Whitney Sperrazza, PhD
Texas A&M Assistant Prof. | early modern literature & science | poetics | book history | women writers | histories of gender & sexuality | media archaeology. She/her. Views my own.
@davidorvis.bsky.social
Professor and Assistant Chair of English, Appalachian State University | Early Modern Studies & Queer Studies | *Shakespeare against Love* (under contract with Routledge)
@doctalectrix.bsky.social
Lover of Libraries, Latin, & Early Modern Poetry. Author, First Readers of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Routledge, 2020); currently researching epitaphs on early modern servants & tradesmen.
@huwgriffiths.bsky.social
Literature; piano; 🏳️🌈; Blue Mountains; Associate Professor of English Literature at University of Sydney
@emmastanbridge.bsky.social
Sometime PhD student @ Keele Univ. | C18 Life-writing, literary biography and culture.
@vbilling.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at Central College. Teacher, researcher, conference-goer. Lover of Shakespeare, gardening, and home-grown tomatoes. Views my own and not my employer's. She/her.
@drmirandafay.bsky.social
Asst Prof at Trinity College Dublin | Shakespeare and Performance Studies | Drama Critic and Cultural Historian | 📖 Shakespeare's Body Language; The Tempest (Arden Performance Editions); An Alternative History of Shakespearean Acting (all Bloomsbury)
@rachelclark.bsky.social
English professor and Honors Director at Wartburg College in NE Iowa. Current research: Witchcraft and disability in the early modern Atlantic world. Research assistant: Jellybean 🐶
@annawainwright.bsky.social
associate professor of Italian studies at UNH. gender, race, religion, emotions, widows. she/her/hers. New book coming April 2025: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/widow-city/9781644533598/
@jakearthur.bsky.social
@lucycmunro.bsky.social
Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her
@dianagbarnes.bsky.social
Early Modern Literature @ University of New England (Australia) Letters, Emotions, Early Modern Women, Neostoicism & Bubbles
@anitaraychawdhuri.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at UH-Downtown. Early modernist. ✨🪩🏳️🌈
@liesljensen.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Researching asexuality, virginity, and performance. Crazy cat lady. Actor. Cheese lover. Always has a cup of tea. Founder of the Guild of Queer Early Modernists. GQEM.org 🏳️🌈 💜🖤🤍
@ezkolkovich.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @ Ohio State | writing about Shakespeare, masques, women writers, disability | Book reviews editor @ Shakespeare Bulletin | spreading the good word about Hester Pulter elizabethkolkovich.com
@jwindholz.bsky.social
Prof at Shippensburg U, Shax and Renaissance Lit. Author of The Single Life, soonish from University of Alabama Press, and the poetry collections Other Psalms (Vassar Miller Prize), and The Sisters, out now from Black Ocean. www.jordanwindholz.com
@jimknowles.bsky.social
Medievalist, dad, Man United fan, real ale preferred. NC State English. Piers Plowman Electronic Archive. Co-author with English Knowles (my sis) of Beer Hiking Virginia, North Carolina, & DC (Helvetiq 2025).
@awickenden.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF at Cambridge: named early modern library collections & the politics of provenance volunteer for Abortion Support Network forthcoming: Hans Sloane’s Library Collections and the Production of Knowledge (CUP 2025)
@georginaemw.bsky.social
Early Modern Lit and Material Texts between York and London. Book forthcoming Sep 2025 https://www.pennpress.org/9781512827446/paper-and-the-making-of-early-modern-literature/ https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/georgina-wilson
@alanstewart50.bsky.social
Early modern literature professor, sometime editor, sometime biographer
@sarahwalrus.bsky.social
Early modern English lit prof @Wellesley C; book history, editing, gender & performance. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally.
@melrohrer.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English at Kansas Wesleyan; early modern literature; Shakespeare and drama; scandal and news culture; gender. Unapologetic cat lady.
@thorntonsbooks.bsky.social
We were an AHRC-funded project (Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025), based at the University of Edinburgh. Our main output was a digital edition of the books of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
@adambcqx.bsky.social
Editor, Early Modernist - formerly MA and half a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, now with Reading Early Plays
@kleonardphd.bsky.social
Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas abt the Jane Collective, ending rape culture, & climate change. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
@pascaleexeter.bsky.social
Dragonboater, paddleboarder, Dartmoor walker, Aare-swimmer. Also editing Titus Andronicus and interested in all things Shakespeare, performance, theatre broadcasting, post-COVID-19 creative industries. Never able to see enough shows or read enough books.
@glonsber.bsky.social
Shakespeare professor and theater historian into court masques. Experimental music obsessive. Atlanta.
@jennyrichards.bsky.social
Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
@philistella.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ies-sas.bsky.social, Bougie London Literary Woman, cat concierge. Book on 18th-century women's letters forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. natashasimonova.com
@jamieparis.bsky.social
Instructor II at the University of Manitoba. I work on premodern race studies and early modern drama, critical pedagogy studies, and Black and Indigenous literature written in Canada
@emilylsteve.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern Literature @newcastleuni.bsky.social | working on travel writing, merchant women, social networks, the global stage 🌍 | Always on a train somewhere 🚆 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/emilylsteve
@jackiewatson05.bsky.social
Early modern literature: letters, Inns of Court, drama. Somervillian. European. ‘Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters’ out with EUP June 2024. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-epistolary-courtiership-and-dramatic-letters.html
@cmburlinson.bsky.social
A green thought in a green shade. Early modern English literature. I teach at Jesus College, Cambridge, but these words are mine, not theirs.
@alhegland.bsky.social
PhD on violence, language, embodiment, and EM drama. Writing and Tutoring Center director, adjunct, social media manager, and Snug’s mom. Being unserious about books, Middleton, and the Cubs. Co-founder of MEMSlib. she/her. Opinions my own.
@hdhudson.bsky.social
C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. M.C. Lang Fellow at RBS. Book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
@weingust.bsky.social
Shakespeare and theatre scholar; proud papa of USC entrepreneur and Hostelpass.co CEO; old actor/musician; former Ensemble member at Glide SF; ally; happy Californian.
@sierramatute.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses.
@vanessabraganza.bsky.social
'The real Robert Langdon' | writer and future civil rights lawyer | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne 2026 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
@deyasini.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Toronto | Writing on the intersections of early modern disability, race, gender in Shakespeare, Spenser, and Middleton | Views my own | Mostly here for the pet pictures
@notrockyhorror.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
@pdurdel.bsky.social
tudor drama etc. at the university of lausanne. diss on "dramaturgies of judgment", other things on intention, plot, mistakes, pig bladders. https://patrickdurdel.org
@medrenliza.bsky.social
U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.
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