Nicole Sheriko @nicolesheriko.bsky.social English prof and theater historian of Renaissance drama / puppet researcher / clown scholar / hellmouth aficionado / dragon enthusiast🐉
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Sarah Neville @effectdefective.bsky.social Extremity edges: bumped. Hinges: cracked. Textblocks: sturdy. Pages: clean and intact. Shakespeare editor and director, textual theorist, theatre and English professor. Bibliography > book history, science is real, human rights above all else.
Jason Rabin @ahtsandcultcha.bsky.social Boston-based writer on arts, culture, and other stuff. #BlueRev
Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social Asst Prof at Trinity College Dublin | Shakespeare and Performance Studies | Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association | Dramaturg | Views own.
Kim @professorkhc.bsky.social Theatre Artist/Professor, Shakespeare scholar (early modern performance practices.) Cat 🐈⬛ Dad. Beer 🍺 snob. History geek. New Englander, but really wishing I lived in Old England again.
So very, VERY neurodivergent.
New Variorum Shakespeare @nvshakespeare.bsky.social One of the oldest editorial projects in Shakespearean studies, now in a digital format. Based at Texas A&M University. newvariorumshakespeare.org
Bill Angus @billangus.bsky.social Writer in early modernity, atheism, historical fiction, poems, songs (with The Mighty Ways). Sinophile. Freelance academic.
Kate Ellis @k8ellis.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow, PhD, playwright, co-founder of Plymouth Performance, TRP Lab Co OG. She/her.
Editor of the Revels Plays edition of 'Dick of Devonshire', publication 17 December 2024. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719099366
@marlowepedia.bsky.social @marlowepedia.bsky.social
Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social Writer/researcher https://www.rebekahkingwriter.com/
Articles on magic, theatre, horror etc here https://rebekahkingwriter.substack.com
Edward Collins @ejpcollins.bsky.social Historian of science in the Spanish & Portuguese empires at
@ucddublin.bsky.social. Nautical science & technology, history of animals and creepy crawlies. Opinion-haver, sci-fi-enjoyer, cat-botherer.
Hanna de Lange @hanna1.bsky.social Historian. Early Modern Books, News, Print & Manuscript.
Research fellow WidowsPrint, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social PhD in Economic History and post-doc in History, Lund University. Early modern wealth, consumption, and household economy.
Also hobby ttrpg-creator, that part is probably equally important for my social media presence.
Dr Amy Saunders @amysaunders.bsky.social Independent researcher exploring representations of the Stuart monarchy in heritage sites.
All things museums, books, cats, baking, and lego. Team Saunders-Green ❤️
Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23. / Views expressed are my own.
Dr. Kay Daly, she/her 📚💙 @kaydaly.bsky.social #Earlymodern nerd. Hired pen. Curator of hipsters. Snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. #Tudor? Sure. #Jacobean? SIGN ME UP.
Coming Spring 2027, "Wilton House," a novel of Lady #MaryWroth. @regalhouse.bsky.social. Stay tuned! https://www.kaydalywriter.com
Dr Anna Hegland @alhegland.bsky.social PhD on violence, language, embodiment, and EM drama. Writing and Tutoring Center director, adjunct, and social media manager. Snug’s mom. Being unserious about books, Middleton, and the Cubs. Co-founder of MEMSlib. she/her. Opinions my own.
Sierra Carter @dramaticletters.bsky.social they/them | PhD from University of York | early modern epistolary literature, playbooks, and performance | writing about trees, walking, and textiles in my spare time
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social Restoration is a peer-reviewed journal open to all critical, scholarly, and theoretical approaches that lead to new insights into English literature and culture, 1660-1700.
https://blog.umd.edu/restorationstudiesjournal/
@erendek.bsky.social @erendek.bsky.social PhD, early modernist, book historian, paleographer.
David Weliver @davidweliver.bsky.social Clinical mental health counselor-in-training. Publisher emeritus of moneyunder30.com. Husband, girl dad, lover of all living things. Maine, USA. He/him.
Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social Teaches Early Modern Drama at Cardiff Uni. Writing a book about Mucedorus. Will probably post music when I don’t know what to say. he/him. New OWC Cymbeline: https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/cymbeline-9780192882868?cc=gb&lang=en&
The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social Bankside's first theatre
Built by Philip Henslowe 1587, rediscovered 1989
Original home of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd & many others
Scheduled Monument & Registered Charity
www.roseplayhouse.org.uk
Rose Theatre Trust
56 Park St, London SE1 9AR
Kit Marlowe @kitmarlowe1564.co.uk Canterburie, Cambridge & Banckes Syde. Occasionall spye. Elizabethan plaiemaker & poet of scurrilitie. Muses' darlinge. Wit lent from heauen, but vices sent from hell.
Loue@FirstWebsite: https://kitmarlowe1564.co.uk/
Michelle Ephraim @michelleephraim.bsky.social Professor of English. Mom of 4. McSweeney's. Moth Radio Hour + Moth podcast. Author of GREEN WORLD: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare (Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction). Cohost, Everyday Shakespeare podcast. www.michelleephraim.com
Laura Estill @lauraestill.bsky.social Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
Dr Ollie Jones @oelj.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Theatre at School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York. Working out what I want to be when I grow up.
Dr Shirley Bell @drshirleybell.bsky.social Early modernist 🎭 Book: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage (2026)📕PhD: Music in Caroline Drama 🎶 Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University 🎓 Soprano at Rotherham Minster Choir 🎼 Book reviewer for YWES 📚 She/Her 👩🏻🦰 Views own ☕️
Heather Knight @heather1576.bsky.social Archaeologist with a penchant for 16th and 17th century playhouses of all shapes and sizes, FSA and Faversham Society Trustee 🎭🏺
Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social Chronicler of bookwomen (misc.) Currently 17thC women printers. Previously SHAKESPEARE'S 'LADY EDITORS' (CUP). Freelance indexer/editor/researcher. A remarkably Independent Scholar.- S @scottoldenburg.bsky.social @scottoldenburg.bsky.social
Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social Dragonboater, paddleboarder, Dartmoor walker, Aare-swimmer. Also editing Titus Andronicus and interested in all things Shakespeare, performance, theatre broadcasting, post-COVID-19 creative industries. Never able to see enough shows or read enough books.
Steve Purcell @stevetpurcell.bsky.social Academic, director, writer. Co-Artistic Director of The Pantaloons and Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. All views my own.
The Marlowe Society of America @marlowemightyln.bsky.social The Marlowe Society of America promotes scholarship on poet & playwright Christopher Marlowe's life, works, & crucial role in the early modern theater.
Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social Producing every since play written in English prior to 1642, with 38 exceptions. Dropping pods and videos - beyondshakespeare.org
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social Printer-Scholar, Bibliographer, & Librarian | Trans* Histories of the Book in 19C America | Owner of @meanwhilelttrpress | he/him | Opinions my own.
Dr. Benjamin Broadribb @benbroadribb.bsky.social Performance Reviews Editor for Shakespeare Bulletin | Shakespeare on screen(s) | Shakespop | metamodernism | performance | adaptation | cinema | theatre | he/him/his
Emily Bryan @ebryan.bsky.social Assistant Prof of English at Sacred Heart University. Shakespeare and musical theatre fan. Lover of dogs and books. Untitled Othello Project. Gloria Naylor Archives. Health Humanities. Historical Fiction writer (in private).
Susan Anderson @susananderson.bsky.social Early modern disability, civic pageantry and music. Also cats.
Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is a professional organization for the advanced study of Shakespeare's works, times, and afterlife.
Visit linktr.ee/saaupdates for more information on events and member updates.
Amy Lidster @amylidster.bsky.social Early modernist, perpetual reviser. Career Development Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford: https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/amy-lidster
Melinda Gough (she/her) @melindajgough.bsky.social Editor, Early Theatre
Professor, English & Cultural Studies/Gender & Social Justice, McMaster University
Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social A Journal Associated with the Records of English Drama
earlytheatre.org
Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social Professor-turned-librarian; I like my books and cookie dough rare; TX ➡️ CA ➡️ OH; she/they 🏳️🌈 views my own
Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social. He/him
Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne • Advisory Board @ H-Judaic & EMoDiR • alumna HebrewU, Harvard, Penn, Oxford, Göttingen
#earlymodern and #modern Jewish history and #BookHistory
📍 Paris
Natália Pikli @puckinspirit.bsky.social Associate Prof. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Shakespeare/early modern scholar, theatre and Star Wars nerd, rebellious bookworm. Author of "Shakespeare's Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2022).
Dr. Tara Lyons @tarallyons.bsky.social Professor; Bibliography, women and libraries, early modern books and storage; book trade, histories of information; playbooks; Shakespeare; English literature, drama, cats, horses, bees, and little furry critters
Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social Professor of English. Renaissance and Restoration Drama. Researching a formerly lost play, /The Dutch Lady/.
Erin E. Kelly @eekelly.bsky.social Associate professor of English and director of the Academic and Technical Writing Program at University of Victoria. Associate editor of Early Theatre. Ask me about weird, old plays
Lisa Maruca @lmaruca.bsky.social C18 English professor, student of old and new media, SHARPist, tree hugger, dog lover, mom, cook, eater, hiker, reader. Not in that order.
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social English lit prof @uni-bamberg.de | pirate/collaborator/witch | law&lit-geek | 🍄 | reviews ed. Shakespeare JB | gen.ed. gender forum Cologne | assoc.ed. Neo-Victorian Studies | mum | colour-lover | doodler | she/her
https://www.wonderlink.de/@susannegruss
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social ¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & dirty books ¶ accidental miltonist ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com
Katherine Tycz @ciaokatet.bsky.social Historian of decorative arts, material culture, #materialtext & devotional practice
https://katherinetycz.com/
Jim Marino @jamesjmarino.bsky.social early modernist, Shakespeare nerd, moonlighting fiction writer
living the good life in Cleveland
Jackie Watson @jackiewatson05.bsky.social Early modern literature: letters, Inns of Court, drama. Somervillian. European.
‘Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters’ out with EUP June 2024.
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-epistolary-courtiership-and-dramatic-letters.html
Holger Syme @literasyme.bsky.social Historian of European theatre, working on early modern England and 20th & 21st-century Germany. Lover of archives. Professor at U of Toronto. Occasional theatre maker. Haphazard gardener. Full time dog person.
More: https://syme.dispositio.net
Rob Carson @robcarson.bsky.social Early modern literature, mostly Shakespeare; philosophy and theory; book history and digital humanities; contemporary performance and politics. Current projects: thinking in threes; the sociable syllable; Marlowe's material remains. (he/him)
Molly Seremet (she/her) @moxymolly.bsky.social Associate Prof & theatremaker. Shax, cyborgs, performing objects. Also Spanish Golden Age obsessed. Producer of Writ in the Margins podcast. Oh, and Coney Island superfan. Opinions mine. Trans rights are human rights. Tell me your fave tarot card!
ValerieMFazel @veefaz.bsky.social ASU Sr. Instructor Dept. of ENG/Faculty Barrett Honors. Digital Shax Appropriation & Shax fandom. Dog lovr, plant eatr, desert landscapr sci-fi film fan and fantasy novel reader. she/her/views mine. All the Internet is a stage and we are but players in it.
Dominick Pangallo @dpangallo.bsky.social Dad, husband, Mayor of Salem Massachusetts - an incredible city, inspired by our history and motivated by our possibility. he/him
(This is a personal account and does not purport to exercise the authority of the state.)
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at @bristoluni.bsky.social. Working on Shakespeare biography and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Maria Simonsen @mariasimonsen.bsky.social Historian. Research interests include the history of book, history of knowledge, university history, and digital history. https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/113201
Ashley Howard @ashleydhow.bsky.social Ecocriticism | early modern | soundscapes 🌻
“I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree”
PhD Candidate @ U of British Columbia
Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social associate prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
Kim Gauthier (she/her/elle) @teamaufidius.bsky.social PhD student @ UQAM. MA Shakespeare Institute. Early modern drama enthusiast. Will bore you to tears about Shakespeare adaptations in Quebec at the slightest provocation.
susan rojas @susanrojas.bsky.social Independent scholar exploring affective ecologies and transitional thresholds in early modern drama (she/her)
MA English / FGCU • Co-editor / Kritikon Litterarum • Certificate in Editing / University of Chicago
Dr. Danielle Rosvally @drosvally.bsky.social Shakespearean, fight director, actor, dramaturge. Assistant professor of theatre University at Buffalo.
Janelle Jenstad @janellejenstad.bsky.social Early Modernist at UVic. Editor. Book historian. Text encoder. Director of LEMDO and MoEML. Fan of Garry Oak meadows, motorcycles, and XML.
Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (just done: #MoonMad); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
Richard Preiss @richardpreiss.bsky.social Keeping his circuit by the slicing edge.
Malone Society @malonesociety.bsky.social A society for scholars of renaissance drama, committed to the permanent utility of original texts.
https://malonesociety.com/
Dr Maria Shmygol @mariashmygol.bsky.social MSCA Research Fellow (University of Galway) | Joint Chair (British Shakespeare Association)
Dr Eleanor Lowe @loweee.bsky.social Associate professor; early modern drama, material culture; music, theatre, cats, the outdoors; twin mum. Views my own. She/her. #BLM #lgbtq+ 🌈 #MHmatters
Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield
Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social Professional Book Nerd
Early Modernist
Poetry Fanatic
Shakespeare etc
https://meganheffernan.net/
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Robin Bates @britlitgirl.bsky.social Shax prof., Southern girl, jar goblin. Prefer to spend my time with dogs, good books, blue ridge mtns, & kind people. She/Her
Jessica Goethals @jessgoethals.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of medieval + early modern Italian Studies | author *Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court* (2023) | women, spectacle, violence, prophecy, weird stuff | currently writing on the 1527 Sack of Rome
Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course)
bio.site/martinevanelk
https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/
https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.w- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Deyasini Dasgupta (Deya) @deyasini.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Toronto | Writing on the intersections of early modern disability, race, gender in Shakespeare, Spenser, and Middleton | Views my own | Mostly here for the pet pictures
Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Bridger Bartlett @allo-nothing.bsky.social They/them guy with a PhD. 🏳️🌈
~Tudor-Stuart lit + neurodivergence~
Bellee Jones-Pierce @eelleb.bsky.social teacher, writer, mom, scholar // medieval & early modern, lyric, disability // she/her // virgo sun, ADHD rising