Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social ars longa, vita brevis
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/faculty/jr75399
Zarena Aslami @zda.bsky.social Scholar & teacher, 19th-C British Lit & culture. Author of Marginal Sovereignty: The Literatures of Empire and the Making of Victorian Afghanistan, 1798-1900 (coming soon, Cornell UP). Currently researching race, empire, disability, & eugenics.
Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social Victorianist, English prof, Dickens Notes co-editor, novel fiend, Brit.
Kate Flint @kateflint.bsky.social uprooted transatlantic nomad; academically drawn to nineteenth century art, lit and culture; otherwise to cats, owls, hawks and the rest of the non-human natural world (except for cockroaches and clothes moths); travel; drawing; and resisting.
Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social PhD candidate @ UNC-Chapel Hill - C19 Anglophone literature; lover of information, narration, sensation, and interpretation - He/him
Dr. Cherrie Kwok @cherriekwok.bsky.social Assistant Professor
cherriekwok.github.io
Becky Richardson @beckyrichardson.bsky.social Romantic/Victorian lit, ecocriticism, medical humanities/disability studies, self-help discourse, writing/rhetoric studies & pedagogy. Also lots of amateur bird photography (and whatever wildlife will pose for me).
Meghna Sapui @meghnasapui.bsky.social I write about literature, empire, & race. She/her.
https://www.meghnasapui.com/
Sandra Macpherson @sandramacpherson.bsky.social Still obsessed with Sylvia Townsend Warner. Making cocktails and talking about cats. (I am a dixhuitiemiste at an R1, but mostly teach film and whatever-the-hell-else they want me to teach.)
Iqra Shagufta Cheema @cheema.bsky.social 📚: The Other MeToos + ReFocus: Films of Annemarie Jacir
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social she/her | Victorian Studies, Disability Studies, Children's Lit | Assistant Professor at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan | Dog Enthusiast and Very Bad Cook | views my own | profile pic ctsy of retrospect photography
Douglas Small @drdouglassmall.bsky.social Drug Historian. Author of ‘Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930’. Histories of Victorian medicine & science. #c19th #medhums
he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Website: https://douglassmall.com
Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Teesside University. Interests: fin-de-siecle literature; women’s writing; socialist writing and print culture; the Gothic; literary representations of insects.
Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social Professor of English. _Melodramatic Imperial Writing from the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes_ (2014). Current project on cosmic romance. Books, TV, running, biking, 🦖, 🏳️🌈
Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social Energy Infrastructures & C19 Periodical Press at Uni Bremen | Scottish Literature, EnvHums | she/her
Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social Visiting Fellow in Victorian Literature at Loughborough University @lboroenglish.bsky.social
#19thcentury & pre-war popular fiction
Author of Marie Corelli - https://www.eerpublishing.com/turner-marie-corelli.html
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4597-4354
Dr Anne Chapman @anniechapman.bsky.social Head of Learning, Teaching and Quality- GCU London. Academic Development. 19th century literature and culture, periodicals.
EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social Research Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies at Edge Hill University
• Co-Directors:
@catherinequirk.bsky.social, @DrBeard79.bsky.social @DigiVictorian.bsky.social
Founding Co-Director: @VictorianMasc.bsky.social
• https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/
Erin Spamp @erinspampinato.bsky.social Mostly mushroom musings
Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social Victorianist & lit professor, gardener, lover of quirky details. Writing sporadically at https://andreakastontange.com
Ryan Fong @rdfong.bsky.social Increasingly wayward Victorianist becoming increasingly invested in Critical Indigenous Studies. Mixed Chinese Am settler living on Bodéwadmi land. Very queer. Very abolitionist. Very much not representing my employer. 🤘🏽🐵 l ♍️🌞♑️🌛♉️⬆️ I 2⛰️4🌱3🌳
Dr KD Holzer @kdholzer.bsky.social Victorian lit & periodicals, Empire, New Women, colonial feminism, 13YO, 7YO, stitching, jogging, bees http://kellieholzer.com
Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social Mama. Partner. Writer. Professor of Victorian literature at Dartmouth. Former dean and provost, enjoying another run at faculty life. Co-founder of Dever Justice LLC.
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian and digital humanist obsessed with analog tech; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social English prof, easily distracted Victorianist
Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social (he/him/his) Associate Professor, Crip Queer Poet: c18/c19 British Literature and Culture / Disability Studies / Health Humanities / History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)
travisclau.com
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social Writer and former English professor. Author of *The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science* (Virginia 2024). Death positive. Interested in animals, environments, and all things Victorian.
Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com Victorianist • Utopianist • Environmentalist • Essayist • 100% AI-Free
Links to All the Things: linktr.ee/doctorwafflewrites
Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social Nineteenth-century fiction, print cultures, media, technologies, environments
Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social I like thinking about Victorian care, disability, feminism, and also cooking (not necessarily Victorian).
ECF journal (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) @ecfjournal.bsky.social ECF is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly devoted to the critical and historical investigation of literature and culture of 1660-1832. Editor Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University. Posts by ECF editors; contact: ecf@mcmaster.ca.
Pamela K Gilbert @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Shalyn Claggett @badvictorianist.bsky.social EQUAL NATURES (SUNY Press 2023), co-editor of STRANGE SCIENCE (U of Michigan P 2017). Victorian lit, science, and culture. Magic lantern enthusiast.
Carolyn Day @carolynaday.bsky.social British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).
E Womack @ecwomack.bsky.social Born in Texas but got to Philly as fast as I could. Victorian studies, painting, gardening, & naps.
Opinions expressed here are my own and do not represent those of my employer or any other organization.
Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social Lit (& other fiction) scholar; writer; teacher; person. Local AAUP board, active for higher ed. Research: media, emotions, marriage, horror.
Forthcoming: The Quiet Fight: Marriage, Time, and the Fiction of Love Trouble (SUNY Press).
Dr. காயத்ரி @litoraptor.bsky.social english phd | anglophone world literature | environmental humanities | VAP | full-time mom
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
oishani @oishani.bsky.social
race, print culture, pictures
into funny/uncanny things
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)
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
profchander @profchander.bsky.social bad at most things
Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
Emily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social assoc prof of English at Penn (c19 British lit, novel theory, mass politics, labor, history of science), author of Populating the Novel
Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first.
Stephanieinsleyhershinow.com
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social Professor at UChicago | bird nerd | lakefront enjoyer | violin player | book hoarder 🚲🦩🏳️🌈
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social Executive Director of the MLA. Book reader. Bike rider. Please renew your membership! www.mla.org/Membership/About-Membership
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/
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social Yesterday's pickles
Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social Writing and teaching about C19 literature, empire, race, and climate collapse. Editor of Victorian Poetry (JHUP). Lover of all things goth. She / her.
Nora Gilbert @noragilbert.bsky.social Prof. of old British novels and old Hollywood movies
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
annaeclark.com
Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social For you
I've saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches,
teaches at UChicago | editor & indexer | proud member of SEIU local 73
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/
Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com
Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social Utopia enthusiast and former Internet personality
Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
The Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social Bluesky page for the international Dickens Society www.dickenssociety.org
Julie Wise @juliemariewise.bsky.social I teach literature and writing, and I write about late-Victorian poetry and poets.
Noah Chaskin @chaskin.bsky.social Weary academic studying queer/crip narrative form in the loooooong 18th century. Chronic illness my significant other, a cat named Fudge my familiar. They/them
Prof. Devin gRiff @devo3000.bsky.social USC prof and writer, hiker and biker, science, humanities and eco theory fanboy interested in just about everything. Books: /Age of Analogy/ & /After Darwin/. Only one in the house who's NOT a Swiftie.
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. 🌈
Daniel Wright @dannybwright.bsky.social Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto. The novel, literature and philosophy, gender and sexuality.
THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=37186
GREAT EXPECTATIONS https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324046721
Ashley Miller @ashleymiller.bsky.social Victorianist, cicada enthusiast. I sought a pleasant peninsula and I looked about me
Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) @emilyjlm.bsky.social Digital Humanities Lecturer @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Victorianist, periodicals scholar, Dickensian
Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social Associate prof of ENGL, Marquette U • c18 lit • disability studies • cat dad • gay married to @nyitray • frequenter of mosh pits and libraries
Alex Wagstaffe @green-romantic.bsky.social Indigenous academic studying Gothic Romantic literature. Also interested in expanding into Indigenous literature. Genderfluid, pansexual, greyro (they/them)
Lauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social teaching lit; writing about C19 performance, spectators, narrative; opinions my own; she/they- M Miriam Elizabeth Burstein @miriameburstein.bsky.social English professor, Victorianist, inveterate book-buyer
Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Emory. Victorian lit, legal & political theory, novels.
Deirdre Mikolajcik @dearmik.bsky.social PhD | Writer | Village Witch | Recovering Academic | Productive Dilettante
Kathleen Lubey @kathylubey.bsky.social i study pornography, profess literature, cook food, sip cocktails. kathleenlubey.com
Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social English and Cultural Studies prof; poet; editor of @ecfjournal.bsky.social. Thinking in semiotic squares and cosmological circles. she/they/we
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.
Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social PhD researching imperialism, colonialism, and chronic illness. I'm really fun at parties.
Literature Lady, Ph.D. @literaturelady.bsky.social Emod women's lit, books, history, food, gardens, IT, hard of hearing. AKA The Literature Lady of Twitter.
Victoria W. @vcwiet.bsky.social Professor turned MSLIS student interested in performance archives, visual culture + the history of sexuality | Connoisseur of underperforming NYC sports teams | probably rewatching Mad Men. Opinions mine.
Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social Feminist educator and writer; 19C Americanist; Co-Author of The New College Classroom; Environmentalist. Proud CUNY graduate and Managing Director of ACERT at Hunter College. Opinions are my own.
Grace Lavery @gracelavery.bsky.social ❤️🩹🥝🩺🧨🫀 tr*nny dianny / / / surplus scholar 📚🎥🛍🪗🧻
** QUAINT, EXQUISITE (Princeton UP, 2019); PLEASE MISS (Seal, 2022); PLEASURE AND EFFICACY (Princeton UP, 2023). Repped by Kent Wolf at Neon Literary. **
Lindsey E. R. O’Neil @lindseyeroneil.bsky.social “Mommy is a nuisance” - Son
https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0031Q00002cu3B2QAI/lindsey-oneil
Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social Associate Professor in an academic library. Publishes on British romantic literature, climate change, plant humanities, librarianship, social justice, and pedagogy. Not gay as in happy, queer as in free Palestine.
Dr. Rebekah Greene @drrcgreene.bsky.social Things I like: #Victorian Studies, Adventure, #Scottish Studies, Material Culture,Technical Writing, #Classic Film. Trivia. Cute Pets.