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.
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
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.
Mimi Manyin @mimimanyin.bsky.social Writer. Musician. Editor | 📚 Ploughshares, Witness, Michigan Quarterly Review, Meridian, Greensboro Review etc. | 🎓MVICW Fellow, Sewanee Scholar | mimimanyin.com
Dr Silvia E Storti @silviaelisa22.bsky.social Early career researcher specialised in fairy tales and villainy | adaptations, reworkings, and retellings
Ivan Phillips @vortexphillips.bsky.social 
OGOM Project @ogomproject.bsky.social Vampires, werewolves, fairies in culture. All narratives of the fantastic, the folkloric, and the magical, emphasising the sense of Gothic as enchantment.
www.opengravesopenminds.com
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
Judith Pascoe @judithmpascoe.bsky.social Books: ON THE BULLET TRAIN WITH EMILY BRONTE, THE SARAH SIDDONS AUDIO FILES, THE HUMMINGBIRD CABINET
www.judithpascoe.com
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
Ersev E @ersewius.bsky.social Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies & Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University Press
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.
Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social LitProf University of Oxford. Loves long serial fiction in all its forms.
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 🐈⬛
Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social Reading, writing, researching, editing.
She/her.
Pacific NW person living in Sussex.
www.alexiswolf.co.uk
Linda Troost @lvtroost.bsky.social Prof of English and Professional Writing, esp. 18th c British lit; expert on Jane Austen adaptations; former English department chair; Smithie, Penn Ph.D. https://www.clippings.me/ltroost
Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social Doctor of Gothic Studies, specialising in masculinity, war and nation. Works in doctoral education and research culture. One half of The Ghoul Guides, spooky pop culture podcasting. She/Her.
Cardiff Book History @cardiffbookhistory.bsky.social Updates on book history, print culture and digital humanities. Tweets do not reflect views of my employer.
Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social New book: Wild for Austen (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).
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
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
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)
Francesca @fbls.bsky.social Lecturer. c18 women's writing and older age. PhD on Anna Seward. Should be working on her book (Palgrave, soon)
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
Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
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.
St Andrews School of English @standrewsenglish.bsky.social School of English at the University of St Andrews
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
@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
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.
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
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/
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Amy Prendergast @amyprendergast.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Eighteenth-Century Studies, School of English, Trinity College Dublin | Author of Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.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.
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>
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.
Weeping Bank @weepingbank.bsky.social The acclaimed ghost storytelling experience, bridging the gap between page and stage
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
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
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 🐝 🇵🇸 🌈
Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) @emilyjlm.bsky.social Digital Humanities Lecturer @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Victorianist, periodicals scholar, Dickensian
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.
@elsjevankessel.bsky.social @elsjevankessel.bsky.social 
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.
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).
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/
Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Books incl:
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
Emergency Dream
Swimming The Seasons
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
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
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✨
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 🖤🥀
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.
Isaac Land @coastalhistory.bsky.social _The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish_ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Professor Emeritus, Indiana State University. Former co-editor, Coastal Studies & Society journal.
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social (Act III) field philosopher (nascent) #Lostness #Doubt #Degrowth
… slatey immigrant, likely to repost pictures of hares.
ProfilePics: Big beard, straw hat & shades; with a vista of daunting hills.
Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @ucc.ie • Scottish Romanticism, the Novel, Reading / Book History • IASSL Membership Sec • AFHEA • She/her
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Daryl Green @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social Librarian working in Edinburgh, living in the hills of the East Neuk; strayed Great Plains drifter; FSAScot; evening miniature painter and tabletop gamer; 📚📷📜🗃️⛰️🌊🖌️.
BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social Celebrate literature every Saturday with BookWormSat. Hosted by @signemaene.com and @racheldeering.bsky.social
Weekly themes: https://signemaene.com/bookwormsaturday/
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
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 🦬 ♾️
Katie Muth @kmuth.bsky.social Assistant prof of digital humanities @ Durham English, books about work || work about books, she/they, https://krmuth.github.io/
Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
Check out https://thecurrentowdm.substack.com
Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com
Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
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
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