Harry R. McCarthy
Lecturer in Early Modern Literature working on childhood, race, gender, education, and performance. Book on boy actors with @cambridgeup.bsky.social.
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Shakespeare Studies
Scholars and practitioners working in/with/against Shakespeare studies, broadly conceived
@robshaughnessy.bsky.social
Shakespeare, performance, then and now. Music, media now and then.
@tchrob.bsky.social
@emqueerguild.bsky.social
The Guild of Queer Early Modernists is dedicated to the support and advancement of queer scholars and scholarship in early modern studies. Join us! Logo by Jasmine Kular, cover image from Art Institute of Chicago. gqem.org
@drdominicdean.bsky.social
Researcher, teacher and author (most recently of Killing Children in British Fiction from SUNY Press, 2024). I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Ishiguro, migration, and intergenerational conflict. Based in Sussex. Own views.
@andresordorica.com
Writer & Poet Based in Edinburgh. Proudly Queer and Latinx. 🏳️🌈🇲🇽 Author of HOW WE NAMED THE STARS (2024), AT LEAST THIS I KNOW (2022), and HOLY BOYS (2025) Top 10 Debut Novelist of 2024 The Observer UK. https://andresnordorica.substack.com/
@sallyhines.bsky.social
Gender Studies & Sociology Academic, UK. Proudly deflecting from the nasty place. She/her
@lewisproberts.bsky.social
Teaching and PhD in English St John’s, Cambridge. https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/graduates/Lewis.Roberts
@inlandemperor.bsky.social
Author of NORMPORN, WHY KAREN CARPENTER MATTERS, and RELOCATIONS. Food motivated. Expert Homosexual. Prof by day. Cohost of The Art of Grief and The Gaymazing Race podcasts, formerly of Waiting to X-Hale. #Gaylor curious. ACFC ⚽️ & Dodgers ⚾️
@micahgoodrich.bsky.social
Shrieks when pulled from earth. Premodern trans. English Prof at Boston University
@irburrows.bsky.social
Fellow in English @ClareCollege . www.shakespeareforsnowflakes.com . www.beyondthetrigger.org .
@drawcansir.bsky.social
Lapsing academic. Books, theatre, opera. Often early modern; always out of time. Book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009324120
@namrao.bsky.social
@beckyyearling.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English at Keele University. Shakespeare, Jonson, Marston, etc., early modern satire, violence, and audiences. All opinions my own.
@eilissmyth.bsky.social
Research Ireland Fellow in Shakespeare @ Trinity College Dublin's School of English | Writing about the politics of performing Shakespeare at Dublin’s Theatre Royal, Smock Alley in 17c-18c
@alex-thom.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF — University of Leeds, views my own Shakespeare • duty and service • exile and imperialism • Renaissance drama • English Reformation • law and literature
@bardolator.bsky.social
English prof in the prairies | Shakespeare | Austen | Food | Cults and Coercive control | Pedagogy | Unions | Anti-Fascist | Anti-Genocide
@lizpollockbooks.bsky.social
Specializing in unique books & ephemera on gastronomy, wine, menus, kitchens, and American theater history. Proud to be a member of the National Writers Union. https://www.cooksbookcase.com
@hannahmerlander.bsky.social
PhD student researching the early modern tiring house at KCL
@bodiesandbeing.bsky.social
The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
@kimgilchrist.bsky.social
Teaches Early Modern Drama at Cardiff Uni. Writing a book about Mucedorus. Will probably post music when I don’t know what to say. he/him. New OWC Cymbeline: https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/cymbeline-9780192882868?cc=gb&lang=en&
@katherinegillen.bsky.social
Prof at Texas A&M-San Antonio | Free Palestine, Sudan, and DRC | Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva: https://borderlandsshakespeare.org/
@drcarpineti.bsky.social
Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social He/him
@natacha.bsky.social
Trans woman 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist & Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. All opinions expressed here are my own. Link to academic publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy “Thomas Mann: “Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
@tomhulme.bsky.social
Reader in History based at Queen's University Belfast. Interested in queer Irish history, 1880-1960s. PI of AHRC-funded “Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation”. Secretary of local UCU branch. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/tom-hulme
@mcraeandrew.bsky.social
English prof, Uni of Exeter. Prone to talk about UK politics, higher education policy, the 17th century, the excellence of English studies, & Aussie sports.
@mattlodder.com
Senior Lecturer, University of Essex School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
@mimmymum.bsky.social
Passionate about acceptance for #transgender people & #trans kids 🏳️⚧️ equality & saving our planet 🌍 Inclusive cis feminist ⚧ ➡️ https://linktr.ee/mimmymum
@rob-myles.bsky.social
Craft & Graft. Multi-Award-Winning Director, Actor, Fight Director, Writer. PhD Candidate LJMU. Certified Teacher BASSC. Known for: Owning Shakespeare Podcast, Shakespeare Deck, Illuminated Text, The Show Must Go Online, Stage Fight Scotland
@drews.bsky.social
(they/them) On the bad island but not leaving. Academic, boulderer and cat dad. Young people call me a trans elder but I'm literally just some guy.
@philipschwyzer.bsky.social
@mxchristalbot.bsky.social
Queer, mixed-race, trans nonbinary creative. Editor of @thebkmagazine.bsky.social and Community-Centric Fundraising. Member of Next 100 Colorado. Pic credits. Makeup: Brittany Blaze-Shears, pic and direction: The Female Shoota.
@eparpillee.bsky.social
Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
@drsifans.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🏳️🌈sociology, ecosocialism, trans-inclusive feminism, decolonisation, books, dogs, Linocut, parenting, neurodiversity, walking, big hills, warm jumpers, tattoos, mid-life womanhood.
@bizk.bsky.social
Critic - words in The Nation, New Statesman, New York Times, The Baffler, Le Monde Diplomatique, Times Literary Supplement & Chair of Resonance FM
@jackiedwrites.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS out now! Words in The Offing Mag, The Normal School, Foglifter, and more. Tin House ‘21. They/she.📍NJ.
@sarayahaddad.bsky.social
Final year M4C funded PhD in Shakesqueer and magic 🌈🔮- Shakespeare Institute 📚 👩🏻🔬 Woman in STEM (Shakespeare, The Early Modern) 👩🏻🔬 🌈 📚 Queer theory. Queer lit. 📚🌈 (she/her)
@emilysharp.bsky.social
Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
@goodlawproject.org
Founder and Director, Good Law Project. King's Counsel. Live your values. Fight the power. Keep the receipts. He/him. goodlawproject.org
@thomaswillett.bsky.social
✨Doctoral Researcher | Writing queer experiences 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️| Co-Founder & Executive Director @EqualityAmplified.org.uk | Global Content Manager | All views are my own ✨
@terribleman.com
Irish literary translator, editor, writer, advisory editor to the Stinging Fly, and The Paris Review, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
@hessephillips.com
🏳️🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain. Debut novel LIGHTBORNE out now. Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social. More at hessephillips.com
@ajwestauthor.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling novelist: THE BETRAYAL OF THOMAS TRUE #AlwaysTogether 🦚 📚 Broadcaster 🏳️🌈 Homosexual Linktr.ee/ajwest
@davidmurph115.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Lancaster University researching queer British response to queerphobia in Uganda, and notions of international queer solidarity. He/Him 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/davidmurph115