Anna @annacharlton.bsky.social
Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social PhD in Victorian Studies. Currently writing a book about Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the novel of manners. They/Them
linktr.ee/emmaprobett
Joanne Genealogy @joannegenealogy.bsky.social MSc Genealogy, Professional Genealogist, Business Mentor. Staffordshire. PhD Researcher: 19c Women in the Temperance Movement. @temperancehistory.bsky.social
Richard Taws @richardtaws.bsky.social 18th/19th-century visual culture, history, politics, technology. prof and head of dept @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/20767-richard-taws
Mercedes Sheldon @mercedessheldon.bsky.social 19th Century Studies Scholar. Literature Lover. Enthusiastic Educator. Persnickety Parent. {she/her}
Rosemond Cates @rosemondcates.bsky.social PhD candidate @ut-dallas. 19c Anglophone Lit. Posts my own/reposts not endorsements
Victorian Tales @victorian-tales.eurosky.social Victorianist working on popular culture in the nineteenth century, with a particular interest in multimodality, intertextuality, reuse, and co-creation. My main account is on Mastodon: https://hcommons.social/@victorian_tales
Zélia Rafael @zelie84.bsky.social Doctoral candidate in English at the University of Iceland.
Whitman, Race, Cancel Culture. American History and Culture.
Poetry lover, horror fan, reading into the myths we create.
https://theinfamousacademic.com/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7126-368X
Dr. Céleste Callen @celestecallen.bsky.social 'Metaphysical Dickens: Temporality, Memory, Subjectivity' forthcoming with Manchester University Press. Editor of the Dickens Society blog 🖋️
Aparna Prakashbabu Uma @aparnaup.bsky.social PhD researcher in English @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Studying humour in late-Victorian fiction: detective, realist, and humorous novels, 1875–1900. Close reading plus computational methods.
Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social A professor on sabbatical. Victorian literature & culture on screen and in translation, neo-Victorianism, postfeminism, the real and fake Sherlock Holmes, World Literature and periodical press. I also dabble in DH. 🌱 🧶 🧵 🗃🪡🎬.
Gillian Walters @gillianwalters.bsky.social Midlands4Cities AHRC funded PhD candidate at the University of Nottingham specialising in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Paul Stephens @paulstephens.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English @ University of York.
C18-19th Literature and Culture. He/Him
https://www.york.ac.uk/english/people/paulstephens/
Marielle Birks @mariellebirks.com MA in Victorian Studies, Birkbeck
Writer, Game Designer, Publisher
Blue Fox Comics I Fox Red Comics I Blue Fox Tabletop
https://linktr.ee/mariellebirks
@bluefoxcomics.com I @bluefoxtabletop.bsky.social
Ahad Taqizadeh @ahadtaqizadeh.bsky.social Victorianist, Victorian Novel📚, Bodies, Gothic Fiction 🧟♂️🧟♀️ Researching the Gothic body in late Victorian fiction
Dr Victoria Dawson @vsdawson.bsky.social Freelance historian and interdisciplinary researcher for hire. Working class. Radical materialist feminist. Socialist. Anti-fascist. Northern powerhouse. Learning German. PhD: Women and Rugby League: Gender, Class and Community 1880-1970.- M @mclstcd.bsky.social @mclstcd.bsky.social
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Official account of the Text and Language Lab led by @michamahlberg.bsky.social, part of @dhssfau.bsky.social
at @fau.de.
🇨🇦LisaFellarinaAntifa📎 @lisaantifafella.bsky.social 🇨🇦liberal/atheist/ardent feminist
❤️democracy/dogs/elephants/frogs/gardening/history
Avid reader/disabled by #Fibromyalgia
Settler on Mississaugas of the Credit Treaty Land 🚫DM/porn/crypto/AI
🇺🇦🏴at❤️ #SlavaUkraini #NeverVoteConservative
#NAFO #LandBack
Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social Modernism | Woolf | Dance & Movement | Women’s Writing
ECR seeking postdoctoral opportunities
BAMS Steering Committee | Reviewer, Feminist Modernist Studies
sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne
Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture @litterariaprag.bsky.social Litteraria Pragensia is a peer-reviewed, SCOPUS-listed international academic journal, founded in 1991. In print & open access: https://litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz
Jessica O’Toole @jessicaotoole.bsky.social Graduate teaching assistant in English Literature at North Carolina State University. 19th century British lit, women in the periodical press, dachshund enthusiast.
Steven @steven-burgess.bsky.social 👨🎓 PhD Candidate: Social Class and the Environment in the Novels of William De Morgan (University of Leeds) | Ecocriticism, Socioecological Model, New Materialism | 💼 Community Organising Manager in HE
stevenburgess0.wordpress.com
Ruairidh McKay | Ruairidh MacAoidh @rumckay.bsky.social Expat translator/lecturer | classical guitarist | optimist |GD/EN/DE/ES
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." – E. F. Schumacher
Chrissie Landy @landyreads.bsky.social
Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social petrajohanaponcarova.com | Research, poetry & translation between Gaelic, Czech & English | Rannsachadh, bàrdachd & eadar-theangachadh eadar Gàidhlig, Seicis & Beurla
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social Promoting Scottish literatures globally | https://scotlit-iassl.org | scotlit.iassl@gmail.com
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social
Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social Associate Professor in UCD School of English, Drama, Film & Creative Writing.
Research Ireland, Starting Laureate: Imperial Minerals. She/her. Views mine.
Charlie Gough @charliejgough.bsky.social postdoc @leverhulme.ac.uk @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social | queer 19thC poetry and poetics, life writing, sexology | he/him
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
Eleanor Fitzsimons @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social Writer/Researcher. KeatsShelley Essay Prize, Rubery Book Award. Author Wilde's Women. Life & Loves of E. Nesbit, Selected Articles from The Woman’s World. Here for books, art, nature, laughter & tranquility.
Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social Historian of C19th politics, Chartism, socialism, Radicalism. Currently working on working-class Radical ideas about chattel slavery and wages-slavery. Bye-Fellow at Homerton College Cambridge.
Christian K. Melby @christianmelby.bsky.social Associate Professor of Modern History at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen, Norway. 'Invasions: Fears and fantasies of imagined wars in Britain, 1871-1918' out now
Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social More moustache than man. Former flâneur in the Middle East. #ActuallyAutistic Now a Senior Lecturer in English at QMUL https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/people/academic-and-research-staff/english/craskem.html
One of 'those' followers of walterpater.com
@sandramorosoli.bsky.social @sandramorosoli.bsky.social
Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social Oxford, U.K. Prof of Modern Literature and Culture. Literature & Science, Modernism, Book History, Virginia Woolf, 1920s & 30s poetry. Also found on IG under the same name. All posts in a personal capacity.
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
Will Glovinsky @wglovinsky.bsky.social teaching at Binghamton University | researching 19th c literature, history of basic income & other things | trying to migrate from twitter
Bill McKeown @billiamckeown.bsky.social Historian of nineteenth-century art with interests in Ruskin studies, Arsenal FC, and anarcho-syndicalism.
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Brad Scott @trichocolea.bsky.social Working with the Sloane Herbarium @qmul.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social • HPS @stsucl.bsky.social (1980s) • @routledgebooks.bsky.social (1990s) • publishing technologist • DH • bryophyte recorder, Sussex @bbsbryology.bsky.social
CatJ @bondjamesbond2025.bsky.social Lover of books ✔️classic movies✔️ gardening✔️ sports✔️ travel and music. JerseyGurl 🏖️ Laker for life 🏀 past chair and president of some political stuff 🇺🇸 Kobe 💔
Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social Professor of English at Idaho State University. Modernism, comics, popular forms. Author: The New Old Style (U Nebraska P), Violent Minds (Cambridge UP). Co-Editor: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. You can call me Matt.
matthewlevay.com
Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
@laurenottaviani.bsky.social @laurenottaviani.bsky.social
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
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.
Daniel Breeze @danielbreeze.com Historian of ideas and human-animal relations. Monograph in progress based on my PhD: Creeds of Kinship. Thinking about intellectual history as multispecies dialogue and animals as 'cousins'. He/him. danielbreeze.com
Alexis Easley @maeasley.bsky.social Victorian literature scholar, writer, reader, traveler, zen practitioner, pug enthusiast.
Punch Cartoons @punchbooks.bsky.social From the archives of the greatest humour magazine of them all! Cartoons, caricatures, social & political history, artists, writers, @PontWorld & satire today.
Mathew Nicolson @eyjarskeggi.bsky.social Did a PhD in Scottish island political & constitutional history, now working in public sector. Shetlander.
Can be found doing things at:
@EuropeElects.bsky.social
@ShetlandElects.bsky.social
@HistoryofElections.bsky.social
@ScotHistNetwork.bsky.social
Lost History Books @losthistorybooks.bsky.social Explorer of American textbooks. 🔎
Bibliographic Adventurer 📚
Independent Researcher 📖
Help me find lost books:
http://losthistorybooks.com/help-me/
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship @comicsgrid.com Peer-reviewed, Researcher-led Diamond open-access Journal of Comics Scholarship since 2010. Published by @openlibhums.org. Reposts, ❤s are not endorsements. DMs are not monitored. https://linktr.ee/comicsgrid
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
Dr. Amy Matthewson @amymatthewson.bsky.social Historian of China in the British Imagination, 19th and early 20th centuries, Visual and Material Cultures. Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham
@idryniariesse.bsky.social @idryniariesse.bsky.social
Constance Reader @constancereader.bsky.social you can drop out of grad school but grad school never drops out of you
she/her, exhausted by everything
@rahnealexander.com's intern of the month
Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS) @esprit-jeps.bsky.social Publishing on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present; the flagship journal of ESPRit, published bi-annually by Ghent University.
@zsuzsatorok.bsky.social @zsuzsatorok.bsky.social Researcher. 19th century. JEPS editorial team member.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Mark Celeste @markceleste.bsky.social assistant professor of English
blue humanities + oceanic lit | British novels in the long 19C | climate fiction | network theory | inclusive pedagogy
https://sites.google.com/view/markceleste
Brendan Tam @brendantam.bsky.social PhD candidate (History) University of Warwick (2022-2026) || Political friendship in Britain 1760-1837|| 🇦🇺 || PG Co-Convenor IHR British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar
Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social Sometime English professor, JHU and UMN; past president, Dictionary Society of North America. Victorian literature and art, book illustration, speech acts, interpretation, law. Macaulay and English in India (Routledge, 2026). https://z.umn.edu/M-H.
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.
Lucy Andrew @lucyvandrew.bsky.social Crime writer and crime fiction scholar. Jane Austen enthusiast. Rep’d by Euan Thorneycroft at A M Heath. Debut novel #AVeryVexingMurder published in 2026 by Corvus (Atlantic Books) and William Morrow (HarperCollins). Website: https://www.lucyandrew.com/
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
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.
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
Lou Le Joly @loulejoly.bsky.social 💻 Collections de presse et valorisation à @labnf.bsky.social
🔎 Artistes britanniques et suffragisme
Sofie @flowers-sofia.bsky.social University of St Andrews. Victorian literature MLitt. 📝 she/her
@jeremiah-mercurio.bsky.social @jeremiah-mercurio.bsky.social
Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social Prof. of British History and Culture at @universite-caen.bsky.social
Victorianist. Newspapers & magazines. Labour and the illustrated press.
Principal Investigator (PI) of @punchspocketbook.bsky.social.
She/her
fuegopatagonia @fuegopatagonia.bsky.social autogobierno, historia y geografía subpolares
Línea de tiempo https://shorturl.at/KP6Ue
Magazín misionero
https://www.repositorio.cenpat-conicet.gob.ar/handle/123456789/42
https://www.wax.cenpat-conicet.gob.ar/
Desastroeses_Hörnchen @desastroeses.bsky.social Intersectional feminist, bibliophile, #antifascist #MentalHealthNurse in #camhs in GER I thinking a lot about #SocialJustice , medicalisation, #madstudies , #sanism & global history of psy* & iatrogenic harm in children and adolescent mental health care
Mila Daskalova @miladaskalova.bsky.social Exploring intersections between literature and psychiatry in the 19th century as a British Academy and LKAS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow / Medical Humanities Research Centre. Into literature, the history of medicine, and book history.
@anneschwan.bsky.social @anneschwan.bsky.social
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
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
Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania. "Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film" from Edinburgh UP. He/him.
GlosBio @glosbio.bsky.social Researcher
@amberlhadley.bsky.social @amberlhadley.bsky.social
Jessica DMJ 🇮🇹 ✡️ @jessicadmj.bsky.social ENG: she/her | ITA: lei
Aspiring academic fascinated by 19th-century women writers and their involvement in the Risorgimento
Annabelle Miller @annabellemiller.bsky.social PhD candidate, 19th-century queer kinship and imperialism, always thinking about books
(Not very adept at social media)
NAVSA Victorian Poetry Caucus @vicpoetrycaucus.bsky.social The Poetry Caucus holds annual meetings and dinners at each NAVSA conference as well as online events throughout the year. All Victorian poetry scholars are welcome to contact us to join our listserv.
@hannahws.bsky.social @hannahws.bsky.social
Aaron @exlibris451.bsky.social Research Librarian. Reader. Snooker player. Tea drinker. Foot Servant to two Jack Russells. LGBTQ+ Ally. Trump, Musk, and MAGA can all fuck off. No Crypto. No Porn. No DMs. #FuckTrump #Resist
Annemarie McAllister @demon-drink.bsky.social Cultural historian interested in the UK temperance movement, including its songs, buildings, publications, entertainments, teaching activities, and much more, together with its legacy and contemporary resonances.
Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social Chartism and other #C19th stuff, chartistancestors.co.uk. Author of Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors and Chartist Lives, EC member @sslh.bsky.social. Science fiction reader.
Edmond “Buddy” Miller @buddymillerlaw.bsky.social Happily married. Attorney representing creditors in business litigation and bankruptcy matters. Nevada Dem doing Voter Protection since 2004. Available in 2026 for “Know Your Voting Rights in Nevada” for remote presentations for Nevada voters and vols.
@avidal21.bsky.social @avidal21.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)
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
Marion (Mary) Grant @mtgrant.bsky.social PhD (ABD) at York University
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow of the FNRS (Belgium) interested in speculative fiction since c. 1890 and especially its material culture. Singer, sewist, pun-lover. Made in the US for immediate export. She/her.