Andy Bass @andybassny.bsky.social Historian. Authored 40-page journal article on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 12 visits to Westchester County. Led successful campaigns to preserve/protect a historic riding stable and a former train station.
#publichistory
Westchester County, New York
Chloo 💖 @luminaura.bsky.social late night thoughts turn into early morning trouble if you play it right 😈 🎀
Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social Art Historian, working on exh. proposal re: Pissarro-Millet-Courbet for 2030. Sometimes teaching at Univ of Toronto Mississauga. Ph.D., U of Michigan. Live in Toronto. Canadian. Gardening, travel, philately. I block probable bot accts.
Javier Padilla @jpadillar.bsky.social Assoc. Professor @ Colgate Univ. interested in poetry, postcolonial, Irish, and Latin American Literatures.
@markottawa.bsky.social @markottawa.bsky.social 
Daisy May Johnson @chaletfan.bsky.social Author of How To Be Free, How To Be Brave & How To Be True. I also research school stories, juvenilia, and girlhood in children's literature.
didyoueverstoptothink.com
Dr Elizabeth English @drelizabethenglish.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Co-lead on AHRC project (2025-2029): 100 Years of The Well of Loneliness
Elizabeth Crawford @womanssphere.bsky.social Historian. Researcher and writer. In the past sold books by and about women. European. FRHistS. OBE.
Website womanandhersphere.com
New book - https://tinyurl.com/5cdn7dw9 (Bloomsbury) or https://amzn.eu/d/0j4JlLyR (Amazon)
Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social Classics and English Lit PhD student funded by the AHRC, Kings College London. Interested in Victorian classical and medieval reception + literary representation of horses
I shoot on pretentious retro cameras…
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
English Studies in Canada @englishstudiesca.bsky.social English Studies in Canada is a premier peer-reviewed journal welcoming submissions in all fields of literature and culture in English. ESC has a global reach, and is read in over 100 countries.
Martin Robb @drmartinrobb.bsky.social Educator, researcher and writer on care theory and practice. Senior Lecturer, School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care at The Open University (UK). Co-editor, 'Children & Society'. Host of 'Careful Thinking' podcast. https://linktr.ee/drmartinrobb56
Lou Pinelli (they/them) @loupinelli.bsky.social English & comparative literature scholar, currently based in northern Italy
lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading- B @bibliotecharius.bsky.social @bibliotecharius.bsky.social
MSA Modernism & Environment SIG @msa-modenviro.bsky.social Official account for @moderniststudies.bsky.social's Modernism & Environment Special Interest Group | Scholars dedicated to the environmental humanities and modernist studies 🌳 📖
https://sites.google.com/risd.edu/modernism-and-environment/home?authuser
John D. Attridge @johndattridge90.bsky.social English Researcher in Modernisms, Marxism, class, labour and working-class literatures and pedagogies | Forster, Woolf, Rhys, Conrad and Lawrence | Assistant Book Review Editor for 'The Space Between Journal 1914-1945'
Sharon Hardwick @shazknit.bsky.social Labour Camden Councillor 2022-26 | Free school dinners | TU Rep | European | Literary knitter. 🇺🇦🇪🇺
Jessica Meyer @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social Historian, cook, gardener, knitter, reader, mother, wife, not in any particular order.
Melissa Bradshaw @missybradshaw.bsky.social Feminist modernist studies, American poetry, material culture, textual studies, periodical studies, DH, and all things diva at Loyola University Chicago. President of the Modernist Studies Association, Director of the Amy Lowell Letters Project.
Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence @secretsandspies.bsky.social A transatlantic podcast exploring the world of espionage, terrorism, geopolitics, and intrigue | Co-hosted by @chriscarrfilm.bsky.social and @mattfulton.net | linktr.ee/secretsandspies
THE SOE and British Culture @covertcultures.bsky.social The SOE, Covert Action, and the British Cultural Imaginary: @LeverhulmeTrust funded project based at @READEnglish, Durham University: https://soeandbritishculture.webspace.durham.ac.uk/
Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social Professor of Modern Literature and Director of Research in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at UEA. Co-editor “‘The People‘ and British Literature” (CUP) out now. Writing “The Collective Voice” for Stanford UP. Literature & Politics.
Anne Wetherilt @annefw.bsky.social Visiting Fellow in English,The Open University, working on the politics and economics of decolonisation in the novel.
Lang Thompson @funhousejournal.bsky.social Where Batman meets Henry James.
Ginevra @ginevralares.bsky.social Books cats dogs peace
Tanya Kirk @tanyakirk.bsky.social Librarian at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Curated a Fantasy exhibition at the British Library. Views my own. She/her
International E. M. Forster Society @emforstersociety.bsky.social The promotion of international research, events and publications on E. M. Forster and his works.
Contact: internationalemforstersociety@gmail.com
Website: http://society.emforster.de/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@I.E.M.F.S./streams
Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
@jade1927.bsky.social @jade1927.bsky.social 
Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher & critic. Author: Culture Wars in Britain (May, 2026). Columnist at Vector. Incoming editor of Foundation.
Nonbinary (they/them)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
https://linktr.ee/nick_hubble
Rob Spence @spencro.bsky.social Former Eng Lit academic. Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Fitzgerald, Robert Nye, but mainly Anthony Burgess, a fellow Mancunian.
robspence.org.uk shinynewbooks.co.uk
victorcrabbe on Insta
Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/rob611
Debra Rae Cohen @debraraecohen.bsky.social Distinguished Professor of English Emerita, University of South Carolina; former co-editor, Modernism/modernity. Modernism and media, especially the BBC; women's writing in war and crisis. Fuck ICE and all its works. Eat the rich. Protect your neighbors. 🍉
Tanya Izzard @tanyaizzard.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 I'm a book indexer working on scholarly humanities titles. Other hats include being the Marketing lead for the UK Society of Indexers and my E.M. Delafield website. https://tanyaizzard.co.uk/about/tanya-izzards-links/
@nicola-wilson.bsky.social @nicola-wilson.bsky.social Associate Professor Book and Publishing Studies.
Author of Recommended! The influencers who changed how we read (2025)
Co-Director Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP) and Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP)
Vanessa Vanden Berghe @vbruggemeyer.bsky.social Senior lecturer @chelseaUAL | PhD on the domestic work of Oliver Hill during the interwar period @MIRC_KU |
Katie Harling-Lee @katieosha.bsky.social Literature academic & bookish person based around Edinburgh, Scotland, curiously crossing disciplinary boundaries in work and life 📚
Current in-progress project: researching Quaker Silence in the novels of neglected author Dorothy Canfield Fisher 🌸
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
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
D.H.Lawrence @dhlawrencesoc1974.bsky.social We aim to promote knowledge and understanding of the life and work of D.H Lawrence, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century
@wellofloneliness.bsky.social @wellofloneliness.bsky.social AHRC-funded research project tracing the reception of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) over the past century and bringing the novel to new readers. Project website: https://thewellofloneliness.com/
Alice Kelly @dralicekelly.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Literature & History @ University of Warwick | Commemorative Modernisms (2020) | Ed. Wharton, Fighting France (2015) | Currently working on NYC in the 1920s
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social Independent scholar of popular romance fiction https://www.vivanco.me.uk/ On the Editorial Board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies https://www.jprstudies.org/
My database of scholarship about romances: https://rsdb.vivanco.me.uk
Can't access chat
Aaron Scott @carefulcrosser.bsky.social PhD student @UniKent | Researching the fall of sleep in modernist literature | CCCU Student Information Officer | 🔴 Arsenal ⚪ | he/him
Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies, U. Otago | President International Flann O’Brien Society & ISAANZ | PI Marsden Project ‘Modern Immunity’ | co-author w/ Matthew Hayward of The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonisation, Radical Campuses and Modernism
Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature. Interests - women writers walking in rural spaces. Currently co-editing The Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine - co-organiser @placeperiodical.bsky.social
Modernism/modernity @mmodernity.bsky.social The official journal of the Modernist Studies Association. 
Jenny Kenyon @jennykenyon.bsky.social 20th century literature & sound | SWW DTP funded PhD @bristoluni.bsky.social & @exeter.ac.uk | PG rep @modernistudies.bsky.social | Patrick Hamilton appreciation society
Julie Wassmer @juliewassmer.bsky.social New to Blue Sky! TV drama writer, author & environmental campaigner. My Whitstable Pearl crime novels are now a recurring 6-part TV drama series starring Kerry Godliman, Howard Charles & Frances Barber. 
Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social Reading, writing, & thinking about cosmopolitanism, internationalism, decadence, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, modernism – & Una Marson, Nancy Cunard, Edith Wharton, & other people & things like that. Leverhulme ECF in English at University of Edinburgh.
Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker.
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. PPIE. Lived Experience. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces.
she/her. Views own
Lillian @hingleytheory.bsky.social Tutor and Researcher in English Literature, University of Oxford.
PhD on Adorno and Anglophone Modernist Lit. Snoopy, Charli XCX and Kafka Stan.
lillianhingleydphil.wordpress.com
Miss Parple @realmissparple.bsky.social Cataloguer of crooks and books 🍑💨🔍📚
https://missparplesminimysteries.tumblr.com/
Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Exeter | Queer & Trans visual & literary culture 1880-1930 | current project 'Aestheticism, Sexology, and the Making of Trans Feeling' | they/them
@kristinbluemel.bsky.social @kristinbluemel.bsky.social 
Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social Books, history & nature. Politics, 48%. Writer, Lecturer, History of journalism City University. My book Wildly Different, about women and nature is now in paperback!
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
Of course I'm a feminist!
I Never use AI
Genevieve Brassard @gbrassard.bsky.social Professor of English, University of Portland
Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture, UCL. Proudly Cornish and quasi-Italian. Interested in the 1930s (1848-1950). Biographer of Celia Fremlin.
Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social Research Fellow @USW, C19th literature, spatial theory, digital humanities, walking, black metal, black coffee and animals.
Doyle @drcdoyle.bsky.social comrade, one last handshake before the end of the world
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metadata nerd @versobooks.bsky.social
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social IRISH MODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL HEALTH (OUP); Director and Qualitative Research Lead of Transnnual; BAIS and BSLS Executive; Co-host of 'Censored'; FRHistS and FHEA.
Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social Professor of English at Idaho State University. Modernism, comics, popular forms. Author: The New Old Style (U Nebraska P), Violent Minds (Cambridge UP). Co-Editor: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. You can call me Matt.
matthewlevay.com
Dr. Rebekah Greene @drrcgreene.bsky.social Things I like: #Victorian Studies, Adventure, #Scottish Studies, Material Culture,Technical Writing, #Classic Film. Trivia. Cute Pets.
Wim Van Mierlo @wvmierlo.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/wimvanmierlo
Senior Lecturer in English at Loughborough University with 'an air of cranky scholarship about him'
Author of James Joyce and Cultural Genetics: The Joycean Genome (Bloomsbury)
Documentary and Heritage Photographer
Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social Writer. Literary & cultural historian.
Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni.
Expertise: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters, queer genders + sexualities, health humanities.
Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies
https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
Golden Age Mysteries Ltd. @goldenagemysteries.bsky.social Golden Age Mysteries Limited hosts the Agatha Christie and Golden Age of Crime international conferences. These unique events bring together scholars, researchers and enthusiasts for fresh conversations and collaborations around detective fiction 🕵🏻♀️📚
Nanette O’Brien @nobriennanette.bsky.social Honorary research fellow in English, University of Hull; interested in modernism, food and the environment. Author of “Food and Culture in the Works of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf” (OUP, 2024); also childhood, reading and play
Alex Goody @alex-goody.bsky.social Academic, killjoy feminist, dog owner, mum to neurodivergent kids; working in modernist studies, sf and speculative fiction, technology studies, poetry
Emily Cuming @emilycuming.bsky.social Associate Professor in Literature and Cultural History; author of Maritime Relations (CUP, 2025) and Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing (CUP, 2016)
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11398-emily-cuming
dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social Woolf Doctor | Turns squiggles into angle brackets | modernism, digital humanities, bad puns | he/him | would prefer not to
Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social This is the official MSA Bluesky account run by @kweingarten.bsky.social. Find us at moderniststudies.org for more information about future conferences and other events.
Madeleine Rose @madeleinerose.bsky.social Oxford University, DPhil English | Modernism and Ecocriticism | she/her
naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester
Collector of fictional mid-twentieth-century dykes - send tips
www.naoisemurphy.com
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queering-twentieth-century-irish-women-s-writing.html
Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social Researching modernism, queer networks, literature and silent cinema 📚🎞️ writing about the POOL group 🌊 teaching film and poetry. She/her.
Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social art, architecture, environment & politics | former UKHE worker | GPEW (but here as a civilian) | chief distractions: novels, poetry, botany, buildings | he/him | Green Light (2006)
Jane Eldridge Miller @jeldmiller.bsky.social 
emma short @emmashort.bsky.social thinking about hotels, modernism, and the environment. not necessarily at the same time.
assistant professor of modern & contemporary literature at durham university.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22129-4
Disablement, Free Time & Work Under Capitalism @disprecwork.bsky.social Exploring the politics of disablement, paid & unpaid work under capitalism & 'free time' | @cerasellachis.bsky.social
disability politics | work | precarity | resistance | social security | rest | free time | bread and roses | #book | #PolEcon | sociology
Dr. Thinking is fun @evenannaliese.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of English & Dir. of Academic Writing. Close Reader. Thinking is Magic. 🪄
Beth Campbell @bethlcampbell.bsky.social teuchter in London🏴 | AHRC/LAHP funded PhD on British women writing about the countryside 1918-1939 @ KCL 🌾
Hayley G. Toth @tothhayley.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University (2023-26)
READING POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE: From Professional to Non-Professional Practices (LUP, 2025)
COLLECTIVE FORM: Cultural Collaboration in Black Liberation Struggles, 1976-82 (ongoing)
Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social ECR, Visiting Scholar at Uni of Leeds. Feminism, modern & contemporary lit, affect, activism in literature, env hums, med hums, place writing, transnationalism. She/her
Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Former Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social Lecturer in Lit & Gender, Uni of Bristol
📚Author: Life Writing & the End of Empire (24) https://bit.ly/4aoZrru
📝Co-editor: Janet Frame at 100 (25), British Culture After Empire (23) https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159748/
Views my own
Kate Macdonald 📚 🧶 @kateem.bsky.social Writer, Vintage SFF Reviews editor strangehorizons.com. Stealth publisher peachfieldpress.uk. New novel: Radical Magic! https://peachfield-press.sumupstore.com/product/radical-magic. Archaeological recorder, knitter, grandmother of frogs.
Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); noncanonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.