Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org A random frame from a random Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, every hour, on the hour. Episode details in alt text.
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Simon Jackson @sjjackson32.bsky.social Director of Music, Peterhouse | Author *George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture* http://tinyurl.com/brc3byuc | Some music at Encore Publications https://tinyurl.com/2ry6dak2
Rory Loughnane @loughnrv.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works, The Revels Plays; Series Ed., Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare and Text, Studies in Early Modern Authorship http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social Retired historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Raymond A. (Randy) Blacketer @drdominee.bsky.social Reformation historian. Translator of John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]
Laura Kolb @laurakolb.bsky.social early modernist, mostly
https://laurakolb.com/
Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is a professional organization for the advanced study of Shakespeare's works, times, and afterlife.
Visit linktr.ee/saaupdates for more information on events and member updates.
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
The Marlowe Society of America @marlowemightyln.bsky.social The Marlowe Society of America promotes scholarship on poet & playwright Christopher Marlowe's life, works, & crucial role in the early modern theater.
James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social French Literature professor. He, his, him.
(If you google me I’m going to find out through academiadotedu)
https://lyon.academia.edu/JamesMartell
Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social Academic and climate activist, born 325 ppm, flight free since 2018. #4BD. Fight for a free press: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061 -- https://mediasovereignty.org/
András Kiséry @andrask.bsky.social early modernist and book historian, curious about shorthand, epigraphy, catalogs and other media. also sociology of cold war translations, history of media studies, … and Uwe Johnson.
Jessica Lynn Wolfe @jesslynnwolfe.bsky.social Marcel Bataillon Professor, UNC Chapel Hill. Early modern literary and intellectual history, history of science, classical reception. Native New Yorker, avid traveler, soon to be peripatetic. 
Josh Reid @joshreid.bsky.social Associate Professor of Early Modern Studies, ETSU
Spenser, Milton, Romance Epic, Translation Studies
General Editor, The Manchester Spenser
Book Review Editor, The Spenser Review
https://etsu.academia.edu/JoshuaReid
Yulia Ryzhik @yryzhik.bsky.social English professor in early modern literature (University of Toronto), runner, birder, letterpress printer, canoe tripper, cat lover
Michael Vaclav @mvaclav.bsky.social PhD in Early Modern British Literature; Instructor at the University of Texas at Austin; researching the intersection of politics and adaptation from late 16th to early 18th c, particularly adapted Shakespeare plays in the Restoration
Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social ⭕️Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe
📖Author of STRAIGHT ACTING, and rep’d by Eleanor Birne at RCW
👨🏼❤️👨🏻 Hitched to @pierstorday.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/willtosh3
🔗 https://lnk.to/StraightActing-HB
Jacob Tootalian @jtootalian.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, parent. Interested in (early modern) literature, rhetoric, and the history of science. Co-General Editor of the Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish. Co-Director of Digital Cavendish.
Peter C. Herman @pherman.bsky.social Lit prof at San Diego State University; author of "Early Modern Others: Resisting Bias in Renaissance Literature"; words @newsweek, @Salon, Inside Higher Ed, Public Humanities, Times of San Diego
International Spenser Society @spensersociety.bsky.social Fashioning a gentleman or noble person, one morall vertue at a time
David L. Orvis @davidorvis.bsky.social Professor and Assistant Chair of English, Appalachian State University | Early Modern Studies & Queer Studies | *Shakespeare against Love* (under contract with Routledge)
Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social Matmos guy with my husband @lordchiefjustice / English professor at Hopkins / also known as The Soft Pink Truth.
Andy Kesson @andykesson.bsky.social Research, performance, history, creativity, wrestling and a lot of bears.
Christopher Shipman @ship-on-the-line.bsky.social Writer-Drummer-Teacher-Papa-Mogwai-Monster. 
Jeremy Iggers @jeremyigg.bsky.social Retired journalist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I take weekly Farsi lessons online from a teacher in Iran and try to stay current on Iranian film, culture and politics. I also play banjo in a jug band and ride my bike a lot.
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
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
Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social Professor ~ EM English drama ~ Shakespeare ~ feminist ethics ~ parrhesia ~ book series ed. *Late Tudor & Stuart Drama* @MIP ~ https://hcommons.org/members/clalfar/
🌻 amateur gardener ~ childless cat lady 🐈⬛~ "I can see a church by daylight."
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies @csrs-scer.bsky.social Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance
UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23. / Views expressed are my own.
Ike Sharpless @surlyotter.bsky.social 🖖
Chris Warren @chriswarren.info Head of English/Prof. of English & History@Carnegie Mellon. Knowledge-monger: clandestine print, weird data, book history, computational humanities, political thought. Author, Literature & the Law of Nations. 6 Degrees of Francis Bacon. Humanities for all.
Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social writer and teacher who cares a lot about the future of the humanities as well as access to education
dean of humanities & professor of English @ ASU, but this is my personal account, opinions are mine
https://www.jeffreyjeromecohen.com
Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social fantasy, science fiction, medieval studies, plants
he/him
unicorn book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53425-6
Earthsea book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24640-1
Chris Crosbie @crosbie1564.bsky.social Associate professor at NC State. Writing about Shakespeare & ethics (http://bit.ly/3E9UnZj). Some chess & hiking here. Revenge Tragedy & Classical Philosophy (EUP): http://bit.ly/2rjkbAc
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.
Sam Brown @samuscript.bsky.social PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Sometime documentary producer. Human 🦜 perch.
www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Early modernist and Lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe. “Yes I am the metals person” ⚒️ Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making ✝️
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social Shakespeare troll, now in Scotland
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/eoin-price
Reprints and Revivals of Renaissance Drama out now with CUP
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/reprints-and-revivals-of-renaissance-drama/061B68B70ADC59CD5A6D9C3A0F9C0D40
Curtis Perry @curtisperry.bsky.social Professor of English lit; anti-Zionist Jew; amateur of song; watcher of myriad kdramas; introvert; featherless biped; he/him.
Adam Zucker Again @adamzucker.bsky.social As Stated - The Professor one at UMass Amherst. Shakespeare, Jonson, et al. Journal co-editor, English Literary Renaissance. Author: "Shakespeare Unlearned" (OUP 2024). Music: Outro; The Young Old; The Father Figures; Bring It To Bear.
Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Religion, University of Glasgow. Old books, MSs, and ideas; classical music; and our cat. My views.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/adrianstreete/
Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
Steve Mentz @stevementz.bsky.social #bluehumanities, Shakespeare, swimming, eco-poetry. English prof at St. John's (NYC). 
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
Lisa Hopkins @lisahopkins.bsky.social Lover of early modern drama and of Dorothy Dunnett. Interested in Bess of Hardwick, the literary culture of the Cavendish family, and classic detective fiction.
Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
Tom Rutter @obscuredrama.bsky.social Shakespeare/Marlowe/playing companies/science/early modern drama, University of Sheffield
Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (just done: #MoonMad); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
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
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Jim Marino @jamesjmarino.bsky.social early modernist, Shakespeare nerd, moonlighting fiction writer
living the good life in Cleveland
Ari Friedlander @arifriedlander.bsky.social Assoc Prof, UMiss. Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics (OUP '22). New work on Milton, gender, disability, race. he/him. ari-friedlander.com
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.
Holger Syme @literasyme.bsky.social Historian of European theatre, working on early modern England and 20th & 21st-century Germany. Lover of archives. Professor at U of Toronto. Occasional theatre maker. Haphazard gardener. Full time dog person.
More: https://syme.dispositio.net
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Aaron T. Pratt @aarontpratt.bsky.social Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center. Bibliographer, book historian, and VHS guy.
(Dr.) Diana Henderson @dianahenderson.bsky.social Still the theater & words Prof. at MIT who now will be trying to reconnect w/ friends who left the other places….
Prof Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social Professor of English and Cultural Studies @ University of Southern Queensland. Shakespeare scholar. Finder of lost playhouses. FSA FRHistS. He/him. 
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Freya Sierhuis 🟥 @freyas.bsky.social Lecturer in early modern literature; interested in literature & intellectual history; environmental humanities. Climate change and global justice. Working on a book on Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679). Views my own.
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Pascale Aebischer (she/her) @pascaleexeter.bsky.social Dragonboater, paddleboarder, Dartmoor walker, Aare-swimmer. Also editing Titus Andronicus and interested in all things Shakespeare, performance, theatre broadcasting, post-COVID-19 creative industries. Never able to see enough shows or read enough books.
Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social Asst Prof at Trinity College Dublin | Shakespeare and Performance Studies | Trustee of the British Shakespeare Association | Dramaturg | Views own.
Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social Book history, Shakespeare etc. Views my own, not my employer's. Header is: https://shorturl.at/FtfZQ / Gen Ed., Arden Shakespeare / https://pennmaterialtexts.org / http://shakespearecensus.org / http://deepplaybooks.org
Laura Ingallinella @lauraingalli.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Italian & Renaissance at the University of Toronto. Working on forgery and women's literature; transregional encounters; drama, gender, race in #earlymodern Italy. book in progress: #FraudulentMuse
Darren Freebury-Jones @freeburian.bsky.social FRHistS. Author. Public speaker. Shakespeare scholar. General Ed: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Ed: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. Welsh.
https://darrenfj.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/darren-freebury-jones-publications/
Erin E. Kelly @eekelly.bsky.social Associate professor of English and director of the Academic and Technical Writing Program at University of Victoria. Associate editor of Early Theatre. Ask me about weird, old plays
Early Theatre @earlytheatre.bsky.social A Journal Associated with the Records of English Drama
earlytheatre.org
Brooke Conti @brookeconti.bsky.social All higher knowledge in her presences falls / Degraded
Rhodri Lewis @rhodrilewis.bsky.social Literature, ideas, history, the arts | Reading & writing & teaching | Bylines here & there | At work on a life of Frank Kermode | bit.ly/2vbBoIN
Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social Historian and Archaeologist. Author of The Lives of Tudor Women and England’s Queens. Appears on TV. Likes travel.
Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
https://www.callandavies.com
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at @bristoluni.bsky.social. Working on Shakespeare biography and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
Dr Philippa Earle @uncouthswain.bsky.social Miltonist | Research Associate at Uni of Exeter | FHEA
🔗 https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/35461-philippa-earle
@renaissancegirl.bsky.social @renaissancegirl.bsky.social MAD about the Renaissance, Quattrocento Florence, Elizabethan & Jacobean London, all art. Maker of soufflé's and sourdough.
More shouty as @bebejax on 🐦⬛
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social international bestselling pervert • writer: DAYSPRING, AVENGERS ACADEMY, etc • film programmer • phd • any pronouns http://linktr.ee/meakoopa lycan sub scribe.
DAYSPRING - out now! dayspringbook.com