Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social TT, LL. Writer, librarian, too many freckles, not enough sleep. Debut novel GREY DOG available now. She/her. https://linktr.ee/elliottgish
Meg Phillips @megphillips.bsky.social Archives. Medieval history. Elizabeth A. R. Brown Archivist at Penn Libraries. Free societies need strong archives!
Mary F. Wheaton @miniaturewheats.bsky.social Cataloging librarian, medievalist, neurodivergent mental health advocate. @ucddublin MA Medieval Studies & MLIS. @medievalnd alumna. 📖 Manuscripts & fragments nerd 📍Richmond, VA
Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social PI of FitMA (Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and funded by @erc.europa.eu.
Author of The Friar and the Philosopher.
Medieval Greek-Latin translations of philosophy and science.
Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social PhDing: Vikings and white supremacy, IHR London | trans dykefag | they/them
Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
Donna Trembinski @medievalatx.bsky.social New to bluesky! Finally leaving the darkside that was twitter.
Who I am:
Professor of Art and Material Culture at STFX
Settler living in Mi'kma'ki, unceded territory
Specialist training in medieval religion and medicine
Student of the global premodern
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) @clpskuleuven.bsky.social The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at the Institute of Philosophy, @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social focuses on #logic & #philsci, with a concentration on the philosophies of the special sciences https://hiw.kuleuven.be/clps #philsky #HPS
Aria Rastegar @linguistaria.bsky.social Student of Linguistics and researcher @fau.de
Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 700–1700, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Dr Shauna Roach @shaunaroach.bsky.social Medievalist. Chaucerian. Lover of pigeons. Researching ideas of Virtue in Chaucer’s Literature @ University of Bristol
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Chloë Houston @chloehouston.bsky.social Joint Head of the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading & one half of Frances Wise.
https://linktr.ee/frances_wise_author
Mercedes Peters @mercedespeters.bsky.social L’nuskw. Glooscap FN. PhDing in history. Storyteller. Big ol horror nerd. Also somehow professional wrestling? I dunno man, I forgot how to bio. She/Her/Nekm
Fragmentarium @fragmentarium.bsky.social Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments: https://fragmentarium.ms
posts currently by William Duba.
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Juliane Witte @julianewitte.bsky.social Medievalist :) I work with Old Norse-Icelandic literature with a focus on female anger, emotion and monster studies, reception/Medievalism, and narrative networks @ University of Tübingen
Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social Medieval historian: religion, cities, heresy, intolerance, inquisition, environment, medievalism. Associate Professor (Career-Track), Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Views my own. he/him. https://eugene-smelyansky.com/
Ash Paley @ashpaley.bsky.social PhD student at IMS - University of Leeds. Neuroqueering medieval mystics.
Mostly trans stuff.
Trans masc. Autistic 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
He/they
Quinn Bouabsa Marriott @quinnbm.bsky.social 26 / PhD student at the University of St Andrews / Working on Eastern Christians and their role as mediators between the Franks and the Mongols / (He/Him)
The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social The NCS is a scholarly community committed to fostering research and interest in the age of Chaucer broadly speaking. We welcome any and all members to join our community! https://newchaucersociety.org/
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Elizabeth Fraser @elizabethfr.bsky.social Assistant Commissioning Editor for
Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
@drytares1.bsky.social @drytares1.bsky.social Early modern ecocritic, interested in plants. Writing a book about Shakespeare's trees.
Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social SDS is a lively scholarly association made up of artists, scholars and activists who promote Disability Studies. #DSQArchives #Soc4DisStudies
Find out More At: linktr.ee/dis_studies
Jennifer Park @jennmpark.bsky.social early modern literature, critical race, history of science & medicine • environmental and disability justice • community care • she/her • crip time #LongCovid
Rebecca Shores @rshores.bsky.social Maritime medievalist (PhD on saints at sea/on boats), HS teacher, mom to humans and dogs.
Rosalind Phillips-Solomon @rphillips-solomon.bsky.social 🪦 medievalist & whale fan 🐋
Currently working on late medieval death ritual 🪽
Virgin martyr obsessed 🦷👁️🐉
PhD candidate at the Courtauld
🌸🪻🦋 (they/she)
Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social Retired historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
Andy Kesson @andykesson.bsky.social Research, performance, history, creativity, wrestling and a lot of bears.
Erin Benton @erinbenton.bsky.social The cowboy character in your gothic novel
PhD student at University of Aberdeen studying disability in Old Norse literature.
From southwest US to northeast Scotland
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Ernst Gerhardt @eeseejee.bsky.social Oilers fan. Assoc. Prof, medieval + Tudor drama, Shakespeare.
Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social Historian & teacher | PostDoc at the University of Lucerne, early modern hair | PhD'ing in Bremen, slavery and people of color in Hamburg | banner: Tariq Safieh
Terror Bytes @terror-bytes.bsky.social Here to make rickdiculous [sic] self-assured declarations. | Paying my respects to the Millenial graveyard. | TBD | he\they\any |
Tom Keirstead @tomkeirstead.bsky.social Torontonian, historian of medieval Japan. Posts about cats, cooking, umami, gardening, and gin making. Sushi, too
Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social Chaotic good w/ redneck roots. Medievalist/teacher/PhD candidate/worker/overexplainer/aspiring pícara.
Personal account; loud opinions (which is all of them) my own.
she/her
📍 North Carolina (in the woods somewhere instead of doing my work)
Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social juniorprofessor of anglophone literatures and cultures (university of trier) • views my own • she/her • #firstgen
website: https://www.jenniferleetsch.com/
“soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb."
Kristin J. Jacobson @drkj.bsky.social (She/Her) Professor of American literature, American studies, and women’s, gender and sexuality studies. Author of *Neodomestic American Fiction* and *The American Adrenaline Narrative.* Working on a book about regional cli-fi.
Wendy McMahon @wendymcmahon.bsky.social Academic. Environmental Humanities, University of Exeter, UK (Cornwall)
Co-Director Centre for Arts and Environmental Humanities.
Caribbean and American Studies
https://hass-cornwall.exeter.ac.uk/environmental-humanities/
ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social Official Bluesky feed of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland. Visit us and join at https://www.asle.org.uk
Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social PhD @ UBC English, sf and ecocriticism, Luddite, walking the laneways of the Lower Mainland of BC
Francis Taylor @frankietaylor317.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of York, Department for English and Related Literatures. Working on weeding in early modern agriculture, and natural philosophical, theological, and devotional prose.
Rebecca Quoss-Moore @rmquossmoore.bsky.social they/she // Henrician and early modernist // Assoc. Prof
Gender and Position-Taking in Henrician Verse, 2023 from Amsterdam UP: https://tinyurl.com/5cfrv4af
Alice Raw @aliceraw.bsky.social Historian of medieval gender and sexuality
Currently writing about pleasure and protests
Mark Kaplanoff Fellow in History, Pembroke College Cambridge
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social Historian of exploration, extreme environments, material culture + outdoor gear, fashion. Hist. sci & med PhD, editor ar Endeavour, freelance writer, bookseller. I unpack packing. She/her. www.sarahmpickman.com
Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/
🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."- P Helen Fulton @profhelenfulton.bsky.social Professor of Medieval Literature at University of Bristol and lead investigator on MOWLIT research project.
Wendy Matlock @wmatlock.bsky.social Middle-aged medievalist in the US Midwest
Rebekah Day-Wood @rebekahbeatnik.bsky.social 🇦🇺🏴MSc Medieval History from Edinburgh Uni 🎓 Too many research interests; animals, magic and women in particular. Arthurian literature. Wales. Viking interactions. Witches. Always covered in cat hair.
Kashaf Qureshi @kashafq.bsky.social teaching fellow at uchicago working on late medieval literature and affect | kashafqureshi.com
Mounawar Abbouchi @mounytheyounger.bsky.social She/her
Medievalist, PhD Student, Martial Artist, General Enthusiast
"Yde and Olive", Medieval Feminist Forum, 2018
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mff/vol53/iss4/1/
Stephanie Trigg @stephanietrigg.bsky.social Medievalist trying to live a good life on Wurundjeri land and sometimes on Gulidjan/Gadubanud land.
Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network @aroaceresearch.bsky.social The interdisciplinary Aro/Ace Research Network brings together scholars across Europe working on aromanticism and asexuality.
Katie Kung @katiekung.bsky.social 📍PhD candidate | Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich
✏️Exec. Editor | Environmental History Now
👀Troubled care and invasive species, multispecies STS, environmental humanities, political ecology, conservation. I like any critters that you don't like.
Liza Strakhov @belledamesansmercy.bsky.social Insert something clever here eventually, she said to herself. Medievalist. Book: Continental England: Form, Translation and Chaucer in the Hundred Years' War (Ohio State UP, 2022). Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at University of Groningen, past President of IAS-BB & co-editor of Arthurian Lit. Research: treason, sleep, dwarves, & the Medieval Middlebrow. Canadian expat, Welsh exile, aspiring European. She/her.
Sara Torres @svtorres.bsky.social Editor in public interest technology and higher ed. Medievalist, writer, educator, boricua. Interested in books that cross borders, whether of place, time, or language.
saravtorres.com
saratorres.substack.com
Austin J. Benson @austinbenson.bsky.social Medieval Literature at Colgate University. Dad. Philologist. Language collector. Mediocre chess player.
Multilingualism in medieval Britain. Lyric studies. Scribes and manuscripts.
Kathleen Tonry @ktonry.bsky.social Associate Prof of English at UConn, medievalist, book historian, parent of 3 lovely creatures. Current academic project on material expressions of time; experimenting with microfiction and notions of leisure (or idleness?)
Laurel Ryan @laurel-ryan.bsky.social Books, cats, and all things just a little bit odd. Nineteenth-century medievalismist.
Associate Professor of English at UL Lafayette.
The views and opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Bettina Bildhauer @bmeb.bsky.social Menstruation, Middle Ages, blood, Seven Sages of Rome, German literature
Tekla Bude @williamlangland.bsky.social medieval everything, mathematics sometimes, music forever
Oliver Benjamin Gratzinger @obgratz.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ he/him
writer of things
@kellie-robertson.bsky.social @kellie-robertson.bsky.social
Z. N. Dylan Jackson @queerdievalist.bsky.social Medievalist and man about couch 💖💜💙 🏳️⚧️
Cathy Hume @cathyhume.bsky.social Medievalist, socialist, parent, eater of cake. Dislike dogs, academic promotion announcements, jazz and celery.
Elizabeth Watkins @peregrina-ubique.bsky.social Medievalist-at-large, cat-wrangler, bibliophile, and peregrina ubique (she/her)
Eve Salisbury @evemed.bsky.social Interested in medicine, magic, and medieval romance.
Vance Smith @dvancesmith.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, Africanist, activist, cyclist.
Robyn A. Bartlett @robynbartlett.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Medieval Literature at Purdue Univ, advocate for the humanities, lover of bonnacons.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5091-3129
purdue.academia.edu/RobynABartlett- G Gabriel Ford @gabrielford.bsky.social Philologist teaching medieval lit, book history, linguistics, and medievalism at Drake University
Ruen-chuan Ma @rcma.bsky.social Medievalist, literature and book history
Utah by way of London, Taipei, and New York
Holly Crocker @dr-mid-evil.bsky.social The human version of a crow.
Anna Wilson @annapwilson.bsky.social Associate Professor of English @ Harvard. Medieval literature, queer theory, fan fiction & fan studies. She/her. Support trans rights.
Medieval Fans: Reading, Affect, and Queer Community, out 3/27.
http://www.drannawilson.com/
Eva von C @evavonc.bsky.social Prof of English Literature incl. the Literatures of the Middle Ages at the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Loves books and lists.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer @sacjournal.bsky.social We are the journal of The New Chaucer Society. Online at http://muse.jhu.edu.
https://newchaucersociety.org/page/studiesintheageofchaucer
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession @newchaucer-pandp.bsky.social Academic journal offering brief essays on teaching, service, and institutional cultures for teachers and scholars of Chaucer and his age. Peer-reviewed, open access.
https://escholarship.org/uc/ncs_pedagogyandprofession
Siobhan Poole @siobhanmup.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Medieval Studies, Premodern History and Law at Manchester University Press. She/her
Katie @feminaridens.bsky.social academic librarian, film zines, collage maker, photography. wrestling & jazz. "serious leisure". collector. aspiring hobbyist. indulger of bygone media & rabbit holes. in eternal tailspin w/ time
1949 film zine: https://www.etsy.com/shop/feminaridens
Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social international bestselling pervert • writer: DAYSPRING, AVENGERS ACADEMY, etc • film programmer • phd • any pronouns http://linktr.ee/meakoopa lycan sub scribe.
DAYSPRING - out now! dayspringbook.com
Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social Former U.S. Fish & Wildlife endangered species branch chief with more than three decades of experience in wildlife conservation and ecological policy.
https://substack.com/@lylelewis1?r=3fnb3k&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social This is the real InfoWars, streaming every Thursday at 8 p.m. ET
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social An independent publisher of innovative non-fiction.
www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary global research collective. Uniting a Higher Education network of scholars and research students
Find out more: https://tvce.cargo.site
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@ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate & SSHRC-funded scholar at the University of Toronto. Trans woman. Social historian of past trans feminine existences.
For inquiries: aino.pihlak@mail.utoronto.ca
https://ainopihlak.com/
Susan Stryker @susanstryker.bsky.social Biological Boomer, GenX-identified, but sometimes I get passed as even younger because of my sassy attitude and tastes in music and film||I do trans stuff||susanstryker.net
Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social Co-Director of SUISS at the University of Edinburgh, where I also lecture and tutor in Trans and Queer Studies (Culture/Media). Equalities officer for UCU Edinburgh. Trustee of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF). She/Her. Cymraes.
Canada Fiction Fest @canadafictionfest.bsky.social Like a great big online book fair, featuring Canadian fiction books and authors from all across the country. 🍁🦫🫎 | FictionFest.ca
(Also @nptwrites.bsky.social)
Jordibus @jcuerre.bsky.social Historian, medievalist, economist. PhD candidate at Universitat de València.
Currently researching medieval mints and money plus labour markets. I like rocksteady music and olives, but loathe grapefruits and solemnity.
🚴🏼🤺🏋🏼♀️🥋🏃🏼♂️🥾
Caitlin Ellis @medivalist.bsky.social Medievalist - Vikings, Normans, Britain, Ireland, the North Atlantic and beyond. Reception & Medievalism.
Associate Professor, University of Oslo
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social All Kinds of Weird 👽 literary magazine and book company publishing strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff & horror. 100% organic, no AI 🚫
🛸 https://www.apexbookcompany.com/
🍄 https://violetlichen.com/
Mick Carrigan @mickcarrigan.bsky.social Editor in Chief, Taco Bell Quarterly. Bylines: VICE, Bon Appetit, Eater. Forthcoming - JUNK: The Brands That Raised Us, the Stuff that Shaped Us, and What We Leave Behind (Scribner). This is my junk.
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social Our 'A Victorian Revival match-funding campaign' aims to save two historic churches in Lincolnshire and Carmarthenshire. These churches are at risk of being lost forever
Support our match-funding now, and every £ given will be matched by our generous donor
e. kinkaid (they/them) @queergeog.bsky.social Author of Disorienting Phenomenology: Queer Space and Trans Life (University of Minnesota Press 2026). queer geographer extraordinaire / food systems researcher / grant writer / editor / artist