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Robert Viking @robertviking.bsky.social Pen name of Robert Viking O'Brien, novelist, musician, and emeritus professor of English literature. Exploring fiction writing, music-making, and overcoming creative resistance at robertviking.substack.com.
Shakespeare Ink @whoshakespearewas.bsky.social
Karin Bosshard @karinbosshard.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Translation Studies at University of Edinburgh, PhD Translation Studies (2023), Translator (EN/FR-DE)
Esme (she/her) @esmegrace31.bsky.social Archives MA student Broadside ballad and trad folk enthusiast Big fan of the sea!
Matt @bestatfailing.bsky.social Shakespeare for brain rot Current Shakespeare on Substack
Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social Humboldt fellow at Bamberg, FRHistS | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️‍🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17
Fred Cooper @histloneliness.bsky.social Historian of Medicine. Loneliness, epistemic injustice, critical medical humanities. SRA on the Wellcome-funded Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare project (EPIC), University of Bristol Law School.
Hawkmoth_🐛 @hawkmoths.bsky.social 🌻 Primary Science Specialist ❤️ Lecturer in Education 🥼 Mother of a little scientist 🧭 Views are my own
Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social Podcaster, Women & Shakespeare Author, Introduction, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (OWC) Current Writing: British South Asian Shakespeares on Stage
Devon @countyofdevon.bsky.social News and updates from the county of Devon, UK - we originally started this service on "the bird app" in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
LitAttention @litattention.bsky.social LitAttention is funded by the EU (ERC grant 101141722). Views & opinions expressed by this account are our own; the EU/ERC cannot be held responsible for them. Part of @unistuttgart.bsky.social Learn more at: https://litattention.eu/
Sibylle Baumbach @sibyllebaumbach.bsky.social Prof of English Lit&Cult @unistuttgart.bsky.social, passionate about literary attention and Shakespeare, PI of @litattention.bsky.social, president of @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social. Views are my own.
Shakespeare Resource Center @shakespearerc.bsky.social An educational website for students, teachers and other Shakespeare enthusiasts at www.bardweb.net
Hes Bradley @hesbradley.bsky.social lecturer in english and creative writing at @uniofbuckingham.bsky.social writer, community gardener, into vampires and the moon atm they/them
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️‍🌈 not fascist shit tho 🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes Pro-human bookish code/data Experimental/DH/art futures Dr! 🏳️‍⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director 🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition Art: WolfproofPress.com
MadeInDex 📰 🌎 @madeindex.bsky.social 🌍 The #Sustainability Index 🌲 Environmental News & Guides about sustainable Products, Companies & their impact 💻 Privacy, Journalism, Politics, Humor, AI, Pacifism, Animal Rights, Cleaning nature 💚 Vegan & vegetarian topics 🔗 madeindex.org
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano. Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw
World Shakespeare Congress 2026 Verona @wsc2026verona.bsky.social 12th World Shakespeare Congress, 20-26 July 2026, Verona. International Shakespeare Association. Local Committee: Skenè Research Centre @skenejournal.bsky.social‬. Website: https://www.wsc2026.org
@shakespop.bsky.social @shakespop.bsky.social
Timothy Holden @timothy-holden.bsky.social "You gods, look down / And from your sacred vials pour your graces / Upon my daughter's head! Tell me, mine own. / Where hast thou been preserved? where lived? how found / Thy father's court?" Researching Shakespeare, motion, and perception.
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Shakespeare Okuni @ishakespeare.org Author of A Twist of Rotten Silk or Words to That Effect. Shakespeare in actuality. Kawarakojiki.
@engenderstage.bsky.social @engenderstage.bsky.social
James Seth @jamesseth.bsky.social Maritime Musicians | Assoc. Prof in Early Modern Lit | Shakespeare | Sea Theatre | Blue Humanities |🏳️‍🌈
Charlotte Boyce @c19thceleb.bsky.social Associate Professor in Victorian Literature. Research interests: hunger & masculinity | food & consumption | history of celebrity. Co-I on ‘Young Women & Body Image’. Dog person. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/charlotte-boyce
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Lucy Razzall @lucyrazzall.bsky.social Collections Research at The National Archives, UK PI, AHRC-funded project *The Many Lives of Cardboard* (2026-27) literature, material culture, book history, textiles views my own
Oliver Jakes @olliejakes.bsky.social ‘Virtue is a currency’ - Elizabeth Inchbald. English DPhil studying virtual currencies and the aesthetics of debt in 18th century drama, University of Oxford
Robert Slack (UK) 🧬🌲 @ukrobertslack.bsky.social [06/11/2024]: Let's take to the Bluesky! Home city: 🏰Exeter (UK) [📷]: River Teign near Castle Drogo (National Trust): https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertslack/37809667436/
Jeffrey Masten @jmasten.bsky.social History of books, sex/sexuality, & English lit Prof, Northwestern. 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 @pennpress.bsky.social; 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 @cambridgeup.bsky.social Editor: Marlowe's 𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘐𝘐 @Ardenpublisher.bsky.social now available. Denison, @upenn.edu alum 🏳️‍🌈
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850 #Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue! User #396,109 :) Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City. Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask. Where's the #skiing community?
N Nic Brownlie @nicbrownlie.bsky.social Currently researching the effects of candlelight illumination on the form and content of early modern drama. Former theatre director and stage lighting designer.
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.
Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Renaissance Society of America @rsaorg.bsky.social The largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300–1700. Use #RenSA27 to join the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia conversation and #RenTwitter (still!) for all things Renaissance studies.
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk Researching place & memory across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk placememory.net
Darryl Chalk @drdeelittle.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Theatre @ University of Southern Queensland | Shakespeare and early modern drama | conjuring, caregiving, and contagion (not always at the same time) | bonus points: Liverpool FC, record and video game collecting, tabletop board games
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social The Revels Office is a friendly and supportive virtual academic network for PGR and ECR scholars of all things early modern! Head to our website for more info on what we do: https://revelsoffice.com
Gemma Curto @gemmacurto.bsky.social Affiliated Researcher @Sheffield Uni, PhD English Literature ∣Researching intersections between contemporary literature, scientific methodologies and unpredictability in ecological systems ∣Climate&Energy ∣ASLE-UKI PG/ECR Officer ∣#envhum #envlit #litsci
Skenè Research Centre @skenejournal.bsky.social This account charts the activities of the Skenè Research Centre including Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies (an open-access, peer-reviewed journal, https://skenejournal.skeneproject.it/index.php/JTDS) and its supplements
Adrián Oyaneder @adrian-oyaneder.bsky.social Senior Lecturer - Anthropology Department University of Tarapacá, Chile --- Also --- UEO - OENI Unidentified Ethnic Object Objeto Etnico No Identificado
Tidelines @tidelines.bsky.social A creative interdisciplinary project in the Exe Estuary bringing people together to celebrate the place we live in and learn about and restore the changing estuary & coastline at a time of climate and nature crisis. www.tidelines.uk
Adaptation Today @adaptationtoday.bsky.social adaptive and responsive resource for adaptation studies scholars, as well as scholars in film, media studies, literary studies, and beyond!!
The Travelling Players Project @travellingplayers.bsky.social Investigating civic buildings and regional theatre in the early modern Midlands. Began life as an AHRC IAA project at the University of Nottingham. New exhibition at Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall opening September! Posts by @drwillgreen.bsky.social.
Scott O'Neil @bluecollarscholar.bsky.social Shakespeare professor. Tired.
German Shakespeare Society (DSG) @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social The German Shakespeare Society / Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft (DSG), founded in Weimar in 1864, is open to everyone interested in and enthusiastic about Shakespeare. Join the DSG today! https://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/?lan
Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social Research Associate in the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University / Researcher for DRAGON at Swansea University. Research interests: #radicalright, #politicaldiscourse & #onlineharms. https://allmylinks.com/keighleyperkins
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social
Shakespeare Institute @shakesinstitute.bsky.social The University of Birmingham's dedicated Shakespeare research centre in Stratford-upon-Avon Simply the best place in the world to study Shakespeare. https://t.co/65CgPIMCOm
Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social Performance historian, disability historian. Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024) 30% off with code NYUP30 https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/ https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
Dr J. E. Nicholson @justjenerally.bsky.social she/her | research: multilingual drama in Ren London, incl. Shax; genre; whiteness, affect & ecology in The Winter’s Tale; Modernists reading Ren texts | pedagogy, film, Ghibli, puns, cats | jenniferenicholson.wordpress.com | ORCID: 0000-0002-4375-2961
Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in Early Modern Literature at Durham University Out now: Elizabethan Occult Poetics: Exploring Practice and Knowledge in English Poetry https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836244783
Miasma @itsthemiasma.eurosky.social Student of early modern Britain, folklorist, person of no rank. Reposting = commonplacing. Public Frenemy #1. Getter of mixed reviews. She. Firmly on Team Footnote.
Sirui Xu @siruixu.bsky.social PhD student in Intermediality at the University of Edinburgh. Researching Adaptation, Intermediality, Biopic, Musical Theatre.
SAMEMES @samemes.bsky.social Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies Our website: samemes.net
Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social First gen professor of disability studies, poverty and working class studies, novel criticism and theory. Currently Emeritus Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
David Marriott @davidmarriott.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇳🇨🇮🇪🇦 Editor. Shakespeare. Melville. Auden. Wine. Rossini & Verdi. The Fens. Leftie.
Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
British Shakespeare Association @bsashakespeare.bsky.social Professional association for teachers, researchers, practitioners and writers interested in Shakespeare. CfP part 1 for BSA Conference 2027, 'Sounding Shakespeare: Voice, Music, Sound, Silence' open until 30 September! https://linktr.ee/BSAShakespeare
Philip Schwyzer @philipschwyzer.bsky.social
Dementia Community @dementiacommunity.bsky.social Dementia Community is a Charitable Community Benefit Society, a membership cooperative that provides learning and networking opportunities for the dementia care community. For more information please visit our website: journalofdementiacare.co.uk
Caminey Kuropatwa @camineyk.bsky.social PhD candidate at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham | Wolfson scholar | English Teacher | Musician | Mother | Lover of cheese, quizzes, and Oxford commas
CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social CEMS KCL: https://kingsearlymodern.co.uk/ Centre Director: @hsmurphy.bsky.social Posts by Assistant Director: @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/docIGD
Geoff Barton @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social Recovering English teacher, headteacher, and union baron. Chiefly: food, books, Shakespeare, oracy, articles of interest … and gratuitous pics of border terrier Molly B. https://linktr.ee/geoffbarton
Katherine Gillen @katherinegillen.bsky.social Prof at Texas A&M-San Antonio | Free Palestine, Sudan, and DRC | Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva: https://borderlandsshakespeare.org/
TORCH Oxford @torchoxford.bsky.social TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) is a hub for intellectual collaboration and cross-disciplinary research projects, and is part of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford.
Jennifer Park @jennmpark.bsky.social early modern literature, critical race, history of science & medicine • environmental and disability justice • community care • she/her • crip time #LongCovid
The Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC) @rcscorg.bsky.social RCSC is a scholarly association dedicated to the advancement of learning in Renaissance Studies (c. 1300–1800). RCSC is an affiliate of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA). https://rcsconline.org/annual-conference-2/2022-conference-registration/
Jonathan Willis @drjpw.bsky.social Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham (UK): English Reformation; music; Decalogue; sin & salvation; puritans; parishes; emotion; archives; material culture. Gay husband & cat dad; choral singer; aspiring pianist; nerd.
Durham MEMSA @durhammemsa.bsky.social MEMSA is made up of postgraduate students from all disciplines working on the Medieval or Early Modern period at Durham University. ALL welcome at our events.
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social Engage the past, define the future | Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies | Throughlines | ACMRS Press | RaceB4Race
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight. Read at lrb.co.uk Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social Teaches at Duke University, sometimes works for Norway's National Library, writes for various magazines.
Nicholas Seager @nick-seager.bsky.social Professor of English and Head of Humanities, Keele University
Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the Faculty of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences @exeter.ac.uk. Sharing news, events and information with communities
Robert Shaughnessy @robshaughnessy.bsky.social Shakespeare, performance, then and now. Music, media now and then.
Fabio Ciambella @fabiociambella.bsky.social Early modernist exploring language quirks through corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, culinary linguistics, dance studies and AVT. What else? Let’s find out!
Kevin Finkelstein ☭ @kfinkelstein.bsky.social Director/Writer/Historian (Shakespeare/disability). CU Boulder: MA, Theatre and Perf (2026); MA, English (2028). Hard-of-hearing. Views my own. he/him #cwa7799 #blm #transrightsarehumanrights
Saraya Haddad @sarayahaddad.bsky.social Final year M4C funded PhD in Shakesqueer and magic 🌈🔮- Shakespeare Institute 📚 👩🏻‍🔬 Woman in STEM (Shakespeare, The Early Modern) 👩🏻‍🔬 🌈 📚 Queer theory. Queer lit. 📚🌈 (she/her)
Frank Clarke @frarke.bsky.social English teacher. MRes distance learner @ShakesInstitute. Researching the medieval origins of compassion in Shakespearean tragedy. Somervillian. Scouser. Husband. Father. Exhausted. Up the reds!
Linked Early Modern Drama Online @lemdo-uvic.bsky.social Expanding the canon of teachable and performable early modern plays, one open-access digital edition at a time. In partnership with UVic, DRE, NISE, MoMS, QME, and DSMP. lemdo.uvic.ca/lemdo
Pankhuri Singh @thatspankhuri.bsky.social Shakespeare Scholar Movie buff Amateur photographer Foodie And a full time sleeping champ 🏆
University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social All of the latest news from @uniofexeter.bsky.social - updated by the Press Office. Reposts aren't necessarily endorsements
University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social Join us in exploring the University of Exeter Library's Special Collections, which include archives, manuscripts, rare books and maps. There's something for everyone, and everyone is welcome. Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives
Exeter Observer @exeterobserver.org Local news that matters. Independent, investigative, in the public interest. Subscribe free: https://exeterobserver.org/subscribe. Upgrade to paid: https://exeterobserver.org/upgrade. www.exeterobserver.org
The Journal of Marlowe Studies @marlowestudies.bsky.social Annual, online-only, open-access, peer-reviewed journal devoted to research on Christopher Marlowe. https://journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Marlstud/index
Whitney Sperrazza, PhD @wsperrazza.bsky.social Texas A&M Assistant Prof. | early modern literature & science | poetics | book history | women writers | histories of gender & sexuality | media archaeology. She/her. Views my own.
COST Action 23137: PCPSce @pcpsce.bsky.social Welcome to the official page for COST Action 23137: Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe (1500-1800)
Steve Jones @profstevenjones.bsky.social Professor of #HigherEd, UoM, UK Views own #PFHEA
Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow @theatrestudiesuog.bsky.social News and events from the Theatre Studies team: https://www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/theatre/
David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social Teaches Drama at University of Birmingham. Scot. And unfeasibly tall. Written about Beckett, UK theatre, popular music, Eno, Kraftwerk, Velvets, Talking Heads, and why gigs look the way they do.
Bob Cullen @robertgcullen1.bsky.social An information professional who also happens to be a historian, writer, and reader. I wish all of you who have likewise landed here a wealth of peace and goodness!
Aoife Beville @aoifebeville.bsky.social Researcher at the University of Foggia Stylistics, pragmatics, literary linguistics, pragmatics of lying, (im)politeness, etc.