Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
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.
Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Wheatley Census @wheatleycensus.bsky.social Locating and describing all extant copies of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects before 1909. Directed by @jsench.bsky.social & @brigfield.bsky.social. www.wheatleycensus.org
Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social Dr.Dr. (no, really!) Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now
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
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
Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social No NFTs, No A.I.
linktr.ee/sarahcandersen
Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social Book historian, Pop Bibliographer, old book liker, Curator of Special Collections. They/them. Biblioshitposter.
Views my own.
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.
@sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social Basic Bibliographic Bitch. Antiquarian Bookseller. Renaissance Platonist.
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 || Comms fellow @bars.bsky.social
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
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social NYT bestselling writer. Newsletter and updates at maxgladstone.com. More or less updates-only on here.
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).
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/
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social Centre for Fantasy + the Fantastic + Masters in Fantasy (https://gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/fantasy/). Co-directors: @tattersdill.bsky.social and @mjrsangster.bsky.social. Website: https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
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.
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
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
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
Phineas Dowling, PhD, FML, LMNOP @pwdowling.bsky.social Scholar of 18th-century literature and culture.
Ziona Kocher @zionakocher.bsky.social Scholar of the queer/trans 18th c
Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org
Nicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor @ University of Sydney | Editing a scholarly edition of Harris’s List, forthcoming in 2027.
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 
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)
Dr. Viv Zuluaga Papp @vivzp.bsky.social She/her/hers
Scholar of eighteenth-century visual epistemology, science writing, and the early novel. Professor, mother, thinker, bodhran beginner, ne'er-do-well.
CSECS/SCEDHS @csecsscedhs.bsky.social Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle
https://www.csecs.ca/
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
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
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
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/
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Alina @alina-romo.bsky.social 
Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social 18th-Centuryist, Associate Professor, Uncompensated Despairer
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
Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social Mieskeit; Historical Lexicography & the Emoluments Clause (CUP '25); lexicographer; linguist; Edgeworth; #18thc; #CUNY; #NJ; down the shore; serial commas
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. 
Miles Ogborn @milesogborn.bsky.social Historical geographer at Queen Mary University of London | writes books | reads books | working on working on the 1831-2 Uprising in Jamaica | picture from Keith Piper (2007) Lost Vitrines. 
Melissa Mowry @melissammowry.bsky.social Professor 17th and 18thc British Atlantic, author Collective Understanding (OUP), The Bawdy Politic (Routledge), Defoe’s Roxana (Broadview). Working on tyranny, slavery, and friendship. Opinions my own. https://www.melissammowry.com/
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social romanticist&historian | PhD candidate at KU Leuven & Ghent University (Belgium) | Scottish&Irish women's writing & the writing of history
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.
Neil Fraistat @fraistat.bsky.social Prof. Emeritus of English UMD & Past President, Keats-Shelley Assoc.; Co-Gen Ed. Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Romanticism, Textual Scholarship, DH, Media. "Rise like lions after slumber."
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 🇨🇦✡☮📚
Marta Kvande @shandyist.bsky.social 
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.
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.
Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
Benita Blessing @bcblessing.bsky.social Senior Development Officer, Samaritan Health Foundation. Historian of 20th-Century Germany.
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Dr Elizabeth Schlappa @eschlappa.bsky.social Historian of 17th-18thc gender, medicine and sexuality at Newcastle University. Precarious ECR. Powered by tea, feminism and florid 18thc prose. Views mine. 
Nicolai von Eggers @nicolaivoneggers.bsky.social Intellectual historian, Political theorist | Leader of research project ’The Republic of Newsletters’ | Republicanism, fascism, democracy - from the 18th century to our contemporary condition
Prof Deborah Simonton @deborahsimonton.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth century, women, gender, towns and childhood, usually Scotland and Europe (which does include Britain).
Alexia Mandla Ainsworth 🦇 @alexiamandla.bsky.social PhD Student at Stanford | Studying the literature, theatre, and games of the (very) long early modern period | Gothicist | Shakespeare+ | she/her
Carolin Böttcher @carolinboettcher.bsky.social Literature, science, and the environment | 18th century | Irish literature 
Kristina Decker @kristinadecker.bsky.social 📚Eighteenth-Centuryist
🖋️18thC history, literature, material culture & country house studies, animal histories
✉️ Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland
🏠 Ireland
Dr Emma Pearce @emma-pearce98.bsky.social Art historian | Lecturer in Design History at Glasgow School of Art | PhD on tartan and colonial identity in the 18th c Atlantic 🌎 | currently working on: colonial masculinity + animal-material culture 🐋 | BSECS ECR rep | she/her
Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social #18thc historian of dance, political culture, sociability, and embodiment, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Liverpool (Assembly Rooms)
Thesis on dance and political culture in late Georgian Britain
https://linktr.ee/hillary.burlock
Dr. Jamie LH Goodall @lhistorienne.bsky.social History PhD. Pirate expert. ☠🏴☠️⚓️ Author/Editor. Educator.
As seen on TV (History Channel). 📺
Elder Millennial. Forever emo kid. ♉ Tattoo lover. AuDHD. A makeup obsessed LEGO enthusiast & vinyl hoarder.
📸: L_Historienne
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.
Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com Asst Prof of Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social. Florida man abroad, lapsed Catholic, vulgar marxist; Stanford English phd, Literary Lab alum. I work on computational humanities, AI, and forms of abstraction in (C18) literary history. ryanheuser.com
Simon During @simoncd.bsky.social Bookish married English professor, living between Brisbane and Berlin. Interested in way too much, reads indiscriminately, and, cant seem to help myself, has opinions on pretty much everything.
Sadie Mansfield @sadiemansfield.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History at the University of Birmingham researching Indigenous diplomacy in c18th North America
Dr Natalee Garrett @nemgarrett.bsky.social Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Rep'd by Perez Literary & Entertainment. https://linktr.ee/natalee.garrett
Synthia Hynes @misshynesight.bsky.social PhD student at Uni of Liverpool researching the wives of c18 British Diplomats. C18 fashion enthusiast • neurodivergent • views mine. 🇵🇪🌎
Tom Whitfield @tjlwhitfield.bsky.social Conservation Adviser (Northern England) @ The Georgian Group | Historical Archaeologist | C18th stuff, spaces and buildings (particularly N.England) | haphazard gardener and maker of things.
Daniel Gilman @danielgilman.bsky.social Researching 18th century eloquence and anti-slavery advocacy l PhD candidate at Cambridge University l Legislative Advisor for the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking l Speech in CS Lewis
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).
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 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
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
Anne Fertig, PhD @annefertig.bsky.social History, literature, but mostly just a lot of Jane Austen. Catch me in my upcoming podcast, Finding Jane Austen (Out 2025) 
Dr Alice Little @littleamiss.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth-century music, researching folk music, history of collecting, tunebooks, national music, and museums. Also writing books and stories and drinking tea in the garden.
Laura Runge-Gordon @lauralrg.bsky.social Prof of English at U of South Florida Restoration and 18C British literature, esp that by and about women. #OpenAccess Digital concordance research, music and stage performance, esp in works by Aphra Behn
Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social University of Cambridge’s workshop for the Long Eighteenth Century | Providing opportunities for postgraduate students to present papers at the University of Cambridge's History Faculty
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-long-eighteenth-century
Heather Heckman-McKenna @drhhm.bsky.social PhD 2023, long (long, long) 18th centuryist, memoirist, digital humanist, sensibility studies, Associate Editor for The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, baby book historian, new mama (tired; so very tired), and CATS. All of the cats. 
Ben Pauley @benpauley.bsky.social Professor of English and Interim Provost, Eastern Connecticut State University. Some-time eighteenth-centuryist and bibliographer. 
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
TheDoctorIsIn @doctorisinmentors.bsky.social We live in garrets, offices, nooks, coffee shops.
We mentor and are mentored.
Affiliated with @ASECSoffice, #17thc #18thc #19thc
Our site is https://doctorisinblog.wordpress.com/
Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social Associate professor (Restoration secret history, celebrity, fantasy fiction, and fan cultures), haphazard gardener, dog and cat parent, AuDHD, 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)
George Justice @georgejustice.bsky.social 
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.
Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social Sr. acquisitions editor at SUNY Press (gender & queer studies, lit crit, Latin American studies, education, & more); author, Returning the Gift: Modernism and the Thought of Exchange (2018). Screamy about publishing, labor, most things. She/her.
profchander @profchander.bsky.social bad at most things
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
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/