Susan Pickford
Professor of translation studies at the University of Geneva and academic translator. Translator history from below. Book due out end 2024: Professional Translators in 19th-c France. Now working on an industry guide for aspiring book translators.
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@jessrainey.bsky.social
Translator, Associate Translator at Stephen Spender Trust, Associate Lecturer at Newcastle University. Currently PhD researching creative translation in the classroom. Currently converting a Fiat Doblò from a WAV to a microcamper...
@brianthill.bsky.social
Author, WASTE (Bloomsbury) | PhD from UCI | Writer @ The Atlantic, Guardian, Salon, UMinn Press &c. | Just finished writing a novel; now writing a better one
@blairesquiscoll.bsky.social
Author, book trade event attendee, Negroni drinker https://ullapoolism.wordpress.com/blaire-squiscoll-author/
@phil-c.bsky.social
Retired wordsmith, now living on a hill-top in the West Riding Vānaprastha Green Socialist English European The paradise that you will find Lies deep within your very own mind Know the seer, know the seer
@creative-xl8.bsky.social
Translator specialising in transcreation & book translations (fiction, non-fiction, exhibition catalogues) | 100% AI-free | English & German into Dutch | Member of NGTV & Auteursbond, Fellow of CIOL https://www.pb-translations.com
@earlymodlancs.bsky.social
educator passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) HE prof NW England Anywhere near Books and Music #SurfaceStudies #Soil_Imaginaries Green Party Member Adores Snails 🐌 My personal views - not my employer's Reposts &c not endorsements
@grahamscambler.bsky.social
Sociologist with interests in philosophy, theory, politics, health and sport. #sociology #health Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UCL Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences, UK Latest book: ‘Healthy Societies’ (Policy Press, 2024) www.grahamscambler.com
@ritorneropoeta.bsky.social
BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Lecturer in Comparative Literature, University of Glasgow. Writes on Dante, Proust, and representations of Iran. Secretly wants to be an Achaemenid queen. 👑🗡️🔥 Website: www.juliacaterinahartley.com
@tamarajatkin.bsky.social
Medieval and early modern English literature at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mostly old books. All opinions my own. She/her
@profalisonsfell.bsky.social
Historian & Dean at University of Liverpool. WW1, women & war.
@peccadille.bsky.social
Doctorante au LARHRA & chargée de cours à l'école du Louvre Histoire culturelle & urbaine. Estampe, XVIIIe siècle, Humanités numériques. HAL : https://cv.hal.science/johanna-daniel/ Carnet : https://ig.hypotheses.org/
@kaszyma.bsky.social
Just migrated over here! Asst prof at the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies UoM | Translation Multiples (Princeton UP, 2025) | Literature, translation, multilingualism, Central & Eastern Europe, Cold War writing
@translationexch.bsky.social
Offering translation and international literature initiatives for schools, students and the public. Based at @queenscollegeox.bsky.social.
@pilarsg.bsky.social
Traducció i tecnologies/Translation and technologies/Traducción y tecnologías. Compte professional.
@privateeyenews.bsky.social
Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism. Website: https://private-eye.co.uk Subscribe: http://subsonline.co.uk
@bcltuea.bsky.social
The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT), based at University of East Anglia focuses on the study and support of literary translation.
@ginasue.bsky.social
Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@ftnetwork.bsky.social
AHRC-funded project which explores what feminist literary translation means in practice in the twenty-first century https://feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/
@kjokjokjo.bsky.social
writer & translator of Ia Genberg, Hanna Johansson, Judith Kiros and others // that's Karin Broos in the header
@sklafon1.bsky.social
Pr. of 18th-century studies at Paris Nanterre Université: literature and the sciences, translation and history thereof. Biographe officielle du Traducteur Fou™. Opinions are my own.
@fesshole.bsky.social
Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you? Buy show tickets 2025: https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole Add confession https://bit.ly/addfess Buy book https://amzn.to/40ySjVn Sponsored by hebtro.co, Run @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social
@londongeology.bsky.social
Preserving and communicating the geology of London. Sharing good practice, influencing policy and establishing cross-London working for Geodiversity
@ipciti2025.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for the 18th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting, 13-14 November 2025. CfP coming soon! 📍University of Warwick, UK https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/news/events/ipciti2025/
@standupforscifr.bsky.social
Les sciences sont un bien commun #StandUpForScience FRANCE Inscrivez-vous et rejoignez les groupes près de chez vous : linktr.ee/standupforsciencefr
@emmacayley.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval French and Head of School of Languages, Cultures & Societies at Uni of Leeds; Chair of UCFL; Co-Chair of AHA; playing card collector; MSS & cat-lover.
@janest.bsky.social
Belfast born 🇩🇪 / 🇫🇷 Translator/Copywriter, former Marketing/Inside Sales entity. Jumped off the corporate ladder (for now), occasional runner, film extra, part time massage therapist. Living in NI since 2018. Proud citizen of Europe! 🇪🇺
@mbelle4912.bsky.social
Prof. Translation Studies (Université de Montréal) Ed. Meta: Journal des traducteurs/ Meta: Translators' Journal Translation and print in 17th c. Britain: crosscurrentscatalogue.ca Material, feminist, decolonial history of translation in early modern era
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@pcfleming.bsky.social
Humanities scholar (Victorian and children's lit), parent of 2. Views my own https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Animating-the-Victorians https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/British-Childrens-Literature-of-the-19th-Century
@gregorybekhtari.bsky.social
Teaching fellow. PhD student in African-American studies.
@jksteinberger.bsky.social
Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧. Social ecology & ecological economics at Uni Lausanne in 🇨🇭. Bad at email. She/her
@muireanndinosaur.bsky.social
Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter, translator of Russian literature, avid fan of books (esp. but not only Penguins), and parkrun. Also likes dinosaurs 🦕.
@rhiannonlawrence.bsky.social
Expanding horizons through translation. French to English.
@hdiamond.bsky.social
Historian of France & 2WW, professor in French History at Cardiff University, my new book ‘Josephine Baker’s Secret War’ will be out with Yale University Press in spring 2025
@ddfccollective.bsky.social
A collective of scholars, educators, and learners in French & Francophone Studies who --through community and mutual aid-- work to challenge oppression in all its forms. Our mission: https://ddfccollective.weebly.com/our-mission.htm
@sylvie-bauer.bsky.social
Professeure de littérature des États-Unis. Aime déambuler le nez en l'air, voler avec les libellules et danser avec les lucioles.
@lindseymacmillan.bsky.social
Professor of Economics. Founding Director of the UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (@cepeo-ucl.bsky.social). Economics of education. Inequality. Research Fellow at the IFS, IZA and CESifo. 1st gen🏴�
@europaeditions.bsky.social
We are an independent publisher of literary fiction, high-end mystery and noir, and narrative non-fiction from around the world. europaeditions.com
@johnbenjamins.bsky.social
An independent, family-owned academic publishing house, mainly in linguistics, translation studies and literary studies. Amsterdam based. https://www.benjamins.com/
@lisakuitert.bsky.social
Boekwetenschap, Book Studies, University of Amsterdam https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/k/u/e.a.kuitert/e.a.kuitert.html
@sharpweb.org
📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing 💚 Promoting humanities scholarship 🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars 🪢 Facilitating bookish community sharpweb.org
@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social
'dust in the air suspended, marks the place where a story ended' Also available on X/Twitter.
@addressingart.bsky.social
Prof. of art/fashion history @ FIT & Editor of *Fashion in European Art* & of the Fashion History Timeline. *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (@artofparisianchic.bsky.social), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025.
@sharpnews.bsky.social
An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org). Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
@ophelie-simeon.bsky.social
Lecturer in British history at Sorbonne Nouvelle University | FRHIstS | Editor at the Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle
@etorressimon.bsky.social
Translator, researcher, mother. Korean Studies at UAB. K-lit in Spanish. I do Wikipedia, conferences & volleyball. Check K-lab.online! ☺️
@sandrabree.bsky.social
Historical demographer ( France, Paris, suburbs) Childlessness, (non-marital) fert Singlehood, divorce, singlehood Historienne et démographe CNRS-LARHRA Projets POPP et EXO-POPP Resp. pôle données historiques Progedo Resp. médias sociaux de @sdh-demohisto
@jontransl8s.bsky.social
Translator ES>EN, PT>EN, EUS>EN Writer High school teacher in Spain linktr.ee/jontranslates