Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social News and announcements from the Modern Language Association. If you have a question for MLA staff members, please visit http://mla.org/About-Us/Contact
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society promotes the study of books and manuscripts of any date, particularly Scottish. Founded in 1890, it is the oldest such society in the world and the only extant one with a Scottish focus.
Sophie Weinberg @sophie-rose-reads.bsky.social Book historian and maker of things. Assistant Director of @skeuomorphpress.org. MSLIS student.
Karulliny Siqueira @karulliny.bsky.social historian specializing in the written and printed culture of Brazil. I teach in the Archival Science program at the Federal University of Espírito Santo.
Jon Corsiglia (he/him/el) | Eco-Economy Insider @ecoeconomyinsider.com The economics of a healthier planet, minus the sermons. Honest eco-swaps + good news that also makes financial sense. 30-yr environmental communicator. 💚💙 SF Bay Area 🌊
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Julia Turner @juliaturner.bsky.social Co-Founder & EIC, L.A. Material. Formerly Slate, L.A. Times. Co-host, Slate Culture Gabfest.
Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social Digital literary and cultural studies, modernism, psychoanalysis, horror. Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies. New book: Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities http://bit.ly/4ftBuUV
Environmental News Bits @envnewsbits.bsky.social Browsing environmental news so you don't have to.
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830- W Will Straw @wstraw.bsky.social James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University. Scholar of cities, media, night Follow news of night culture at https://theurbannight.com/ or visit my research site at https://willstraw.com/
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
Sören Hammerschmidt @sorham.bsky.social he/him. 18th-c. literature & community college stanning in the desert. prof by day, goth 24/7. luddite by choice & out of conviction.
DH_with_Eprene @dhwitheprene.bsky.social “In an AI-run future, this human-only space imagines what machines can't—a refuge of pure creativity where every silenced voice is heard and real justice and equality finally rise. Here, AI has no power, only humanity shines. For all voices. And truth..!”
Phineas Dowling, PhD, FML, LMNOP @pwdowling.bsky.social Scholar of 18th-century literature and culture.
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction @novelforum.bsky.social A literary studies journal focusing on the theory and history of the novel. Published by Duke University Press. All submissions to novel_forum@brown.edu
Dr Karin Schrader @karina42.bsky.social Independent scholar, #portrait enthusiast, book-jazz-tea-choc addict #EarlyModern #C18th #histgender #materialculture #miniature #haiku #photography
molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social political economy of higher ed | socialist and communist education | Black studies | author of OUTSIDE LITERARY STUDIES, editor of UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS
(he/him)
Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714 @stuartsymposium.bsky.social Bringing together interdisciplinary research on the politics and culture of the Late Stuart Courts on 7 April 2026 at Christ's College, Cambridge
Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com Historian @tulaneu.bsky.social
Lab Dog is out: www.labdogbook.com
Rotten Beauty is next: www.rottenbeauty.work
Website: brad.bolman.com
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/bolman
~Views expressed may not reflect those of my employer~
Carl Thompson @carlethompson.bsky.social Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
Claire Ó Nualláin @claireon.bsky.social PhD student at the Courtauld Institute, researching fine art and Protestant identity in 18th century Ireland
deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social Leverhulme ECR fellow researching c18-19 lit & drama & media history at Uni of Glasgow. ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS coming 2026 from Stanford UP.
https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/romantic-media-and-wartime-networks?tab=1
Virginia Book Arts @virginiabookarts.bsky.social Member-run book arts collective based in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Successor to the membership of the Virginia Humanities Center for the Book Book Arts Program membership, which was defunded in Spring 2025.) Email: info@vabookarts.org
Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
Charlotte Goodge @charlottegoodge.bsky.social “Data Travels” Postdoc @UCC 🧳 2025-26 Visiting ECR Fellow @thejohnrylands 📚 Researching women writers, travel and ecologies of the labouring class c.1750-1850 🍃 Long-standing interest in the intersectionality of fatness “pre BMI” 💊
James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social Husband. Father. Sociologist. Author. Former co-editor of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. Newest book: The Power of Sociology
https://collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/the-power-of-sociology-1-290006
Currently writing a book about White people
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
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! 
Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: https://data.post45.org/
Steven Melendez @smelendez.bsky.social 
Matthew P. Brown @mpbrown.bsky.social english & the center for the book, uiowa / ed, ui press / author, *the pilgrim & the bee* (penn, 2007) and *the novel & the blank* (jhup, 2025) / opinions about drink are, in a certain sense, from my employer
https://english.uiowa.edu/people/matthew-brown
Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature, Utrecht University. History of books, religion, Bibles. 15th/16th century. Feminist. She/her. Dr. https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/RAHoff
Mary Borgo Ton @maryton.bsky.social Digital Humanities Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, magic lantern enthusiast, and maker. Opinions my own.
Chris Phillips @mobyprof.bsky.social Book historian, English dept head, hymn scholar, sea lit fan, typewriter fixer
Amélie Doche @ladoche.bsky.social PhD'ing: Discourses of Value in Contemporary Book Culture at Birmingham City University | Beaujolaise at heart 🍇
Abhijit Gupta @abhijitgupta.bsky.social Book historian; publisher at jadunivpress.org/; harassed dog parent; likes to cycle, play football when possible.
Brandon Moblo @brandonmoblo.bsky.social Archivist and Special Collections Librarian
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Danielle Fuller (she/they) @profdfuller.bsky.social Researches readers and reading cultures online and IRL. Book Studies, book history and YA studies. Serious about popular books and media. Slightly obsessed with YA TV shows. Professor at University of Alberta on Treaty 6/Metis Nation region 4.
James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social Jesuit priest, editor at large of America Media, founder of Outreach, consultor for the Dicastery for Communication, author of "Come Forth."
https://linktr.ee/jamesmartinsj
Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social Climate scientist, formerly NASA, currently Project Drawdown. Former astrophysicist, current Earth supremacist. Author of HUMAN NATURE, best book of 2025 according to both Scientific American and my dad https://shorturl.at/aJRYb
Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social ❤️ editing texts 🎤 💃 Montréalaise in Nijmegen, Nederland
Dissertation doula • accompagnante au dépôt de thèse • hulp bij het afronden van je proefschrift
Book history • histoire du livre • boekgeschiedenis 
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
Dr Grace Touzel @boundtobeused.bsky.social Digital Special Collections / Metadata Librarian @nhm_library_archives. Easily distracted by bookbinding(s), blank books, rare books, and book history in general.
Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com Host, Slate Money. Author of THE PHOENIX ECONOMY.
Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social Spies and the archives.
Professor, Stony Brook University. Four books, including the New York Times bestseller BOOK AND DAGGER (Ecco, 2024).
Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
Yoojung Choi @callmeyj.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Incheon National Univ in S Korea. English PhD @TAMU. Restoration and 18th-C British Lit/Women’s Mobility & Travel/Representations of East Asia
Aidan Walker @aidanwalker.bsky.social internet meme researcher and historian, sometimes reporter
https://linktr.ee/aidanwalker1
Substack: How To Do Things With Memes, @aidanetcetera TikTok, Insta, YouTubey
CodEX Machina Podcast @codexmachina.bsky.social Join Natalia, Bethany, and Laura as they delve into the world of #publishing, #bookhistory, and #books. Available wherever you listen. Latest blog: https://strangelandbooks.com/2025/09/27/banned-and-challenged-books-discussions/
Save Me From My Shelf Podcast @smfmspodcast.bsky.social A literature comedy podcast by two friends and academics. We take classic texts off their pedestal by making fun of them. Hosted by
@DrAbigailBoucher and @dcjenkin-smith
No DMs
savemefrommyshelf.com
savemefrommyshelf@gmail.com
Daniel Jenkin-Smith @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social "Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
In Bed with the Right @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social A podcast about how conservatives see sex and gender, and how they keep fucking things up for the rest of us. Hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan. 
patrizia b. @bibliologia.bsky.social grad student & book historian in training • they/them pls • [eng/ita/hun]
Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social Lecturer in Book History at IES, Uni of London. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills (MUP 2026). Co-editor of upcoming Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social Energy and Planning Manager @cplusc.bsky.social (opinions expressed are my own) • sometimes writing at www.terrain.news • based in Birmingham, AL
Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
PC Fleming @pcfleming.bsky.social Humanities scholar (Victorian and children's lit), parent of 2. Views my own
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Animating-the-Victorians
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/British-Childrens-Literature-of-the-19th-Century
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Ziona Kocher @zionakocher.bsky.social Scholar of the queer/trans 18th c
Akshat Seth @akshatseth.bsky.social Assistant Profesor of English at Kalindi College, University of Delhi. Early Career Researcher. Interested in Booking History (Readership in particular), Translation, Popular Culture and IR.
Love listening to off beat music. 
Steve Sando and the Rancho Gordo staff @ranchogordo.bsky.social Heirloom beans, etc
www.ranchogordo.com
Official member: Leguminati 🫘
Sarah S @sarah0s.bsky.social Digitization librarian at the University of Alberta. I used to be really active on Twitter, but now I just like to lurk. 
Sam Regal @regalweb.bsky.social special collections librarian @ ucsc, book person, editor of printing history, semiretired rocker
KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
Journal of Electronic Publishing @jepub.bsky.social A peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal on contemporary scholarly publishing issues and practices. Co-edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema, supported by @michiganpublishing.bsky.social
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/
Matthijs Holwerda (He/Him) @matthijshh.bsky.social
coll.manag., lit., bks., cult., libr., univ., hrtg., art, manag., coll., spec. coll., mnscrpts., phtgrph., drwngs., digit., #mtamo
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
Bernadette A. Lear @balibra76.bsky.social Librarian in PA, USA. Wide interests, esp. books, coins, American Indian culture/lit, children's/YA lit, history, music, travel, Lego, cats.
Kandice @kandicedarcia.bsky.social 
Susana S-G @thetl2.bsky.social Interested in the history of children's books illustration but you can talk to me about books and libraries in general too!
Carol DeGrasse @caroldegrasse.bsky.social @SMU PhD candidate. @CollegeKilgore Assistant prof. C19 visual media/history. Posts do not reflect my employer.
lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
Anna Lanfranchi @anna-lanfranchi.bsky.social Teaching fellow U of Warwick. Book history, Italy, translation, copyright, cultural diplomacy, archives [she/her]
Cecile de Morree @morree.bsky.social Medievalist, Feminist, Book Historian, Singer | Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature @RU (https://www.ru.nl/en/people/morree-c-de) | currently working on popular song and sexual consent (c.1500-1550)
Dr Stevie Marsden @steviemarsden.bsky.social Lecturer and Programme Leader of MSc Publishing at Edinburgh Napier University. They/she. Book Sceptic.
New book 'Publishing as a Creative Industry' (April 2025) https://www.routledge.com/Publishing-as-a-Creative-Industry/Marsden/p/book/9781032035505
Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social I like history. Horses are also cool.
Sydney J Shep @nzsydney.bsky.social Reader in Book History and The Printer, Wai-te-ata Press, Te Whare Tā O Wai-te-ata, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Andie Silva @andiesilva.bsky.social Early modern print culture, book history, digital humanities, (digital) feminist pedagogy. Associate Professor at York College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. General Co-Editor of WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly) and Editor-in-Chief of SHARP News.
clara @claratomica.bsky.social master's student in children's literature & media (24-26) | picturebook researcher | book history enthusiast | obsessed with animated movies and dragons | in my erasmus era
Sarah A. Evans, PhD & MLIS @sarahamber.bsky.social Researching the uses of narrative and the development of multiple literacies cultivated through self-directed learning experiences. Current associate professor and proud former public and school librarian. Expertise in comics and international libraries.
Veronica St. Pierre @millicentweber.bsky.social Senior lecturer and DECRA fellow in literature at the Australian National University. Audiobooks, writers festivals, digital technology. Books! Books? Books. https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/weber-m
UCL Publishing @uclpublishing.bsky.social UCL MA in Publishing and UCL Centre for Publishing | Department of Information Studies, Faculty of Arts & Humanities | Publishing and book cultures research and education | Bloomsbury
Anna Opryszko @anna-opryszko.bsky.social PhD student in English @ Simon Fraser // Letterpress amateur // Previous rare books librarian at UMN // MLIS, St Kate's // MA American Studies, Columbia
DC -> NYC -> MPLS -> BC
Here for book history, print culture, queer bibliography 📚
Tamara Bhalla @tamara2727.bsky.social Studying contemporary book clubs and book bans | South Asian American studies | Assoc. Prof and Chair of American Studies @ UMBC
Samantha Rayner @profbookshops.bsky.social Vice Dean Wellbeing, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL; Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures; co-chair of the Bookselling Research Network and the Penguin Books Researchers Network; General Editor, CUP Elements series in Publishing and Book Cultures
Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social Historian of art & women, Faculty of Theology @UiO.no.
Author of Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (Routledge 2026).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
www.SJMoranEditing.com
Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social Material bodies, social identities & embodiment. University of Birmingham. https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social, @earlymodernemma.bsky.social, @leverhulme.bsky.social
#bodyhistory #18thcen #18thcletters
Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social PhD student Uni of Liverpool | Early Modern Family | Witchcraft and Superstition | VL at York St John | She/They 🏳️🌈
Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
Lise Jaillant @lisejaillant.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage. French-born, London-based cosmopolite. Literary #Archives & #DigitalHumanities #DH #AI
www.lisejaillant.com
Dr Shafquat Towheed @shaftowheed.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Research, School of Arts & Humanities at The Open University. Director of OpenARC, current Vice President of SHARP. I'm interested in the history and future of books and reading.