Tim Milnes @tmilnes.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature and Philosophy, University of Edinburgh. Teacher of students. Writer of books. Connoisseur of Romantic trash and the excremental sublime.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
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
Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.
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.
Jeannie @bunnybixley.bsky.social Looking for the Silver Lining 👀 somewhere over the rainbow 🌈 NoCal 🌊. 🌲 ☀️ ☮️ 🎶 🐈⬛ 🐕 ☘️ 🇮🇪 🇲🇽 🪇
FEED YOUR HEAD
Shamrock☘️ and Roll
Keep on Rockin in the free world 🌎 🎸🎶
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Dr Georgia Toumara @georgiatoumara.bsky.social Early career researcher • PhD in English lit @UofGlasgow • Byronic legacy• C19th- early 20th travel literature • Gothic seascapes and blue humanities 🌊 • Classical reception and mythology 🏛️
Lucy Andrew @lucyvandrew.bsky.social Crime writer and crime fiction scholar. Jane Austen enthusiast. Rep’d by Euan Thorneycroft at A M Heath. Debut novel #AVeryVexingMurder published in 2026 by Corvus (Atlantic Books) and William Morrow (HarperCollins). Website: https://www.lucyandrew.com/
Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social Above all, pluviophile 🌧️ 📙Freelance book detective 🕵️♀️Health and Heritage ♥️ 👩🏫Cataloguing enthusiast 📚Medical humanities nerd 💊Away with the faeries🧚♀️ Thoughts mine own https://drsoandso.co.uk/
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
Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social Dr Sam George, Open Graves Open Minds Project. Gothic Enchantment. Books on Vampires, Wolves, Fairies, Unruly Plants, Shadows. https://herts.academia.edu/SamGeorge
Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social Historian. Author. Associate Prof of Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (Reaktion) out now.
Dr Silvia E Storti @silviaelisa22.bsky.social Early career researcher specialised in fairy tales and villainy | adaptations, reworkings, and retellings
Mimi Manyin @mimimanyin.bsky.social Writer. Musician. Editor | 📚 Ploughshares, Witness, Michigan Quarterly Review, Meridian, Greensboro Review etc. | 🎓MVICW Fellow, Sewanee Scholar | mimimanyin.com
Ersev E @ersewius.bsky.social Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies & Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University Press
Patrick James Errington @pat-err.bsky.social writer (recent poetry collection THE SWAILING w/ MQUP) | translator (E.M. Cioran's Notebooks, forthcoming) | Researcher & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Rewriting Wor(l)ds | lecturer @ UofEdinburgh | co-Director @ The Literacy Lab
Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social New book: Wild for Austen (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).
Judith Pascoe @judithmpascoe.bsky.social Books: ON THE BULLET TRAIN WITH EMILY BRONTE, THE SARAH SIDDONS AUDIO FILES, THE HUMMINGBIRD CABINET
www.judithpascoe.com
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first.
Stephanieinsleyhershinow.com
Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Editorial Team @esprit-jeps.bsky.social | The Americanisation of W. T. Stead (EUP, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/5xmrxs2j
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
Emma Butler-Marr @19thcenturyem.bsky.social PhD researcher studying nineteenth-century (literary) seaside resorts ⛱️ | @bars.bsky.social PGR rep 2026-28 | 2025 BARS Visiting Fellow at Chawton House | chronically ill 💛 (she/her)
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.
Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social Reading, writing, researching, editing.
She/her.
Pacific NW person living in Sussex.
www.alexiswolf.co.uk
Francesca @fbls.bsky.social Lecturer. c18 women's writing and older age. PhD on Anna Seward. Should be working on her book (Palgrave, soon)
Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope.
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
Minister Denzil Carnegie @lloydmill.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 Faith Family Outreach Ministry focuses on sharing the good news of salvation to all nations Jesus Christ teaching on repentance and forgiveness of sins to all nations Toronto Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 ♥️ ❤️ 💙
Pauline Hortolland @paulinehortolland.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in British Literature (Romanticism) *UMLP Besançon, France * Southampton Centre for C19 Research * Romanticism, long C18, media theory, environmental humanities * Book in preparation : Shelley’s Ardent Intercessor (Liverpool UP)
@louise65.bsky.social @louise65.bsky.social 
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
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
Maddy Mikinski @mikinski.bsky.social Bachelorette of English & Journalism | Mistress of Romantic & Victorian Lit | Wannabe doctor of Austen and gossip @ York. Currently accepting either 1 very good bit of gossip, 2 moderately good bits of gossip, or 3 bits of gossip very dull indeed
Yimon Lo @yimonlo.bsky.social Director of Textual Studies @cmtac.bsky.social | Author 'Musical Wordsworth' @LivUniPress | 'George Crabbe and Medicine' @CambridgeUP | PhD @durham_uni | Membership Secretary @BARS_official | yimonlo.com
Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
Media Girl @mediagirl.bsky.social ♥Digital Integration♥Gifted Ed♥CoSpaces♥Presenter♥STEM ♥Web Design♥Teacher♥Librarian♥Google Certified♥Robotics♥EdTech♥
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social Senior Publisher for STS, Digital/Medical Humanities and Literary Studies at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Anna Watz @annawatz.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature | Writing on surrealism and feminism
Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture @litterariaprag.bsky.social Litteraria Pragensia is a peer-reviewed, SCOPUS-listed international academic journal, founded in 1991. In print & open access: https://litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz
Rosa Campbell @rosacampbell.bsky.social “writer” & “academic” (poetry, poetics, archives, gender, failure) // British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ St Andrews // co-director Network for New York School Studies // Houghton Library Visiting Fellow, Harvard // she/her // 🧂 // linktr.ee/rosacampbell
The former KarenDotCom @karendotcom.bsky.social Software engineer, dog runner, plant person, mastering the art of the deconstructed mint falafel over spinach in tahini dressing
@cgrieveseup.bsky.social @cgrieveseup.bsky.social 
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
Chris @cstordahl.bsky.social |25|🇺🇸UNM ➡️ UoE🏴|Queer 🏳️🌈|
|MSc Cognitive Neuropsychology 🧠|
S. E. R. A. (Société d'Études du Romantisme Anglais) @sera-romantic.bsky.social S.E.R.A. was founded to promote transdisciplinary approaches to the Romantic period in French academia. Current president: @sophiemusitelli.bsky.social Paris Steering Group of the London-Paris Romantic Seminar.
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
Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social Poet! https://www.annajackson.nz/
she/her
When I translate Catullus writing as Sappho, as Ariadne, as Attis, as Procne, am I bird or birdsong? The journey, or the backwards glance?
Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social Poet | Researcher | Co-editor at Dust Poetry. Forward-shortlisted debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, out now. Magma Selected Poet.
https://linktr.ee/catherine_redford
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social Promoting Scottish literatures globally | https://scotlit-iassl.org | scotlit.iassl@gmail.com
Aaron Taylor @aarontaylorphd.bsky.social Professor of Cinema, University of Lethbridge.
Researches screen acting, cognitive media theory, and comics.
Recirculated received wisdom aside, opinions are my own.
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
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
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/
Jim Cheshire @jimchesh.bsky.social Associate Prof. Gothic Revival, Tennyson, stained glass ; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2371-2142;
Co-Director http://www.lincolnconservation.co.uk;
Honorary Secretary, Tennyson Society https://tennysonsociety.com/
Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social Recently retired senior lecturer in English at the University of Bordeaux, France. 19th C. Scottish literature, RL Stevenson, travel literature, afterlives, literary tourism. Occasional French-English conference interpreter.
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
@elsjevankessel.bsky.social @elsjevankessel.bsky.social 
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.
Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) @emilyjlm.bsky.social Digital Humanities Lecturer @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Victorianist, periodicals scholar, Dickensian
Dr Roseanna Kettle @roseannakettle.bsky.social ECR, phd from @cecs-york.bsky.social, interested in Romantic urbanism, regionality, ecocrit & book history, lover of old books and new wave 🐝 🇵🇸 🌈
Laurence Talairach @laurence-talairach.bsky.social Professor of Victorian Literature & Culture | Hist. of med & science | Natural history museums & collections | Literature & Science |Gothic studies | Children's lit
Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pgonalon.bsky.social Sociology Prof @ Upenn. Feminist studying gender, families, inequality, and social policy. She/her. The nuclear family is radioactive ⚠️⚠️
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
Ella Fox-Martens @ellafoxmartens.bsky.social I help make books at Simon & Schuster UK. Writing in The Atlantic, TLS, Baffler, Drift, etc.
@kamalatoldyouso.bsky.social @kamalatoldyouso.bsky.social 
St Andrews School of English @standrewsenglish.bsky.social School of English at the University of St Andrews
Tom Geue @tomgeue.bsky.social Striving to make bad Latin poetry interesting to ever fewer readers. All views an awkward assimilation of that LRB article. Vulgar marxist. Mullet on horizon.
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/
Andrew Smith @andysheff.bsky.social Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield. Most recent book is 'Dickens and the Gothic' (CUP), currently writing a book on 'Vegetarian Gothic' (CUP).
Anindya Raychaudhuri (he/him) @dranindyar.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @staenglish, TU Rep @ucustandrews, EDI Lead @sgsah, @ahrcpress/@BBCRadio3 New Gen Thinker, Author @OUPAcademic + @RowmanInternat
Critical Theory, Marxism, empire, medical humanities.
Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social Researching and writing about literature of the sea and the gothic: mostly coastly, the seabed and deep ocean, blue hums, and gothic voices. Co-runs the Haunted Shores network. Senior Lecturer at University of Birmingham.
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 🖤🥀
Steve @adriel1819.bsky.social BA (Honours) English Literature. Always learning and trying to make a small dent in a vast array of worldly knowledge...
Franz Potter @franzpotter.bsky.social Professor & Gothic chapbook enthusiast. Gothic publishing, bibliography & book history. Obsessed with Sarah Wilkinson's biography. All views are my own.
amy mcveigh @amymcveigh.bsky.social archive photographer by day, spooky lady by night
budding novelist and gothicist specialising in witches and folklore in Romantic literature
✨she/her✨
Gemma Goodman @gemmagoodman.bsky.social Researching Cornish lit 19thc to the present. Current research project on sustainable screen production. Out now ALTERNATIVE CORNWALLS published by University of Exeter Press. 
I Know What You Did Last Shera @shera-marley.bsky.social andy murray statue agitator
when there's only one candidate, there's only one choice
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Christian Etheridge Wx @christianwx.bsky.social Founder of Triad weather HQ on Facebook with 14K+ followers|weather in the Triad of NC| Storm spotter|
Tim Buckley @timbuckleywx.bsky.social Chief Meteorologist at WFMY in Greensboro, NC. Weather, sports, food, nature photos, cats and random thoughts.
Penn Stater. College football should be played all year. Central NY born, but North Carolina is home now.
AMS CBM #552
Chris Jefferson @heathercafe.bsky.social AI Professor in St Andrews, currently visiting CSU, China. Lover of puzzles, plushies and programming.
David Finkelstein @finkelsteind.bsky.social Business & Cultural Historian, personal capacity blurbs. Co-Editor, The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals, https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-british-colonial-periodicals.html
Sandro Eich @sandropology.bsky.social Scholar at St Andrews | Whistleblowing & writing | Academic Policy Officer (Quality) 📄 | Interdisciplinary humanities 📚🔬🌍 | 🌈🏴🇩🇪🇪🇺| Secretary of @BACLS_official
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Rowan Coleman @rowancoleman.bsky.social Sunday Times and NYT best selling novelist and screenwriter. FROM UNTIL FOREVER (UK) coming 3/7/25 Also Stella Hayward THE GOOD BOY coming 8/7/25 (US) Loves Brontes. Loves Horror. Loves dogs. #ADHD #Dyslexic she/her. Supports 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️rights. Fan of equality.
Laura @lleigha.bsky.social Illegitimi non carborundum