Dr Janette Leaf
Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2024/25. Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
@spookypurcell.bsky.social
Writer of Gothic fiction, mother of guinea pigs. The horrors persist but so do I.
@uniofexetercvs.bsky.social
The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
@dretaylorpirie.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine & Culture | Medical Humanities | Gut Health | Author of “Empire Under the Microscope" (2022) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84717-3 | lover of books, dogs, slow news, and the oxford comma. | vibe: 📚🔬🦟🐕👶🏻👶🏻🌱
@demorganfoundation.bsky.social
Pre-Raphaelite art and Arts & Crafts ceramics by Victorian artists, Evelyn and William. Spouses interested in Socialism, Spiritualism and Feminism.
@rs4vp.org
An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
@englishassociation.bsky.social
Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
@victstudies.bsky.social
Literary, social, and cultural studies of 19C Britain and beyond. Online submission portal: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/victorianstudies/index Please direct all inquiries to victstu@iu.edu
@andrewm73.bsky.social
Head of Humanities, University of Herts. Latest book "Enid Blyton: A Life" (2021). Currently working on 1920s theatre.
@ireadoldbooks.bsky.social
BARS/BAVS 19C Matters Fellow @RHUL | BAVS Newsletter Editor | Researching Victorian science, altruism, and the novel. Register for Nineteenth-Century Legacies Colloquium https://19clegacies.wixsite.com/19centurylegacies
@thedeathhistorian.bsky.social
Research Fellow, Death Historian & Archaeologist, Best-selling Author & Photographer. Researching non-conformist funerary practices, mortality symbolism art and architecture www.lorraineevans.com
@drsarazadrozny.bsky.social
Victorian fiction, medicine and culture. Researching gender, ageing and the Gothic. Departmental Tutor at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education.
@simon-books-art.bsky.social
PhD: 'Trauma, dissociation and the boarding school experience'. Interested in art and psychoanalysis, trauma studies, art history, and cemeteries. Survivor of institutional abuse. No DMs. Opinions are my own. Website: http://simon-crosbie.squarespace.com
@johnsavarese.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @ UWaterloo English. Romanticism, gothic studies, history of science, song collecting & ecoacoustics johnsavarese.wordpress.com
@martinpompeyfan.bsky.social
Former digital marketer and commuter. Live in Hertfordshire. Labour Party member 🌹. Supporter of Hampshire's #1 football team. 36/92
@andrewmangham.bsky.social
Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Reading (UK). Author of the occasional book about literature and the biological sciences. 🏳️🌈
@alicecrossley.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, English Literature (University of Lincoln). Ageing in Victorian lit; 19th- century paper ephemera; valentines; material/visual cultures; history of emotions; masculinity studies; Japanese fiction | FRHistS. FHEA. - Own views -
@patrickleary.bsky.social
Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile.
@rohanmaitzen.bsky.social
English prof (mostly Victorian lit, detective fiction), critic, blogger at 'Novel Readings'. Essays and reviews in the TLS, LRC, Q&Q, CNQ, LARB, etc. It's pronounced "Rowan." She / her. Halifax, NS. http://rohanmaitzen.com
@helenagoodwyn.bsky.social
Assistant Professor | c.19 Studies | Editorial Teams JEPS https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/the-northern-echo-and-the-politics-of-place/?p184577
@preraphsrule.bsky.social
C19th literature. Victorian Poetry & Pre-Raphaelitism. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website https://carerspoetry.org/ for poems by caregivers.
@taliaschaffer.bsky.social
I like thinking about Victorian care, disability, feminism, and also cooking (not necessarily Victorian).
@victorianreview.bsky.social
Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on C19 literature & culture Send submissions to submissionsvr@gmail.com Website https://victorianreview.org/ Issues https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journal/508
@jofvictculture.bsky.social
The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic. Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
@frankendodo.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research Fellow HPS Leeds | Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Formerly York SATSU & DPhil Oxford EnFac | Editor Lewis Carroll Review | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | Polymath | #scicomm #envhist #histmed
@drjonpotter.bsky.social
Researches Victorian periodicals, visual culture, and literature; teaches academic skills at Birmingham City University. Probably the least online person you'll meet online. Author of Discourses of Vision in C19th Britain: https://tinyurl.com/5bxvawy6
@victoriangaslamp.bsky.social
A Victorian era history podcast that looks at all aspects of 19th Century United Kingdom
@helenkingstone.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London. I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations.
@digivictorian.bsky.social
Historian • Broadcaster • Victorian Pop Culture • Presenter of 'Killing Victoria' on BBC Sounds 🎙️ • www.bobnicholson.co.uk
@drvickymills.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London. London and Cambridge
@afquaireau.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in British literature and translation. Travel writing / women’s writing / 18th and 19th centuries / environmental literature / history of motherhood and childhood @univAngers
@marijkevalk.bsky.social
M4C/AHRC funded PhD student in English literature at the University of Birmingham, working on the representation of alchemy in late-Victorian fiction. Supernatural, occult, and (pseudo-)scientific fiction.
@caitlindavies.bsky.social
Writer, #BadGirls, #QueensoftheUnderworld, #PrivateInquiries, historian, swimmer, jumble lover. Thanet, Kent. Rep by Robert Kirby, United Agents. https://www.caitlindavies.co.uk/ Seaside art https://www.instagram.com/7baysbroadstairs
@thevicsoc.bsky.social
The national charity fighting to save our Victorian & Edwardian heritage. Join us! linktr.ee/victoriansociety Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
The Pre-Raphaelite Society is the international society for the study and appreciation of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and its followers. #PreRaphaeliteSociety https://www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org
@harveygothick.bsky.social
Apprentice Monsterologist, Gothic academic and bibliophile. Passion for dance, music, nature and cocktails. Sunsponge Goth. She/her. Co-founder of the Macabre Danse research project (#BalletGothic)
@kartook.bsky.social
PhD in myth, religious studies, and fantasy fiction. Expertise on Wicked, fairy tales, and transmedial adaptation. 1/3 of the Danse Macabre project on gothic dance. QA and Acreditations Manager in HE. Mum of 2 kids with additional needs.
@macabredanse.bsky.social
A research project looking at ways in which dance and the Gothic intersect, beginning with ballet. Run by Kaja Franck, Karen Graham and Kate Harvey
@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)
@drmcraines.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool; interested in literature and psychology, crime fiction, horror, film and television adaptations, and Victorian realism (yes, I'm a little all over the place); dog mom; views my own; she/her
@theblochian.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.bsky.social & Co-Director of @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
@fredrikblanc.bsky.social
PhD Researcher in English and Teaching Assistant at the Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. My thesis focuses on oceanic horror and hybridity in Weird fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries.
@wokestudies.bsky.social
English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era. Prof. d'Emeritus. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
@doingsofdoyle.com
A podcast celebrating the life and work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Professor Challenger, Brigadier Gerard and Sherlock Holmes. Find us at www.doingsofdoyle.com and on your favourite podcast app.
@longvictorian.bsky.social
My pick of art, 1789-1914 era. Don't post as often as I used to (busy with a YT channel) but love the art as much as ever.
@uniwalespress.bsky.social
Publishing Wales and the World since 1922. 🏴 📚 Cymraeg: @gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social 🔗 www.uwp.co.uk
@wbonikowski.bsky.social
Suffolk U. English prof. Fiction writer. Academic writing on war trauma, psychoanalysis, Shirley Jackson, fairy tales, and more.
@nelsonrarebooks.com
Bookseller of uncommon 18-19th c. British literature, street literature, and Gothic Revival. Dirtbag medievalist. Wears Crocs with tweed. It’s all sarcasm. Member ABAA/ILAB/PBFA.
@icysedgwick.bsky.social
Host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast/blog. Researcher & writer for hire. Dark fantasy & Gothic author. Crafter. PhD in haunted house films.
@gothicacademic.bsky.social
🇨🇦🏴 📚 PhD Student at University of Westminster // MLitt in Gothic Studies 🌿 Researching ecofem, hauntology, & the climate crisis in speculative fiction 🎓 First gen & non-trad student 🎗️ Advocate for accessibility in academia