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
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
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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;
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Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social Writer & Professor Emerit (Roehampton), research facilitator & peer supporter for Survivors' Voices. Cornwall.
& see e.g. https://linktr.ee/shelleytrower
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
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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
Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social Improving health by understanding hidden experience.
Supported by Wellcome.
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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
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.
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Music Heritage Place @musicheritageplace.bsky.social AHRC-funded collaborative project between Royal Holloway and Newcastle University, unlocking the musical collections of England's county record offices.
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Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy |The Health Foundation | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
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)
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Kait Tremblay (they/them) @kaittremblay.bsky.social Narrative Director on Ambrosia Sky @softrains.bsky.social.
Horror writer, former book editor, genderfluid and queer. Rep'd by Jake Babad, WCA
Also: Seasonala Cemetery, A Mortician's Tale, Grindstone, Watch Dogs Legion
www.thatmonstergames.com
Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Latest Book: WITHOUT CONSENT. Author, SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN.
http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social Contemporary Literature, Novels, Theory, Time, Reading, Sociology of Literature.
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
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
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
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Belinda Stuebinger @zbloodyqueen.bsky.social Writer, Literary Editor, Almost PhD, Lecturer
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Founder The Raven's Script @theravensscript.bsky.social
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Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social Asst. prof. at Utrecht U. Book review editor at the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. American poetry, popular fiction, love studies, animal studies. Reader of books, drummer of drums. Currently obsessed with Vikingism in popular culture. She/her.
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
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
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Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social Research network for literary & cultural modernisms | info@bams.ac.uk | Join http://bams.ac.uk/join-bams | The Modernist Review tmr@bams.ac.uk I #ModWrite
BACLS @bacls.bsky.social The official account of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies. www.bacls.org
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).
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Dr Leah Phillips @lephill.bsky.social Senior Lecturer & Programme Lead at @marjonuni. MA Lit for Social and Environmental Justice launching in ‘25 (pending final approvals). Author of Female Heroes in YA Fantasy & Founder of @YAStudiesAssoc. Views my own. Also, I read banned books.📚
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/
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.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!
Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history.
Early women barristers. Agatha Christie.
Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University.
📚 Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025)
📚 Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020)
#ActuallyAutistic
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!
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)
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
Dr Shelby Zimmerman @shelbyzimme.bsky.social Social historian of medicine, institutions, poverty, and death | PhD from Trinity College Dublin | Based in London
Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social Director of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities and Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Working on voice-hearing, psychosis, narrative, interdisciplinarity / Starting work on postpartum psychosis 
MedEmpathy @medempathy.bsky.social Bridging healthcare, research, narrative, social justice & technology
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Research Fellow, NTU-UK. Senior Researcher, UvA-NL. Honorary, UoB-UK. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/ She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian
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.
Spectres, Hauntings & Horrors @bloomsburyspectres.bsky.social Spectres, Hauntings & Horrors is a new book series published by Bloomsbury, edited by Prof Robert Edgar, Prof Dawn Keetley & Dr Adam J Smith.
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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, The Victorian Book of the Dead, 10 books on ghostlore. Death, mourning, dress history, Forteana. No politics. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee
Blog: https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com
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.
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/
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
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
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