Marijke Valk
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.
@dreframss.bsky.social
Historian of occultism and science, Victorianist, anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and bass player. Lover of classic videogames. 🎮 Views own. (https://www.eframserashriar.com)
@cferguson.bsky.social
Professor of English, specialising in Esotericism Studies,Victorian Literature, and History of Spiritualism & Occultism. Fan of Indian cinema and all things horror related. Based in Glasgow
@dougbattersby.bsky.social
Writes on the history & theory of the novel. Lecturer in Modern Literature at Leicester. Book: TROUBLING LATE MODERNISM (https://tinyurl.com/592f5me2).
@coppertapestry.bsky.social
Literary Detective (PhD Researcher) at @lboroenglish.bsky.social I know a little bit about Marie Corelli, #19thcentury popular fiction, and #genealogy. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4597-4354 https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/staff/joanna-turner/
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
@hosmeriana.bsky.social
Curator, goblin. Neoclassicism/sculpture/reception theories in the very, very long 19th C. Also paintings and museums. She/her, views absolutely and only mine melissagustin.com
@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
@christopherpittard.bsky.social
Victorian literature academic, Course Leader in English Literature. Detective fiction, Sherlock Holmes, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. New book: *Literary Illusions: Performance Magic and Victorian Literature* (Edinburgh UP, 2025)
@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.
@emilyalder.bsky.social
@jordankistler.bsky.social
Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde. Interested in Victorian literature, literature and science, and museum studies.
@richardjbutler.bsky.social
Dinosaur researcher, Professor of Palaeobiology & Director of Research, University of Birmingham. Co-chair #2025SVP Host Committee. Would rather be on fieldwork. Current projects in 🏴 🏴 🇲🇦 🇷🇸 🇰🇬 🇺🇸 🇷🇴 🇭🇺
@tattersdill.bsky.social
Writer and teacher. Literature and science, dinosaurs, fantasy/sci-fi, alternate history, worldbuilding, periodicals, museums, etc. Fiction as W. J. Tattersdill. He/him.
@g0blinegg.bsky.social
Amy - Part-time Goblin 🐸 Folklorist researching the Folklore and Ghostlore of Shropshire 👻 Teacher of Religious Studies Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇 - Currently working on a book about The Devil in Shropshire Folklore
@deathstudiespod.bsky.social
Podcast providing a platform for the diversity of voices in, around and contributing to the academic field of Death Studies. Hosted by Dr Bethan Michael-Fox & Dr Renske Visser TheDeathStudiesPodcast.com
@emilyjlm.bsky.social
Digital Humanities Lecturer @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Victorianist, periodicals scholar, Dickensian
@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 🔪
@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👻
@lincolngothic1.bsky.social
PGR students based in Lincoln, UK. Interested in all things Gothic 👻 Check out our blog! https://lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com/ Artwork credit: Albert Zuwala
@madelinepotter.bsky.social
ECR Teaching & Research Fellow 19th century @LLCatEdinburgh | @CN_CSI |Theological Monsters (UWP), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
@nataljastgermain.bsky.social
I am the spooks🧛🏻♀️🍷PhD candidate, horror writer, multilingual translator, senior lecturer, annoying folklorist. 🔎 Researching the ethics and legal regulations of AI #researchingAI&beyond #dailyspooklore #swampsunday #vampiresweekly #thesevenofwands
@jendeavour.bsky.social
Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature at Uni of Warwick. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
@jfpackham.bsky.social
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.
@catherinespooner.bsky.social
Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
@melissae.bsky.social
PhD in Victorian lit. Editor/researcher/lecturer. Women’s ghost stories & the supernatural. Lots of posts about books. And ghosts. And Margery Lawrence. E. Nesbit's The House of Silence, Ghost Stories, 1887-1920 out now with Handheld Press.
@janetteleaf.bsky.social
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.
@kirstinmills.bsky.social
The #Gothic; #18thC - #19thC literature & sciences of the mind, occult & supernatural; digital Gothic 👻 Senior Lecturer & Director: Master of Research, Faculty of Arts, MQU, Sydney Co-Editor: ANCR & INCSA Book Series She/Her https://kirstinmills.com
@angelawright1794.bsky.social
Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield. Romanticism, Gothic, author and general co-ed of Ann Radcliffe for forthcoming Cambridge edition and gen co-ed of Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. PL AHRC project ‘Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now’
@dundeegothic.bsky.social
A collective of academics, students, writers and artists working on Gothic literature, art, comics, film and other media. Based in Dundee, Scotland. Director: @profdanielcook.bsky.social
@alexiamandla.bsky.social
PhD Student at Stanford | Studying the literature, theatre, and games of the (very) long eighteenth century | Gothicist | Cozy Game Studies | she/her
@nataliecarthy.bsky.social
Theatre enthusiast. Horror completist. Gothic Lit fan. Comedy devotee. Politics observer. HigherEd projects. Manchester. She/her. PhD: 16C drama, Revenge Tragedy, Reformation, Shakespeare, curses, trauma, temporality - Uni of Edinburgh.
@drdarrengray.bsky.social
Researcher in Literature, Film and Cultural Studies | The Gothic, Horror, Technology, Disability | Currently writing ‘Horror and Disability’ for the University of Wales Press Horror Studies series. Proudly neurodivergent (ADHD)
@sarahdeglispiriti.bsky.social
Italian artist, author and animist. My passions: art, paranormal, esotericism, paganism and neo-paganism, witchcraft, shamanism, mythology, archaeology, folklore and related topics. I love anime and manga. Vegetarian, I'm a nature and animals lover.
@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
@elpatterson.bsky.social
AHRC funded PhD student at the University of Sheffield, researching monstrous reproduction in long 19th-century British Gothic. She/Her.
@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/
@unibirmingham.bsky.social
Official account for the University of Birmingham. Changing how the world works. www.birmingham.ac.uk