Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure. Co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment (2025). Proud to announce that I despise AI.
PequodPod @pequodpod.bsky.social Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville. Find us wherever you enjoy podcasts!
We're currently reading Moby-Dick and talking about each chapter. We also enjoy and discuss Melville's other works.
https://linktr.ee/pequodpod
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Daniel Jenkin-Smith @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social Historian | Made in 🇫🇷 Lives in 🇬🇧 Writes about 🇺🇲 | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | 📘 SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA 🏖️ | 🚲 +🚶🏻♂️ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨ @wolfproofpress.com friendly prints for feral people!! 🏳️⚧️🎨🌈⚖️
Store.WolfproofPress.com = help me raise $ for an accessible press & mutual aid fundraiser prints? 💪💜
amanda wyatt visconti (they/them)
yr letterpress/Luddite coder/humanities pal
free high fives & exclamation marks
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social Historian, CUNY Graduate Center. The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar Straus & Giroux/ Picador), Slavery's Constitution, & Runaway America (Hill and Wang). More at www.bostonreview.net/authors/david-waldstreicher
Liz Thornberry @lizthornberry.bsky.social I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel
Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social chips & dips; writing about c19 U.S. literature - wives, violence, energy; prof & union member; Detroit & Philly; Joel Embiid forever
Ian Bogost @ibogost.com Read my new book, The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life: https://gratifying.life
Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at WashU; Staff writer at The Atlantic; author of 11 books. https://bogost.com
Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Budget Motel Abyss @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social Middle aged punk from a Quaker family.
Cecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social publisher of books * mother of daughters * friend of the worker
publisher at cambridge university press focusing on US and Latin American history
hudson valley / nyc
Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social History professor at CMU and author of "The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution" Vaccination is patriotic.
New book project(!) tentatively titled: Afterlife and Liberty: New York City’s Doctors’ Riot of 1788
Avishek ghosh @avishekcolours.bsky.social 
Erica Fretwell @ericafretwell.bsky.social UAlbany English | The Art of Slight Living, 1900/2000 (in progress) | Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke UP) | Co-editor (w Sarah Wasserman), Oxford Studies in American Literary History | she/her
Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social Hey bluesky. Historian. In decline. Views expressed here are those of a future insightful majority. 
Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone
Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social Writing, Rhetoric, Multimodality. History of composition & standardizing writing; feedback & assessment; and multimodal pedagogies. Digital rhetoric & disinformation.
Reviews Coeditor @kairostp.bsky.social
Sophia Mughal @sophiamughal.bsky.social Incoming Oxford MPhil in IR | Hobart and William Smith ‘25 | cinephile | exceedingly mediocre guitar player
Toby Higbie @thigbie.bsky.social I teach U.S. history & labor studies at a public university in California. First 40 years in the Midwest. Posting personal opinions about labor & migration history, worker organizing, higher ed policy, Midwest politics and regionalism. He/him.
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
christhomas.bsky.social @christhomas.bsky.social Rutgers prof. Research: punishment & inequality, race, computational social science. Deep Springs, Columbia, CUNY alum.
Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
Christine Jacobson @cejacobson.bsky.social Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts @ Houghton Library, Harvard University
linktr.ee/cejacobson
Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social Environmental Humanities, Energy, Oceans | Assoc Prof, English, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | RENDERED OBSOLETE: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling, UNC Press https://uncpress.org/book/9781469674827/rendered-obsolete
Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social Historian at UNH. Teaches early America, capitalism, & animals. 1st Book (2013): "The Many Panics of 1837." 2nd Book (2025): "Canal Dreamers" https://uncpress.org/book/9781469690551/canal-dreamers/
Emily Conroy-Krutz @econroykrutz.bsky.social Historian of 19th century religion and US foreign relations. Author of Christian Imperialism (2015) and Missionary Diplomacy (2024)
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
sari edelstein @notsorry-sari.bsky.social English prof @UMassBoston | 19thc US lit | new project on the American beach | *Adulthood & Other Fictions: American Literature and the Unmaking of Age*🌈
Jennifer Greiman @jennifergreiman.bsky.social WFU English / WFU Humanities Institute / Melville's Democracy: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35599 / Leviathan: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/601 / Should be going for that run.
Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social Professor, Scholar, Journalist * Culture and US civic life—past and present * English PhD * Books: "Untimely Democracy" & "Democracies in America" * Bylines: LARB, Public Source, Colorado Sun, Chronicle of Higher Education, &c. * www.gregorylaski.com
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Yun Xie @yunxie.bsky.social Passion is a finite research resource. History is at once art and science. Art history and book history, history of knowledge. Hongkong Type matrices. Non Latin typography and typefoundery. PhDing @ UGent. ERC: PhiSci.
Brian Connolly @brianconnolly.bsky.social Fast and Furious expert
Book: Situation Critical (https://www.dukeupress.edu/situation-critical)
Book: Domestic Intimacies (https://www.pennpress.org/9780812209853/domestic-intimacies/)
Journal: History of the Present (https://read.dukeupress.edu/history-o
FFV (From FL & VA) @gildassapiens.bsky.social Scribe, old-school Episcopalian, Democrat.
The only way to avoid shipwreck, and provide for posterity, is to follow the counsel of Micah.
Old Floridian, Tidewater boy, adopted Mexican.
🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸🇲🇽
Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social No longer actively using this account. Find me here: https://tinyurl.com/5y7htysf
Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
Miguel Angel Chavez @miguelchavez.bsky.social Historian // Assistant Prof. at Cumberland University / PhD @Vanderbilt.edu / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire 🗃️ // Texan and Chicano // views here are my own.
- miguelchavez.net
Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social Historian of exploration, extreme environments, material culture + outdoor gear, fashion. Hist. sci & med PhD, editor ar Endeavour, freelance writer. I unpack packing. She/her. www.sarahmpickman.com
Grace Easterly @graceeasterly.bsky.social PhDing @uconnhistory | writing a diss on freedom of navigation, US foreign relations, and sovereignty at sea | organizing with GEU-UAW Local 6950 | she/her
Bryson Kisner @brysonkisner.bsky.social Historian: environment & borderlands, the South & Southwest, the US & the Americas, long 19th c. (mostly), environmental humanities; VAP Wake Forest, PhD Rice '24; Texan, reader (of course), sometimes gardener & birder.
Charles Chaney @chuckchaney.bsky.social The award-winning Sports Editor for the Butler County Times-Gazette. @JUCOWeekly contributor & voter, covering @NJCAAFootball. Contact: cchaney@cherryroad.com
William San Martín @wsanmartin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Global Environmental Science, Technology & Governance @WPI
Scholar, Climate Social Science Network @Brown University • Research Fellow, Earth Systems Governance @Utrecht University
https://www.wpi.edu/people/faculty/wsanmartin
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Indigenous Echoes - Rio de la Plata @indigenousechoes.bsky.social This page explores the History of Indigenous individuals who inhabited the Rio de la Plata region during the colonial period. Run by @guillaumecandela.bsky.social
Lindsay Keiter @lkeiter.bsky.social Historian of marriage & family in early(ish) British America. Knitter.
Guillaume Candela @guillaumecandela.bsky.social Colonial Latin America, Indigenous History, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University. Member of the UKLAH board. Colonial LASA Social Media committee.
https://guillaumecandela.github.io
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social Historical sociologist working on beer, food, cities, waterways, textiles. My book on hops in 19th century Wisconsin out in Fall 2026, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo271049878.html aka @sociologyofplants aka @historicalhops
Miriam Anderson @miriamjanderson.bsky.social IR prof | Toronto Metropolitan University | Visiting Fellow, Centre for Women, Peace, Security, LSE | Editorial Board, WPS Series, de Gruyter press | Books - Windows of Opportunity (OUP 2016) Trnsn’l Actors in War&Peace (GUP 2017)
LizdelaGarzaG @lizdelagarzag.bsky.social Regia no-practicante • Filóloga • Eticista • Leo • Nado
Ceci n’est pas un compte Twitter
Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social asst. prof. @uwsjmc.bsky.social rossdahlke.com
Helen Rozwadowski @oceanhistories.bsky.social History of science, technology, and especially the oceans. Co-editor of Oceans In Depth U Chicago Press book series. 
ICHO @histocean.bsky.social International Commission of the History of Oceanography
The Cambridge School @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social Political Thought and Intellectual History. Posting from the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought. https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk
John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular Synths. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
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
Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic. 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind), and 2025 International Fellow, British Academy
J. Connell Stryker @jconnellstryker.bsky.social PhD in History, UT Austin; Pratt Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial University of Newfoundland - Women's Work at Sea, Histories of Maritime, Gender, Labor, Empire, Technology, and the Digital Humanities, etc- P Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social Historian of science, technology, & medicine, especially tech of ocean science. Associate professor of history. Book review editor for H-Sci-Med-Tech & H-Oceans. She/her/hers.
Emily Sneff @emilysneff.bsky.social Historian of the Declaration of Independence
Curator of Digital Content @declarationstories.bsky.social
Diana Williams @dianawilliams.bsky.social Santa Monica based legal Historian. Afro-DiaspoRican. 🇵🇷 Safe streets aficionado. Finishing book on interracial marriage in 19th century Louisiana. #blacksky
Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social Digital literary and cultural studies, modernism, psychoanalysis, horror. Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies. New book: Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities http://bit.ly/4ftBuUV
Alan VeBe 🏳️🌈🐒🐳🏳️⚧️ @peculiarhermes.bsky.social ✨️ Neurotypicals think I belong with them • il/iel
📖 research C19 US lit & comics • Herman Melville Moby-Dick 🐳 • art • digital humanities
😸 comm guy • human of 5 cats • photographer
🎭 There are Pretenders among us
📍 Lille / Paris (France)
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social Historian, professor, tired.
Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social History Professor
Comparative study of nationalism
Latest book—Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023)
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Occupied-by-Aviel-Roshwald/9781108790826
Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social Associate Prof, Director of Health, Humanities, and Society Program at Northeastern. The Medical Imagination (Penn Press, 2018) + Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship (Penn Press, 2026). Coeditor: Keywords for Health Humanities (NYU, 2023).
Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
C. Andrew ‘Andy’ Doyle @texasbishop9.bsky.social Met Jesus on a pilgrimage; still walking. Prayers for the world, you and me + a few opinions of bishop, author, husband, father, author, who likes to fly fish, overland, camping, and vinyl collector.
Andy’s Book Page
amzn.to/3Owc7Dq
Peter O'Neill @poneill.bsky.social Associate Professor Emeritus. he/him
Immigrant; Derry wan; London dweller; hallion.
Thomas Bolt @tbolt.bsky.social Writer. O. Henry Prize (via n+1): http://bit.ly/InversionOfMarcia Contributing ed @ BOMB. Rome Prize for Literature, Yale YP Vol 84. http://tbolt.com.
Fiction in n+1: https://nplusonemag.com/issue-27/fiction-drama/inversion-of-marcia/
Wellfleet @kegerton.bsky.social Earthling, poll worker, weaver. Probably biking today. She/her, pro singular they.
Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social A patched professor in Queen Nature’s granite-founded College. Polar humanities, C19, oceanic studies. Ask me about Moby-Dick. I teach environmental and nineteenth-century American literature at WashU. Protect trans kids. She/her. hesterblum.com
John Levi Barnard @jlb.bsky.social American Literature & Environmental Humanities @ U of Illinois
Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
Check out https://thecurrentowdm.substack.com
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Colby Townsend @colbytownsend.bsky.social Dual PhD student (English/religious studies) @ IU Bloomington studying religion and literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He/him
Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social The Melville Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, brings together scholars, readers, and artists through the study and appreciation of the life and works of the author Herman Melville. www.melvillesociety.org
David Johnston @dljohnston.bsky.social Anglican priest (TEC) in WV. Host of https://www.youtube.com/@AllThingsNecessary . College ministry enthusiast. Charles Wesley hymn appreciater. Wife guy to @colleener.bsky.social Inclusive orthodoxy. Birding. (he/him)
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology
Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social Historian of America's old, weird political economy. Unincorporated but proudly unionized citizen of Delaware. Adding “levity to discussions of financing and high politics” since 2022. Wrote Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America.
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social Time-lag accumulator. Professor of History at NC State University. I write about church & state in the long eighteenth century Atlantic world.