UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
UCL Centre for French and Francophone Research @ucl-cffr.bsky.social A showcase for the diversity of French and Francophone studies in a global context across many disciplines at UCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/centre-french-and-francophone-research
Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social A/Prof French & Francophone Studies, Monash University.
Author: Michel Serres: Figures of Thought(2020); Biblical Critical Theory (2022); The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity (2025).
Linktr.ee/christopherwatkin
Kate Foster @kate-foster.bsky.social Lecturer in French at University of Reading, Conference Officer @frenchstudies. Androids, cyborgs, automation, mannequins. She/her
@kate_l_foster
ORCID 0000-0001-9347-1036
Richard Bruce Parkinson @richardbparkinson.bsky.social Mis-placed northerner, reader of Ancient Egyptian poetry @queenscollegeox.bsky.social (Opinions my own)
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social Historian of modern Italy, Associate Professor at UCL, researching history of Italian emigration, the First World War, and difficult heritage of Italian Fascism.
https://selenadaly.com
Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature, Lancaster University. Creative-critical practice | Translation | Eco-translation | Comparative Literature | Languages | AI | Biosemiotics
Nathalie Rachlin @nrachlin.bsky.social Professor of French at Scripps College in Southern California. Works on French documentary cinema and films by women.
Nora Baker @norabake.bsky.social Postdoc at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Lucy Whelan @lucywhelan.bsky.social Art historian of modern France | gender, subjectivity, environments | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc at Sciences Po, Paris
📘 Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision, https://shorturl.at/mvQB0
📍Durham, UK
María del Pilar Blanco @mpblanco.bsky.social Prof in Spanish American & Comparative Literature, Oxford; fin de siècle, Caribbean, ghosts, otters.
Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies @UCL | Environmental Humanities | Utopia | Apocalypse | Anthropocene Studies | World Literature
Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social Researcher | France, popular culture, music, dance, theatre, book enthusiast | Scribbler of children's stories | Embroiderer
Caroline D. Laurent @carolinedlaurent.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the American University of Paris; 20th & 21st-C 🇨🇵/Francophone Literatures & Cultures; Comparative Genocide Studies; Graphic Narratives/Novels; PhD @Harvard
Joanne Brueton @joannebrueton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in French Studies, ULIP; 'Geometry and Jean Genet: Shaping the Subject' (2022); Co-author 'Le compas et la lyre: regards croisés sur les mathématiques et la poésie' (2019); Co-editor French and Francophone Section, Modern Languages Open
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies @sfps.bsky.social The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies promotes research on the Francophone world. Links & RTs ≠ endorsements.
Website: https://sfps.org.uk/
Upcoming Conference "Fanon at 100: Revolutionary Afterlives": https://sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-events/
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social Stanford University Press has been publishing books across the humanities, social sciences, law, business, and other areas since 1892.
Robin Mitchell @parisnoire.bsky.social Very tired Historian. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact my PA @keanuheydari.bsky.social for talks.
Robinmitchellhistorian.com
Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press is an independent nonprofit publisher. Our books spark engaging discussions and present bold ideas from leading experts worldwide.
Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social radical democracy, political technologies, psychedelics, French philosophy, queer studies - Professor of French at UCC but this is a personal account
Colin Foss @cofo.bsky.social Cultural history of the French 19th century @ Austin College. Book review editor @ NCFS. “Culture of War” now out in paperback https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-culture-of-war-9781837644131
Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, University of Leeds. Islamophobia & cultural production in France. Retired ex-Thai boxer. Co-convener @psafrenchpol.bsky.social He/him.
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social All things related to the study of French & Francophone History & Culture. The official BlueSky feed of the H-France website (www.h-france.net).
UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social The University Council For Languages: the national voice of research & teaching in languages, cultures, societies, and related disciplines in UK HE.
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social In a library. Most likely just off Queen's Lane. #PrintHistory #Time #Newspapers
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-inky-business-a-history-of-newspapers-from-the-english-civil-wars-to-the-american-civil-war-matthew-j-shaw/5911999?ean=9781789143867
Annabel L. Kim @annabel-l-kim.bsky.social French prof at Harvard // UNBECOMING LANGUAGE (OSUP 2018) // CACAPHONIES (Minn 2022) // dua lipa stan & miley cyrus enthusiast // VERY into cats // vegan climate griever
French Studies @frenchstudies.bsky.social Society for scholars and students of French in higher education
https://www.sfs.ac.uk
Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social Associate Prof in French at St Catz, Oxford. Works on imagination, posterity, death, self-fashioning, theatre in C18. Mother of 4yo & 7yo. Views my own.
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies @ilcs.bsky.social The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/
Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: https://go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
Amaleena Damlé @amaleenadamle.bsky.social Associate Prof in French, Durham University. Poet, in Acropolis, Atrium, After, Dust, Dreich, IceFloePress, Indigo Dreams, Ink, Sweat & Tears, others. Editor at Paragraph, EUP.
Luke O’Sullivan @lukeosullivan.bsky.social Writing about freedom, uncertainty, and precarity in early modern France.
https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/content/dr-luke-osullivan
Gemma Tidman @gemmatidman.bsky.social BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Leverhulme ECF | QMUL CompLit | Early modern 🇫🇷 cultural historian: ideas of literature, quarrels, literary play, word games https://gemmatidman.com/
Zak Eastop @zeastop.bsky.social AHRC funded PhD-er/Pantagruelist at durham_uni, reading Rabelais through his 19thC musical afterlives. 2022-24 DU Foundation Fellow. Sometimes trumpets. He/him.
Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social Lecturer in French Studies in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. Queer Medical Humanities and Philosophies of the Hospital! 🏥🏳️🌈 Founder of the Queer Medical Humanities Network + programme lead for MA Global Medical and Health Humanities
Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk World leader in Enlightenment studies, based at the University of Oxford.
Our publications: Voltaire's Complete Works (OCV), Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (OSE) and much beyond.
https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/
Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social teaching Film at KCL | editor at world picture | author of The Seduction of Space (U Minnesota Press 2025) and Hotels (Fordham UP 2025). Account not in regular use.
Volker Schröder @marphurius.bsky.social Associate prof of French (emeritus) at Princeton. Working mostly on 17th-cy literature and culture, with a focus on bibliography, including manuscripts and prints. Research blog: anecdota.princeton.edu. Also on Mastodon: @Marphurius@hcommons.social
Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social (she/her) THE FEAST OF THE INNOCENTS (2022) / THORNS: A BOOK OF POEMS (May 2026) / Gothic cosmic horror author / William Godwin and Charles Maturin are my patron saints / https://ko-fi.com/colinharker
Noah… @noahspringer.com Senior Acquisitions Editor for game studies and new media at the MIT Press | columnist at Unwinnable Magazine | letterboxd https://boxd.it/oHIf