Catherine Richardson @profcatheriner.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor University East Anglia and Professor of Early Modern Studies. Previously Director, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Kent; everyday life, material histories, creative heritage.
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Dr. Katharine Landers @katharinelanders.bsky.social Instructional Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University | Researching the politics of dress in 17th c. women's writing | she/her
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
TannerRitchie Publishing 🍁 @tannerritchie.bsky.social Publisher of Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) and Scotland's History Online (SHO). Distributor of Scottish Record Society & the Red Book of Scotland (RBS). Designers of MEMSO Shell, custom software for researchers.
www.tannerritchie.com
Alexander Samson @samsonaws.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern Studies at UCL, historian of Marian England, early modern Spain, Anglo-Spanish intercultural exchanges…
Walking Shadow Shakespeare Project @walkingshadowshakespeare.com Walking Shadow Shakespeare Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Austin TX, focused on uniting classical texts with a contemporary community through innovative & accessible productions, social events, and educational opportunities. Come see our shows!
Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social #Earlymodern nerd. Hired pen. Curator of hipsters. Snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. #Tudor? Sure. #Jacobean? SIGN ME UP.
Coming Spring 2027, "Wilton House," a novel of Lady #MaryWroth. @regalhouse.bsky.social. Stay tuned! https://www.kaydalywriter.com
The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social Bankside's first theatre
Built by Philip Henslowe 1587, rediscovered 1989
Original home of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd & many others
Scheduled Monument & Registered Charity
www.roseplayhouse.org.uk
Rose Theatre Trust
56 Park St, London SE1 9AR
Katarzyna Burzyńska @prof-burzynska.bsky.social Vegan literature professor working in feminist and queer studies, interested in depictions of pregnant people in early modern lit. (she/her) 🌱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🧘🏃🚵
Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social Literary critic at University of Oxford, St Catherine's College | Poetics | Transnational drift of verse forms | Digital Humanities & Digital Editing | General Editor, OUP Complete Works of Tennyson.
Views are my own. www.michaeljsullivan.net
Historical Association Canterbury @canterburyha.bsky.social The Canterbury branch of the Historical Association.
Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social Shakespearean, fight director, actor, dramaturge. Assistant professor of theatre University at Buffalo.
Ben Blyth @benblyth.bsky.social Ph.D. Scholar-Practitioner of Medieval & Early Modern Drama @ UCalgary, Treaty 7 🍁 ⚔️ 🎭
Céline Magada @celinemagada.bsky.social she/her | PhD Student at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, in Early Modern English Literature, working on the SNSF project "Theater and Judgment in Early Modern England"
Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille @cgraffeuille.bsky.social Professor @EriacRouen @univrouen; early modern studies; women's writing; Remembering the English Revolutions https://memorev.hypotheses.org; journals.openedition.org/episteme/
Bridger Bartlett @allo-nothing.bsky.social They/them guy with a PhD. 🏳️🌈
~Tudor-Stuart lit + neurodivergence~
Dr Francesca Elizabeth Richards @ferichardsuk.bsky.social Asst lecturer & PhD in #coral
Materiality, medicine, family, relig, art, books
Mama x3, usually on the beach!
Publications ⏬️
https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2024.2360935
https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae041
Emily Naish @emjlynajsh.bsky.social PhD candidate at Uni of Shef | Ecology and genre in early modern lit (esp. in Poly-Olbion!) | she/her 🍄
Sarah Neville @effectdefective.bsky.social Extremity edges: bumped. Hinges: cracked. Textblocks: sturdy. Pages: clean and intact. Shakespeare editor and director, textual theorist, theatre and English professor. Bibliography > book history, science is real, human rights above all else. 
@lutchique.bsky.social @lutchique.bsky.social english teacher by training, degree in literature, Shakespeare studies, trying to figure out my place amidst this tempest of absurdity
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
Aoife Beville @aoifebeville.bsky.social Researcher at the University of Foggia
Stylistics, pragmatics, literary linguistics, pragmatics of lying, (im)politeness, etc.
Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social Teaches Early Modern Drama at Cardiff Uni. Writing a book about Mucedorus. Will probably post music when I don’t know what to say. he/him. New OWC Cymbeline: https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/cymbeline-9780192882868?cc=gb&lang=en&
Margaret Kelleher @mgtkell.bsky.social Prof and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature, University College Dublin
Dr Cassandra Harrington @clharrington.bsky.social Art historian. PhD on medieval foliate head and mask iconography. Assistant Lecturer in Classics. Previously CHASE DTP, University of Kent (School of History) and Canterbury Cathedral. Website: https://cassandraharrington.com
Randall Martin @rwfm.bsky.social Shakespearian. Ecocritic. Occasional dramaturge.
Kevin Finkelstein ☭ @kfinkelstein.bsky.social Director/Writer/Historian (Shakespeare/disability). CU Boulder: MA, Theatre and Perf (2026); MA, English (2028). Hard-of-hearing. Views my own. he/him #cwa7799 #blm #transrightsarehumanrights
Giles Bergel @chapbookpro.bsky.social Book historian; digital humanist; sector-leading single point of failure. Chapbooks, horses, computer vision. Homepage: www.printing-machine.org
Jessica Weiss (Weiss-Bahia) @jessicaweiss-bahia.bsky.social Aspiring early modernist - UCL Quirk Funded PhD candidate.
Also a musician - Fear of Men and New German Cinema.
Canterbury Association for Medieval & Early Modern Studies @camems.bsky.social CAMEMS aims to support scholarship, while also fostering close relations between @memsunikent.bsky.social, @canterburyccuni.bsky.social, local organisations, and the wider public.
Jamie Purdie @jamiepurdie.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher.
Interested in education, literature, film and culture.
Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd- N Nic Brownlie @nicbrownlie.bsky.social Currently researching the effects of candlelight illumination on the form and content of early modern drama. Former theatre director and stage lighting designer.
Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Coldhotel @coldhotel.bsky.social Lifelong Democrat. Retired, former union member. Rabbit parent. Cat foster parent. Ballroom dancer. Equal protection under the law for all. For all!
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Sally Barnden @sally-barnden.bsky.social Early modern drama enthusiast. Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at Swansea University. Aspiring climber and successful cat person. 
Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas about kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
Tucker’sLap @tuckerslap.bsky.social 8647 and his whole FUCKING MOB Shakespeare(anti-Oxfordian)/Science(evolution-yepcreation-nope)/Books/MMMS(ifunouno)/LSD/Ale/Trekker
Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
@engenderstage.bsky.social @engenderstage.bsky.social 
Zenón Luis-Martínez @zenon-l-m.bsky.social Professor of English (University of Huelva, Spain), working on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poetry and poetics.
Christophe Schellekens @christopheschfir.bsky.social Historian, at Liège University. Primarily interested in (historical) political economy in a wide sense.
Florence. Antwerp. Merchants. Markets. Networks. Labour. Skills
Formerly Tilburg and Utrecht University.
Bio https://me.eui.eu/christophe-schellekens/
Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court @mappinginns.bsky.social For researchers of all things Inns of Court in the 16th and 17th centuries. https://mappinginns.wordpress.com/
Katharine Craik @kcraik1.bsky.social Prof of Shakespeare and early modern lit, Research Director and Think Human Festival Director at Oxford Brookes. ‘Lifelike Shakespeare’ coming soon from OUP🏴
Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
Don Weingust @weingust.bsky.social Shakespeare and theatre scholar; proud papa of USC entrepreneur and Hostelpass.co CEO; old actor/musician; former Ensemble member at Glide SF; ally; happy Californian.
Jessica Goethals @jessgoethals.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of medieval + early modern Italian Studies | author *Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court* (2023) | women, spectacle, violence, prophecy, weird stuff | currently writing on the 1527 Sack of Rome
Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual on war & tech
NL/EN
Aylin Malcolm @malentendre.bsky.social Literature prof | currently writing on: medieval plant grafting; worm reproduction | they/them | science before 1700, book history, sci fi, whale facts 🐋
🌐 aylinmalcolm.com 📍Toronto
Lemon Ride @lemonride.bandcamp.com Lemon Ride is the name on everyone’s lips — and no one knows who’s behind it. Blending shimmering melodies with earth-shaking basslines, Lemon Ride crafts a sound that defies definition, balancing emotion and innovation in every track.
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
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.
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Felicity Brown @felicityebrown.bsky.social 
British Shakespeare Association @bsashakespeare.bsky.social Professional association for teachers, researchers, practitioners and writers interested in Shakespeare. CfP part 1 for BSA Conference 2027, 'Sounding Shakespeare: Voice, Music, Sound, Silence' open until 30 September!
https://linktr.ee/BSAShakespeare
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social Director, IUB WTS | CITL, Writing Studies, Writing Centers, & Writing Pedagogy | WAC/WID | SoTL | Renaissance woman | Early Modern women's writing | Genre studies | Teacher |Professional Fangirl | Bibliophile 📚
Esther Kearney @estherkearney.bsky.social PhD researcher on Lucy Hutchinson at the University of Nottingham│Editorial Assistant for Women's Writing.
https://earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/the-sculpted-or-the-sculptor-lucy-hutchinsons-the-life-of-john-hutchinson-and-ovids-pygmalion/
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
Jemma Forster @jemlf.bsky.social AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in EM England, Spain and Italy 🌈 she/her
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
Sibylle Baumbach @sibyllebaumbach.bsky.social Prof of English Lit&Cult @unistuttgart.bsky.social, passionate about literary attention and Shakespeare, PI of @litattention.bsky.social, president of @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social. Views are my own.
Ian Badger @iebadger.bsky.social Open Research Librarian at the University of Kent
@robnewall.bsky.social @robnewall.bsky.social 
shakespeareseminar@proton.me @shakespeareseminar.bsky.social Inspired by a conversation outside the globe with Andrew Jarvis in 2012, our seminars aim to reclaim the context of Shakespeare's work by getting practitioners and academics working together to make the context accessible, instead of intimidating.
Karen Waring @karenwaring1.bsky.social Researcher. Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University. Avid reader of the Stationers' Registers, with more than a passing interest in book history, Early Modern literature & culture, and literary theory
Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social An educational website for students, teachers and other Shakespeare enthusiasts at www.bardweb.net
AJ Hartley @authorajhartley.bsky.social New York Times Bestselling novelist, Shakespeare professor, fan of Japanese rock music, collaborator with Blink-182's Tom DeLonge, hobbyist, creator, annoyed
author site: www.ajhartley.net
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlh2jTxFoqs&t=10s
Ediciones Universidad Simón Bolívar @edicionesusb.bsky.social 📚Cuenta oficial del Departamento de Publicaciones de la Universidad Simón Bolívar (Barranquilla, Colombia)
Jodi Price @jodiprice.bsky.social Promotions Manager at Princeton University Press
Hedy @helalalbakar.bsky.social USA
Clear Shakespeare @clearshakes.bsky.social Akiva Fox takes you through Shakespeare's plays, word by word. A read-along podcast for students, readers, and performers.
https://clearshakespeare.com/
CM @cjkmuk.bsky.social UK. Green, vegan, progressive. Arts, theatre, reading, old TV, tennis. High culture, low culture. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇧
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robertbohan.etsy.com
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social Sermone nitidus. Early Insular, Irish, British, Breton, Cornish, Welsh and wider Palaeography & Manuscripts. I love the letter g.
Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social Bibliographer; book historian. Opinions are my own.
(Header image is cartoon by Stephen Collins: http://www.stephencollinsillustration.com/)
CEMS Exeter @cemsexeter.bsky.social University of Exeter Centre for Early Modern Studies - a place for interdisciplinary exchange among staff and students and engagement with the wider academic world.
(Posts by Lucy Hurst).
Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social Postgraduate workshop for all studies into the early modern world (c. 1450-1800) at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
Lauren Johnson @historylauren.bsky.social Historian / Heritage Live Interpretation bod.
AHRC-funded PhD (refugees, religion & diplomacy in early modern Europe) and a book about Margaret Beaufort in progress…
dr. meg smith @megsmith.bsky.social • Interim Director & Research Asst Prof of Digital Humanities at @siueiris.bsky.social
• Medieval/early modern Irish historian
• Public transit enthusiast & urban cyclist
• Die-hard Packers fan
• Avid quilter/xstitcher
• Margaret, not Megan
• She/her
• STL
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Cat Evans @crevans.bsky.social Early modernist working on women's writing & philosophy @cultphil.bsky.social
Interested in books, beads, birds and baking. 
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Dr. Jill E Gage @jillegage.bsky.social Wing Curator, History of Printing @NewberryLibrary. Dix-huitièmiste. Love Madeira, hot air balloons, civilité type & maîtres écrivains. 
Michael Witmore @michaelwitmore.bsky.social Digital preservationist, Shakespeare scholar, humanities advocate, consultant for cultural institutions, Director Emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Susan Anderson @susananderson.bsky.social Early modern disability, civic pageantry and music. Also cats.
Scott Trudell @scotttrudell.bsky.social my jams are poetry, drama, music, media studies, trans studies, and performance studies
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
Emily Smith @shakespeerie.bsky.social Early modern literature post-doc at the University of Geneva. Usually somewhere between the digital, humanities, and seventeenth-ish-century.
Brett Greatley-Hirsch @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social Prof in Renaissance Lit & Textual Studies @ U Leeds. Antiquarian books, letterpress, linocut, uilleann pipes, and computational humanities. Fur-dad to a corgi puppy and three rescue guinea pigs. notwithoutmustard.net 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 He/Him
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
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.