Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. ๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฅ. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Shakespeare Bulletin @shaxbull.bsky.social Peer-reviewed quarterly journal, publishing articles at the cutting edge of early modern performance studies. Posts by Dr. Peter Kirwan and Siena Maxwell.
Multicultural Shakespeare @msunilodz.bsky.social Official BSky account of Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance journal published by the University of Lodz Press.
https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/szekspir
#MulticulturalShakespeare
Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is a professional organization for the advanced study of Shakespeare's works, times, and afterlife.
Visit linktr.ee/saaupdates for more information on events and member updates.
British Graduate Shakespeare Conference @britgrad.bsky.social The Twenty-Seventh Annual British Graduate Shakespeare Conference. June 19th - 21st 2025.
#britgrad2025
https://linktr.ee/britgrad
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500โ1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social SEL Studies in English Literature 1500โ1900 is a quarterly journal published for Rice University by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Submissions: https://sel.rice.edu/submission-guidelines-faq
Marginalia: https://marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/
Hamlet Machine @hamletmachine.bsky.social linktr.ee/hamletmachine
queer โฅ 18+/adults only nsfw comic artist & illustrator
๐ Sensitive themes, all CWs apply ๐
nightmarelandpress@gmail.com
Venmo: @HamletMachine
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. ๐ฅ ๐ฅ ๐ฃ ๐ฆโ๐ฅ https://rensoc.org.uk/
Journal of Early Modern History @earlymodhistory.bsky.social This is the official account of the Journal of Early Modern History, published by Brill and based at the University of Minnesota.
Kit Marlowe @kitmarlowe1564.co.uk Canterburie, Cambridge & Banckes Syde. Occasionall spye. Elizabethan plaiemaker & poet of scurrilitie. Muses' darlinge. Wit lent from heauen, but vices sent from hell.
Loue@FirstWebsite: https://kitmarlowe1564.co.uk/
Jim Taylor @jltaylor.bsky.social Independent Scholar. Touring Shakespeare, Post-Colonial Shakespeare, Cold War Shakespeare. He/Him.
@OU_FASS
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Delilah Bermudez Brataas @delabe.bsky.social Professor of English Literature, specialising in Shakespeare, Cavendish, and early modern literature in adaptation in film, science fiction, fantasy, and graphic novels.
Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik @annakowalcze.bsky.social Assistant Professor, @UniLodz; #MulticulturalShakespeare Deputy Editor. Early modern drama, theatre, history of emotions, translation. All views my own. #wiasn
Dr Ollie Jones @oelj.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Theatre at School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York. Working out what I want to be when I grow up.
Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
Becky Hixon @hixonbecky.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at Lourdes University (views my own)
Shakespeare, adaptation, and gender and sexuality studies ๐ฅธ๐ค๐
Ruben Espinosa @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social Chicano | Professor of English
at ASU | Director, ACMRS | All views my own.
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Liesl Jensen (she/her) @liesljensen.bsky.social PhD Candidate at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Researching asexuality and how to read and perform absences. Crazy cat lady. Cheese lover. Always has a cup of tea. Founder of the Guild of Queer Early Modernists GQEM.org ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐๐ค๐ค
Dr Jenny Stevens @drjennyst-hann.bsky.social Co-author of three Arden Shakespeare texts; Methuen Series Editor; Co-editor of Routledge volume on Shakespeare & Education. Literature Tutor @citylit.
barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social Shakespearean (derogatory) ๐
Lecturing in Auckland, hanging out everywhere else
Late romances defender. Currently into ecocrit things, charismatic megafauna, and hellmouths.
ืืึธืึดืงืืื
Dr Eleanor Lowe @loweee.bsky.social Associate professor; early modern drama, material culture; music, theatre, cats, the outdoors; twin mum. Views my own. She/her. #BLM #lgbtq+ ๐ #MHmatters
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the worldโs a stage
John Garganourakis @johngarganourakis.bsky.social Faculty, English (Mercy University, Queens College, St. Johnโs) / PhD Student (St. Johnโs University). Shakespeare. Ecocriticism. Film Theory.
Alan Stewart @alanstewart50.bsky.social Early modern literature professor, sometime editor, sometime biographer
Christina Torres Cawdery @biblio-phile.bsky.social Mom. English Teacher. Scholar. Writer for hire. Runner. Pursuing a PhD in English for reasons beyond my understanding. Currently studying Shakespeare, queer/ecocrit theory, & critical pedagogy. Probably talking about my kids.
Cristina Leรณn Alfar, PhD ๐๐ญ๐๐ป๐๐ป๐โโฌ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/
๐ป amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady ๐โโฌ~ "I can see a church by daylight."
Yan Brailowsky @yanbrailowsky.bsky.social Shakespeare, theatre, politicsโฆ early modern. Prof @ Nanterre - tweets my own
Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeareโs Merry Wives | MCFCโฝ๏ธ| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
https://www.callandavies.com
Ian Gould @iangouldhere.bsky.social Actor, director, teacher, New Yorker, dog person, Shakespeare obsessive
Adam Zucker Again @adamzucker.bsky.social As Stated - The Professor one at UMass Amherst. Shakespeare, Jonson, et al. Journal co-editor, English Literary Renaissance. Author: "Shakespeare Unlearned" (OUP 2024). Music: Outro; The Young Old; The Father Figures; Bring It To Bear.
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Bradley Ryner @bradleyryner.bsky.social Scholar of Shakespeare, early modern drama, rhetoric of economics, performance and, most broadly, how theater and literature help us to conceptualize social and economic systems.
This is a personal account, reflecting my own opinions.
Dr. Carla Della Gatta @carladellagatta.bsky.social Dramaturg | Arts Advocate | Writer | Theatre Historian ๐๐ป
Associate Professor | Author: Latinx Shakespeares
Co-Editor: Shakespeare & Latinidad
https://www.latinxshakespeares.org/
https://www.carladellagatta.com/
evey reidy ๐ @eveyreidy.bsky.social PhD & playwright formerly of Roehampton/Shakespeare's Globe | early mod. women performers, festive performance cultures, protest-performance
Berkeley for now, Chicago forever | always knows where to get ice cream | usually found in a graveyard (she/her) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social Asst Prof at Trinity College Dublin | Shakespeare and Performance Studies | Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association | Dramaturg | Views own.
ValerieMFazel @veefaz.bsky.social ASU Sr. Instructor Dept. of ENG/Faculty Barrett Honors. Digital Shax Appropriation & Shax fandom. Dog lovr, plant eatr, desert landscapr sci-fi film fan and fantasy novel reader. she/her/views mine. All the Internet is a stage and we are but players in it.
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
Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social Chronicler of bookwomen (misc.) Currently 17thC women printers. Previously SHAKESPEARE'S 'LADY EDITORS' (CUP). Freelance indexer/editor/researcher. A remarkably Independent Scholar.
Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at @bristoluni.bsky.social. Working on Shakespeare biography and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
Yuqi โAnnaโ Jiang @annajiang.bsky.social AHRC-Funded PhD Student at the Shakespeare Institute - Supernatural Children and Youths in Early Modern Drama
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social Editor, Early Modernist - formerly MA and half a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, now with Reading Early Plays
Dr Anna Hegland @alhegland.bsky.social PhD on violence, language, embodiment, and EM drama. Writing and Tutoring Center director, adjunct, and social media manager. Snugโs mom. Being unserious about books, Middleton, and the Cubs. Co-founder of MEMSlib. she/her. Opinions my own.
Beth Sharrock @allmirthnomatter.bsky.social Shakespeare Paratexts in contemporary digital performance and 18th cen. print
Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Warwick
she/her
Dr. Anita Raychawdhuri @anitaraychawdhuri.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UH-Downtown. Early modernist.
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Ari Friedlander @arifriedlander.bsky.social Assoc Prof, UMiss. Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics (OUP '22). New work on Milton, gender, disability, race. he/him. ari-friedlander.com
Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social your trans professor
Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University who works on book history, premodern critical race studies and early modern English drama. I spend a lot of time with Barnabe, an adorable dog. These posts are my opinion.
Robin Bates @britlitgirl.bsky.social Shax prof., Southern girl, jar goblin. Prefer to spend my time with dogs, good books, blue ridge mtns, & kind people. She/Her
Curtis Perry @curtisperry.bsky.social Professor of English lit; anti-Zionist Jew; amateur of song; watcher of myriad kdramas; introvert; featherless biped; he/him.
David L. Orvis @davidorvis.bsky.social Professor and Assistant Chair of English, Appalachian State University | Early Modern Studies & Queer Studies | *Shakespeare against Love* (under contract with Routledge)
(Dr.) Diana Henderson @dianahenderson.bsky.social Still the theater & words Prof. at MIT who now will be trying to reconnect w/ friends who left the other placesโฆ.
Don Rodrigues @donrodrigues.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University
Ambereen Dadabhoy @drdadabhoy.bsky.social Anglophile, Ottomaniac, Fangirl, Early mod prof. One of these is not like the others.
Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social Matmos guy with my husband @lordchiefjustice / English professor at Hopkins / also known as The Soft Pink Truth.
Dr Lynsey McCulloch @drmisslynsey.bsky.social writer | researcher | early modernist.
Pete Kirwan @drpetekirwan.bsky.social Performance, theatre reviewing, early modern drama, film watching, editing, cat wrangling, immigrating. General Editor at Shakespeare Bulletin; professing at Mary Baldwin Uni. He/him
Kristen A Bennett @earlymodconv.bsky.social Ridiculously attracted to red herrings. I teach and write about literary things pre-1650, DH & Pedagogy. Lead instigator at The Kit Marlowe Project.
Mel @earlymodernmel.bsky.social ECR researching early modern drama, disability, and 'dangerous' women. She/Her.
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails ๐
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
Margo Hendricks @elysabethgrace.bsky.social Black Shakespearean/EM scholar; As Elysabeth Grace --writer of Black historical, Black, paranormal & contemporary romance & historical cozy mysteries.
www.patreon.com/cw/TheMargoHendricks
Experiencewww.elysabethgrace.com
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Early modernist and Lecturer at Shakespeareโs Globe. โYes I am the metals personโ โ๏ธ Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making โ๏ธ
Christine Varnado @eyweltschmerz.bsky.social Spread the Weltschmerz! Buffalo / The Shapes of Fancy (https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-shapes-of-fancy)
Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social Assoc Prof @ Ohio State | writing about Shakespeare, masques, women writers, disability | Book reviews editor @ Shakespeare Bulletin | spreading the good word about Hester Pulter
elizabethkolkovich.com
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social Shakespeare / Early Modern / Digital Theatre / Musicals / Innovation / Marketing
Gabriel Lonsberry @glonsber.bsky.social Shakespeare professor and theater historian into court masques. Experimental music obsessive. Atlanta.
Sawyrrrr @hamlethologram.bsky.social Transgender Shakespearean; Baseball Enjoyer; West Virginia's Greatest Disappointment.
It can't all be dirtbikes and Mountain Dew.
Heather Knight @heather1576.bsky.social Archaeologist with a penchant for 16th and 17th century playhouses of all shapes and sizes, FSA and Faversham Society Trustee ๐ญ๐บ
Dr Hannah Wilson @hlwilson.bsky.social researching early modern boy actors, enskillment, theatre history. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ she/her.
Holly Pickett @hollypickett.bsky.social โค๏ธ: Shakespeare, early modern drama, religion, letterpress, linocut
Department Head & Prof of English at W&L- H Huw Griffiths @huwgriffiths.bsky.social Literature; piano; ๐ณ๏ธโ๐; Blue Mountains; Associate Professor of English Literature at University of Sydney
Dr Jamie Paris @jamieparis.bsky.social Instructor II at the University of Manitoba. I work on premodern race studies and early modern drama, critical pedagogy studies, and Black and Indigenous literature written in Canada
John R. Yamamoto-Wilson @john-y-wilson.bsky.social Early modernist (https://discoursesofsuffering.org/), educationist (https://educationalhub.org/) and vlogger (https://youtube.com/anosensei).
Author of https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=rWPBkTrcSQEC.
John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social Professor of English SIUE
Research interests in Early Modern Drama, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, and history of print. Also, just because, film, especially the films of the Coen Brothers, and the novels of Thomas Pynchon.
Kathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva. Author of Shakespeare in Tongues. National Humanities Center Fellow 26โ27.
kathrynvomerosantos.com
borderlandsshakespeare.org
Kern McFadden @kernmcfadden.bsky.social I didnโt have any of this on my bingo card- I didnโt even know we were playing bingo.
Leo. Human. Actor. Director. Teacher. DJ. Hater of Labels. Lover of Contradictions.
Shakespeare Nerd. Star Wars kid. Pansexual.
Hellโs Kitchen, NYC
Kernmcfadden.com
Chris Klippenstein @klippership.bsky.social Fellow at UToronto. Recent Sarah Lawrence College guest faculty; PhD from Columbia. Works on performance, neighbourship, spectatorship in early modern English drama. Paleographer & archer.
Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social Medievalist. Early Modernist. Fan Scholar. Shakespearean. Interests: queenship, popular history, medievalism, fandoms, then&now
Laura Jayne Wright @laurajaynewright.bsky.social Writing about early modern sound, womenโs voices, screams, prophecies, and hallucinations at Newcastle University.
she/her.
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Holger Syme @literasyme.bsky.social Historian of European theatre, working on early modern England and 20th & 21st-century Germany. Lover of archives. Professor at U of Toronto. Occasional theatre maker. Haphazard gardener. Full time dog person.
More: https://syme.dispositio.net
Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social Mezzo-about-town. Singer, actor, Shakespearean text coach, will translate your opera libretti and song texts. She/they.
Prof Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social Professor of English and Cultural Studies @ University of Southern Queensland. Shakespeare scholar. Finder of lost playhouses. FSA FRHistS. He/him.
Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net ๐ฎ๐ช๐บ๐ธ
Louise Geddes @louisegeddes.bsky.social Shakespearean, theatre geek, fan of embarrassing things.
Lyn Tribble @lyntribble.bsky.social Prof @ Uconn, Shakespeare, distributed cognition, basketballg
Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social pizza advocate; english professor
Dr Stephen O'Neill @mediashakes.bsky.social Stephen O'Neill, university teacher & Shakespearean | โStones have been known to move, and trees to speakโ | ๐ฎ๐ช๐ช๐บ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
More info here: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/stephen-oneill
Michael Witmore @michaelwitmore.bsky.social Digital preservationist, Shakespeare scholar, humanities advocate, consultant for cultural institutions, Director Emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Mira โAssaf @miramiraculous.bsky.social Book: Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens,& Constructions of Race in Early Modern England, under contract @ACMRSPress | 23-24 Long-term Fellow, @FolgerLibrary | Arab | dilettante
Not Another Shakespeare Podcast! @nashaxpodcast.bsky.social The podcast that takes neither itself nor Shakespeare seriously. Hosted by Nora (theatre nerd & Shax expert) and James (husband & theatre skeptic).
Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures
Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social Dragonboater, paddleboarder, Dartmoor walker, Aare-swimmer. Also editing Titus Andronicus and interested in all things Shakespeare, performance, theatre broadcasting, post-COVID-19 creative industries. Never able to see enough shows or read enough books.
Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social Early modern nerd, women writers, book history, editing , also trivial personal posts on gardens, food etc
Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social Stage director, prison theatremaker, college professor, Shakespeare nerd, trauma-informed / consent-based maker of good trouble, radical left-wing
scum, apparently. Redhead. #SlawaUkrainii #GoBills ๐บ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฑ ๐ซ๐
ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college thatโs a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
Dr. Nedda Mehdizadeh, Ph.D. @profnmehdiz.bsky.social UCLA Faculty; Global Renaissance & #ShakeRace. she/her/hers.
I own my own Academic and Career Success coaching company: www.daenacoaching.com
INTJ.
Views are my own.