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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social Writer, film lover, Italian speaker, & children's news editor at Publishers Weekly (@pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social). Words in NYT Mag, Bright Wall/Dark Room, The Millions, Electric Lit, Lit Hub, Hey Alma, & more. All quips my own. emmakantor.com
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
Jane Fonda @janefonda.com Official account for the Actress, Author, Activist, Fitness Advocate
Lee Behlman @lbehlman.bsky.social Professor of English, Montclair State University
I write about things Victorian with teaching sidelines in the Bible and crime fiction. Movie fan. Thelma Ritter acolyte.
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Kate Lawson🍁 @kattl.bsky.social English Prof, U Waterloo, Victorian literature
Trees, urban forests, bikes, climate change, etc. etc.
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Emily Coit @emilycoit.bsky.social Book history & literary history of the long nineteenth century. Teaching at UChicago. 
Priyanka Anne Jacob @flockingwhere.bsky.social Reader of long novels. Book: The Victorian Novel on File: Secrets, Hoards, and Information Storage out now from OUP
Chris Loar @chrisloar.bsky.social English Prof, Western Washington U. Eighteenth-century lit and culture, ecology, histories of empire, race, and slavery. Co-Editor at Digital Defoe.
Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield. Romanticism, Gothic, author and general co-ed of Ann Radcliffe for forthcoming Cambridge edition and gen co-ed of Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. PL AHRC project ‘Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now’
Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of Literature at Bard College • fmr Harvard Society of Fellows • Victorian & South African Literature, Env. Humanities • THE ART OF UNCERTAINTY (Cambridge, 2024) • doi.org/10.1017/9781009436120 • www.danielbenjaminwilliams.com
Andrew Smith @andysheff.bsky.social Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield. Most recent book is 'Dickens and the Gothic' (CUP), currently writing a book on 'Vegetarian Gothic' (CUP).
Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social Scholar of the 19th c & other things. English prof at Vanderbilt U
Author of _Picture World_ (Oxford UP 2020) and also
_Writing on Fire_ (Broadview P 2024)
www.rachelteukolsky.net
Jan Schroeder @janschrayder.bsky.social professor and chair of English at Carleton U
editor of Victorian Review
jigsaw puzzle influencer, tea convert, cat butler
PC Fleming @pcfleming.bsky.social Humanities scholar (Victorian and children's lit), parent of 2. Views my own
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Animating-the-Victorians
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/British-Childrens-Literature-of-the-19th-Century
Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Feminist Research; Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Lethbridge, Canada.
Peter Mondelli @petermondelli.bsky.social Sometimes I help get people out of jail; sometimes I study music.
Stephanie L. Hawkins @stephanielhawkins.bsky.social Writer, teacher, mediator, and Professor in the English Department at the University of North Texas, Denton, USA. Against fascism in all its varieties; I believe in civic culture and robust dissent as vital to the health of democracy.
Social Research: An International Quarterly @socres.org Founded in 1934 by immigrant refugees in New York City. Carrying the torch of academic freedom and mapping the landscape of intellectual thought at @thenewschool.bsky.social. | socres.org
Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social Writer. Mother. English PhD. Feminist cultural critic. Philadelphian. Connoisseur of anxiety. Co-editor of *Victorian Gaslighting* (SUNY Press 2026). Working on a literary history of rape culture from Ovid to Epstein. (she/her)
SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social Internationally acclaimed publisher of distinguished research and works of general interest since 1966 / Learn more about the State University of New York Press at sunypress.edu
Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic. 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind), and 2025 International Fellow, British Academy
Dr. Kari Nixon @karinixon.bsky.social Former professor. Always author. Recent immigrant to Norway. Accidental influencer (@ karikarismatic)
Victorian lit | Medical Humanities | Death and Disease in Culture
Born in Texas but raised on Norwegian rap and pop music
Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social Teacher, researcher, writer on Victorian literature, culture, and politics; hot takes my own
Dino Franco Felluga @felluga.bsky.social Romanticist, Victorianist, Digital Humanist, Theorist
NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social North American Victorian Studies Association
www.navsa.org
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.)
Vanessa Ryan @vlryan.bsky.social Just joined! Higher Ed Admin | Graduate Education | PhD Students | Victorian Literature & Science | and Elder Care
Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social Vampires, mummies, things that come back to life; anything with chocolate chips. Associate professor of literature, co-director of the Dickens Project, co-director of the Center for Monster Studies at UCSC
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.
Shannon Draucker @sdraucker.bsky.social Associate Prof., English & Gender/Sexuality Studies @ Siena U. Clarinetist. Author of Sounding Bodies: Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature (SUNY Press, 2024). All views my own.
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social ars longa, vita brevis
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/faculty/jr75399
Midwest Victorian Studies Association @mvsa.bsky.social Dedicated to studying the Victorian period, including history, literature, art history, music, philosophy, and religion. We welcome members and participants from across the world: https://midwestvictorian.org/.
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.
Vanessa Smith @vnessajsmith.bsky.social English professor @ University of Sydney
dog lover, sometime potter, indoor climber
Recent book: Toy Stories: analyzing the child in nineteenth-century literature https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531503581/toy-stories/
Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social Public historian, editor, & literary critic. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Popular Film & Television. Associate Editor, The Complete Letters of Henry James @ctrhjstudies.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social.
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
Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social Victorianist & lit professor, gardener, lover of quirky details. Writing sporadically at https://andreakastontange.com
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
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)
Marshall N Armintor @mnarmintor.bsky.social English Department at UNT; modernism, graphic narrative, Lacan and red velvet cake. Currently working on game studies, UX, and writing about grind. (he/him/his)
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
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….
Teresa Mangum @teresamangum.bsky.social Emeritus Prof still cooking with gas on 19th-century studies, animal studies, age studies burners. Co-editor U Iowa Press Humanities and Public Life book series.
Dehn gilmore @wolcotthenry.bsky.social Humanist among scientists. Writing on 19th c literature and visual culture; also family secrets. 
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).
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Pamela K Gilbert @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.
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
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/
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. 
Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social Victorianist, English prof, Dickens Notes co-editor, novel fiend, Brit.
Victorian Poetry @victorianpoetry.bsky.social Victorian Poetry is a peer-reviewed quarterly dedicated to Victorian poets and poetries (broadly & experimentally construed). Edited by Devin Garofalo, UC San Diego (victorianpoetryjournal@gmail.com). Learn more: https://victorian-poetry.scholasticahq.com
sarah salter @shsalter.bsky.social Writing & teaching histories of sexuality, racialization, and editorship. w/ editorshipstudies.org, as editor of American Periodicals. [all opinions = my own]
Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social lit and media prof @WSU — science fiction, buddhism, william blake, science & tech studies, polyamory.
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, 🦖, 🏳️🌈
@dannovak.bsky.social @dannovak.bsky.social 
Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social Professor&Chair, Gender&Sexuality Studies, University@Buffalo. Awards: Lora Romero (ASA'13); Best Book in Food Studies (ASFS'13); Choice (2022); Alan Bray (MLA&ASA'26); Hon. Mention, Rene Wellek (ACLS '26); James Beard essay award ('23), NHC Scholar 26-27.
Daniel Hack @danielhack.bsky.social English professor at Michigan, interested in literature as in life
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.
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social Online open access journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century.
https://19.bbk.ac.uk/
The Ohio State University Press @ohiostatepress.bsky.social We publish great books and journals across literary and cultural studies. Our Mad Creek imprint is home to expansive, fresh, and invigorating literary and graphic works, and Trillium publishes books about Ohio and the Midwest. www.ohiostatepress.org
Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social Publisher, Executive Editor, and Senior Lecturer at a TX uni working on 19C British poetry, gender and sexuality, history of science, empire. Sometime watercolorist, 3 cat familiars, 3 sons. Views my own.
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
Dr Taryn Hakala @tarynhakala.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at CSUCI | Victorianist | Linguist | First Gen | she/her
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.
Scanning Old Hollywood @scanoldhollywood.bsky.social An account dedicated to scanning and archiving physical photos and documents from the desk of an old Hollywood publicist. Publicity photos, never-seen-before candid photos, and occasional note. Only posting what I scan from an original, physical source.
Linda K Hughes @lindakhughes.bsky.social I study 19th century British literature and culture across the genres of poetry, fiction, and periodicals as well as interdisciplinary studies. I I also have deep interests in women writers (see my Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany, CUP 2022).
@kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social Professor, Dept. of English, Michigan State University. Aestheticism, Decadence, modernism. Editor, with Kate Hext and Alex Murray, of Cusp: Late 19th-/ Early 20th-Century Cultures.
Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Literature at American University. Aesthete and queer humanist. Author of *Before Queer Theory* and co-editor of *Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s*. He/him/his 🏳️🌈🐻👨❤️👨
Jenn MacLure @jennmaclure.bsky.social 
Dr Abigail Boucher @drabigailboucher.bsky.social Senior lecturer in English at Aston University. Scholar of nineteenth-century literature and genre fiction. One half of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
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Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social New book: Wild for Austen (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).
Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) @emilyjlm.bsky.social Digital Humanities Lecturer @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Victorianist, periodicals scholar, Dickensian
Jessie Reeder @littlebark23.bsky.social Victorianist. Parent of small ones. Enthusiast of plants, both indoor and out. Come on you Gunners. Putting one foot in front of the other at the end of the world.
Anne H Stevens @annehelenstevens.bsky.social Professor of English and dean of the College of Public Affairs and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social New book: How Lesbians Saved Poetry. Professor at UT-Austin. Speaking for myself as a private citizen.
https://lisalmoore.com/
https://sunypress.edu/Books/H/How-Lesbians-Saved-Poetry
NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social Aftermaths: https://navsa.georgetown.edu/
Sarah Allison @sarahdallison.bsky.social English & DH in New Orleans--
new book out on celebrity authorship, 19C print culture, antislavery:
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-rise-of-celebrity-authorship/9780231209717/
Megan Ward @megaplex.bsky.social Director of Humanities Initiatives at Oregon State University. Histories of AI, author of SEEMING HUMAN. Runner, mom, writer, tator tot enthusiast.
Studies in the Novel @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social Since 1969, Studies in the Novel has published incisive scholarship on the novel across all periods, genres, and interpretive approaches. This quarterly peer-reviewed journal is published by Johns Hopkins University Press for the University of North Texas.
Zach Tavlin @zachtavlin.bsky.social School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Academic, baseball fan, literature/music/movies.
Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Emory. Victorian lit, legal & political theory, novels.
Angie Calcaterra @acalcaterra.bsky.social Professor of Indigenous Studies and Early American Lit; parent who needs more sleep; too many cats. Views are my own.
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.
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. 
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🌳
dolorimeter @dolorimeter.bsky.social - S @samtett.bsky.social @samtett.bsky.social
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.
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
Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
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.
Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com
Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org