@history-doug.bsky.social
Historian, Queer, Scot, Australian, Quaker - a minority of one. Living in Melbourne at present but imminently moving to take up a post at Keele University. He/him 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🍉🇺🇦
@optionalstephanie.bsky.social
environmental humanist, C19 scholar, champion sleeper, extremely secretive, garbage student, wishes everything was otherwise
@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social
Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
@marthanellsmith.bsky.social
Writer. Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 (@emilydickinson.org). Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, UM Terp. Poetry, queer & feminist life & practice, LGBTQ+ crit/theory. DH. Bio Susan Dickinson (https://www.emilydickinson.org/writings-by-susan-dickinson).
@marthasjones.bsky.social
Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | The Trouble of Color (March 2025, Basic Books) | msjonz@jhu.edu
@jamieljones.bsky.social
Environmental Humanities, Energy, Oceans | Assoc Prof, English, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | RENDERED OBSOLETE: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling, UNC Press https://uncpress.org/book/9781469674827/rendered-obsolete
@rgrusin.bsky.social
Walker of woods, lover of forests, friendly with trees. Theorist of mediation. Arboreal nonhumanist. Zayde. Recovering academic.
@notsorry-sari.bsky.social
English prof @UMassBoston | 19thc US lit | new project on the American beach | *Adulthood & Other Fictions: American Literature and the Unmaking of Age*🌈
@ashleyrattner.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Early American literature. Utopia, print culture, and communitarian reform. Birmingham, Alabama. C19 Podcast.
@mlmcgill.bsky.social
C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
@jsench.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Book History @UWMadison. Director @UW_CHPDC. Author: Intimacy of Paper @UMassPress. Summer class @CalRBS. Coeditor of PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. #BillsMafia. (Falo português, mais ou menos.)
@thomasruyssmith.com
Prof of Lit and Culture, mostly nineteenth century. Out now: The Last Gift: The Christmas Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman & a new edition of Black Beauty. Writing books about Mark Twain & London, children’s lit, Santa Claus 🎅 http://www.thomasruyssmith.com
@beverlx.bsky.social
Nimbus, harebrain, lummox. Faculty @trinitydc.edu. Author of DODGERS and ON THE LAM, etc. Washington Spirit football, early mornings, sky, naps, coleslaw, really futile and stupid gestures. Your dog likes me better than you.
@c19americanists.bsky.social
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists C19 2026: Cincinnati, OH -- March 12-14 Theme: UNDERGROUND c19society.org
@jgarc.bsky.social
AAS Director: Program in the History of the Book in American Culture/Center for Historic American Visual Culture. studies Early American Book Trade & C19 Asylums. plays Modular synthesizer. loves Chihuahuas. Providence RI.
@johngmarks.com
Historian and writer. New book about how Americans remember George Washington and slavery forthcoming in 2026 w/ @uncpress.bsky.social. Vice President of Research & Engagement at AASLH. www.johngmarks.com
@markalanmattes.bsky.social
U of Louisville English - Book & Media History - Early American Studies - Native American and Indigenous Studies - Manuscript Studies - Hot Brown Press (hotbrownpress.com) - Editor of Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
@regenerationeac.bsky.social
Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the environmental humanities humanists, bringing activists, artists, and scientists into conversation around environmental matters. https://www.regeneration-journal.org/
@melville-society.bsky.social
The Melville Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, brings together scholars, readers, and artists through the study and appreciation of the life and works of the author Herman Melville. www.melvillesociety.org
@meredithfarmer.bsky.social
Queer | Writer | Sleepfighter Nothing I post here represents my employer.
@ericafretwell.bsky.social
good enough professor | The Art of Slight Living: Anaesthetics in Times of Anomie (in progress) | Sensory Experiments (Duke UP, 2020) | she/her
@buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
Buddhist material culture in media for Western audiences, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD (@peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social) 🗺 buddhasinthewest.com 🌟 New Posts: Mon, Wed, & Fri
@ishmaelcallme.bsky.social
chips & dips; poor sense of direction ; prof & union member (apscuf) ; writing about c19 U.S. literature - wives, sex, violence, energy; Detroit, Philly, Joel Embiid forever
@slavecodes.org
SlaveCodes.org publishes slave codes from the days of chattel slavery across the Americas. The codes are translated in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
@ksgruesz.bsky.social
Professor at UC Santa Cruz, here to remind you this is just another American nation warped by 1492
@mjdrexler.bsky.social
English Professor at Bucknell University. Author of The Traumatic Colonel: The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr.
@pdkindig.bsky.social
Asst Prof of English. Lit crit: Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity (2022). Poetry: fascinations (2025) / all the catholic gods (2019) / Dry Spell (2016). pdkindig.wordpress.com.
@dmcampbellwsu.bsky.social
Prof, AmLit, WSU Pullman; Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism & Early Cinema in Am Women’s Writing; ed. The House of Mirth for Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Oxford UP). Canada is a sovereign nation. None of these shenanigans are legal.
@robinmbernstein.bsky.social
Author of Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit. https://scholar.harvard.edu/robinbernstein/home ; robinbernsteinphd.com . Inventor of the leg mullet (business in the front, party in the back).
@jessagoldberg.bsky.social
Abolitionist | anti-imperialist | academic PhD in American Literature Black Studies, Queer Studies, Carceral Studies they/them | my views, not employer's | book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917890/abolition-time/
@jennifergreiman.bsky.social
WFU English / WFU Humanities Institute / Melville's Democracy: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=35599 / Leviathan: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/601 / Should be going for that run.
@nathurley.bsky.social
@wickettred.bsky.social
English professor (c19 American), adoptee, lover of the arts who studies public health & literature. Also a friendly neighborhood deadhead.
@naomigrey.bsky.social
Professor on the prairie 🌾 { Do you also have a complicated relationship to writing? }
@travisfoster.bsky.social
nineteenth century american literature, queer feminism, book project on trans feminine childhood, he/him sorta
@katenickerson.bsky.social
I teach and write about crime narratives of all sorts. I knit, and garden. Basically, I’m a slightly morbid, overly-tall hobbit.
@micahbateman.bsky.social
Asst Prof in LIS at UIowa. DH, CHI, libraries/archives, digital heritage, poetry. Finishing Lyric Publics: The Uses of Poetry in American Social-Media Campaigns. Opinions do not reflect UI. bit.ly/MicahBateman
@wheretaverawrites.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M, Kingsville. Author of (P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship (Edinburgh UP, 2022). Honorable Mention for 2021 SSAWW Book Edition Award for Helen Brent, MD.
@brianconnolly.bsky.social
Fast and Furious expert Book: Situation Critical (https://www.dukeupress.edu/situation-critical) Book: Domestic Intimacies (https://www.pennpress.org/9780812209853/domestic-intimacies/) Journal: History of the Present (https://read.dukeupress.edu/history-o
@ryancordell.org
he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—suspected mechanical paragraphist—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director of @skeuomorphpress.org
@mattseybold.bsky.social
Resident Scholar @ Center For Mark Twain Studies | Host, The American Vandal Podcast | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies @ Elmira College | Lit & Econ
@jewonwoo.bsky.social
Black print culture, Black newspapers, DH, pedagogy for underrepresented students, esp. at community college, community-based teaching, cat, UU, and kimchi. 한국사람. jewonwoo.com
@kellenhoxworth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University at Buffalo - SUNY. Author of “Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance”: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147072/transoceanic-blackface/
@waterman.bsky.social
Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001. If I’m not here I’m on the WFMU comments board.
@taulby.bsky.social
@VT_RLCL. US South & Appalachia. Research: historical & cultural memory; race & white nationalism. Most recently writing on Gone with the Wind, plantation tourism, and campus racism. Horror enthusiast. Sports watcher. Dad.