Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social 19C British literature; seriality; transmedia; popular culture; fictionality.
Assoc. Prof of English. Author of Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century, Palgrave 2022. Views are my own, not my employer's.
Anne Rodrick @chattyfootnote.bsky.social Historian of 19thc Europe; “Lecturing the Victorians” now out via Bloomsbury. Slightly goofy teacher, mom, bell-ringer, Dem. My grandpa was one of Harry Truman’s fishing buddies.
Ali Hatapçı @alihatapci.bsky.social History and geographies of science, periodicals, and images in C19 Britain @Université Bourgogne Europe
til.ube.fr/membres/ali-hatap
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Jessica O’Toole @jessicaotoole.bsky.social Graduate teaching assistant in English Literature at North Carolina State University. 19th century British lit, women in the periodical press, dachshund enthusiast.
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social Studying the Victorian connection between women and birds is great fun, but I’d love a job. Network & Development Officer for VPFA and Co-Reviews Editor for VPFJ. All views my own.
Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social Teaching research writing @PWRStanford, writing about interwar expatriate infrastructure (& passports & steamships & newspapers), book reviews editor @JMPS, MSA board member, SFUSD parent
Joshua Grey @joshua-grey.bsky.social Pronouns: they/he
PhD Candidate at Monash University and University of Warwick. Thesis: 'The Conservative Press and the British World, c.1780-c.1830'
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u1913619/
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social Book historian. Special interests in history books (as material objects) and Eliza Orme (Victorian lawyer). Past president of SHARP (2009-2013).
https://lesliehowsam.ca/
Digital Futures, Digital Literacies Lab @dfdl-yorku.bsky.social DFDL investigates digital platforms & users’ experiences, from social media to gaming platforms to AI.
York University, Toronto, ON
https://www.yorku.ca/laps/research/questioning-kidtech/
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.
Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social Victorianist. President of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and Editor of the Curran Index for the RSVP. Author: Darwinism's Generations. The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909 (2024). Check me out at profmartinhewitt.com
Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS) @esprit-jeps.bsky.social Publishing on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present; the flagship journal of ESPRit, published bi-annually by Ghent University.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Lucy Lawrence @lucyklawrence.bsky.social AHRC PhD student at Newcastle University | Late-Victorian print culture, the environmental humanities, periodical studies, aestheticism/decadence, Celtic studies, & the history of science | she/her
Elizabeth Fraser @elizabethfr.bsky.social Assistant Commissioning Editor for
Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
@tonyodounga.bsky.social @tonyodounga.bsky.social PhD student. Victorian culture. #women's networks. #The EWJ. #Empowerment.
Sharin Schroeder @sharinfschroeder.bsky.social 
Annemarie McAllister @demon-drink.bsky.social Cultural historian interested in the UK temperance movement, including its songs, buildings, publications, entertainments, teaching activities, and much more, together with its legacy and contemporary resonances.
Romance, Revolution & Reform @rrrjournal.bsky.social Nineteenth-century, O/A journal welcoming Humanities and Social Sciences research from scholars at all career stages.
www.rrrjournal.com
EiC @katiemacleann | Dep Ed Andie Lloyd
Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social Researches Victorian periodicals, visual culture, and literature. Teaches English lit. Probably the least online person you'll meet online.
Author of Discourses of Vision in C19th Britain: https://tinyurl.com/5bxvawy6
Julie Sorge Way @sorgeway.bsky.social PhD, teacher, researcher in DH & 19c women’s periodicals, general lover of in-between spaces 💙
Matthew Stephens (Dr) - 19th-century Newshound @c19thnewshound.bsky.social Historian, author, researcher. IHR Applied History Fellow. Specialist in the C19th press. PhD from Edge Hill University & British Library, funded by an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership. Thesis focuses on short-lived nineteenth-century newspapers.
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Thomas Smits @thomassmits.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Digital History and AI @ University of Amsterdam | visual and digital history | http://thomassmits.eu/ | co-director Amsterdam Computational History Lab https://achl.nl
Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own
drvicclarke.co.uk
Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social Professor at NC State University. Wandering between worlds of C19th British lit, comparative media studies, critical data literacies. Book *Digital Victorians* https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians
Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social University-Policy Engagement & ARIs at UPEN/UCL ∣ Impact at the RCA ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her
https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social Academic, Course Leader in English Literature at University of Portsmouth (but posts are my own, mind). Victorian literature, detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool UP, 2028).
Natalie M. Houston @nmhouston.bsky.social Reading poetry with computers | Assoc Prof, digital humanities & Victorian literature, U Mass Lowell | personal productivity coach for academics & adults with ADD | vegan, dog companion
Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social Lecturer in English Lit, focusing on Victorian poetry and the weirdness of subjective time.
Sofia Prado Huggins @sofiawithaphd.bsky.social currently in the market for a swamp or bog
Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social Dr.Dr. (no, really!) Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now
Troy J. Bassett @3volumenovel.bsky.social Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne. I have a database of >25k Victorian novels: www.victorianresearch.org/atcl
Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/professor-james-mussell
Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives, College of Humanities & Arts; Prof, 19c Lit & Digital Humanities. Co-ed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities.* Author of *Forget Me Not* <triproftri.wordpress.com>
Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian lit, and 19th century newspapers.
New book(s) coming soon, including Cambridge Companion to True Crime.
Rep: Aevitas
april patrick @aprilpatrick.bsky.social assoc prof. research in women's health, narrative med, periodicals, digital humanities. mom to 2 mostly-domesticated cats + 1 feral child.
book: Women's Health in Britain & America: Texts & Contexts (Palgrave) / next proj: women & wellness in periodicals
@tejapusapati.bsky.social @tejapusapati.bsky.social 
Kristine Moruzi @kmoruzi.bsky.social Associate Professor in Children’s Literature. Currently working on children’s literary culture, far right children’s books, and consent in YA fantasy
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. 
Mercedes Sheldon @mercedessheldon.bsky.social 19th Century Studies Scholar. Literature Lover. Enthusiastic Educator. Persnickety Parent. {she/her}
Katherine Malone @kmalonephd.bsky.social Scholar of 19th-century periodicals, literature, and culture. Editor of Victorian Periodicals Review.
Cathy Waters @catherinefaver.bsky.social Professor Emerita of Victorian Literature and Print Culture, Dickensian and long-distance walker.
Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social The only refereed journal that concentrates on the editorial and publishing history of Victorian periodicals.
Submissions: https://rs4vp.org/vpr.
Subscriptions: https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/victorian-periodicals-review
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org
Dr Clare Horrocks @drhorrocks.bsky.social SL in Cultural History, published researcher on Victorian magazine culture, Punch & Dickens. Submissions Editor for Victorian Periodicals Review (@RSVP)
Sarah Pelletier @sarahpelletier.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Carleton University (Ottawa 🇨🇦). English & Print Culture. Studying C19 typographical trade journals, skill, labour, gender, & race. Letterpress printer, bookbinder/boxmaker + book artist.
https://carleton.ca/english/people/sarah-pelletier/
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
Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on C19 literature & culture
Send submissions to submissionsvr@gmail.com
Website https://victorianreview.org/
Issues https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journal/508
Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social Prof. of British History and Culture at @universite-caen.bsky.social
Victorianist. Newspapers & magazines. Labour and the illustrated press.
Principal Investigator (PI) of @punchspocketbook.bsky.social.
She/her
Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social ❤️ editing texts 🎤 💃 Montréalaise in Nijmegen, Nederland
Dissertation doula • accompagnante au dépôt de thèse • hulp bij het afronden van je proefschrift
Book history • histoire du livre • boekgeschiedenis 
David Finkelstein @finkelsteind.bsky.social Business & Cultural Historian, personal capacity blurbs. Co-Editor, The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals, https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-british-colonial-periodicals.html
Beth Gaskell @bethgaskell.bsky.social Lead Curator, News & Moving Image at the British Library. Researcher of press history, military-media relations, and social and literary history in the long 19th century. Views all my own.
Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social I study 19th c periodicals (fr India & Britain), print culture, illustrations, British colonialism, book history. Always on the lookout for woodcuts, lithographs, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides. 
Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social assistant professor of 19thc lit at Louisiana State University, formerly at University of Hong Kong and University of East Anglia, UK.
Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
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