Wales & England. www.angelamuir.co.uk
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 + Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social Associate Prof: Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Hum, History of Med, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast I do not use AI for anything, professionally or personally. All opinions my own.
Noah Chaskin @chaskin.bsky.social Weary academic studying queer/crip narrative form in the loooooong 18th century. Chronic illness my significant other, a cat named Fudge my familiar. They/them
Jon @thelitcritguy.bsky.social writer. phd in gothic literature. writing on horror, utopia, the gothic nightmare of capitalism CAPITALISM A HORROR STORY out now, working on a new book about HOUSES
John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social Antifascist. Lecturer in British History (https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/john-erik-hansson-fr/). Intellectual Hist./William Godwin/Radicalism/Anarchism/18th-20th c. Reviews ed. - Anarchist Studies (https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies).
Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social Historian & teacher | PostDoc at the University of Lucerne, early modern hair | PhD'ing in Bremen, slavery and people of color in Hamburg | banner: Tariq Safieh
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/
Rachel Weil @racheljweil.bsky.social Early modern historian @Cornell. Prisons, law, politics, gender in 17th-18th c. England. Terminated NEH fellow, @IAS member 2024-25. Writing "Detention and Punishment in Early Modern English Prisons, 1600-1815" Rescue-🐶 mom, BLM, Democrat, she/her 🏳️‍🌈💙🏳️‍⚧️🌻
dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social art historian researching whiteness and greco-roman mythology in british history painting. curator thinking about victorian art and global connections. views my own. 🏳️‍🌈 https://hardeepsdhindsa.co.uk
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS). Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals. Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social Research Fellow @ies-sas.bsky.social, Bougie London Literary Woman, cat concierge. Book on 18th-century women's letters forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. natashasimonova.com
Jennifer Golightly @jengolight.bsky.social 18th-C literary and cultural history. Digital Teaching & Research Specialist and Lecturer in History @ Colorado College; Instructor at U of Denver. Technologist by day, scholar whenever I can. I have a lot of animals.
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/
Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures. Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social Associate Prof of English | Romanticism, book history, and everything to do with bookbinding | The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers is out now with Bucknell UP!
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.
Neil Fraistat @fraistat.bsky.social Prof. Emeritus of English UMD & Past President, Keats-Shelley Assoc.; Co-Gen Ed. Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Romanticism, Textual Scholarship, DH, Media. "Rise like lions after slumber."
Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social Art Historian 'Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction 1780-1820' (Chicago 2025) 'Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism' (Cambridge 2021) extraction and its visual cultures, dog videos, unions, knowledge systems, 19th-century literature
Kriti @soykriti.bsky.social Doctor of Romantic Periodicals. @UArizona
John Havard @johnhavard.bsky.social "Disaffected Parties (OUP, 2019) | "Late Romanticism and the End of Politics" (CUP, 2023) | "The Last Man" by Mary Shelley, foreword Rebecca Solnit | Next: Austen, Byron, Ali Smith, Brexit Aesthetics, Policing | Brit in NYC | @johnowen82 www.johnhavard.me
Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social Mieskeit; Historical Lexicography & the Emoluments Clause (CUP '25); lexicographer; linguist; Edgeworth; #18thc; #CUNY; #NJ; down the shore; serial commas
祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social English and Cultural Studies prof; poet; editor of @ecfjournal.bsky.social. Thinking in semiotic squares and cosmological circles. she/they/we
Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social History postdoc in Gotha (FZG) and Turin (THP), soon Halle (IZEA). Working on race, politics, and education in the German Enlightenment (and beyond). Interested in all things early modern. Enjoys hiking, hummus, horror films, and heavy metal. Jewish.
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment - Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries - Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions - PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea - Editorial Board @ Multiplay
Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk World leader in Enlightenment studies, based at the University of Oxford. Our publications: Voltaire's Complete Works (OCV), Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (OSE) and much beyond. https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/
Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social Political theorist at Dublin City University. Author of Edmund Burke (Polity, 2024) and Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain (Princeton UP, 2021). Increasingly interested in abolition/emancipation and multigenerational democracy.
Kristina Decker @kristinadecker.bsky.social 📚Eighteenth-Centuryist 🖋️18thC history, literature, material culture & country house studies, animal histories ✉️ Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland 🏠 Ireland
Phil Dodds @phildodds.bsky.social Cultural and historical geographer and director of the Sound Environment Centre at Lund University, Sweden. Researching music, colonial history, aesthetics, audism, cities, sound, scale, Scotland. https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/philip-dodds
Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social Spanish Tragedy evangelist | dramaturg, full prof, theatre historian (18thc, celebrity, & Shakespeare) | 📚Carrying All Before Her (2022) | opinions mine https://spanishtragedy.villanova.edu https://udpress.udel.edu/book-title/carrying-all-before-her/
Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social Professor of Modern English @ucc.ie | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Secretary @ria.ie | Irish Romanticism: a Literary History @universitypress.cambridge.org https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/claire-connolly/
Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social Please look after this Bee. Cymraeg a Saesneg, fel y mynnoch. Was Dyddgu elseweb. Ei/Hi. She/Her Signal -> https://signal.me/#eu/p-v5DrC5-xRE_oL2kkAN_8Txhbp3p5q7YIHFXT7jB8a0wOpn7mRFza5I5q80veGU
Elaine McGirr @emmcgirr.bsky.social Eighteenth-century & theatre historian; cat & child wrangler; immigrant.
Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social Professor of eighteenth-century lit and culture; person who studies pirates; dragon aficionado; proud parliamentarian dork. Opinions are my own and no one else's.
Global Blake @globalblake.bsky.social An international network of scholars working on William Blake and all aspects of his poetry and art. Established in January 2022. Posts by @urthonaunbound
Celeste McNamara @celestemcnamara.bsky.social Historian @ Dublin City University. Author of The Bishop’s Burden (Catholic UP). Currently working on the policing of illicit sexuality in 18th century Venice. For more see www.celestemcnamara.com.
S. M. Carroll @smcarroll.bsky.social Academic Blue Sky for Siobhan Maria Carroll. Victorian Studies, Romantism, 18C Studies, Science Fiction, Environmental Humanities. Short reviews of things I love and occasional gardening complaints.
Dr Alison Daniell @alispencer.bsky.social Author, former family lawyer and all-round plate spinner currently working in learning development. Independent scholar: 18th century women, law, literature (esp Jane Austen) plus a bit of witchcraft 🐈‍⬛
Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online (EMCO) @montaguletters.bsky.social Digital edition of the letters of Bluestocking socialite and literary critic Elizabeth Robinson Montagu (1718-1800). https://emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/about/
Lucy Cogan @lucycogan.bsky.social UCD English. PI of Wellcome Trust “Drinking Cultures” project. Medical Humanist. Blakean. Romanticist. New here
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U #LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.