Emma Rivers @emmrivers.bsky.social
Fraser Riddell @fraserriddell.bsky.social Teaches English. Research in Victorian literature, medical humanities, sensory studies, queer things, music 🎵 🏳️🌈 Leads the Affective Experience Lab, Durham.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
Lundy-creative @lundy-creative.bsky.social Link to my debut e-novel: A Brunch Tale payhip.com/NLundyM
Other Links (& FREE POEMS):
www.etsy.com/shop/NLundyM
www.instagram.com/lundy_nyc/
(Pictures that are not my own were sourced from: Pexels)
Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social Literary Editor, Beta Reader, Plant Dad
& future writer for PBS Digital Studios 🤞
Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social Artist and researcher. Academic Lecturer at University of Arts London. PhD from Middlesex University.
https://linktr.ee/Michael_Eden
Sarah Martin @aspaceofonesown.bsky.social Researching Golden Age Detective Fiction, and director of Golden Age Mysteries Ltd. Obsessive aerialist. ✨🤸🏻♂️
Talks quite a bit about Agatha Christie, ‘space’ and dresses. 👗
VIEWS MY OWN
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social What is the self? Is it a story that we tell ourselves? In this podcast, we turn to philosophy & literature for answers.
🎙️ScarlettBaron + AliceHarberd
https://open.spotify.com/show/2ae2RQYLbLop9oe10huOvp?si=6df3218256a24352
ReaderBank @thereaderbank.bsky.social The world's most ambitious study on reading, the imagination, and wellbeing.
Partnered with the Edinburgh International Book Festival | Funded by Wellcome
readerbank.org
Miranda L. Barnes @mirandab-oa.bsky.social Research Associate, Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences (MORPHSS), Uni. of Cambridge (Cambridge Digital Humanities & Cambridge University Library). Views my own.
[Find my poetry account at @luminousjune.bsky.social]
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
Comics & AI: Critical Prompts @comicsandai.org A one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity. 4 September 2025, City St George's, University of London. https://comicsandai.org/. Reposts are not endorsements.
International Institute for Qualitative Methodology @iiqm.bsky.social Advancing and pushing the boundaries of qualitative methods, and building connections and training among qualitative researchers. Based at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada), in Treaty Six Territory, with a 25+ year history.
Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social Research Fellow @USW, C19th literature, spatial theory, digital humanities, walking, black metal, black coffee and animals.
@bulut0667.bsky.social @bulut0667.bsky.social
Ahou Mostowfi @ahoumstwf.bsky.social Chronically indoors, mumbling to books, buried in PDFs, and side-eyeing the concept of ‘functioning’.
“but i don’t want to go among mad people.”
“oh, you can’t help that.”
“we’re all mad here.”
John Miers @johnmiers.bsky.social Cartoonist ⇄ academic. Some of my drawings are about having #multiplesclerosis. he/him. johnmiers.com
@onlinereader24.bsky.social @onlinereader24.bsky.social Former Prof of English and New Media. Now mainly tbf reading, playing pickleball and eating out
Sarah Betts @wromantichistry.bsky.social PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
Becky Higgins @beckhiggs.bsky.social PhD researcher/dog parent/budding skateboarder;
pro-abolition/anti-discrimination/still bisexual dw!!!
Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social Writer & Professor Emerit (Roehampton), research facilitator & peer supporter for Survivors' Voices. Cornwall.
& see e.g. https://linktr.ee/shelleytrower
Lyle "I'm not giving thanks for this" Skains @lskains.bsky.social I write and code and draw and crochet and stitch and lift and ride and swim and bike. No, I don't have a neurodivergence diagnosis, why do you ask? http://lyleskains.com
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Rep @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Dr Fiona Tolan @fionatolan.bsky.social Reader in Contemporary Women’s Writing, LJMU, UK. Contemporary British fiction, feminist theory, politics of cleaning. Posting in a personal capacity.
Rosario Arias @rosarioariasuma.bsky.social Professor of English Literature, University of Málaga; President of Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, and President of VINS Society💜📚🪴🎼👻
Dr. Thinking is fun @evenannaliese.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of English & Dir. of Academic Writing. Close Reader. Thinking is Magic. 🪄
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
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com Agatha Christie, queer theory, and offshore wind in one strange mix. I write crime fiction and books about crime fiction. Think of an awkward, once-high-achieving millennial Brit. Hello!
H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social 3000+ member H-Net academic network about the study of objects, the built environment, and materiality. @ us about your *things*, pubs, CFPs, syllabi, etc. #MaterialCulture Posts by @daniellekinsey.bsky.social
https://networks.h-net.org/h-material-culture
Assisted Lab @assistedlab.bsky.social ERC project on #aesthetics #law & #ethics of assisted dying.
To participate in our archive on films, texts, & other media that influence debates around assisted dying
👉 https://assistedlab.ch/
ComicScene @comicscene.bsky.social News and features supporting small press, indie and comics from the UK and beyond. Follow the ComicScene Culture Review on substack https://open.substack.com/pub/comicscene
Aimee Parkison @aimeeparkison.bsky.social Writing about Women, Human & Animal Rights. Wordsmith of Weird Fiction, Eco, Literary, Flash, Micros, Satire. Surreal Storyteller. Author, Professor, Editor, Creative Writing, Experimental Writing, Gender Studies, Collaborative www.aimeeparkison.com
Yugin Teo @yugin.bsky.social Principal Academic in Communications & English
Kazuo Ishiguro | memory | nostalgia | science fiction | robot carers | dementia | film | contemporary literature
he/him
Views own
http://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/yteo
@birtaswas.bsky.social @birtaswas.bsky.social
Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social Improving health by understanding hidden experience.
Supported by Wellcome.
durham.ac.uk/imh
medhumsplatform.org
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.
Annie James @arb0re1um.bsky.social Health Psychology PhD-c @ChristUniversity / Research assistant @UppsalaUniversity. STS (science and technology studies) and FNM (feminist new materialisms), in women’s reproductive health and psychology in South India/Europe. I do: 👩🏻🌾🌸🧗🏻♀️🏋🏻🦜
Tasha Alden @tashaalden.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction at @AberUni. Lit & philosophy/theology, esp. Iris Murdoch & M Robinson, language of fertility, queer historical fiction, MedHums. Schools / access. Buddhisty-Quaker. LWithTheT
Aaron Apollo Camp @campaaronapollo.bsky.social Author. Writer. Podcast host. Progressive Democrat. Sports fan. Nerd. On the autism spectrum. Downstate Illinoisan. Polysexual. Demiromantic. Authoritatively unserious. He/Him/His.
https://linktr.ee/campaaronapollo
Cinzia DuBois @cinzia-dubois.bsky.social 🏛️ Lady of the Library - YouTube & Podcast (350k subs)
📜 Literary Fiction. Classical Reception. Philosophy.
🏺 Classics PhD student specialising in contemporary literature.
🥀 Begrudgingly neurodivergent (Autistic, Dyslexic, ADHD)
Slasher Film | Horror Movie @slasherfilm2024.bsky.social WATCH THE TEASER TRAILER NOW on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/ebbrwb6f (Warning: 18+)
Movie coming soon. Calling all #HORROR fans.
#horrorcommunity
Ottawa, ON, Canada 🇨🇦
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Lucy Andrew @lucyvandrew.bsky.social Crime writer and crime fiction scholar. Jane Austen enthusiast. Rep’d by Euan Thorneycroft at A M Heath. Debut novel #AVeryVexingMurder published in 2026 by Corvus (Atlantic Books) and William Morrow (HarperCollins). Website: https://www.lucyandrew.com/
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
Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social Independent scholar and award-winning writer. Have taught at Bournemouth University, UAL and Bristol University. Mostly researching British comics, and especially the intersections of comics, gothic and children's lit. Ask me about Misty!
David Houston Jones @davidhoustonjones.bsky.social Cultist, academic, homebrewer. Beckett, art history & visual culture, forensics, visual medical humanities. Care, healthcare evidence, visual worlds. Installation art. University of Exeter. Author, Visual Culture & the Forensic. https://shorturl.at/oeLZp
Rebecca Mills (PhD) @drmllz.bsky.social Literary geography, crime fiction, literature and medicine, comedy of complicated life choices. Surviving the c-words. 🏳️🌈🇫🇮🇬🇧🇪🇺 Lecturer but views own. Loves all the cats except one. Formerly doombiscuits. Masked-up af.
Eret Talviste @erettalviste.bsky.social A hopeless Woolfian interested in English, Estonian, Irish, transnational modernisms, affects, and all kinds of creatures 🐙 Author of Strange Intimacies – Affect, Embodiment and Materiality in Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
Belinda Stuebinger @zbloodyqueen.bsky.social Writer, Literary Editor, Almost PhD, Lecturer
Horror/Crime and Serial Killers
Founder The Raven's Script @theravensscript.bsky.social
Co-founder Cereal Killer Network @cerealkillernet.bsky.social
BACLS @bacls.bsky.social The official account of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies. www.bacls.org
Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social Contemporary Literature, Novels, Theory, Time, Reading, Sociology of Literature.
Cereal Killer Network @cerealkillernet.bsky.social Warning: Not about Cereal 🥣
A network interested in exploring the mysterious world of Serial Killers.
Co-run by @katrinajan.bsky.social, zbloodyqueen.bsky.social, rebeccafrostwrites.com & Ross Conway.
Blog: https://cerealkillernet.wordpress.com/
Department of English, Dalhousie U @dal-english.bsky.social Founded in 1865, Dalhousie’s Department of English offers undergraduate programs in English Studies and Creative Writing, as well as MA and PhD degrees. https://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/english.html
Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social Academic, Course Leader in English Literature at U of Portsmouth; Associate Tutor, Oxford University ContEd. Victorian literature and detective fiction; Arthur Conan Doyle specialist. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool UP, 2028).
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)
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems