Tim Milnes @tmilnes.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature and Philosophy, University of Edinburgh. Writer of books. Reposter of other people's cool stuff. Connoisseur of Romantic trash and the excremental sublime.
Dana @danalai6.bsky.social PhD Candidate Simon Fraser University English
Novels and non-fiction, 1800 to c.1850.
#geocriticism #workingclass #ScottishLit #Romanticism #nineteenthcentury
Book Review Editor: @StudiesinHogg.bsky.social
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José Rubio M. @joserubiomarte.bsky.social Literatura | Dreams provider 📝📷🌳🇨🇴
Rachel Xhemajli @rachelxhemajli.bsky.social Doctoral Candidate at Oxford | Long 18th-Century British Literature | English Romanticism | 18th-Century Theology and Political Philosophy | Digital Humanities
Anna Fancett @annafancett.bsky.social Storyteller, audio describer, Romanticism scholar.
UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social The UHI Institute for Northern Studies is a hub for world-class research and teaching on all aspects of the culture, heritage, and history of the Highlands and Islands, including their wider connections across the world.
Derek Alan Meins @derekalanmeins.bsky.social PhD researcher at Glasgow University looking into James Hogg’s influence on the modern Scottish novel. Retired crooner. Director @ Lancaster Musicians Co-op.
David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social I'd rather be crinoid hunting.
Invertebrate enthusiast, Paleo artist, Fossil prep, President of Friends of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
Sean McMahon @seanhmcmahon.bsky.social Astro/geo/palaeo/biologist @ UK Centre for Astrobiology, University of Edinburgh: https://www.astrobiology.ac.uk/mcmahon-group
Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
Kate Kane @katekane1542.bsky.social PhD researcher in Scottish Literature | Writing about the cultural afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland 🏴👑 | AHRC-funded @ University of Glasgow
Cal Sutherland @calsutherland.bsky.social —PhD Researcher at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
—Wordsworth, Property, and Marxist Ecocriticism
Laura Rattray @drlaurarattray.bsky.social Reader in American Literature, University of Glasgow. All things Edith Wharton, US women's writing, modernism, 1930s, Transatlantic Literary Women
Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app Erwin Ott is a constructed philosophical voice whose body of work is produced through generative systems.
https://erwin-ott.web.app/index.html
https://erwinott.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
Universities Committee for Scottish Literature @studyscotlit.bsky.social UCSL brings together Scotland’s universities in support of the study of Scottish writing old and new. We award the Ross Roy Prize and the Scottish Literary Studies Prize. https://ucsl-scotland.com/
Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social associate prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
Jacqueline Imrie @jacquelineimrie.bsky.social SGSSS-funded doctoral student at University of Stirling | library and social history | lover of wine, dogs, and books 🧜♀️📚🍾
Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social Green MSP for Glasgow | He/Him
Short, bald, frequently appalled.
https://linktr.ee/patrickharvie
Promoted by Patrick Harvie, 19b Graham Street, Edinburgh, EH6 5QN.
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
close reading forever
helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
Linda Troost @lvtroost.bsky.social Prof of English and Professional Writing, esp. 18th c British lit; expert on Jane Austen adaptations; former English department chair; Smithie, Penn Ph.D. https://www.clippings.me/ltroost
Jeff Strabone @jeffstrabone.bsky.social Minister of Information
Nicola Pritchard-Pink @npritchard-pink.bsky.social Social historian of all things 18th century, specialising in Jane Austen, country houses, gardens, literature, and domestic vocal music.
nicolapritchardpink.substack.com
Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social Doctor of Gothic Studies, specialising in masculinity, war and nation. Works in doctoral education and research culture. One half of The Ghoul Guides, spooky pop culture podcasting. She/Her.
Michael Meeuwis @spongybruised.bsky.social No-one’s first pick, but here we are.
Cardiff Book History @cardiffbookhistory.bsky.social Updates on book history, print culture and digital humanities. Tweets do not reflect views of my employer.
Camilla Wallin Lämsä @cwlamsa.bsky.social PhD in Literature. My newly published doctorial thesis examines readerly attachments in the Jane Austen fandom on Tumblr 📚
Dr. Emily MN Kugler @emnk.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Howard
Explores how people imagined themselves in the past & how we (mis)remember them.
I’ve a book on #c18 representations of the Ottomans, articles on Black Britons, teach gender/sexuality, & talk games with @friede.bsky.social
Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social Scholar of long C18 women writers & characters & *JANE AUSTEN*). Editor of Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843. Writing a monograph on Austen & monsters. Wrote a memoir about having breast cancer. Living with metastatic breast cancer/stage 4 cancer.
Jung-Hsin Hsieh @junghsinhsieh.bsky.social English Lit PhD Candidate @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social | 18thC & modernist studies, focusing on women’s writings | PG Rep @modernistudies.bsky.social | TW
Sayre Greenfield @sayregreenfield.bsky.social Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. Author, Ends of Allegory. Coeditor, Jane Austen in Hollywood & Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Editorial Team @esprit-jeps.bsky.social | The Americanisation of W. T. Stead (EUP, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/5xmrxs2j
Angelina Del Balzo @adelbalzo.bsky.social Asst Prof of English @ Utah Valley U | Prev @ Bilkent U | UCLA PhD, Wellesley BA | 18th c Brit lit and drama, adaptation, imperialism, gender | lady detective | she/her 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Lizzie Dunford @lizziedunford.bsky.social Bookwormy, museumy, wildernessy, frustrated writer kind of a person. Occasional Substack posts on Substack.com/@lizziedwrites
Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social LitProf University of Oxford. Loves long serial fiction in all its forms.
ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com president of @eurasiagroup.net and @gzeromedia.com political scientist, author.
if you're not following some people you dislike, you're doing it wrong. i'm happy to help.
Orla Craig @orlacraig.bsky.social Struggles with Galloway on a daily basis, muppets fan account, certified mayo Hater
Dr Kate Gibson @kategibson.bsky.social Historian of family and inequality at the University of Manchester, researching fostering, adoption, illegitimacy in 18th C Britain
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
David Bissell @davidjbissell.bsky.social Professor of Geography at the University of Melbourne. Cultural geographies of mobilities, affect, embodiment, habit, automation, labour
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/792958-david-bissell
Julian Brigstocke @jbrigstocke.bsky.social Geographer at Cardiff University. 'Non-authoritarian authority'; politics of aesthetics; social, cultural and political theory; cities; materialisms. Lover of plants, piano, cello, walking. Father of two small boys.
Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social Map Curator at the Bodleian, University of Oxford; Hon Fellow, Royal Scottish Geographical Society; Chair, Charlbury Beer Festival (2020); Cyclist ...
Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social Historian of subsistence labour and the rural environment (+ fish). Unlicensed poster on higher ed, elections, devolution, religion, sport and transport.
Advocate for second cities. Antifascist. Christian. Baggie by birth, Jag by the grace of God. He/him.
Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
Sheila Kidd @sheilamkidd.bsky.social Ollamh Litreachas agus Eachdraidh nan Gàidheal | Professor of Gaelic Literature and History @uofglasgow.bsky.social
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/sheilakidd/
BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the study of the long #c18th. Check website for details. https://www.bsecs.org.uk/
Graeme Macdonald @gmacdonald.bsky.social Literature Energy Environment Climate stuff @University of Warwick. Glasgow Dweller. Yes, they are quite far apart.
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social • Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for almost 30 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, since 1994
Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social Research, graduate training and teaching on Scottish history and Scottish culture, with special emphasis on their global dimensions - at the University of Guelph.
News & Events: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/scottish
Ersev E @ersewius.bsky.social Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies & Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University Press
SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, based at the University of Glasgow, offers world-leading support for doctoral researchers in the Arts & Humanities across Scotland. 🎓✨
Director: Professor Maria Fusco
Gilbert White's House & Gardens @gilbertwhites.bsky.social Home to the 18th Century Naturalist and the Oates Collections. Museum, Garden, Cafe, Brewery & Tap room.
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
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 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
David Fallon @sapientpig.bsky.social
@robertdunbar.bsky.social @robertdunbar.bsky.social
Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social FRHistS SFHEA; Vice President @bars.bsky.social; Senior Lecturer @newcastleuni.bsky.social;
🇮🇪 & 🏴 Studies, 1798, labouring class poetry, transatlantic networks, MedHums; Member @thencps.bsky.social
Didn’t come up the Lagan in a bubble
The London Stage Database @londonstagedb.bsky.social A digital humanities project documenting the history of performance in 18th-century London. Visit the database at https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu
Adam Bridgen @adambridgen.bsky.social Studies working-class poetry and letters from 1650-1850, in context of empire and slavery, land politics, ecology, and the non-human world.
-- Now https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/adam-j-bridgen/
-- Next: international fellow @lias1.bsky.social
Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social Material bodies, social identities & embodiment. University of Birmingham. https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social, @earlymodernemma.bsky.social, @leverhulme.bsky.social
#bodyhistory #18thcen #18thcletters
Lynda Clark @lyndac.bsky.social Writer, reader, gamer. Still mostly bogling to Aswad. https://wouldyouliketochangethedifficultysetting.wordpress.com/
Any pronouns.
No alt text? No follow, no matter how cool & interesting you are.
There will be swears.
Kate Ferrier @kateferrier.bsky.social sgsah funded PhD | letters & literary networks of the Scottish novelist Susan Ferrier | Aberdeen & Edinburgh | she/her
Catherine Quirk, PhD @catherinequirk.bsky.social Dog mum. Senior Lecturer in Drama. Coffee lover, writer, actor, director, (digital) theatre historian, Victorianist. Language learner. Likes &c my own. she/her. 🌈
Dr Kate Newey @dr-kate-newey.bsky.social Nineteenth century scholar. Eternal ballet student and weightlifter. Reader and writer. Sometimes.
Charlotte Mathieson @cemathieson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19th Century English Literature, University of Surrey.
Victorian lit, mobilities, & skin studies.
Co-ed. Palgrave Studies in Mobilities, Literature & Culture. She/her
https://charlottemathieson.wordpress.com
Michelle A. Taylor @michelletaylor.bsky.social The lazy laughing Jenny of the bard | fellow at Magdalene, Cam; once Emory FCHI & St Hilda’s, Ox | essays in The New Yorker, FT Mag, The Point, The Nation, &c. | modernism & coterie, w/ a taste for the archive
https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/user/taylor
University of Aberdeen Centre for the Novel @aucfn.bsky.social The Centre for the Novel is a research centre dedicated to the study of the novel in all its forms, based at the University of Aberdeen. Visit our homepage here:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/llmvc/research/novel/
hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow, a university in Scotland / Lead Judge, a literature prize
British Association for Romantic Studies ECRs & Postgraduates @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social British Association for Romantic Studies Early-Career & Postgraduate account. Posting news of interest to @bars.bsky.social members/followers. Admin: PGR/ECR Officers.
Yimon Lo @yimonlo.bsky.social Director of Textual Studies @cmtac.bsky.social | Author 'Musical Wordsworth' @LivUniPress | 'George Crabbe and Medicine' @CambridgeUP | PhD @durham_uni | Membership Secretary @BARS_official | yimonlo.com
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
researchdoom @bananaintherama.bsky.social 'To thine own self be true.' 🇬🇧. Academic, mother, wife, carer, 🐱 mum, tree-hugger. Interested in politics, democracy & civic rights, books, history, disability rights, music, gardening, plants. Follows & RTs not endorsements. No DMs.
Jonathan Webber @jonathanwebber.bsky.social Half victim, half accomplice, like everyone
Pekka Väyrynen @vayrynen.bsky.social Philosophy professor at University of Leeds. Metaethics | academic life | "a satisficer with really high standards" (said by a colleague, fairly). https://vayrynen.org
Dr. James Aston @jamesaston.bsky.social Cinema interests are predominantly Horror, American Alt and Indie, and East Asian cinema.
Alex Danvers @drdanvers.bsky.social Social Psychologist, Data Scientist, Baseball Fan, Dog Dad, Improviser
David P. Carey @dpcarey123.bsky.social Neuropsychologist working at Bangor university. Perplexed by marketisation of universities, Brexit, Farage, Trump and neoliberals in general.
Josh Miller @jdmiller.bsky.social Psychology professor interested in personality and psychopathology.
Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social Historian of Modern France at QMUL
Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social historian of Victorian culture & politics (esp w material culture); curator & public historian; education advocate. Obsessed with 1884. Otherwise, on a bicycle. he/him
Andrew Hobbs @drewhobbs.bsky.social Historian of the provincial press,looking at how 19C local papers and 20C county magazines express our sense of place. Despairing socialist. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=20iBowIAAAAJ
Shannon Murray @shannonkmmurray.bsky.social I teach Shakespeare and children’s lit on the beautiful Prince Edward Island — and I write about teaching for hope in higher ed.
Cat T @cattownsend.bsky.social Anthropologist, gardener, animal lover, fantasy & sci-fi fan. Climate anxious. She/they.
Dan Wall @kindabluesky.bsky.social English Dept., Aberdeen University. Scottish and Irish Lit., Romantic & C19th fiction, poetry, biography and periodicals; Co-Director, AU Centre for the Novel. Wannabe culinary innovator & occasional wanderer o'er vales and hills. He/him. Views own.
Craig Walmsley @craigwalmsley.bsky.social Medium height, medium build, brown hair, grey eyes.
Knows way too much about John Locke (1632-1704).
And Prince (God I miss Prince).
Charles Snodgrass @charles-snodgrass.bsky.social English Professor | Certified Whisky Ambassador | Chess Player | Aesthete-in-Training
Dr Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social English Prof @SFUenglish; Director @sfuscottishstudies; #18thc.; early #19thc; #bookhistory; #culturalmemory; early #circus; amateur #trad musician
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social An international community at the heart of the University of Edinburgh bringing together over 3,000 staff and students.
https://llc.ed.ac.uk/
David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social Historian. Manager. Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Business and Education, University of the Highlands and Islands. https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/about-uhi/senior-management/professor-david-worthington/
Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social Assistant Librarian (rare books), University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections
medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social cognitive medievalist (researching climate in medieval literature) | working remotely at Durham University, UK | lost decade at The SunBreak & Seattlest | outdoor photographer see https://mikevanbaker.myportfolio.com/work
Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social 🎓part time Post grad (MPhil Res) Scottish Literature, University Of Glasgow, looking at the work of Edwin Muir, specifically Poor Tom.
Powered by coffee ☕️
📚avid reader & self confessed Scottish Literature geek
👵Older than I look but not wiser 🤪
Dr Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social Novelist, non-fiction writer and academic.
Writing a book about Arthur in the British Imagination from 1138-present.
Often not thinking about the 21st century by default
(he/him)
inigopurcell.wordpress.com
Dr Sally Tuckett @sallytuckett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting