Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social ars longa, vita brevis
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/faculty/jr75399
SFEVE - Société Française d'Etudes Victoriennes et Edouardiennes @sfeve.bsky.social
Bassam Sidiki @bassidiki.bsky.social Assistant Prof of English at UT Austin. Author of PARASITIC EMPIRES (forthcoming Fall 2026, UNC Press). From Karachi. ✍🏼 on empire/poco, disability, medhums, and more recently Sindh. www.bassamsidiki.com
Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social I study 19th c periodicals (fr India & Britain), print culture, illustrations, British colonialism, book history. Always on the lookout for woodcuts, lithographs, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides.
Monique Morgan @moniquemorgan.bsky.social Nineteenth-century British literature, science fiction, narrative theory, poetics, literature and science
Jason Rudy @jasonr75.bsky.social
Zarena Aslami @zda.bsky.social Scholar & teacher, 19th-C British Lit & culture. Author of Marginal Sovereignty: The Literatures of Empire and the Making of Victorian Afghanistan, 1798-1900 (coming soon, Cornell UP). Currently researching race, empire, disability, & eugenics.
Helen Kingstone @helenkingstone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London.
I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations, including Digital Humanities
Royal Holloway Centre for Victorian Studies @rhul-cvs.bsky.social Account of the internationally recognised Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-directed by @helenkingstone.bsky.social, Izzy Barrett-Lally and Heathcliff Newman
NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social Aftermaths: https://navsa.georgetown.edu/
Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social Restoration is a peer-reviewed journal open to all critical, scholarly, and theoretical approaches that lead to new insights into English literature and culture, 1660-1700.
https://blog.umd.edu/restorationstudiesjournal/
University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social University of Illinois Press / Publisher of scholarly and regional trade books and journals since 1918
Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social assistant professor of 19thc lit at Louisiana State University, formerly at University of Hong Kong and University of East Anglia, UK.
Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
Meghna Sapui @meghnasapui.bsky.social I write about literature, empire, & race. She/her.
https://www.meghnasapui.com/
Dr. Cherrie Kwok @cherriekwok.bsky.social Assistant Professor
cherriekwok.github.io
Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom @undiscvc.bsky.social A digital humanities project reimagining how to teach Victorian Studies through a positive race-conscious lens.
💼undiscipliningvc.org💼
MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social f. 1886 as Modern Language Notes • Published @hopkinspress.bsky.social • Issues: Italian, Yiddish & Hebrew, Spanish & Portuguese, German, French, and Comparative Literature
MLNJournal@jh.edu
Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
Yi-Chen Andrea Lay @yi-chenlay.bsky.social English PhD Candidate and Victorianist @ Indiana University Bloomington
Managing Editor @victstudies.bsky.social
Ryan Fong @rdfong.bsky.social Increasingly wayward Victorianist becoming increasingly invested in Critical Indigenous Studies. Mixed Chinese Am settler living on Bodéwadmi land. Very queer. Very abolitionist. Very much not representing my employer. 🤘🏽🐵 l ♍️🌞♑️🌛♉️⬆️ I 2⛰️4🌱3🌳
The Ohio State University Press @ohiostatepress.bsky.social We publish great books and journals across literary and cultural studies. Our Mad Creek imprint is home to expansive, fresh, and invigorating literary and graphic works, and Trillium publishes books about Ohio and the Midwest. www.ohiostatepress.org
Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social Bringing a community of scholars committed to interdisciplinary research and innovative teaching about the Victorian period together since 1972.
Our journal is @victorianreview.bsky.social
Our website is https://vsawc.org
Victorian Poetry @victorianpoetry.bsky.social Victorian Poetry is a peer-reviewed quarterly dedicated to Victorian poets and poetries (broadly & experimentally construed). Edited by Devin Garofalo, UC San Diego (victorianpoetryjournal@gmail.com). Learn more: https://victorian-poetry.scholasticahq.com
COVE Collective @coveeditions.bsky.social COVE Studio | COVE Editions
COVE provides classroom-ready DH tools and a corpus of annotatable texts & publishes peer-reviewed digital editions
www.covecollective.org
C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
C19 2026: Cincinnati, OH -- March 12-14
Theme: UNDERGROUND
c19society.org
British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
https://www.bars.ac.uk/main/
Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
Abby Clayton @abbyclayton.bsky.social Visiting Asst Professor @ W&J College
transatlantic 19C media + nationalisms
explorer at heart
Amber Bowes @arbowes.bsky.social PhD candidate at Indiana University studying British literature and book history of the long 19C 📚🦇
book review editor @victstudies.bsky.social
reference assistant at Bloomington IN's Lilly Library
Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social New book: Wild for Austen (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket.
Montreal and Helsinki. https://www.robboddice.com/
Pamela K Gilbert @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.
Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social English prof, easily distracted Victorianist
Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social At Johns Hopkins University Press, we envision a future where knowledge enriches the life of every person.
Home to @projectmuse.bsky.social
press.jhu.edu
Dr. Ted Howell @tedhowell.bsky.social Associate Teaching Professor at Rowan University in Writing Arts & Environmental Studies
cli-fi; gardening; board games; environment & climate.
he/him
Natalie M. Houston @nmhouston.bsky.social Reading poetry with computers | Assoc Prof, digital humanities & Victorian literature, U Mass Lowell | personal productivity coach for academics & adults with ADD | vegan, dog companion
Dino Franco Felluga @felluga.bsky.social Romanticist, Victorianist, Digital Humanist, Theorist
Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social Professor at NC State University. Wandering between worlds of C19th British lit, comparative media studies, critical data literacies. Book *Digital Victorians* https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians
Jim Mussell @jimmussell.bsky.social Print work; digital work. C19th newspapers, periodicals, and all the rest. Prof University Of Leeds: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/1012/professor-james-mussell
Richard Menke @richardmenke.bsky.social Nineteenth-century fiction, print cultures, media, technologies, environments
Keri Cronin @kericronin.bsky.social Historian of Visual Culture. Human-Animal History. Writer. Pteridomaniac. Kayaker. Has a chronic illness you probably haven’t heard of. Fan of #PWHL hockey 😷 🍁 🏳️🌈 🌱 she/her
https://kericronin.com/
https://instagram.com/kericronin/
Prof Bob Nicholson @digivictorian.bsky.social History Professor • Broadcaster • Victorian Pop Culture • Presenter of 'Killing Victoria' on BBC Sounds 🎙️ • www.bobnicholson.co.uk
Kristan Tetens @tetens.bsky.social Hat #1: Chartered strategic comms professional, UK higher education sector. Hat #2: PhD'd historian currently writing about my family's connections with the Danish West Indies, c. 1720-1900. Former Michiganian … ask me about Petoskey stones and Motown!
Michael D. Barton @darwinsbulldog.bsky.social Historian & Darwin aficionado. Editor, John Tyndall Correspondence Project. Father & advocate for connecting children to nature (natureplaysign.com). He/him/his. Portland, OR.
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Lauren Naturale @lnaturale.bsky.social Oh good! Another social platform!
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
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
annaeclark.com
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social Academic, Course Leader in English Literature at University of Portsmouth (but posts are my own, mind). Victorian literature, detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool UP, 2028).
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
Benjamin Morgan @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social Professor at UChicago | bird nerd | lakefront enjoyer | violin player | book hoarder 🚲🦩🏳️🌈
Dr Kathryn Rix @kathrynrix.bsky.social Co-editor of the History of Parliament's House of Commons, 1832-1945 project. Cambridge/London.- J Catherine Hawley @juxtabook.bsky.social Secondnd hand book seller (literary criticism, history, philosophy, classics etc). https://www.clhawley.co.uk/ PBFA member. Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dnIGJv Blog: http://juxtabook.typepad.com/books #Dyslexic
Kirsten Harris @kirstanneharris.bsky.social Lecturer in Liberal Arts @ Bristol
Walt Whitman // C19 socialism // utopias // interdisciplinarity // equity in HE
Book on Whitman and British socialism http://goo.gl/fGYLXY
Emily Middleton (formerly Bell) @emilyjlm.bsky.social Digital Humanities Lecturer @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Victorianist, periodicals scholar, Dickensian
Jeffrey Barbeau @jeffbarbeau.bsky.social Editor, The Coleridge Bulletin | Prof. of Theology and Literature at Wheaton College | British Romanticism. Religion & Literature. Methodism. C. S. Lewis | Marquette alum and #mubb basketball fan
Jane Hamlett @janehamlett.bsky.social Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
Kathryn Holland @kathrynholland.bsky.social Assistant Professor @MacEwanU, Associate Director @Orlando_Project, DPhil in C20 literature, She/her 🏳️🌈
Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
John Morton @drjmorton.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English Lit and Deputy Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uni of Greenwich. All views my own
Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his • Everything here in personal capacity only
Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social Associate Prof of English; author of Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (OUP, 2022) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/crafting-feminism-from-literary-modernism-to-the-multimedia-present-9780192857835?cc=us&lang=en& 🌈
Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social Author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today. Freelance book critic all over the place. Get in touch: rachelvorona@gmail.com. @RVoronaCote on Instagram. She / Her.
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/
Transcribe Bentham @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social An award-winning crowdsourcing initiative led by the Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, University College London, engaging people in the transcription of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for a new edition of his Collected Works.
DickensYouSay @dickensyousay.bsky.social If these pages contain a great deal about me, I can only suppose it must be because I have really something to do with them and can't be kept out. - Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Midwest Victorian Studies Association @mvsa.bsky.social Dedicated to studying the Victorian period, including history, literature, art history, music, philosophy, and religion. We welcome members and participants from across the world: https://midwestvictorian.org/.
Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on C19 literature & culture
Send submissions to submissionsvr@gmail.com
Website https://victorianreview.org/
Issues https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journal/508
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Dr Abigail Boucher @drabigailboucher.bsky.social Senior lecturer in English at Aston University. Scholar of nineteenth-century literature and genre fiction. One half of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
No DMs
221Bcrow @221bcrow.bsky.social Johnlock is ACD Canon.
Sherlock Holmes with a splash of salt. Fan of OFMD, Victorian history, and all lgbtq+ Lit. Feed Sherlockian focused, follows other fandoms. #LGBTbooks #savelibraries
The Frame Blog @theframeblog.bsky.social The Frame Blog is an online magazine for articles, interviews and reviews about antique picture frames.
https://theframeblog.com/
- F Freya Gowrley @freyagowrley.bsky.social Art Historian, makeup aficionado, antiques hoarder, snappy dresser.
Long Victorian @longvictorian.bsky.social I have a blog, and you are more than welcome to pop along. Mostly about books and art (1789-1914). Working on voiceovers. (All human, me!) https://longvictorian.com
Corpyburd @corpyburd.bsky.social Lover of all things #RipperStreet #SASRH & general history nik nackery
Scotland
Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social Victorianist & lit professor, gardener, lover of quirky details. Writing sporadically at https://andreakastontange.com
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social she/her | Victorian Studies, Disability Studies, Children's Lit | Assistant Professor at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan | Dog Enthusiast and Very Bad Cook | views my own | profile pic ctsy of retrospect photography
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/
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak. Free Substack on queer pulps: https://nympholibrarian.substack.com/
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
Nicholas Dames @njdames.bsky.social Professor @ Columbia • co-EIC Public Books • writer/critic elsewhere, on the novel then and now • most recent book THE CHAPTER (Princeton UP)
John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social Writer and former English professor. Author of *The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science* (Virginia 2024). Death positive. Interested in animals, environments, and all things Victorian.
Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social I like thinking about Victorian care, disability, feminism, and also cooking (not necessarily Victorian).
Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social Vampires, mummies, things that come back to life; anything with chocolate chips. Associate professor of literature, co-director of the Dickens Project, co-director of the Center for Monster Studies at UCSC
Sandra Macpherson @sandramacpherson.bsky.social Still obsessed with Sylvia Townsend Warner. Making cocktails and talking about cats. (I am a dixhuitiemiste at an R1, but mostly teach film and whatever-the-hell-else they want me to teach.)
Ronjaunee Chatterjee @ronjaunee.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Queen’s University. Author of Feminine Singularity (Stanford, ‘22) and editor of the Norton Critical Middlemarch (‘24)
rithika ramamurthy @rithikaram.bsky.social writer, editor, organizer | let’s take history into our hands
Zach Samalin @zachsamalin.bsky.social antediluvian new yorker; english prof at nyu; writing about anticolonial theories of civilization; censorship; the “Controversial Discussions”; organizing w aaup-nyu
Adrian S. Wisnicki @awisnicki.bsky.social Professor of English and Co-Director of the AI Institute, University of Nebraska. Digital humanities, critical AI, contemporary tech studies, world literatures in Englishes, 19th-century British literature, and archival and cultural heritage studies.
Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social Scholar of the 19th c & other things. English prof at Vanderbilt U
Author of _Picture World_ (Oxford UP 2020) and also
_Writing on Fire_ (Broadview P 2024)
www.rachelteukolsky.net
Catherine Quirk, PhD @catherinequirk.bsky.social Dog mum. Senior Lecturer in Drama. Coffee lover, writer, actor, director, (digital) theatre historian, Victorianist. Language learner. Likes &c my own. she/her. 🌈
Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social Mama. Partner. Writer. Professor of Victorian literature at Dartmouth. Former dean and provost, enjoying another run at faculty life. Co-founder of Dever Justice LLC.
NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social North American Victorian Studies Association
www.navsa.org
Jacob Steere-Williams @steerewilliams.bsky.social Historian of disease and the environment. College of Charleston. New book in the works on all things disinfection and the Anthropocene