Vincent Schmalbach @vschmalbach.bsky.social Senior AI-first software engineer for SaaS and business apps. Laravel/Vue is my strongest client stack. Available for freelance work. Founder of Vroni.com.
@duckrabbit.bsky.social @duckrabbit.bsky.social
Ashley Reed @thematterhorn.bsky.social English prof in Appalachia. American literature, religion and secularism, digital humanities. Buy my book or read it for free: https://rb.gy/uokx0c
“She knew herself that she was obstinate, and it gave her a certain joy. She was now a middle-aged woman."
Megan Peiser @meganpeiser.bsky.social Mixed Chahta on Anishinaabe Land. Food sovereignty. Bibliographer. 18C lit. Women Writers. DH. Periodicals. Mother of dachshunds, first of her name. She/her
Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoc Fellow @ KU, Denmark • Research Associate @ CECS, York • Body Politics, Death Studies, Norse Reception • 🇰🇷🇬🇧 • IG: @/sharonchoewrites • Rep: Laura Crockett, TriadaUS • Always writing something
sharonchoebooks.com
Charlize Theron CTG @charlizetheronct.bsky.social
FRACT @fract.online Context-first microblogging app. Simple PR: If you're tired of algorithm noise and AI spam — try FRACT.
Jump in: https://fract.online/
GitHub (OS - AGPL v3.0): https://github.com/boomstrickweb/FRACT
Dr. Katharine Landers @katharinelanders.bsky.social Instructional Assistant Professor of English at Illinois State University | Researching the politics of dress in 17th c. women's writing | she/her
Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival @docfestival.bsky.social 4 tiers to enhance your film.
- in person fest
- audience feedback video
- podcast interview
- virtual showcase
https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/toronto-festival/
https://filmfreeway.com/TorontoDocumentaryFilmFestival
Daily Free Film Festivals @freefilmfestivals.bsky.social Watch Daily FREE Film Festivals on www.wildsound.ca at 8pm EST. No repeats. Best of NEW films from around the world today.
www.wildsound.ca/browse
VestigialLars @vestigiallars.bsky.social Globalized USA mid-westerner. I contain multitudes and often tell them they are idiots. Raised by wolves.
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian at UofArizona. PhD candidate in Info Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Opinions are my own.
Lydia Shaw @lydiashaw.bsky.social Teaching & Research Fellow @ University of Tübingen. | Specialising in the Romantics & environmental humanities. 🌿🌊 | My recent article on Byron's arboreal imagery & exilic identity: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/966053 🌳🌲
Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social MA-ing in Romanticism @ York || Interested in PB Shelley; self-injury in Romantic lit; protest poetry || Autistic, she/they 🛼
Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social FRHistS SFHEA; Vice President @bars.bsky.social; Senior Lecturer @newcastleuni.bsky.social;
🇮🇪 & 🏴 Studies, 1798, labouring class poetry, transatlantic networks, MedHums; Member @thencps.bsky.social
Didn’t come up the Lagan in a bubble
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)
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
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 🦬 ♾️
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social Early modernist. Thinking with literature and science about natural history, big emotions, cognition. I like working in archives, or do I mean hiding?
Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social Academic, Course Leader in English Literature at U of Portsmouth; Associate Tutor, Oxford University ContEd. Victorian literature and detective fiction; Arthur Conan Doyle specialist. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool UP, 2028).
Kirsten Saxton @kirstensaxton.bsky.social 18/19th lit, pop culture & out of order history, queer studies, crime fiction, hometown Oakland she/her/they
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Gothic author, corp.associate, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are in English and NOT AI.
Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social Writer, editor, & English professor in Dayton, OH. Chair, School of Humanities & Cultural Studies. Artifacts: How We Think & Write About Found Objects. Co-founder: the-rambling.com. From rural Appalachia.
Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.
Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social PhDing @BirkbeckUoL on Georgian/Regency courtesan-writers. First article now OA https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452X.2025.69.4
Book blogging https://ellethinks.wordpress.com/. Escaped bookseller, soprano, T1D, she/her 🇺🇸/🇬🇧
Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social Professor of English, University of Dundee & General Editor of The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley (Oxford University Press) (https://linktr.ee/profdanielcook)
@danni222-91.bsky.social @danni222-91.bsky.social
Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social Professor. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop. "Mad for the books."
Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social History Professor @ UC-Santa Barbara => science + tech + environment
Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 in Cali-Rado.
New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/
More = https://www.patrickmccray.com
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social ars longa, vita brevis
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/faculty/jr75399
Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social A Shiny Goth! Literary and horny. English PhD in Dallas. The Gothic, Victorians, Feminism, Foucault.
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
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.
Jennifer Golightly @jengolight.bsky.social 18th-C literary and cultural history. Digital Teaching & Research Specialist and Lecturer in History @ Colorado College; Instructor at U of Denver. Technologist by day, scholar whenever I can. I have a lot of animals.
Phineas Dowling, PhD, FML, LMNOP @pwdowling.bsky.social Scholar of 18th-century literature and culture.
Jason Pearl @jasoninmiami.bsky.social Assoc. prof. of English at FIU in Miami
Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social English prof, mama & wife, reader/writer, 18C, pop culture, progressive, cyclist, hiker, yoga. NC. My views are my own. She/her
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
Alex Wagstaffe @green-romantic.bsky.social Indigenous academic studying Gothic Romantic literature. Also interested in expanding into Indigenous literature. Genderfluid, pansexual, greyro (they/them)
John Savarese @johnsavarese.bsky.social Assoc Prof @ UWaterloo English. Romanticism, gothic studies, history of science, and sound studies
Nicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor @ University of Sydney | Editing a scholarly edition of Harris’s List, forthcoming in 2027.
Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social Senior Development Officer, Samaritan Health Foundation. Historian of 20th-Century Germany.
George Justice @georgejustice.bsky.social
@kswann.bsky.social @kswann.bsky.social
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking only for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rude people are blocked.
cnagle @cnagle.bsky.social Professor, performer, union thug, meditation enthusiast, queer advocate of political resistance. Lvl50 PoGo trainer. 🇵🇸
Jane Wessel @janewessel.bsky.social Teacher and scholar into 18th-century theatre and literature, the history of copyright, and, more recently, extra-illustrated books. My views are my own and do not represent those of my employer.
Emily @irmavep.bsky.social
Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.bsky.social Associate Professor of English @ Emory | Author: *Making Love* | Work: 18th- and 19th-Century British Lit, the Novel, Philosophy and Aesthetics, Sexuality, and Disability | Play: National Parks, Yoga, Criterion Channel, and roughly one billion TV shows
@mchoudhury.bsky.social @mchoudhury.bsky.social
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
@shruti-jain.bsky.social @shruti-jain.bsky.social
Kaushik Tekur @kaushiktekur.bsky.social
Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Culture, and History; scholar of slavery, empire, and natural history; Stalwart of BSECS, ASLEUKI, the Linnean Society, and Alnwick FoE. From Cornwall, now living in Alnwick, Northumberland. Website: https://www.brycchancarey.com
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Joe Drury @joedrury.bsky.social scholar and teacher of 18th/19th British literature, science & technology, material culture, and whimsy
Angelina Del Balzo @adelbalzo.bsky.social Asst Prof of English @ Utah Valley U | Prev @ Bilkent U | UCLA PhD, Wellesley BA | 18th c Brit lit and drama, adaptation, imperialism, gender | lady detective | she/her 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
@mvareschi.bsky.social @mvareschi.bsky.social Scholar of all things 18th century, surveillance, and sometimes digital.
Reviews Editor, Eighteenth-Century Studies
Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social Associate prof of ENGL, Marquette U • c18 lit • disability studies • cat dad • gay married to @nyitray • frequenter of mosh pits and libraries
Danielle Spratt @dlspratt.bsky.social 18thcenturyist, English prof, CSUN; history of science + medicine, Austen, satire, public humanities. Engaging the Age of Jane Austen (w/Bridget Draxler), Histories of Science (ed. w/Dave Alff), Reading Austen. She/her.
Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social C18th studies. Academic worker. Instructional professor of English/Humanities. SEIU Local 73 steward. He/him. Cohost, @betterreadpod.bsky.social
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-read-than-dead-literature-from-a-left-perspective/id1472577259
Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social New book: Wild for Austen (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).
Jonathan Sadow @jsadow.bsky.social I teach 18th-Century Literature at SUNY Oneonta. Trying this out but I am also on Mastodon here: https://c18.masto.host/@jsadow. In theory if you follow me at @jsadow.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy you can interact with me on Mastodon from Bluesky.
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…
Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social Professor emeritus of English and Comp Lit (Penn State), Indexer, reader, writer, ADHD, drawsalot, guitar, mandolin. Disability history, history of versions of Socrates, physiognomy, poetry, Dr. Johnson, Book indexing. ALSOwords, words, words 🇨🇦✡☮📚
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
Brian Cowan @briancowan.bsky.social Historian etc
deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social Leverhulme ECR fellow researching c18-19 lit & drama & media history at Uni of Glasgow. ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS coming 2026 from Stanford UP.
https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/romantic-media-and-wartime-networks?tab=1
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/
Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social curator & #EnvHist @ German Port Museum, Hamburg & @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7095-4403
#C18 #C19
#HistSTM #EntHist
#HistOcean #AnimalHistory #QueerHistory #museums
Founder @collecol.bsky.social
Treasurer @dgej.bsky.social
Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo192110828.html
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/
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social Open-access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to scholarship, pedagogy, #dh on all aspects of women, gender and the arts (esp. lit, visual, music, performance, film, criticism), 1640–1830. Editor Laura Runge, USF. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo
祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social English and Cultural Studies prof; poet; editor of @ecfjournal.bsky.social. Thinking in semiotic squares and cosmological circles. she/they/we
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
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).
Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
Eric Parisot @eparisot.bsky.social Associate Professor in English at Flinders University.
Eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Death and suicide. Graveyard poetry. The Gothic. Vampires. Jane Austen. In another life would make a killing as a wedding DJ. https://shorturl.at/GWY35
Dr. Kelly Plante @drkellyplante.bsky.social Ann Arbor-based writer. PhD in literature, history of the press, auto/biographical writing. Editor, https://bsky.app/profile/abojournal.bsky.social.
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
John McTague @johnjoemctague.bsky.social Assistant Prof in C18th Studies, Univ. Bristol. Book: ‘Things that Didn’t Happen’ (2019). Co-director @ Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress). Co-President of Bristol UCU branch. 🎸&🎤 in Autocorrect (https://spoti.fi/4fIaTAJ). He/him.
Dennis Todd @dtodd.bsky.social Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University. Written about Pope, Swift, Defoe, Mary Toft, indentured servitude, and William Byrd II and slavery in colonial Virginia. Living in Berkeley raising a severely traumatized dog.
Al Coppola @qu1x0tical.bsky.social 18c Lit at John Jay CUNY. First book: Science, Spectacle, Stupidity. Lately, it's the little things.