Farisa Khalid @drfarisakhalid.bsky.social PhD in English. Art historian. English professor specializing in British literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, genre studies (science fiction, spy fiction), and the environmental humanities. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/734326
Shakespeare Okuni @ishakespeare.org Author of A Twist of Rotten Silk. Actor. Director. Linguist. Shakespeare works.
Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social Cameraman/Librarian/Music Lover
Cycling/Walking Everywhere
https://heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/
Nottingham, UK
Maggi Parker @notsodivinemsm.bsky.social Canadian born California Democrat
Oceti Sakowin Ma Dakota
Mitakuye oyasin
Cat mom
Rescuer
No profile, no posts = no follow
Roman Lüttin @kontrapunkt.bsky.social musicologist @uniheidelberg.bsky.social •
collaboration, co-creativity and authorship in early modern music 📚
William H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network Random musings & smartass remarks. Neurolurker. Dilettante. He/him/his. Interested in (but not necessarily posting about) (or even doing) higher ed, IT, infosec, cocktails, music, old movies, bicycling, & other stuff I don't have room for.
Katharine Craik @kcraik1.bsky.social Prof of Shakespeare and early modern lit, Research Director and Think Human Festival Director at Oxford Brookes. ‘Lifelike Shakespeare’ coming soon from OUP🏴
Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social Early Modern Literature. Tutor in English at 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
Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today Academic, writer and commentator, living on unceded Whadjak Noongar Boodja; Hon Research Fellow (UWA).
Once dubbed “a ganja smoking hippy” by PHON’s James Ashby on Sky News.
Fighting to live in a community, rather than exist in an economy. 🚫 DMs.
Friedlind Riedel @friedlind.bsky.social music & sound studies, media philosophy | painfully split between German academia and anglophone-mainstream academia | Wrote a book about Burmese opera/pyazat
https://friedlindriedel.de/
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Daniel Bennett Page @danielbennettpage.bsky.social Cultural Historian | Musicologist | Tudor England | Psalmody | Polyphony | Gregorian Chant | Early Printed Materials | Bibliography | Court/Royal Studies | Musician | Educator | MFA | PhD
Jessica Duffin Wolfe @jduffinwolfe.bsky.social Narrative, design, code, journalism, shapes, old books, etc. Humber College prof of Media & Creative Arts. Book on illness and Canadian literature coming out with Routledge. Writing with Globe and Mail, Literary Review of Canada, etc. Toronto & elsewhere.
Robert Wolfe @bobwolfe.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Canada. Most posts on trade policy
personal website: rdwolfe.ca
Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener
Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool
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.
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Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com #DoubleBass #Baryton & #ViolaDaGamba | Founder Midweſt415 | Perf. Black Tulip, ViolMedium, et al | Fac. Valparaiso University, Elgin Community College, Wisconsin Lutheran College, et al https://ffm.bio/phillipwserna
John Fitz Rogers @johnfitzrogers.bsky.social Composer | Professor of Composition, University of South Carolina School of Music | Fan of science | Defender of the Oxford comma | All views my own | https://www.johnfitzrogers.com
Nicole Sheriko @nicolesheriko.bsky.social English prof and theater historian of Renaissance drama / puppet researcher / clown scholar / hellmouth aficionado / dragon enthusiast🐉
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.
Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Medieval History @northeasternu.bsky.social (NU London) | Visiting Fellow at CMRC @unisouthampton.bsky.social | Book on Ladies of the Garter
Jed Wentz @jedwentz.bsky.social Historical acting, declamation, gesture and actio
Historically imagined musical performance practice
Assistant professor Leiden University
Artistic advisor Utrecht Early Music Festival
www.jedwenz.com
Ruxandra Marinescu @ruxandramarinescu.bsky.social
James Cooke @jcooke0909.bsky.social Musicologist interested in lied and psychoanalysis. Associate lecturer with The Open University in physics and stats.
Occasionally a civil servant, sometimes a research ethicist, often a conductor, always a nuisance.
Jeremy Bass @jeremyandrewbass.bsky.social Guitarist, lutenist, etc. in The Netherlands. These days, mainly Baroque and Renaissance music on historical instruments with occasional new music interludes https://www.jeremyandrewbass.com/
First Readings Project @1streadingsproject.bsky.social A professional chamber choir producing high-quality demo recordings of new or unperformed choral music as a service to composers.
Website: https://jdavidmoore.net/first-readings-project/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/first-readings-project
Amelia Glaser @aglaser.bsky.social Ukrainian/Yiddish/Russian literature; ocean swimmer; translator; author Songs in Dark Times, Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands
Barbara Hill @trebledev.bsky.social Singer, Software Engineer, Cat Mom, Adventure Seeker, Challenge Meeter
barbaraahill.com
Chelsey @chelseybelt.bsky.social Musicologist, making things 🪡 🧶 🔨
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
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.
Chesterfield Co-operative Choral Society @chesterfieldchoir.bsky.social We’re a wee mixed voice choir in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, supported by Central Cooperative.
Posts by an opinionated 🌻 Irish soprano who stands by 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
Leeds Male Voice Choir @leedsmalevoices.bsky.social Innovative & Inclusive. Singing across the North of England. Next concert… Cottingham (Hull)
Keith Collins @keith-collins-bsn.bsky.social Bassoons of sundrie kinds (Renaissance, Baroque, Classical), contras also of sundrie kinds, auxiliary oboes (taille, 2nd caccia, 3rd oboe, etc.), recorder, Irish harp, Renaissance winds, banjo, Appalachian folk, shape-note singing.
Teaching at IU.
@thehuntington.bsky.social @thehuntington.bsky.social
Greg Johnson @horses-to-the-moon.bsky.social Musician, gardener, archivist
Celtic, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Jazz
Harp, Viola da Gamba, Hurdy Gurdy, Irish Bouzouki, Electric and Double Bass, Trombone, Sackbut, Tenor Banjo, Guitar, Tin Whistle, Bodhran
linktr.ee/oldways
Elizabeth St.John 📚💙📜Author and Historian @elizabethstjohn.bsky.social Story writer. Memory curator. #EarlyModern women's history. Lucy Hutchinson got me started.
#17thC #HistoricalFiction. Once ventured into the #15thC looking for the missing princes.
https://elizabethstjohn.substack.com/
www.elizabethjstjohn.com
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
František Brikcius @brikcius.bsky.social Czech #Cellist František @Brikcius - #Cello Suites (J. S. Bach, B. Britten, E. Bloch, eSACHERe, M. Reger, G. Tartini) / Doc Film MAKANNA / #DuoBrikcius - https://www.Brikcius.com 🇨🇿🇬🇧🇫🇷
Paul Allen Sommerfeld @perfectlypongo.bsky.social Musicologist, librarian, corgi enthusiast. Views are my own.
Vicente Parrilla @vicenteparrilla.bsky.social Musician, recorder player, improviser, researcher (PhD), educator, and recording artist.
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
Jim Dalton @jimdalton.bsky.social Composer, music theory professor, angry progressive, member of the Resistance
Alana Mailes @alanamailes.bsky.social Musicologist, classical singer, historian of extremely old-timey things 🎼🎵📚📜
Voices of Music @voicesofmusic.org Award winning medieval, renaissance, baroque & classical music on period instruments. Performances in the San Francisco Bay Area and 8K video on one of the largest classical music channels in the world https://www.youtube.com/voicesofmusic
English Literary Renaissance @elrjournal.bsky.social Tri-quarterly journal publishing scholarly articles and textual studies on matters English, Literary, and Renaissance (broadly construed, 1500-1700). Current issue: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/elr/current
Pieter Verstraete @pieterverstraete.bsky.social Tenured Senior Lecturer Arts, Culture and Media University of Groningen, elected Excom member of EASTAP, Associate Editor of EJTP, Chair of MCAA Benelux Chapter, critic at Theaterkrant, member of opera committee at Dutch Council for Arts
Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social art historian with eclectic interests
Prof. Justin Vickers, A.Mus.D. @justin-vickers.bsky.social justinvickers1974@substack.com
Distinguished Professor of Music • Illinois State University • Musicologist • C20 British Music Specialist • Author of “The Aldeburgh Festival: A History of the Britten and Pears Era” (Boydell, fc) • www.justinvickers.com
Sam de Boise @samdeboise.bsky.social Sociologist who does musicology. Lecturer at School of Music, Theatre and Art, Örebro University, Sweden. Focus on music and extremism.
Editor at NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rnor20
CK @pagestostages.bsky.social dramaturg. director. scholar. teacher. photographer.
shakespeare & early modern drama: Gesture | Bodies | Staging
Musicology, y'all @redneckmusicology.bsky.social Countryboy-musicologist in Austin & DFW, TX • Baroque oboist • Coffee addict • PhD student in musicology, specializing in early modern Iberia & Latin America • Editor of forgotten music
Mostly using this to network and to bellyache about academia.
Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social Musicologist & cultural historian, Royal Northern College of Music | Fellow, Royal Historical Society | Author, ‘Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire’ (CUP) | Current project: 'The Cambridge History of German Opera to the Early Nineteenth Century'
Terri Bourus @terribourus.bsky.social Bereaved mom, Professor FSU Shakespeare, Performance, Book, and Theatre History, Irish Drama. Musical Theatre. General Editor: New Oxford Shakespeare. Author. Dramaturg. Amateur Astronomer. Private pilot.
Michael Winter @michaelwinter99.bsky.social PhD student at Newcastle University. Studying 15th and 16th Century English choral music, reconstruction, and fragmentary music manuscripts.
@kirk-layton.bsky.social @kirk-layton.bsky.social Amateur classical guitarist. Amateur novelist. Professional composition and literature instructor.
MedRen2025 @medren2025.bsky.social Official Account for the 2025 Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference hosted by the universities of Durham, Newcastle, and Northumbria
medren2025.co.uk
Liam Byrne | Viola da Gamba @liambyrne.bsky.social very old and very new music on the viola da gamba
www.liambyrne.net
Chatham Baroque @chathambaroque.bsky.social Experience the joy, passion, and intensity of music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Early Classical periods and more through vivid and compelling programs by the genre’s very best artists at some of the most amazing venues across Pittsburgh.
Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social Professor of English. Renaissance and Restoration Drama. Researching a formerly lost play, /The Dutch Lady/.
Sonya Cronin @sonyalcronin.bsky.social IRC post doc fellow @UCD networking early modern women writers across the archipelago | formerly IRC @TCD | FRHistS | theory | book: Women, Royalisms and Exiles 1640-1669
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89609-6
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Manual Defiance @shortoctave.bsky.social danza ritual del ego
Middle-aged enby in the 412. Early keyboards player; semi-professional dilettante in everything else.
They/them, he/him
Joan Ellison @joanellison.bsky.social Singer of the Great American Songbook & loving restorer of Judy Garland's orchestral arrangements, living in Shaker Heights, Ohio 🌈
#KeeperOfTheFlame #RetroMusic #Symphony #OldHollywood #CleanAir
http://instagram.com/joanellison39/
www.joanellison.com
RMA Music & Philosophy Study Group @rma-mpsg.bsky.social Welcome to the bluesky of the Royal Musical Association's Music and Philosophy Study Group!
Kenneth Woods @kennethwoods.net Conductor, writer, cellist, guitarist, composer. Artistic Director English Symphony Orchestra, Elgar Festival, Colorado MahlerFest. Bandleader and songwriter. Views my own.
https://linktr.ee/kennethwoods
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Jessica A. Holmes @holmesjessica.bsky.social Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen
Website • jessicaholmes.phd
Music at the Margins of Sense • https://press.umich.edu/Books/M/Music-at-the-Margins-of-Sense
PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social 📍Brooklyn to Brazil...
Trinidad to Treme...
Venice to Veracruz...
CELEBRATING THE CELEBRATION!!!
Early Music Forum Scotland @emfscotland.bsky.social The Early Music Forum of Scotland (Reg. charity SC054718) brings together singers, players, listeners and instrument makers from around Scotland with an interest in the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods. Join us! https://www.emfscotland.org.uk
Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social A Journal Associated with the Records of English Drama
earlytheatre.org
Rick Clark @rickclark.bsky.social Creative: including Music Supervisor (Dark Winds, Greenleaf, Hell On Wheels, Hap & Leonard), Writer, Songwriter, Producer, and host of WYXR-FM weekly show, Air-Conditioned. Music, Movies/TV, Books, Photography, Travel, anti-trump, No porn, marketing, DMs
@artymusical.bsky.social @artymusical.bsky.social I make art and music - and encourage everyone to join me, no matter your age.
𝕯𝖗. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐌𝐮𝐢𝐫 ❌👑 @theresamuir.bsky.social Was @theresasmets at the X place. Old Brooklyn.
Choir conductor, utility soprano; Ph.D./MLIS Musicological wraith; Mets fan. Porch gardener. Birds. Old Hollywood. She/Her. ABOLISH ICE/DHS. IMPEACH/CONVICT/REMOVE
Dr. Kellie D. Brown @kelliedbrown1.bsky.social Professor of Music, violinist, conductor, writer, poet, Holocaust researcher, UMC lay minister kelliedbrown.com
Alix (aka Iselda) @itsmealix.bsky.social Maybe you know me as Alix. Maybe you know me as Iselda. Either way, same place. A bunch of you moved over here, so here I am, trying it out. wewt.
Early Music America @earlymusicamerica.bsky.social A nonprofit service org supporting the field of #earlymusic and its community in the Americas.
https://linktr.ee/earlymusicamerica
Selena Simmons-Duffin @selenasd.com Health policy correspondent for NPR in DC. // Signal: selena.02
Email: selenasd@npr.org
Emily Winerock @winerock.bsky.social Dance historian of Renaissance Europe and early modern England ~ Co-director of the Shakespeare and Dance Project ~ Adjunct faculty at Point Park University ~ Blues, Lindy hop, and Argentine tango social dancer ~ https://shakespeareandance.com
Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cambridge University Library Special Collections, featuring our manuscripts, archives, maps, music, rare books, photographs, objects and more. https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/special-collections
Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social LitWit • Baroque music & early keyboards • Hockey • Enterprise tech marketing
"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
~Howard Nemerov
#ClassicalMusic #Baroque #SciComm #poetry #jazz
Michael Witmore @michaelwitmore.bsky.social Digital preservationist, Shakespeare scholar, humanities advocate, consultant for cultural institutions, Director Emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
William Claspy @wclaspy.bsky.social Director of Special Collections, Case Western Reserve University. Woodworker. Trout fisherman.
Ann van Allen-Russell @annvanallen.bsky.social Musicologist | BMus Programme Coordinator at Royal College of Music | 18C| J. C.Bach | music & law & creativity. All views my own. (she/her/Dr)
Resister @chrissmithmuso.bsky.social Cowardice costs more than courage does.
"Don’t you want to fight these bastards for real?" --Luthen Rael
https://linktr.ee/drchrissmith
eugene @eugene290390.bsky.social And I must not forget, we must not forget, that we are human beings.
Karen Desmond @karendesmond.bsky.social Medieval Musicologist. Professor of Music, Maynooth U. 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Music and the moderni, 1300-1350: The ars nova in Theory and Practice (Cambridge, 2018). PI, BROKENSONG (ERC Consolidator Grant, 2023-28) https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/karen-desmon