Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social Studying the Victorian connection between women and birds is great fun, but I’d love a job. Network & Development Officer for VPFA and Co-Reviews Editor for VPFJ. All views my own.
Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family (Routledge, July 2024). Winner of the VPFA First Book Prize. https://www.routledge.com/James-Malcolm-Rymer-Penny-Fiction-and-the-Family/Nesvet/p/book/9781032431598?_ga=1674154651.1719792000
Finn @finnwriter.bsky.social ink slinger—word scribbler—poet—(bipolar disorder | anxiety | fibromyalgia ) inking my way out of a hole i dug || they/ them, queer. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Victoria Addis @victoriaaddis.bsky.social English teacher & AHRC-funded PhD student (commencing Oct '26) researching representations of female genius in Victorian and modernist literature
https://substack.com/@victoriaaddisreads
David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social 'His office hours are poorly attended, because he teaches it right the first time.'
Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social Writer. Literary & cultural historian.
Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni.
Expertise: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters, queer genders + sexualities, health humanities.
Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies
https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social Research Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies at Edge Hill University
• Co-Directors:
@catherinequirk.bsky.social, @DrBeard79.bsky.social @DigiVictorian.bsky.social
Founding Co-Director: @VictorianMasc.bsky.social
• https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social Theological Monsters (University of Wales Press), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
Wendy Parkins @wendmyway.bsky.social Former professor of Victorian literature but I'm much happier now as a novelist and memoirist based in Dunedin, NZ. Tangata tiriti.
Devoted to Dickens, Woolf, and Radiohead. Don't make me choose.
The Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social Bluesky page for the international Dickens Society www.dickenssociety.org
Dr Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social Writer. Latest Book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024). Teach 19thc Lit & Culture at Uni of St Andrews. Writing for a greener world.
Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social Prehistory & landscape
Also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnnythinsta/
International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social International #interdisciplinary network of #crime #academics, #researchers and practitioners.
Upcoming events: #CapCrim13: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation.
Bamberg, Germany. 25-27 June '26
https://sites.google.com/view/icfa/home
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.
Marielle Birks @mariellebirks.com MA in Victorian Studies, Birkbeck
Writer, Game Designer, Publisher
Blue Fox Comics I Fox Red Comics I Blue Fox Tabletop
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Haohao Zhang (they/he) @karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social 🔭 Early modernist | Victorian microscopy, glass slides & Blaschka models | material text, transatlantic circulation & repair | analogy as afterlife- H @helena1860.bsky.social @helena1860.bsky.social
ALQ @frockandroll.bsky.social WV English professor and professional dilettante 
Eleanor @eleanor-19thc.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth researching women botanists in the long nineteenth century
Macabre Danse @macabredanse.bsky.social A research project looking at ways in which dance and the Gothic intersect, beginning with ballet.
Run by Kaja Franck, Karen Graham and Kate Harvey
Website: https://gothicballet.wordpress.com/about-danse-macabre/
Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social Library of Anglo-American Culture & History #FIDAAC
Resources for British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, American & Canadian Studies
https://libaac.de/
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Mercedes Sheldon @mercedessheldon.bsky.social 19th Century Studies Scholar. Literature Lover. Enthusiastic Educator. Persnickety Parent. {she/her}
Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary research group in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. Posts by @hannahpalmer.bsky.social
Dr. Billie Gavurin @bgavurin.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham, working on counterfactual depictions of prehistoric hominins in fin-de-siècle culture
Interested in 19th/early 20thC connections between myth, folklore, & evolutionary science 🧜🏻♀️
She/her
Carolin Sternberg @carolinsternberg.bsky.social PhD student at University of Vechta | Victorianist
Dr Anne-Florence Quaireau @afquaireau.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in British literature and translation. Travel writing / women’s writing / 18th and 19th centuries / environmental literature / history of motherhood and childhood
@univAngers
Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Editorial Team @esprit-jeps.bsky.social | The Americanisation of W. T. Stead (EUP, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/5xmrxs2j
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Scattered Flock Journal @scatteredflock.bsky.social Scattered Flock is a speculative fiction literary magazine founded by alumni of the MLitt in Fantasy Literature program at the University of Glasgow. https://www.scatteredflockjournal.com/
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 🐈⬛
Kent Maps Online @kentmapsonline.bsky.social Find your own answers to questions you haven’t thought of yet... http://kent-maps.online #JSTORLABS #CCCU #EnglishCreates
Jonathan Potter @drjonpotter.bsky.social Researches Victorian periodicals, visual culture, and literature. Teaches English lit. Probably the least online person you'll meet online.
Author of Discourses of Vision in C19th Britain: https://tinyurl.com/5bxvawy6
Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social Educational Developer at the University of Liverpool (@livunicie.bsky.social): assessment and feedback, academic integrity, curriculum design, and (sceptical thoughts on) Generative AI. PhD: English, LJMU (2018) C19 crime fiction. SFHEA. He/him.
Dr Janette Leaf @janetteleaf.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2023-2026. Weird cats, Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Hypnotic Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Shop Girls; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
Núria Molines-Galarza @nuriamolines.bsky.social Prof. d'Estudis Anglesos i Traducció (Universitat de València). Traductora de llibres. Directora de la revista Asparkía. || Lecturer of English Studies&Translation (UV). Literary Translator. Editor-in-chief of Asparkía.
www.nuriamolines.com
Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
Douglas Small @drdouglassmall.bsky.social Drug Historian. Author of ‘Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930’. Histories of Victorian medicine & science. #c19th #medhums
he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Website: https://douglassmall.com
JJ @jjustyna.bsky.social Meh vibes only
Birmingham & Midland Institute @bmi1854.bsky.social We are a charity that seeks to promote and provide cultural and educational activities in Science, the Arts and Literature for everyone.
Finn Humphris @phineassqueak.bsky.social Queer writer, researcher, and performer.
C19th literature scholar by night. Drag goblin also by night. Chronically fatigued by day.
(They/them) 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Timothy C. Baker @timothycbaker.bsky.social Lectures on Scottish and contemporary literature, writes about animals, tries to be hopeful. He/they. Currently trying to open a cinema in Aberdeen.
Helena Ifill @helenaifill.bsky.social 
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Jamie Gorrod @jamiegorrod.bsky.social he/him • MA English Literature student
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
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
Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social Visiting Fellow in Victorian Literature at Loughborough University @lboroenglish.bsky.social
#19thcentury & pre-war popular fiction
Author of Marie Corelli - https://www.eerpublishing.com/turner-marie-corelli.html
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4597-4354
Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham. Working on disability in fantasy and medieval literature.
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!
Matteo Mameli @matteomameli.bsky.social Philosopher • King’s College London • matteomameli.com
Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Dr Silvia E Storti @silviaelisa22.bsky.social Early career researcher specialised in fairy tales and villainy | adaptations, reworkings, and retellings
Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Feminist Research; Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Lethbridge, Canada.
Anna @annaulrika75.bsky.social Teacher, mother, wife
First-year Eng lit PhD student (Sherlock Holmes post Doyle) and former MA student (Victorian Gothic) at the University of Portsmouth
Helen Goodman @helengoodman.bsky.social Researching 19th-century literature, culture, medicine, & psychiatry ∣ health humanities ∣ mental health & the body ∣ 'madness' & masculinity ∣ gender ∣ history of emotions ∣ grief ∣ domestic abuse ∣ chronic illness & pain ∣ long Covid (she/her)
UK
Charlie Gough @charliejgough.bsky.social postdoc @leverhulme.ac.uk @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social | queer 19thC poetry and poetics, life writing, sexology | he/him
Sophie Franklin @sophiefranklin.bsky.social DOROTHY MSCA postdoc at UCD and University of Reading • Victorian literature, violence, health, contagion, afterlives • Associate Editor of Brontë Studies • 'Violence and the Brontës', out now with EUP • she/her
Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social Victorianist, media history, literary & cultural theory, popular fictions. Emeritus Prof, Fellow of Institute of English Studies, UK.
Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social Professor of English Literature, Bishop Grosseteste University - women’s life & travel writing, Victorian literary networks and transnational subjectivity, Margaret Collier, Janet Ross and multigenerational matrilineal legacies.
Charlotte Bartle-McDaniel @ckbmcd.bsky.social 📚Postgrad/PhD researcher - Hair in 19thC & Neo-Victorian mourning/memorialisation • Anglo-American Literature • Material culture • Death & dying • Grief • Sensation fiction • Popular fiction •
Yorkshire 🏴 ➡️ Missouri 🇺🇸
💀 Taphophile
http://www.ckbmcd.com
Dr Deborah Siddoway @debsiddoway.bsky.social Author with an interest in literature and the law. Dickens enthusiast, obsessed with divorce law history, and book lover. I have a little dog called Brontë.
Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social PhD Student at Université Clermont Auvergne (France). 19th century literature, Gothic, ghost stories, Victorian Gothic, Vernon Lee. Dissertation topic: "Vernon Lee's rewriting of Gothic literature." She/her.
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Bridget Morgan @bridgetmorgan.bsky.social PhD researcher. Aberystwyth Uni & Uni of Bristol SWWDTP. Female ageing in late Victorian literature & medicine.
Maria Juko @mariajuko.bsky.social 18th/19th ct and self-help lit, Neo-Victorian, adaptation studies, biofiction, and teacher (Eng/Bio) in Potsdam (Germany), she/her
LucretiaDorrit @lucretiadorrit.bsky.social Dickensian and Victorianist. I also love the Flyers and New Wave music.
Society for Global 19C Studies @global19c.bsky.social The Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies is a geographically and disciplinarily diverse network of scholars who share an interest in the world’s connectedness between 1750 and 1914.
Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social. He/him
Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge (https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-richard-fallon). Author of "Contesting Earth's History", "Reimagining Dinosaurs", and more. Also, graptolites.
Emma Butler-Way @ebutler-way.bsky.social Dr | Lecturer - Aberystwyth University's Integrated Foundation Year Programme.
I mostly research and write about the corset in (neo-)Victorian fiction. Web Manager for the VPFA.
Clarinettist, pianist, recorder player. Occasional potter and painter.
Joanne Knowles @joanneknowlesuk.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, Communication @LJMU. Research interests in culture, media & literary studies #C19 to now. My views, RT ≠ endorsement.
@bettyhagglund.bsky.social @bettyhagglund.bsky.social 
@jeremynewton64.bsky.social @jeremynewton64.bsky.social 
Helen McKenzie @helenmckenzie.bsky.social Associate Lecturer at the Open University; Victorianist; researcher on Mary Braddon, periodicals, women's writing; Secretary of @vpfa; dance teacher; and I love sewing.
Iulia @melacholictrees.bsky.social PhD @UCD_English https://projectvicteur.com/
Victorian migrants/ comparative literature/gender studies/cultural analytics
All views my own
Siobhan-Michelle Smith @smdsmith.bsky.social PhD student interested in nineteenth-century writing, gender, cross-dressing, women's facial hair, narrative silences & digital humanities (She/her)
Anna Shane @annas1891.bsky.social PhD student at Exeter. Alleged speciality: Victorian and gothic literature.
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Rep @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Dr Natasha Booth-Johnson @nbooth-johnson.bsky.social PhD GRADUATE researching queer fiction by politically active female authors (1882-1914) | ND | she/her
@vjrene.bsky.social @vjrene.bsky.social 
Dr Anne-Marie Beller FRHistS @braddonite.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Victorian Lit and Culture at Loughborough Uni. Mental health in the 19th century; Victorian asylums; sensation and gothic fiction; Neo-Victorian-dabbler; dog-parent; Dahl-maker. (She/Her)
Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer @hannahpalmer.bsky.social Working on abortion, maternal histories, & women’s health in 19&20c Britain. Interests include histmed & surgery, obs and gynae, lived experience, & women's writing. Also posting on @healthhumslboro.bsky.social 🫀🦋🧚♀️
Dr Helena Esser @helenaesser.bsky.social she/her. Victorianist & dandypunk. My books on #Steampunk London & #Ouida out now! Co-hosting @VPFAThirdSex #3rdSex.
Becca @beccalham.bsky.social Nineteenth-century scholar concerned with narrative silences, multivocal fiction, and gender-based-violence. I also love cats 🐈
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social University-Policy Engagement & ARIs at UPEN/UCL ∣ Impact at the RCA ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her
https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity fighting to save our Victorian & Edwardian heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
INCSA @incsa.bsky.social The International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) is a professional society of scholars from around the globe. #INCSA |
CNCSI Partner | https://linktr.ee/IN_CSA
Claudia Sterbini @claudiasterbini.bsky.social 'don't cope well with social media' - Socrates
Asexuality in fin de siècle literature, also interested in sexology, and medhumy stuff
@SGSAH @Edinburghuni
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