Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social More left than right. I like looking at gaps, poetry, philosophy.
Joshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social Joshua Palmatier is an epic fantasy writer and the founder of the small press Zombies Need Brains. ZNB does NOT use AI imagery in its covers and does NOT accept AI-generated stories. Visit the store: https://zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site
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
The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social Publishing scholarly editions of Shakespeare’s plays since 1899. Home of the Third Series, Complete Works and cutting-edge Shakespeare & Early Modern research.
🎭 www.bloomsbury.com/theardenshakespeare
M. Lizbeth C. S. @lizbethcalvario.bsky.social EN/FR-SP literary translation & Translation Studies, Shakespearean, Early Modernist
Lengua y Literaturas Modernas (Letras Inglesas) - FFyL/UNAM
Traducción & Literatura Hispánica - CELL/Colmex
Assistant editor at Otros Diálogos de El Colegio de México
Dr Marina Cano @drmarinacano.bsky.social Asst Prof English │ Long 19th C │ Writer │ Researcher
Theatrical Afterlives (OUP 2026), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/theatrical-afterlives-9780198992882?lang=en&cc=es
https://metode.academia.edu/MarinaCano
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Ben Blyth @benblyth.bsky.social Ph.D. Scholar-Practitioner of Medieval & Early Modern Drama @ UCalgary, Treaty 7 🍁 ⚔️ 🎭
Richard Riddick @emilezoloft.bsky.social Teaches at a university. Writing a book about how the Dreyfus Affair broke the novel
James Hanover @jameshanover.bsky.social Words. History. Coffee.
Acknowledging Dja Dja Wurrung Country.
Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social Global Shakespeare, ethical AI, digital humanities, adaptations, Asian studies, film, theatre
Writer, educator, advocacy speaker
Bryn Boice @brynboice.bsky.social Boston-based theatre director, Assoc. Artistic Director @commshakes, Wife, and Bulldog mom! Podcast ‘The ShakesDown’ available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc. — brynboice.com
Emma Whipday @emmawhipday.bsky.social Writer of books and plays. Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, interested in all things Shakespeare and early modern drama. BBC New Generation Thinker. Working on a book about step-families. She/her.
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
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
Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.
Harry R. McCarthy (offline) @harrymccarthy.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English at USC. Early modern childhood, race, gender, education, and performance. Book on boy actors with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. Next book sometime, somewhere. https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/harry-mccarthy/
Shakespeare fan Colin David Reese @colindavid.bsky.social Actor, director writer.
Author and performer of "Shakespeare Unbound - a gift to the future"
John Hemminges finds himself in a Zoom meeting and tells the story of what it was like to be friend and partner to the greatest playwright of all time.
Joseph Stephenson 🇺🇦 @joestephenson.bsky.social Professor of English. Renaissance and Restoration Drama. Researching a formerly lost play, /The Dutch Lady/. 
Kate Pitt @katepitt.bsky.social Shakespeare, theater, history, opera, new work. Pardon gentles - all - opinions are mine own. www.katepitt.com & shakespearenews.com
Dr Andrea Smith @audioandrea.bsky.social Shakespeare, drama, radio. Often all at the same time. Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at University of Suffolk. Formerly BBC producer. My views.
https://linktr.ee/audioandrea
Dr. Jami Rogers @publicradionerd.bsky.social Author of "British Black and Asian Shakespeareans: Integrating Shakespeare, 1966-2018"
LAMDA trained; former PBS and "Masterpiece Theatre"
PhD in Shakespeare.
Nuts about public radio.
Proud West Virginian.
Lots of theatre and LiverpoolFC
Yasmine Hachimi @yasminehachimi.bsky.social PhD in Early Modern Literature & Culture | Popular Representations of Premodern Queens | Period Dramas | Pop Culture | Romance Reader | Fangirl
Probably talking about the Tudors. 👑
https://linktr.ee/yasminehachimi
Valerie Billing @vbilling.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at Central College. Teacher, researcher, conference-goer. Lover of Shakespeare, gardening, and home-grown tomatoes. Views my own and not my employer's. She/her.
Tyler Moss @tylerjmoss.bsky.social Shakespeare and clown performer/teacher. Father and husband. Artistic Director of @TheShakesForum. Loves soccer and sports.
Holly Dugan @trickyholly.bsky.social too tired to be clever
she/her
Susan Anderson @susananderson.bsky.social Early modern disability, civic pageantry and music. Also cats.
Steve Purcell @stevetpurcell.bsky.social Academic, director, writer. Co-Artistic Director of The Pantaloons and Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. All views my own.
Steve Mentz @stevementz.bsky.social #bluehumanities, Shakespeare, swimming, eco-poetry. English prof at St. John's (NYC). 
Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social Professor of poetry, curious, gay, love to cook. Currently writing about poems about poems.
Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social Writer and theatre type 
Scott Trudell @scotttrudell.bsky.social my jams are poetry, drama, music, media studies, trans studies, and performance studies
Randall Martin @rwfm.bsky.social Shakespearian. Ecocritic. Occasional dramaturge.
claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social ¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & dirty books ¶ accidental miltonist ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com
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. Nedda Mehdizadeh, Ph.D. @profnmehdiz.bsky.social UCLA Faculty; Global Renaissance & #ShakeRace. she/her/hers.
I own my own Academic and Career Success coaching company: www.daenacoaching.com
INTJ.
Views are my own.
ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
Kate Powers @plain-kate.bsky.social Stage director, prison theatremaker, college professor, Shakespeare nerd, trauma-informed / consent-based maker of good trouble, radical left-wing
scum, apparently. Redhead. #SlawaUkrainii #GoBills 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🚫👑
Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social Early modern nerd, women writers, book history, editing , also trivial personal posts on gardens, food etc
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.
Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures
Mira ‘Assaf @miramiraculous.bsky.social Book: Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens,& Constructions of Race in Early Modern England, under contract @ACMRSPress | 23-24 Long-term Fellow, @FolgerLibrary | Arab | dilettante
Michael Witmore @michaelwitmore.bsky.social Digital preservationist, Shakespeare scholar, humanities advocate, consultant for cultural institutions, Director Emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Dr Stephen O'Neill @mediashakes.bsky.social Stephen O'Neill, university teacher & Shakespearean | “Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak” | 🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈
More info here: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/stephen-oneill
Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social pizza advocate; english professor
Lyn Tribble @lyntribble.bsky.social Prof @ Uconn, Shakespeare, distributed cognition, basketballg
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 🇮🇪🇺🇸
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. 
Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social Mezzo-about-town. Singer, actor, Shakespearean text coach, will translate your opera libretti and song texts. She/they.
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Laura Jayne Wright @laurajaynewright.bsky.social Writing about early modern sound, women’s voices, screams, prophecies, and hallucinations at Newcastle University.
she/her.
Kern McFadden @kernmcfadden.bsky.social I didn’t have any of this on my bingo card- I didn’t even know we were playing bingo.
Leo. Human. Actor. Director. Teacher. DJ. Hater of Labels. Lover of Contradictions.
Shakespeare Nerd. Star Wars kid. Pansexual.
Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
Kernmcfadden.com
Kathryn Vomero Santos @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva. Author of Shakespeare in Tongues. National Humanities Center Fellow 26–27.
kathrynvomerosantos.com
borderlandsshakespeare.org
John Pendergast @jspen.bsky.social Professor of English SIUE
Research interests in Early Modern Drama, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, and history of print. Also, just because, film, especially the films of the Coen Brothers, and the novels of Thomas Pynchon.
John R. Yamamoto-Wilson @john-y-wilson.bsky.social Early modernist (https://discoursesofsuffering.org/), educationist (https://educationalhub.org/) and vlogger (https://youtube.com/anosensei).
Author of https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=rWPBkTrcSQEC.
Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social Early modernist; lit professor. Lover of stage directions, textual instability, revenge tragedies, rain, Star Wars, gravy, Oregon, banana slugs, seagulls, and beards! I support trans rights. Thoughts mine own. 
Holly Pickett @hollypickett.bsky.social ❤️: Shakespeare, early modern drama, religion, letterpress, linocut
Department Head & Prof of English at W&L
Dr Hannah Wilson @hlwilson.bsky.social researching early modern boy actors, enskillment, theatre history. 🏳️🌈 she/her.
Heather Knight @heather1576.bsky.social Archaeologist with a penchant for 16th and 17th century playhouses of all shapes and sizes, FSA and Faversham Society Trustee 🎭🏺
Sawyrrrr @hamlethologram.bsky.social Transgender Shakespearean; Baseball Enjoyer; West Virginia's Greatest Disappointment.
It can't all be dirtbikes and Mountain Dew.
Gabriel Lonsberry @glonsber.bsky.social Shakespeare professor and theater historian into court masques. Experimental music obsessive. Atlanta.
Gemma Allred @gemmaallred.bsky.social Shakespeare / Early Modern / Digital Theatre / Musicals / Innovation / Marketing
Christine Varnado @eyweltschmerz.bsky.social Spread the Weltschmerz! Buffalo / The Shapes of Fancy (https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-shapes-of-fancy) 
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 ✝️
Margo Hendricks @elysabethgrace.bsky.social Black Shakespearean/EM scholar; As Elysabeth Grace --writer of Black historical, Black, paranormal & contemporary romance & historical cozy mysteries.
www.patreon.com/cw/TheMargoHendricks
Experiencewww.elysabethgrace.com
EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
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
Mel @earlymodernmel.bsky.social ECR researching early modern drama, disability, and 'dangerous' women. She/Her.
Kristen A Bennett @earlymodconv.bsky.social Ridiculously attracted to red herrings. I teach and write about literary things pre-1650, DH & Pedagogy. Lead instigator at The Kit Marlowe Project.
Dr Lynsey McCulloch @drmisslynsey.bsky.social writer | researcher | early modernist.
Don Rodrigues @donrodrigues.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University 
(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….
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)
Curtis Perry @curtisperry.bsky.social Professor of English lit; anti-Zionist Jew; amateur of song; watcher of myriad kdramas; introvert; featherless biped; he/him.
Robin Bates @britlitgirl.bsky.social Shax prof., Southern girl, jar goblin. Prefer to spend my time with dogs, good books, blue ridge mtns, & kind people. She/Her
Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University who works on book history, premodern critical race studies and early modern English drama. I spend a lot of time with Barnabe, an adorable dog. These posts are my opinion.
Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social your trans professor
Dr. Anita Raychawdhuri @anitaraychawdhuri.bsky.social Assistant Prof at UH-Downtown. Early modernist.
✨🪩🏳️🌈
Beth Sharrock @allmirthnomatter.bsky.social Shakespeare Paratexts in contemporary digital performance and 18th cen. print
Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Warwick
she/her
Adam B @adambcqx.bsky.social Editor, Early Modernist - formerly MA and half a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, now with Reading Early Plays 
Yuqi “Anna” Jiang @annajiang.bsky.social AHRC-Funded PhD Student at the Shakespeare Institute - Supernatural Children and Youths in Early Modern Drama
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.
Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social Chronicler of bookwomen (misc.) Currently 17thC women printers. Previously SHAKESPEARE'S 'LADY EDITORS' (CUP). Freelance indexer/editor/researcher. A remarkably Independent Scholar.
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
ValerieMFazel @veefaz.bsky.social ASU Sr. Instructor Dept. of ENG/Faculty Barrett Honors. Digital Shax Appropriation & Shax fandom. Dog lovr, plant eatr, desert landscapr sci-fi film fan and fantasy novel reader. she/her/views mine. All the Internet is a stage and we are but players in it.
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.
evey reidy 🐌 @eveyreidy.bsky.social PhD & playwright formerly of Roehampton/Shakespeare's Globe | early mod. women performers, festive performance cultures, protest-performance
Berkeley for now, Chicago forever | always knows where to get ice cream | usually found in a graveyard (she/her) 🏳️🌈
Dr. Carla Della Gatta @carladellagatta.bsky.social Dramaturg | Arts Advocate | Writer | Theatre Historian 💃🏻
Associate Professor | Author: Latinx Shakespeares
Co-Editor: Shakespeare & Latinidad
https://www.latinxshakespeares.org/
https://www.carladellagatta.com/
Bradley Ryner @bradleyryner.bsky.social Scholar of Shakespeare, early modern drama, rhetoric of economics, performance and, most broadly, how theater and literature help us to conceptualize social and economic systems.
This is a personal account, reflecting my own opinions.
Ian Gould @iangouldhere.bsky.social Actor, director, teacher, New Yorker, dog person, Shakespeare obsessive
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
Yan Brailowsky @yanbrailowsky.bsky.social Shakespeare, theatre, politics… early modern. Prof @ Nanterre - tweets my own
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."
Christina Torres Cawdery @biblio-phile.bsky.social Mom. English Teacher. Scholar. Writer for hire. Runner. Pursuing a PhD in English for reasons beyond my understanding. Currently studying Shakespeare, queer/ecocrit theory, & critical pedagogy. Probably talking about my kids.
Alan Stewart @alanstewart50.bsky.social Early modern literature professor, sometime editor, sometime biographer
John Garganourakis @johngarganourakis.bsky.social Faculty, English (Mercy University, Queens College, St. John’s) / PhD Student (St. John’s University). Shakespeare. Ecocriticism. Film Theory.
barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social Shakespearean (derogatory) 💀
Lecturing in Auckland, hanging out everywhere else
Late romances defender. Currently into ecocrit things, charismatic megafauna, and hellmouths.
דאָיִקייט
Dr Jenny Stevens @drjennyst-hann.bsky.social Co-author of three Arden Shakespeare texts; Methuen Series Editor; Co-editor of Routledge volume on Shakespeare & Education. Literature Tutor @citylit.