David L. Orvis
Professor and Assistant Chair of English, Appalachian State University | Early Modern Studies & Queer Studies | *Shakespeare against Love* (under contract with Routledge)
@commshakes.bsky.social
Artistic Excellence, Accessibility, and Education. Boston, MA
@johnmkuhn.bsky.social
English prof. 17th century stuff. Prairie son. Working on a cultural and material history of the birchbark canoe in the early modern Americas.
@robshaughnessy.bsky.social
Shakespeare, performance, then and now. Music, media now and then.
@vanessabraganza.bsky.social
'The real Robert Langdon' | writer and future civil rights lawyer | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne 2026 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
@sierramatute.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses.
@weingust.bsky.social
Shakespeare and theatre scholar; proud papa of USC entrepreneur and Hostelpass.co CEO; old actor/musician; former Ensemble member at Glide SF; ally; happy Californian.
@marlowemightyln.bsky.social
The Marlowe Society of America promotes scholarship on poet & playwright Christopher Marlowe's life, works, & crucial role in the early modern theater.
@transbookhistory.bsky.social
PhD Candidate | Trans Book History & 19C Am. Lit. | former sub-sub-librarian | Owner of @meanwhilelttrpress | he/him | Opinions my own.
@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
@notrockyhorror.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
@philistella.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ies-sas.bsky.social, Bougie London Literary Woman, cat concierge. Book on 18th-century women's letters forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. natashasimonova.com
@adambcqx.bsky.social
Editor, Early Modernist - formerly MA and half a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, now with Reading Early Plays
@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
@melrohrer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English at Kansas Wesleyan; early modern literature; Shakespeare and drama; scandal and news culture; gender. Unapologetic cat lady.
@sarahwalrus.bsky.social
Early modern English lit prof @Wellesley C; book history, editing, gender & performance. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally.
@jimknowles.bsky.social
Medievalist, dad, Man United fan, real ale preferred. NC State English. Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. Co-author with English Knowles (my sis) of Beer Hiking Virginia, North Carolina, & DC (Helvetiq 2025).
@anitaraychawdhuri.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at UH-Downtown. Early modernist. ✨🪩🏳️🌈
@jakearthur.bsky.social
@emmastanbridge.bsky.social
Sometime PhD student @ Keele Univ. | C18 Life-writing, literary biography and culture.
@vbilling.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at Central College. Teacher, researcher, conference-goer. Lover of Shakespeare, gardening, and home-grown tomatoes. Views my own and not my employer's. She/her.
@doctalectrix.bsky.social
Lover of Libraries, Latin, & Early Modern Poetry. Author, First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Routledge, 2020); currently researching epitaphs on early modern servants & tradesmen.
@crowneofbookes.bsky.social
Director, IUB WTS | CITL, Writing Studies, Writing Centers, & Writing Pedagogy | WAC/WID | SoTL | Renaissance woman | Early Modern women's writing | Genre studies | Teacher |Professional Fangirl | Bibliophile 📚
@omaraphd.bsky.social
Writer. Educator. @Jeopardy contestant. Bunny godparent. PhD in Shakespeare & asexuality. Author of ASEXUAL MANIFESTO 2022 (Art Over Chaos). ♠️💜 30+
@selsky.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, Rhodes College. Studying and teaching Renaissance lit, law and lit, women writers. Author of /Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature/ (OUP 2020).
@dlspratt.bsky.social
18thcenturyist, English prof + director of community engagement, CSUN; history of science + medicine, Austen, satire, public humanities. Engaging the Age of Jane Austen (w/Bridget Draxler), Histories of Science (ed. w/Dave Alff), Reading Austen. She/her.
@kvmfinn.bsky.social
Medievalist. Early Modernist. Fan Scholar. Shakespearean. Interests: queenship, popular history, medievalism, fandoms, then&now
@memorients.bsky.social
AHRC project: premodern contact btwn England & Islamic Worlds. Led by Lubaaba Al-Azami & Samera Hassan. Book: https://bit.ly/3ZEIy6L OA Journal: https://rb.gy/wlrcie. Website: https://memorients.com/
@earlymodernhorror.bsky.social
Part time lecturer, full time anxious wreck. Writing a/the book on Early Modern Horror. Also research videogames and contemporary Horror. Reviewer for TheSixthAxis.com
@lalexander.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, Restoration/18th c. Brit lit, women writers, fairy tales https://sites.google.com/view/lauraalexander/home 2024 Ridenhour Award for research Royalties donated to Catherine's House, a shelter for women/children
@elicumings.bsky.social
early modern literary scholar interested in bodies and their meanings | postdoc @ columbia | trying my best
@rentravailer.bsky.social
English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
@manymanyplies.bsky.social
Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Currently writing: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.
@cweiss-smith.bsky.social
professor @ Wesleyan, editor @ History & Theory and Norton Anthology of English Literature, mother @ home, lover of poetry and tv and good cheese @ all the times…
@lauraingalli.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Italian & Renaissance at the University of Toronto. Working on forgery and women's literature; transregional encounters; drama, gender, race in #earlymodern Italy. book in progress: #FraudulentMuse
@unamcilvenna.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
@zugenia.bsky.social
English and Cultural Studies prof; poet; editor of @ecfjournal.bsky.social. Thinking in semiotic squares and cosmological circles. she/they/we
@damionmatthews.bsky.social
Publisher of The Notable (coming soon.) 💙💙💙 🟠🟢🔵 https://boxd.it/6oHmx 📸 https://instagram.com/damionmatthews
@svukic.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ People: who we are, through books. #lgbtq #gaybooks #lgbtqpeople #lgbtqculture #lgbtqfamilies #gayfiction #gayliterature #pride #gayreader #booksky #gaybooksky #bookcollector
@kfinkelstein.bsky.social
Director/Writer/Historian (Shakespeare/activism/disability performance). MA Univ of Colorado-Boulder (2026). Hard-of-hearing. Views my own. he/him #blm #transrightsarehumanrights
@postmedieval.bsky.social
postmedieval is an award-winning journal bringing medieval and modern into productive critical relation. For queries, postmedievalED (at) gmail (dot) com. https://linktr.ee/postmedieval
@elvysshpopet.bsky.social
reader of trivial bedtime stories ie Engl prof | interested in medieval lit and born-digital lit, and connections between the two | misses the open blue skies of the prairies | St. Thomas U | he/him
@mattielubchansky.com
award-winning transsexual comics idiot, beautiful giantess // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // she/they
@susanstryker.bsky.social
Trans Studies||Historian||Filmmaker||Settler on Ramaytush Ohlone Land||When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader @dukepress.bsky.social||susanstryker.net||Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
@saranahmed.bsky.social
Writer and independent feminist scholar Queer person of colour #FreePalestine