Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social New book: Wild for Austen (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).
Patrick Greaney @patrickgreaney.bsky.social Professor of German and Humanities at University of Colorado Boulder, but posting, liking, and commenting here as an individual, not an employee of the State of Colorado! www.greaney.org
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
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)
Mira ‘Assaf @miramiraculous.bsky.social Book: Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens,& Constructions of Race in Early Modern England, under contract @ACMRSPress | 23-24 Long-term Fellow, @FolgerLibrary | Arab | dilettante
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
Marcia@🏡 @marciaathome.bsky.social I love stories w/intelligence, wit, mystery, strong women! BBC Sherlock Benedict Cumberbatch Jane Austen Star Trek Agatha Christie Wonder Woman Black Panther
Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social Official account for the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Celebrating the lives & works of Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, & their circles
Dian Kriz @kdian.bsky.social Retired art historian who wrote on 18th-19th century British visual culture related to nationalism, colonialism and transatlantic slavery
Birder
Cat lover
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com
Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
Sorbonne Digital Encyclopedia of History - EHNE @historysorbonne.bsky.social Open-access encyclopedia of European history featuring hundreds of articles written by scholars, published by Sorbonne Université.
https://ehne.fr/en
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
sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social co-founding editor
www.europeanreviewofbooks.com
Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS).
Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals.
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social Can't be held responsible for terrible spelling or grammar in posts
I work in widening participation at a university.
Dr of political material culture in Britain 1780-1832
Interested in citizenship and radicalism
Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social Professor of English | Disability Studies | Romanticism & 19th Century | Ess-AH-kuh. 🏴 she/her. Please stop reversing my name. Not on X.
Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social History professor & lover of mysteries, pets, & cocktails🍸. Author of THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery. Currently working on crime, immigration, & policing in 19th-c. London. All views, my own. www.brookennewman.com
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 is a quarterly journal published for Rice University by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Submissions: https://sel.rice.edu/submission-guidelines-faq
Marginalia: https://marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/
Bianca ⚔️🍉 @bookhoarding.bsky.social Costume Designer.
Crafts. Books. Swords. Jane Austen fan. she/her. Biz: biancahknight @ gmail - https://linktr.ee/bookhoarding
Lizzie Dunford @lizziedunford.bsky.social Bookwormy, museumy, wildernessy, frustrated writer kind of a person. Occasional Substack posts on Substack.com/@lizziedwrites
Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC
Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social Executive Director of the MLA. Book reader. Bike rider. Please renew your membership! www.mla.org/Membership/About-Membership
Harris' List of Covent Garden Ladies @coventgardenladies.bsky.social A Public History MA project of @rachelthehistorian providing an insight into the ladies found in the lists of Covent Garden Ladies in the 18th Century.
https://linktr.ee/coventgardenladies
Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social Professor, poet, scholar, parent
Work on global 19th c. lit, romanticism, Asian American lit, K-culture 🇰🇷, and creative writing
Books: Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation, Body Facts: Poems
www.joeyskim.com
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Rachel Tils @racheltils.bsky.social PhD candidate in History at UChicago-Atlantic and Caribbean worlds-slavery, internal markets, policing, economic autonomy-18th c. French and British Empires
Francesca Colonnese @francescac.bsky.social Lecturer in English Lit, focusing on Victorian poetry and the weirdness of subjective time.
Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress
#architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa
Own views 🌈 she/her
Chas Reed @reedhistory.net Britain, empire, esp southern Africa, historian. HBCU prof. @h-empire ed. Human, cat, tortoise dad. Veg korma lover. Ancient millennial. Views my own. #blm https://linktr.ee/cvreed
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Lauderdale-era Ham House | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
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
Tessa Murphy @murphyte.bsky.social Canadian historian of the colonial Caribbean. Associate Prof. of Early American History, Syracuse U. Author of “The Creole Archipelago.” She/her.
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Archive Stan. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social Writing and teaching about C19 literature, empire, race, and climate collapse. Editor of Victorian Poetry (JHUP). Lover of all things goth. She / her.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social Eighteenth-Century Literature & Culture Research Seminar, run by the Faculty of English, University of Oxford. All welcome!
Hannah Greig @hannahgreig.bsky.social Historian. Hon. Prof at Royal Holloway, Uni of London.
Experienced consultant to film & TV who actually enjoys making period dramas (Bridgerton, Buccanneers, The Favourite, Poldark, The Duchess, Death Comes to Pemberley & more). Author of THE BEAU MONDE
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Kat Kinsman @katkinsman.bsky.social Executive features editor at Food & Wine, host of Tinfoil Swans, author of Hi, Anxiety, and fan of dogs.
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/
Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social Professor of eighteenth-century lit and culture; person who studies pirates; dragon aficionado; proud parliamentarian dork. Opinions are my own and no one else's.
Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social professor @ Wesleyan, editor @ History & Theory and Norton Anthology of English Literature, mother @ home, lover of poetry and tv and good cheese @ all the times…
Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social Historian of modern empire & Indigenous resistance 🇦🇺 History advocate. VP of https://theaha.org.au/ FAHA FRHistS. Professor at ACU. Latest book Bennelong & Phillip https://rb.gy/vebj23 My website is katefullagar.com
Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk World leader in Enlightenment studies, based at the University of Oxford.
Our publications: Voltaire's Complete Works (OCV), Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (OSE) and much beyond.
https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/
Robin Mitchell @parisnoire.bsky.social Very tired Historian. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact my PA @keanuheydari.bsky.social for talks.
Robinmitchellhistorian.com
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Julie Duprat @julydup.bsky.social Curating old books and the rest of the time : a bit of sewing, a lot of French Black History, a pinch of mom-thing. Trying to keep up with my blog : minorhist.hypotheses.org !
Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social Historian of Atlantic slavery & the British Caribbean | Professor | Author of THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY (2024) and SURVIVING SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN (2017) | randymbrowne.com 
#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative. slaveryarchive.com
John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social Historian, professor, author of The Last Slave Ships (Yale Press).
✍️ new book, Spying on The Slave Trade.
Rep’d by Deirdre Mullane
N. Irish immigrant to U.S.
https://www.johnaeharris.com/
Dr Serena Dyer @serenadyer.bsky.social 🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History
✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch
🎬 Presenter @englishheritage
📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency
She/her
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social College teacher, Atlantic World historian, Poirot + Morse aficionado
he/him/his
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social writer, historian, appetite!
https://benwurgaft.org/
Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social Professor of English at Lehigh University. Anglophone Postcolonial; Modernism; African American Literature; Digital Humanities.
https://www.electrostani.com/
ODSECS @odsecs.bsky.social The Open Digital Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies: https://www.odsecs.org
profchander @profchander.bsky.social bad at most things
Nikki Payne @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social Author of Pride and Protest and Sex, Lies and Sensibility! @Berkley
👇🏾Pre-order Princess and the P.I.
https://a.co/d/eOwCzUS
Anthropologist
Writer
Geriatric Millennial
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Ruth Scobie @ruthscobie.bsky.social Mostly eighteenth-century; she/her. Writing a book: NOVELS AND THE RISE OF CELEBRITY, which is not about the rise of the novel
Maura Smale 😷💉 @maurasmale.bsky.social Chief Librarian at Mina Rees Library, CUNY Graduate Center, proud resident of the CUNYverse, striving for #critlib/antiracist practice, posts = my own. she/her maurasmale.com
also maurasmale@mastodon.social
Laurel V. Hankins @laurelvhankins.bsky.social Teaching and researching c18/c19 American Lit at UMass Dartmouth: https://www.umassd.edu/directory/lhankins/
The Art of Retreat now available from Bucknell UP: https://tinyurl.com/yhunwhzm.
John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social 
Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social 🇯🇲Culture critic, media & politics prof and researcher. I 💙 Art & Democracy. Writing: NPR, Boston Globe, IndieWire, LATimes, NYTimes, Washington Post, Oprah Daily, The Emancipator, Kirkus and BookPage. UNC J-School PhD. Linktr.ee/Cvbell
Lauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social teaching lit; writing about C19 performance, spectators, narrative; opinions my own; she/they
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social Prof in 18th Century & Romantic Literature at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, she/her, Pākehā/settler scholar, #toitūtetiriti, 🏀
Books on Romanticism + settler colonialism + Indigenous studies
https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/nikki.hessell
Rachael Nevins ❌👑 @rachaelnevins.bsky.social she/her | reader, writer, librarian, long-distance runner, mom, etcetera | working to open knowledge | not going back
newsletter on imagination, art, literature, and the restless search for the good life: https://www.thevariegatedlife.com/
Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social Yesterday's pickles
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
Caroline Gonda (she/her) @liederfollower.bsky.social queer receptionista (h/t Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social), lover of songs and stories, writer of flash. #LWithTheT
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