REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures) @rebpaf.bsky.social 📖 #REBPAF | MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union | 13 PhD Researchers in Book History | Universities of Galway • Antwerp • Alicante • Zurich • Vienna • Bristol
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Hilary Tamar @hilarytamar.bsky.social dyke. Jew. lapsed academic philosopher. far, far too fond of epistolary novels.
Merrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social Democracy's Library @ the Internet Archive | Library and archives leader | People at the center of all I do; DEI advocate and practitioner
Steve Thomas @circulatingideas.bsky.social Public library manager. Podcaster. Driven by an unknown force to change history for the better.
www.circulatingideas.com
Marie Parks (she/her) @marieparks.bsky.social 💜 Award-winning ace fantasy author marieparks.com
🔎 Unrelenting, Undeniable (supernatural thrillers) @jeshonard.bsky.social @notapipe.bsky.social
🗡️ Flightless (social justice heist) @apbooks.bsky.social
🖋️ Sandia Starforgers Writing Retreats starforgers.com
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social Novelist, screenwriter, showrunner, playwright
Sunday Times Bestseller, Death at the White Hart, OUT NOW
The Parkwood Murders: pre-order now for 16 July
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials now on Netflix
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography @sofcb.bsky.social This is the official account of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School. You can find us on the web at https://rarebookschool.org/sofcb/ and https://sofcbannualmeeting.com/.
Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
Melissa Kaercher @chebutykin.bsky.social Queen of the Lizard People, a benevolent despot.
I also like dogs.
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 🦬 ♾️
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social Publisher of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social Premier research library @ria.ie. Manuscript, book, pamphlet & drawings collections, outreach programmes, master classes & visits, exhibitions & lectures.
Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
www.teresemasonpierre.com
The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America @abaararebooks.bsky.social Your trusted source for rare books and related ephemera since 1949. www.abaa.org
Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social Just a cat who likes Christmas movies
🔗sleepykittypaws.tumblr.com
A.S.K., a librarian @thestackscat.blacksky.app Another Twitter escapee. @thestackscat most places.
You don't get to take your trauma out on other people.
Pat Cadigan @patcadigan.bsky.social SF/fantasy/horror/whatever writer living in London, defying the odds & kicking the sh!t out of terminal cancer. ‘Heaven doesn’t want me & Hell’s afraid I’ll take over.’ 
Johanna Fateman @johannafateman.bsky.social chief art critic at CULTURED Magazine, musician at LE TIGRE
https://buttondown.com/johannafateman
Thadeous Cooper @thadeous.bsky.social Getting older, bolder and sexier with time. One outta three ain't bad. Ex Head of ASTRO Gaming, current program lead for Design By Collaboration @ LogitechG, probably tired.
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.
Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social Playwright, mostly.
Current projects: Simon & Schuster (nonfiction), Hallmark (movie).
My first movie as a screenwriter aired on 2/3/2024!
https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/paging-mr-darcy
Are my reps on Bluesky yet?
More at www.reinahardy.com
Betsy Aoki (she/her) @betsyaoki.bsky.social Game producer, writer, poet. Clarion West grad and currently poetry editor at Uncanny Magazine. See Betsyaoki.com for more.
JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social Husband, Father, Entrepreneur at 1871 tech, Founder @thinkbigusa.bsky.social, Governor.
Fighting for a stronger, fairer, and safer Illinois.
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Books, owls, sheep, cats, music, architecture, more sheep. “Hilarious”- Stephen Fry. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. "Made me laugh out loud." - David Sedaris. "Not humerus at all." - Amazon reviewer. Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.tom-cox.com
Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social Official account of the world’s largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://loc.gov/connect
John M. Jackson @johnxlibris.bsky.social Gardener. Father. Academic librarian. (bibliothecarius communicendi). I drink and I know things. https://johnxlibris.com #librarians #libraries #skybrarians
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
Champaign-Urbana News @handle.invalid 
Quite Interesting @qi.com A Quite Interesting account from the team behind the BBC show QI.
Jane Lindskold @janelindskold.bsky.social I write. I read. I am a tabletop RPG player. I also have my life managed by cats, guinea pigs, and my garden.
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) @ala-acrl.bsky.social Updates from the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Visit us at ala.org/acrl and acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/.
Sinclair Sexsmith @sugarbutch.net kinky queer butch writer | http://writingspicy.com | http://dsplayground.com | http://sugarbutch.net/find-sinclair
Braille Institute @brailleinstitute.bsky.social Empowering visually impaired people to live fulfilling lives since 1919.
Learn more about us and find FREE resources at https://www.brailleinstitute.org/. 
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social Answers about history, from historians | Biweekly podcast | "Good history eggs on the internet"| Ask questions at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social Researching #bonktastic #bonkbusters
Senior Lecturer Falmouth Uni
@EdinburghUP.bsky.social Series ed: #Gender and the #Body, and #19thC and #NeoVictorian Cultures
Co-Ed #13CornishGhostStories
#TalesoftheWeird #DoomedRomances
#histsex
Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social Writer. Literary & cultural historian.
Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni.
Expertise: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters, queer genders + sexualities, health humanities.
Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies
https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Javaria Farooqui @javariafarooqui.bsky.social Research areas: popular romance, book history, postcolonialism, media/cinema, gender, and fandom. Shameless posting of published research across all socials.
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni & Dir. of MA in Eng Lit. I research alcohol in 19th Century. Co-Dir. Drinking Studies Network (https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/).
https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.social Author: REBEL OF THE REGENCY; Podcast: VULGAR HISTORY
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social Independent scholar of popular romance fiction https://www.vivanco.me.uk/ On the Editorial Board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies https://www.jprstudies.org/
My database of scholarship about romances: https://rsdb.vivanco.me.uk
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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 Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions.
Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial.
They/them
Tanya Serisier 🇵🇸 @tanyaserisier.bsky.social Feminist academic working on sexual politics. Current project on public survivors. Member and activist Birkbeck UCU. Also cross stitches.
Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social historian | Humboldtian | FRSC | FRHistS | PI of Populist Publics on social media and online hate | latest book, The Queer Art of History (Duke, 2023) | currently writing, Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution and Drag After Hitler.
Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social Archivist with a love for #histmed, surgical, sexual health, and #histsex collections; if it's in a jar I'll probably love it. She/her. Yellowbelly living in London. Aprendiendo Español.
Whores of Yore @whoresofyore.bsky.social Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social Poetry maven turned popular romance scholar. Founding Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Off-hours singer and lyricist for the JRC Alte Rockers. 
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Views my own, not employer’s.
Charlotte Boyce @c19thceleb.bsky.social Associate Professor in Victorian Literature. Research interests: hunger & masculinity | food & consumption | history of celebrity. Co-I on ‘Young Women & Body Image’. Dog person. 🏴 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/charlotte-boyce
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
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
Pete Orford @peteorford.bsky.social English Lecturer and Course Director of the MA in Charles Dickens Studies. 'The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens' available to buy at https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-life-of-the-author-charles-dickens/pete-orford/9781119697459
Kirsten Saxton @kirstensaxton.bsky.social 18/19th lit, pop culture & out of order history, queer studies, crime fiction, hometown Oakland she/her/they
Vanessa Braganza @vanessabraganza.bsky.social 'The real Robert Langdon' | writer ✒️ | historical detective🔍 | future civil rights lawyer ⚖️ | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne January 2027 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Jill Ashley-Jones @jilly52.bsky.social Married Boomer, Cat & nature lover ( bit witchy) Chelsea FC fan,Retired NHS , Pro EU, anti Rightwing politicos,
Sarah Scheidmantel @panisarunia.bsky.social she/her | postdoc @unibe.ch | cultural scientist, historian of medicine | history of gender, tech, consumerism, food. 20th century. women and vibrators. feminist.
UZH-Alumna
TU Berlin-Alumna
Bauhaus-Uni-Alumna
Sara | Bodice Tipplers Podcast @bodicetipplers.bsky.social A podcast where we read all the books we used to steal off our grandmothers’ nightstands! Wherever you get your podcasts or bodicetipplers.com. She/her. 
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social Working on a book about how magazines organize info. C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, WPA, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. First book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
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.
Lorna P. Farnell @lpfarnell.bsky.social 
Anna Dżabagina @annadzabagina.bsky.social PhD, assistant prof. at the University of Warsaw, Visiting Fulbright Fellow at Columbia University || women's writing/ lesbian & queer studies/Slavic lit - currently writing a book on Sapphic Modernism in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian literature 🌈
Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social Professor, Historian, Author of A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement; Her Own Hero: Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement; Children of Chinatown, 1850-1920, History Teacher Prep, (she/her) #WomensHistory #LGBTQHistory 🏳️🌈 🗃️
WendyLRouse.com
Adriana Amaral @adriamaral.bsky.social Professor & Researcher on pop culture, digital media, and fan studies at UFF. Editor at Routledge and at Creative & Influencer Studies. Childless Cat Lady. Spooky Nerd. Goth.
https://adriamaral.substack.com/
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9159-2352
João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social Prof. of Gender Studies (Sex Media & Sex Cultures) at @liu.se 🇸🇪. Hon. prof. at @exeter.ac.uk 🇬🇧.
Comrade.
Coordinator: NordSex—Nordic Research Network on Sexuality, Media, and Culture
👬: @benwritesthings.bsky.social
More: linktr.ee/Jpmflorencio
Katie Hemphill @kmhemphill.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality. 🌈 Opinions my own and not representative of my employer.
Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social Associate Prof of European History, the Inquisition, Antisemitism and Gender/Sexuality at the University of New England in Australia. Hispanophile and Lusophile. 
Holly Grout @playingcleo.bsky.social Historian of modern 🇫🇷. Gender, celebrity, beauty. Professor. Friend to all creatures furry and feathered. All views expressed are my own.
Caroline Rusterholz @carorusterholz.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Graduate Institute, Geneva
Prof Social History, Fribourg University
History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics
She/her. Breast cancer survivor
Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social romanticist&historian | PhD candidate at KU Leuven & Ghent University (Belgium) | Scottish&Irish women's writing & the writing of history
Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
Pamela K Gilbert @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.
Hannah Ayres @hannahva390.bsky.social PhD @ University of Warwick I IAS Early Career Fellow I queer & trans* re/presentation in museums 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏛📸 “Mistress of queer history” I She/her I Co-host @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social
Katherine Angel @katherineangel.bsky.social Writer and psychoanalyst. POOR FREUD is my next book (Verso/Norton). TOMORROW SEX WILL BE GOOD AGAIN / DADDY ISSUES / UNMASTERED are my previous books.
Anne O'Reilly @anneoreilly.bsky.social Librarian, Professor, Romance Reader, and Romance Researcher. She/Her. 
Jessica Tripler Miller @jessicatripler.bsky.social Avid reader of romance, classics, lit fic, memoir. Philosophy prof who works on phil and lit, pop culture, med humanities. Editor of Bridgerton and Philosophy out now. Mainer.
@DramaMen @dramamen.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain from 18th-21stc; Expert on masculinity; sexual violence; British Period Drama; TV/Media Studies; Public Historian; Royal Family expert; environmental activist; visit me at julieannetaddeo.com for more. Views all my own.
Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social Prof at Birkbeck & canicrosser. LGBTQI+ pasts; modern history of gender & sexuality; literary & cultural history; visual cultures; animals; pet history. Owned by 3 dogs & a cat. She/they.
London & the Surrey Hills via Wales. 💙 in Scotland
Sara-Jane Vigneault @sjvigneault.bsky.social PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950)
Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH)
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
Gender & Sexualities | Queer Anthropology @anthrodesires.bsky.social Working Group within the German Anthropological Association
Blog AnthroDesires: https://anthrodes.hypotheses.org/
UCD Gender Studies @ucdgender.bsky.social Gender Studies at UCD | Interdisciplinary MA in Gender Studies | programmes, news, events | RT is not an endorsement. https://www.ucd.ie/genderstudies/
Jessica Van Meir 🩵 @jessicavanmeir.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School. Socialist feminist. Studying sex work, informal labor, Latin America. ☂️ Cofounder of @mintstars.bsky.social & @bostonswac.bsky.social
This is my unprofessional account, profs please ignore lowercase shitposts
FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social Sociology lecturer at the best Uni in Bristol. Books: "Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars", "Radical Feminism: Activism in Movement". Queer for cats and feminism. Recent article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2025.2502679
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
Maayan Aner @maayana.bsky.social DPhil student at the University of Oxford | Early modern queer history | Bi | NB | she/they | Nationalism is poison | organiser of queer history events at hflgbtq.bsky.social
Georgie Williams 🇿🇦🏴🏳️🌈(they/them) @slashqueer.bsky.social Founder of /Queer, archiving gender & sexuality oral histories from cultures around the 🌏 - Gender & Sexuality specialist - deferred Social Justice PhD student @ucddublin- Dirty tallship sailor ⚓️
🔗 https://linktr.ee/slashqueer
sapphicapuella @sapphicapuella.bsky.social Queer Classicist| Prof of Latin, accidental poet| Ovid, Housman & Catullus fan, not necessarily in that order| also, bunny rabbits. 🏳️🌈
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social Teaches at Duke University, sometimes works for Norway's National Library, writes for various magazines.