Jimmy Packham
Researching and writing about nineteenth-century literature and the gothic: mostly coastly, the seabed and deep ocean, blue hums, and gothic voices. Co-runs the Haunted Shores network. Senior Lecturer at University of Birmingham.
@wromantichistry.bsky.social
PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
@jodiepassey.bsky.social
University of Sheffield | Lancaster University PhD researcher of Gothic musicals, Brontë lover, K-pop fan, and drag enthusiast. I love MIKA so much. (she/her)
@midlandhistory.bsky.social
We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
@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.
@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.
@justinepick.bsky.social
Historian of 19/20 c, sanitation & public health; social & political history of Birmingham (UK); Exec Sec for https://sshm.org/; admin for Midland History https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/; trustee https://www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/
@amyclukey.bsky.social
Academic and neo-Victorian convalescent I've been told that I'm a flower that grew out of a can of Budweiser
@purplezebrav.bsky.social
Queer/crip scholar of freaks and monsters in pop culture and politics, here to talk about history, literary theory, and cats. They/them or xe/xen/xens pronouns.
@johnsavarese.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @ UWaterloo English. Romanticism, gothic studies, history of science, song collecting & ecoacoustics johnsavarese.wordpress.com
@catherineredford.bsky.social
Poet | Researcher | Co-editor at Dust Poetry. Room 204 writer. Words in Magma, Under the Radar, Propel, The Storms, New Welsh Reader, Lighthouse, Atrium, Ink Sweat & Tears, etc.
@scarlettbutchers1.bsky.social
PhD student ◇ Ecocriticism, Folk Horror, Monstrosity, David Rudkin, (eco)gothic ◇ 1/3 of @LincolnGothic1.bsky.social
@asle-us.bsky.social
ASLE is a dynamic environmental humanities community for those interested in the natural world, especially its meanings and representations in literature, art, language, and culture.
@uobrisceh.bsky.social
Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol (UK). #envhums https://environmentalhumanities.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/
@janeford.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Teesside University. Interests: fin-de-siecle literature; women’s writing; feminist recovery; socialist writing and print culture; the Gothic; literary representations of insects.
@hannahkateboast.bsky.social
Chancellor's Fellow, University of Edinburgh / Convener, Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network / Judge, James Tait Black Prize (Fiction)
@bgavurin.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham, working on counterfactual depictions of prehistoric hominins in fin-de-siècle culture Interested in 19th century connections between classical myth & evolutionary science 🧜🏻♀️ She/her
@folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social
"Speak now, come now, rise now from the forest, from the furrows, from the field and live" https://folkhorrorrevival.com/ #FolkloreAgainstFascism Posts by Richard Hing, views my own
@abigailmills.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher at Loughborough University. Researching 20th and 21st century watery weirdness 🌊🐙
@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
@emilyalder.bsky.social
@hauntedshores.bsky.social
Haunted Shores: An interdisciplinary research network for scholars worldwide interested in coastal, nautical, littoral spaces in the Gothic #CoastalGothic https://haunted-shores.com/
@gothicstudies.bsky.social
The academic journal of the International Gothic Association (www.globalgoth.org), published by Edinburgh University Press and edited by Emily Alder and Jamil Mustafa. Email gothiceditors@gmail.com
@ghostiesghoulies.bsky.social
PhD candidate studying 19th century Irish and British folklore and literature ☕️📚I Folk & Fairy Tales | The Gothic | Archives ~loves cats, coffee, and cold, rainy days 🌨️
@jensugden.bsky.social
Writer of comic fiction | Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction shortlisted | Sunday Times Bestseller | Erstwhile Victorianist (PhD in 19th C fiction) | She/Her Listen: Victoriocity Podcast & Murmurs (BBC Sounds) Read: High vaultage (Gollancz)
@cathrynpearce.bsky.social
British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast
@karlbell.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social Historian. Author. C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities. New book: The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (2025)
@irburrows.bsky.social
Fellow in English @ClareCollege . www.shakespeareforsnowflakes.com . www.beyondthetrigger.org .
@katrinajan.bsky.social
English Lit PhD & Research Support Officer @UniBirmingham Jack the Ripper in #19c & Contemporary #Romance Novels, Serial Killers, True Crime, #Gothic Co-runs @gothicauob.bsky.social 🦇 & cerealkillernet.bsky.social 🔪
@gothicauob.bsky.social
A spooky network interested in exploring all aspects of the Gothic at @unibirmingham. Co-run by @katrinajan.bsky.social, @dremilyvincent.bsky.social & Ross Conway. Blog: https://uobgothica.wordpress.com/past-sessions/
@enchantrasand.bsky.social
Reader and Recluse, Mother and Citizen. History📜, art, cookery, poetry, witchery, flora, fauna, music, literature, science, religion, anthropology, dogs, libraries. Working class autodidact. No Fascists. #SlavaUkraini
@dryrayharris.bsky.social
PhD in sexual ethics, violence & communications tech. Soon to be undertaking a MsC in Paleoanthropology & Ancient History at York University. Cat mum, bookworm, gadabout. Pessimistic humanist.
@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
@drkelpy.bsky.social
Salish Sea Institute Fellow | ocean prof (lit, history, ecology) | Pacific + polar | feminist dive guide | nudi nerd | Seattle/Coast Salish Land | pubs/syllabi: kellypbushnell.com 📚 Current research: Cultural history of basking sharks in the NE Pacific!
@theprofrog.bsky.social
academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Science Fiction. Next up: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (October 2025). Research fellow at Heidelberg Uni, May to Sept 25
@nbooth-johnson.bsky.social
PhD student researching queer fiction by politically active female authors (1882-1914) | ND | she/her
@tsjharling.bsky.social
Gothic scholar & writer 🖤 | 19th C | Romanticism | Dracula | Fin de Siècle | Adaptation |Anti-racism | Equity | Access |active bystander of UK HE | one of Sara Ahmed’s little ghosts
@dremilyvincent.bsky.social
Research Fellow, English @unibirmingham.bsky.social @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social. Deputy Assoc Director (Research) @cncsi.bsky.social Durham Uni. @GothicaUob.bsky.social. ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social. ‘Summoned to the Séance’ @britishlibrary.bsky.social👻
@jordankistler.bsky.social
Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde. Interested in Victorian literature, literature and science, and museum studies.
@richardfallon.bsky.social
Scholar of c19th/c20th literature and science, esp. palaeontology. Postdoctoral Researcher in Collections and Culture @nhm-london.bsky.social (https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/richard-fallon.html) and Honorary Fellow at University of Birmingham.
@charliejgough.bsky.social
PhD at Uni of Birmingham | FHEA | Researching homosexuality and the soul in fin-de-siècle poetry | Queer C19, poetry and poetics, life writing | he/him 🏳️🌈
@rachelmurray.bsky.social
Lecturer in Literature and Environment at University of Bristol | Events Officer @uobrisceh.bsky.social https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Rachel-Murray-fc3d0780-8a1b-4a92-9676-5c862ea56faa/ Full-time devotee of cat Shrimp 🦐
@keshavbansal.bsky.social
‘I took a breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.’ // Reader/Student @University of Delhi & Indira Gandhi National Open University // Literary/Cultural Studies | South Asian Languages/Histories/Sociologies
@phenryward.bsky.social
Books, art, theatre. I mainly use social media to tell people that I liked the thing they made.
@isthisaghost.bsky.social
A real podcast about real ghosts that’s real funny. From the minds of two tired dads. Follow us for ghost facts. linktr.ee/isthisaghost
@ccmaass.bsky.social
Writer (YA Horror & personal essays). SCBWI & AWP member. Adjunct professor—creative writing. Mom. Dog lady. Can’t stop buying books. All the books!