Women in World-Literature @womeninworld-lit.bsky.social Website https://tinyurl.com/WIWLWeb
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Maggie Arden @maggiearden.bsky.social Historian loading… | MLitt History (almost) · MA Strategic Communication
Researching print culture, the Scottish Enlightenment & national identity in 18th-century Britain and Scotland.
📚 Reader. 📷 Photographer. 🥃 Whisky drinker.
Lenka Skoupá @lenkaskoupa.bsky.social Doing a PhD. in disability history from legal sources of Justinian.
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Doctora JoAngeli Zertuche-Kasper @jzkasper.bsky.social My grandfather swam the Rio Grande to give his family hope. At 60, I earned my PhD. I am that hope. Doctora. Counselor. Researcher. Advocate. Building pathways for people told they don’t belong. #PhDLatinxMomOnAMission
Nursejaniceuk @nursejaniceuk.bsky.social Nurse Consultant|PhD. student|🇬🇧 Infection Prevention & Control Nurse Consultant & Deputy DIPC| UK |All my views belong to me!
🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social author of a hopeful post collapse #CliFi #hopepunk novel journey through the tarot
COMING OCTOBER 20, 2026
~🐓permaculture 🕉️ meditation 🔮✨magic 👐 community ∞🌲wilderness🌳~
PDX
We are in this together, friends💕
Iza K. T.
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Monica Germanà @monicagermana.bsky.social Researcher, Writer, Lecturer. Co-President of the International Gothic Association. Research interests in Monsters, Blue Humanities, the Arctic and… James Bond!
Roxanne Douglas @roxannedouglas.bsky.social Assistant Prof at IAS University of Warwick. World-Literatures, Feminism, Arab Feminism, Gothic, Apocalypses. Women in World-Literature organiser. She/her.
Judith Rauscher @judithrauscher.bsky.social Asst. Prof. /JProf. for American Literature & Culture @ U of Cologne; Poetry, Ecoriticism, Mobility Studies, Speculative Fiction, Gender Studies 🤓👩🏫🌄🎶📚🏳️🌈
HP Bookcraft @hpbookcraft.bsky.social 38. She/they. Folklore, horror, hauntology. Master's in Gothic literature. Keeper of wayward books, editor, and thing that goes bump in the night.
Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social English professor in Fukuoka, Japan; research focus on utopias in literature with forays into science fiction, ecocriticism, & monster theory. Immigrant, grandad, LGBTQIA+(bi), intersectional equality for all. he/him
https://linktr.ee/azzageddi
Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social Researching modernism, queer networks, literature and silent cinema 📚🎞️ writing about the POOL group 🌊 teaching film and poetry. She/her.
Darja Wischerath @darja.bsky.social Postdoc @ University of Bath | Conspiracy theories, radicalisation, violent extremism and the like
Avid hiker & coffee drinker
Masks save lives
She/They
Alkisti @everalkisti.bsky.social Doctoral researcher working on children’s/fantasy literature & identity @ University of Edinburgh.
Writer, reader, adventurer.
Ever changing. ☕️📚❄️
It’s pronounced AHL-kee-stee.
Argonaut Books @argonautbooks.bsky.social | 🌊 Leith’s Independent Bookshop - Est.2021
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Wendy Fall @wendyfall.bsky.social PhD in 19th C gothic fiction. She/her. Displaced scholar working full-time in state government (public health). Theater and music performer. Adjunct professor. Ally.
Eeva Houtbeckers @eevahoutbeckers.bsky.social Co-founder of Untame Collective, Degrowth Journal & Meidän metsämme | Research on #degrowth #postgrowth #postfossil #work #ParadigmShifts #ecofeminism | University of Eastern Finland & University of Helsinki | she/they | Also #cats #doodling #queerspawn 🌈
Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social Indie publisher of beautiful titles inspired by buildings, cities and landmarks. Sometimes wears a book as a hat… | ManderleyPress.com
Insta @manderleypress
Latest book: manderleypress.com/shop/p/moonismaking
Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social Environmental Humanities researcher. @LeedsUniEnglish @LeedsEnvHums
#Wordsworth #JohnClare #Romanticism
#walking #birdwatching #naturewriting
Ascending with the Earth 🌍.
Dr Stephen Curtis @earlymodernhorror.bsky.social Part time lecturer, full time anxious wreck. Writing a/the book on Early Modern Horror. Also research videogames and contemporary Horror. Reviewer for TheSixthAxis.com
Dr. Milly Kate Harrison @millykateh.bsky.social Aspiring Victorian Bachelor • PhD on Weird Fiction & Queer Masculinity, 1890-1914 (Loughborough University)
Rebecca Roberts @rebrob134.bsky.social Current Associate Teacher (PGCE) in Secondary English. Prev Student in MA in Nineteenth Century Studies. Interested in representations of the Byronic Hero through the writing of Branwell Brontë
Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social Horror Lex® (https://horrorlex.com) is the home of academic horror. Explore our huge research database of scholarly, thoughtful writings on horror films. #horror
Kate Harvey @harveygothick.bsky.social Apprentice Monsterologist, Gothic academic and bibliophile. Passion for dance, music, nature and cocktails. Sunsponge Goth. She/her. Co-founder of the Macabre Danse research project (#BalletGothic)
Franz Potter @franzpotter.bsky.social Professor & Gothic chapbook enthusiast. Gothic publishing, bibliography & book history. Obsessed with Sarah Wilkinson's biography. All views are my own.
Dr Barbara Franchi @barbarafranchi.bsky.social Contemporary literature scholar, feminist, wannabe eco-criticist. Career Development Fellow in Postcolonial and World Literatures at Durham University. she/her
Anna Burton @drannaburton.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature| Interested in all things arboreal | Trees in C19 English Fiction (2021) | she/her
Dr Evelyn Koch @evelynkoch.bsky.social Early modern/19th-cent. English literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social Associate Prof: Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Hum, History of Med, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast
I do not use AI for anything, professionally or personally. All opinions my own.
Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social Energy Infrastructures & C19 Periodical Press at Uni Bremen | Scottish Literature, EnvHums | she/her
Dr Lauren Nixon @laurenjnixon.bsky.social Doctor of Gothic Studies, specialising in masculinity, war and nation. Works in doctoral education and research culture. One half of The Ghoul Guides, spooky pop culture podcasting. She/Her.
Ruth-Anne @handle.invalid Gothic, Ecology and Theology in 19th century literature
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate at Warwick University
She/They 📚🏳️🌈🐶
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century @19birkbeck.bsky.social Online open access journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century.
https://19.bbk.ac.uk/
Emma Catan @academicmeeple.bsky.social Geek, crafter, cat minion. PhD researcher at Northumbria University - Cross-dressing and 'Transgression' in the neo-Victorian city. They/Them
Heidi Backes @heidibackes1.bsky.social Prof of Spanish lit and cultural history / Gothic fiction / Fascism / Memory & Trauma Studies / Author of SPECTRAL SPAIN (U of Wales Press, 2024), FASCIST FEMALE GOTHIC (Jan. 2027, UWP)
Ashley R. Smith-Campbell @ashleyrsmith.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College | PhD in Screen Cultures from Northwestern | Writing on horror, culture, race, and gender | True crime & media trash lover | Opinions are mine | Formerly @thehorrorfemme on Twitter
Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social The #Gothic; #18thC - #19thC literature & sciences of the mind, occult & supernatural; digital Gothic 👻
Associate Professor & Director: Master of Research, Faculty of Arts, MQU, Sydney
Co-Editor: ANCR & INCSA Book Series
She/Her
https://kirstinmills.com
Beth Eyres @betheyres.bsky.social Composition and Literature instructor, esp. Gothic Literature. Gardener. Reader. Sightseer. And wine. Co-host Two Profs in a Pod @twoprofsinapod
http://twoprofsinapod.blogspot.com
Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social Professional nerd researching Gothic Fangirls and Families.
Disabled, Queer, Socialist. They/them
Dr. Laura Davidel @lauradavidel.bsky.social Interested in vampires, witches, and ghosts.
Ph.D. thesis: Monstrosity, Liminality and Queerness in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles.
Probably away taking pictures 📷
Helen Pinsent @heleninwords.bsky.social PhD Candidate, Dalhousie - American Gothic - Mobility Studies - we are here and it is now
Dr. Céleste Callen @celestecallen.bsky.social Time, memory and subjectivity in 19C fiction. 🕰 Editor of the Dickens Society blog 🖋️
Lis Beavis @lisbeavis.bsky.social PhD researcher at City, University of London. Gothic studies. Victorian fiction. Periodical literature. Short stories. 
Orla Donnelly @ordonnel.bsky.social PhD, Victorianist, gothicist, teacher of English at TCD
Jennifer Schell @jenniferschell16.bsky.social English Professor, Cetacean Enthusiast, Canine Therapy Human. I write about anthropogenic species extinction, Arctic ecosystems, more-than-human organisms, and blue humanities. Ocean obsessed! Fairbanks, AK. Views my own.
University of Westminster Press @uniwestpress.bsky.social Non-profit community-led open access publisher of arts, humanities and social science research
Isla H. Macfarlane @bibliophisla.bsky.social ☞ PhD Candidate with Innerpeffray Library and Stirling University. Researching nineteenth-century visitors' books, borrowing records, and library history. Book and cat lover. She/her.
Dr Matt Crofts @mattcrofts.bsky.social Literature researcher. PhD on #Gothic Tyranny. Interests: Dracula adaptations, the #Flashman papers, rats, apocalyptic wastes & Castlevania. Black cat fan 🐈⬛
Aidan Strange @strange.scot A couple of hats. Opinions half baked. He/Him
Katie Murphy @manymanyplies.bsky.social Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Out in summer 2027: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.
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
Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield. Romanticism, Gothic, author and general co-ed of Ann Radcliffe for forthcoming Cambridge edition and gen co-ed of Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. PL AHRC project ‘Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now’
Alex @drspider666.bsky.social Confirmed bachelor. Writing about queer & disability representation. Only watching anything for the queer-coded villains. Opinions my own.
Emma Butler-Marr @19thcenturyem.bsky.social PhD researcher studying nineteenth-century (literary) seaside resorts ⛱️ | @bars.bsky.social PGR rep 2026-28 | 2025 BARS Visiting Fellow at Chawton House | chronically ill 💛 (she/her)
David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Leeds, UK. Working on culture and environmental crisis. Writing a book about birds, loss, and restoration. Worried parent. Luddite. Opinions my own. Reposts ≠ endorsement.
Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural with CUP: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/sylvia-plath-and-the-supernatural/3DDD698437DA20C6AA40FF47D27247D3 | 20th c. poetry | witches | ecocriticism | American studies | dorkatamas.com
Carolin Böttcher @carolinboettcher.bsky.social Literature, science, and the environment | 18th century | Irish literature 
Dr. Katie Liddane @katieliddane.bsky.social PhD at Northumbria on history and heritage of 17thc North East witches. Interested in Witchcraft, folklore, histfic, and Gothic tourism . She/her
Dr Bill Hughes (William the Bloody) @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Gothic fairies, vampires and paranormal romance; co-organiser Open Graves, Open Minds Project @ogomproject.bsky.social
https://hcommons.org/members/billhughes/
www.opengravesopenminds.com
Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
Bernice M. Murphy @murphgothic.bsky.social Professor in Popular Literature with a focus on American horror and Gothic narratives & the work of Shirley Jackson. Views own.
Saorfhlaith Burton @drfloraposte.bsky.social Lecturer at RGU; Ethnograper and sociologist. I write and research on hauntings, ghosts, graveyards, the wilderness, and other sundry death things.
Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social Handmade signs, prints, music & books inspired by British Folk Horror and unsettling TV, film & literature. Based in The Black Country, England.
https://linktr.ee/hiddenbritain
Strong Women, Strange Worlds @swsworlds.bsky.social Our mission is to elevate the voices of women and other underrepresented gender identity authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror; to highlight stories featuring strong female and non-binary characters; and to share these stories with readers of all
Horrified @horrified.bsky.social In celebration of British horror. Haunting your browser since 2020.
horrifiedmagazine.co.uk
Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social Writing about women and surrealism and cinema. Cat worshipper. Small Brummie. Tired.
https://linktr.ee/SabinaStent
Simon Bacon @baconetti.bsky.social Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
OGOM Project @ogomproject.bsky.social Vampires, werewolves, fairies in culture. All narratives of the fantastic, the folkloric, and the magical, emphasising the sense of Gothic as enchantment.
www.opengravesopenminds.com
Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social お化け博士 (Ghost Scholar) based in Tokyo. Gothic in Asia Association co-founder. Variously juggling research on: Emily Dickinson, Shirley Jackson, Jewish folklore, Japanese gothic/folklore, poetry & the gothic. Poet and opera singer. (Opinions mine)
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
AM_Marini @annamartamarini.bsky.social Humboldt Research Fellow at JFKI FU Berlin | CDA&visual media | heritage/borderlands, ethnoracial violence, exclusionary/national identities | horror/gothic mediascapes, ocular uncanny and dental angst | annamartamarini.com
Alex Wagstaffe @green-romantic.bsky.social Indigenous academic studying Gothic Romantic literature. Also interested in expanding into Indigenous literature. Genderfluid, pansexual, greyro (they/them)
Dr Eva Burke @evab89.bsky.social Academic, lecturer, and teacher of English. Interested in domestic noir fiction, horror, & pop lit. Cat lady and toddler mammy. She/Her.
Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social Teacher, scholar, editor; PhD, FHEA; Academic Skills Lecturer at GBS. Interested in the Gothic, the weird, ghost stories, objects, Speculative Realism, Algernon Blackwood 🌲 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henry-Bartholomew
The Blogging Goth @theblogginggoth.bsky.social Subcultural raconteur
curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social ▪️Folklore▪️Myth▪️Magic▪️Art▪️
Sharing Japanese and supernatural folklore, mythology, yokai, culture and art. Also love books, cats, crows and trees.
http://linktr.ee/curiousordinary
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
Horror Queers @horrorqueers.bsky.social LGBTQ horror podcast. Part of Bloody Disgusting's BloodyFM.
Tweets by co-hosts @joelipsett.bsky.social and @tracedthurman.bsky.social | horrorqueers at gmail dot com |
Patreon.com/horrorqueers
Real Queen of Horror @lovelyzena.bsky.social 🫶🏾 Your best friend who loves horror.
🎙️ Host of the official Bloody Disgusting Podcast.
Frank, Utopian Marxist @frankgothic.bsky.social Historian | Communist ✊| Catholic | Internationalist | Writer | NB Queer (They/He) | Spooky Left | Co-host of Left Page & Here Be Media podcasts
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social Writer of SFFH. Snarkwitch. Psych PhD. Approachable goth. Artomancer. Baseball nerd.
Words in Small Wonders, Penumbric, The Deadlands
Member of HWA, SFWA, Codex
www.cjsubko.com
https://cjsubko.beehiiv.com
Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian lit, and 19th century newspapers.
New book(s) coming soon, including Cambridge Companion to True Crime.
Rep: Aevitas
光 / Louis @lindsayplum.bsky.social Cats, cake and kpop
Teacher, student, artist
5HINee/TAEMIN
Xe/they/he AuDHD
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴
Melissa @ahes.bsky.social Gothic enthusiast. Voracious reader. Always keen to watch a movie.
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
Melissa Raines McCauley @drmcraines.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool; interested in literature and psychology, crime fiction, horror, film and television adaptations, and Victorian realism (yes, I'm a little all over the place); dog mom; views my own; she/her
Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social Theological Monsters (University of Wales Press), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
The Ghoul Guides @ghoulguides.bsky.social A multimedia project exploring all things spooky, ghoulish and Gothic from academic researchers @laurenjnixon.bsky.social and @mazgoing.bsky.social. Podcast: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ghoulguides | Website: theghoulguides.wordpress.com 
Bethany Keats @bethanykeats.bsky.social Writer ✍️ Reader 📚 Artist 📷 Dancer 🩰 cyclist 🚲
Also: languages
PhD: gothic literature, family history
Geelong ✈️ Townsville (sometimes 🇫🇷)
co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social
co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social
Mary Going @mazgoing.bsky.social Research Associate at the University of Sheffield. Researches Gothic and Horror with a focus on religion. 1/2 of the Ghoul Guides 🕵️ IGA Web Officer 👻 Loves cats, tea and metal. she/her
Chloe Campbell @chloec.bsky.social PhD student 📚 Researching witch-wives, mid-century witches, and Suburban Gothic in lit, film & TV 🔮🪄 Commissioning Editor in academic publishing 📖 she/her🌛
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.