Miriam Franchina

@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social

Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's your WHIMSY? Mostly Chicago. She/her

@hoyahistorian.bsky.social

Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University. Lover of early modern history, nuns, cats, French fries, and the Nats. Hater of fascism and anything diminishing the humanity of those around us.

@afroide.bsky.social

History Prof.; Director Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC; early modern Britain, women's history, financial history

@amyfuller.bsky.social

Historian of colonial Mexico; senior lecturer; ‘80s kid. Writes about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; La Llorona; narratives of conquest/conversion. Host of Challenging Colonial Narratives Seminar Series. Called William H. Prescott a dirty old man on the BBC.

@mwoodward.bsky.social

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.

@dianewatt.bsky.social

Writer, academic, medievalist, queer

@louiseduckling.bsky.social

Editorial Services for Academics | www.louiseduckling.com Intermediate Member of the CIEP | Literary Historian (18c women writers) | Reviews editor for Women's Writing journal

@profcatheriner.bsky.social

Pro-Vice-Chancellor University East Anglia and Professor of Early Modern Studies. Previously Director, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Kent; everyday life, material histories, creative heritage.

@evillegasdelatorre.bsky.social

Cultural Historian @UCLSELCS | Expert Evaluator @REA_research | Non-Profit Author/Editor/Translator @booktime.org | PhD & MSCA on #women and the #RepublicofLetters. #knowledgecommunities #complit #childrenslit https://www.respublicalitteraria.com

@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst. http://sonjadrimmer.com/about-forte (She/her)

@ezkolkovich.bsky.social

Assoc Prof @ Ohio State | writing about Shakespeare, masques, women writers, disability | Book reviews editor @ Shakespeare Bulletin | spreading the good word about Hester Pulter elizabethkolkovich.com

@evelyneverheggen.bsky.social

Erfgoeddeskundige en cultuurhistorica voor religieus erfgoed met een passie voor (devotie)prenten, devotionalia, sterke vrouwen, kerken, Leiden (en 🇪🇸 😉). Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp

@clairemcgann.bsky.social

Project Manager for Open Book Futures, a @copim.bsky.social project. Researcher of 17th-C women's writing, book history, & DH. Copy editor & indexer of academic publications. An enthusiastic (though often unsuccessful!) home cook.

@huntingrebels.bsky.social

Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | PI AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 @ UofGlasgow History | https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464 Also: dogs, horses, books

@drgillhistory.bsky.social

Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Writing a book on a monastery for repentant prostitutes. Open University. Feminist. Strong words; weak tea. UCU rep. She/her.

@badinfinity2.bsky.social

your trans professor

@jessgoethals.bsky.social

Assoc. Prof of medieval + early modern Italian Studies | author *Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court* (2023) | women, spectacle, violence, prophecy, weird stuff | currently writing on the 1527 Sack of Rome

@eschlappa.bsky.social

Historian of 17th-18thc gender, medicine and sexuality at Newcastle University. Precarious ECR. Powered by tea, feminism and florid 18thc prose. Views mine.

@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.

@annmariawalsh.bsky.social

Early modernist, UCD; currently editing 17th-century Boyle women’s letters; interested in epistolary culture, women’s manuscript writings - diaries, accounts, wills, and also book ownership. Book: Four Courts Press. Views own. She/her.

@ewatson.bsky.social

Historian ☞ @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on female collaboration in the first age of print ☞ #earlymodern gender, books, religion, DH, queer stuff ☞ she/her 🌈

@hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social

Linguist by training, but I love all things letters, queens, materiality, and Tudor history. Postdoc@NTU. Former MSCA postdoc@UCD. Forthcoming edition of The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots with Camden Fifth Series, CUP (August 2025).

@drka.bsky.social

history, women’s narratives, petitioning, global socio legal, customary knowledge, sovereignty, digital engagement, early modern/modern https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/petitioning-for-land-9781350010703/ https://link.springer.com/book/9783031440441

@erikagaffney.bsky.social

Sr Acq Editor, Early Modern Studies, Amsterdam University Press. Comm Editor, Art History, Lund Humphries. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com

@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

@drcantos.bsky.social

Working in research integrity at UCL; PhD on early modern breastfeeding, motherhood, and shakespeare

@georginaemw.bsky.social

Early Modern Lit and Material Texts between York and London. Book forthcoming Sep 2025 https://www.pennpress.org/9781512827446/paper-and-the-making-of-early-modern-literature/ https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/georgina-wilson

@amysopcakjoseph.bsky.social

Historian of early America, women & gender, print culture, & consumers. Books, coffee, cats.

@aidannorrie.bsky.social

Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Lecturer & Programme Leader • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺

@medievallitura.bsky.social

XV s. French #medievalist, women's libraries. #editrice, #feminist, #reader, #foodie she/her/hers http://mftranscriptions.wordpress.com https://sckaplan.com

@normaowens.bsky.social

PhD Research Historian | University of Galway College of Arts Fellowship | 2024 MacCurtain/Cullen Prize | Social Network Analysis | Lace & Textiles | Long 18th Century | Gaeilge is fáilte

@laradodds.bsky.social

English Prof and Department Head at a University in the South -- Early Modern Lit -- Cavendishista -- she/her/ hers

@helenesfandiary.bsky.social

Social and cultural historian of motherhood, child-rearing, bodies, gender, disease, and medicine in the long c18th. Early Modern/c18th Visiting Lecturer, currently at Herts. Lead Convenor @IHR_LifeCycles & @Long18thsem.

@thorntonsbooks.bsky.social

We were an AHRC-funded project (Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025), based at the University of Edinburgh. Our main output was a digital edition of the books of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk

@jennwong.bsky.social

The shining city on the hill...was Carthage. Anne de Bretagne, botanical mss, dress history, hand embroidery, native plants, and dogs. Lots of dogs. Recreating ca.1600 jacket V&A 173-1869 in silk on linen. Forever a silversmith

@erinannmcc.bsky.social

Professor of English Literature and Computational Humanities. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop.

@laurajaynewright.bsky.social

Writing about early modern sound, women’s voices, screams, prophecies, and hallucinations at Newcastle University. she/her.

@drstephr.bsky.social

Historical fiction, Anne Boleyn, Jane Austen, pop girlies and fitness. Currently writing about counterfactual historical fiction. Australia's most important member of the BeyHive. Alena Smith stan. Editor of the Journal of Historical Fictions

@passamezzo.bsky.social

Musician, historian & mother. FRHistS. FSA. Early music specialist & historical consultant for film, TV, radio & theatre. Early Modernist. Passamezzo. Greensleeves Project. Occasional lecturer in Renaissance art & music at the Courtauld Institute.

@joannascutts.bsky.social

London -> NYC -> Paris. Literature, history, feminism. PhD gone public. Out now! FIREBRANDS: 25 PIONEERING WOMEN WRITERS TO IGNITE YOUR READING LIFE. Previously: HOTBED (NYC bohemian feminists) THE EXTRA WOMAN (30s spinster glamour) www.joannascutts.com

@zvancauwenberg.bsky.social

romanticist&historian | PhD candidate at KU Leuven & Ghent University (Belgium) | Scottish&Irish women's writing & the writing of history

@drtinamorin.bsky.social

Assistant Dean of Research and Professor in English at the University of Limerick. Fan of all things Gothic. Views mine. She/her.

@shakesbrain.bsky.social

US Fulbright Fellow: Distinguished Teacher Researcher | H.S. English Teacher & Dept. Chair | Collector of Rare Books | In the middle of Chicago. Views are my own.

@john-stone.bsky.social

Diasporic book history; English print in 18th-century Spain; translation history; Joni Mitchell; baking. English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona. https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone #18thC #bookhistory

@johnjoemctague.bsky.social

Assistant Prof in C18th Studies, Univ. Bristol. Book: ‘Things that Didn’t Happen’ (2019). Co-director @ Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress). Co-President of Bristol UCU branch. 🎸&🎤 in Autocorrect (https://spoti.fi/4fIaTAJ). He/him.

@wherearethebooks.bsky.social

Promoting #OpenScience practises (in the Arab States) & #LordByron (everywhere else). Ravenous bibliophage lurking in the desert (with cats) Chief Academic Officer, Knowledge E | Director, The Byron Society | Director, Forum for Open Research | BARS Exec

@alexiamandla.bsky.social

PhD Student at Stanford | Studying the literature, theatre, and games of the (very) long eighteenth century | Gothicist | Cozy Game Studies | she/her

@jenwunder.bsky.social

British Romanticist & expert in cultural/political influences of 17th-20th c. secret societies (no tin foil hats, please). Still trying to make academia better for academics and students and still working on all the rest.

@elsesoggenealogist.bsky.social

Hi I’m the Genealogist at the Society of Genealogists. I babble on about #genealogy #familyhistory #archives #history and occasionally #cats. I buy a LOT of books

@madelinepotter.bsky.social

ECR Teaching & Research Fellow 19th century @LLCatEdinburgh | @CN_CSI |Theological Monsters (UWP), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic