Romanticism & 18th/19th c studies
literature, art, culture, and whatever else
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@emilyrohrbach.bsky.social
@sera-romantic.bsky.social
S.E.R.A. was founded to promote transdisciplinary approaches to the Romantic period in French academia. Current president: @sophiemusitelli.bsky.social Paris Steering Group of the London-Paris Romantic Seminar.
@zachsamalin.bsky.social
antediluvian new yorker; english prof at nyu; wrote a history of disgust, The Masses Are Revolting; writing and teaching about anticolonial theories of civilization; censorship; the “Controversial Discussions”
@annefertig.bsky.social
History, literature, but mostly just a lot of Jane Austen. Catch me in my upcoming podcast, Finding Jane Austen (Out 2025)
@swinc-edi.bsky.social
Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century. A research group at the University of Edinburgh, co-directed by Professor Penny Fielding and Dr Robert Irvine. https://www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk.
@srwride.bsky.social
Historian @york.ac.uk | What ‘culture’ is & does 18thc+ | Now: hows whys & effects of re-imagining historical homicides | Associate Editor @englishassociation.bsky.social journal #YWES | Treasurer @historylabplus.bsky.social | sarahwride.co.uk
@johnclare.bsky.social
Entries from the journal that C19th English poet John Clare kept from Sep 1824 - Sep 1825, posted on the day of the year they were written. Built by @adriantoll.bsky.social See johnclaretweets.org for more info. Also see @gilbertwhite.bsky.social
@profjohngardner.bsky.social
Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Doctoral School at ARU. Working on www.engineeringromanticism.com a Leverhulme Trust Research Project.
@spstrande.bsky.social
18C & 19C Scots ballads. Macpherson, Burns, Scott, & Child. R. Browning. Text theory, Book History. Semiotics. Lib.Soc. Feminist. There’s a photo of me somewhere in my posts. Also on Mastodon:@spstrande.mastodon.online
@mlmcgill.bsky.social
C19 American Lit and Culture; poetry & poetics; trying to understand these dark times. Also, idly scrolling, interested in what you are reading….
@jarona7.bsky.social
Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment - Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries - Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions - PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea - Editorial Board @ Multiplay
@kylemcauley.bsky.social
Oceans guy. ACLS fellow. Fan of the SF Giants and the G train. Opinions mine. https://www.acls.org/fellow-grantees/kyle-mcauley/
@rebeccashapiro.bsky.social
Mieskeit; Historical Lexicography & the Emoluments Clause (CUP '25); lexicographer; linguist; Edgeworth; #18thc; #CUNY; #NJ; down the shore; serial commas
@willsherwood.bsky.social
Tolkien & Romanticism PhD at @uofglasgow.bsky.social | @tolkiensociety.org Education Sec. | Social Media Officer at @uofgfantasy.bsky.social | CrossFit | Website: https://will-sherwood.com/
@fraistat.bsky.social
Prof. Emeritus of English UMD & Past President, Keats-Shelley Assoc.; Co-Gen Ed. Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Romanticism, Textual Scholarship, DH, Media. "Rise like lions after slumber."
@framarchionni.bsky.social
PhD Durham | Incoming Lecturer @ Tübingen | Byron & Shelley | European Romanticism | Intellectual History | Nietzsche | Leopardi | Sometimes 🩰
@dalegothic96.bsky.social
Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.
@aktange.bsky.social
Victorianist & lit professor, gardener, lover of quirky details. Writing sporadically at https://andreakastontange.com
@jsfarr.bsky.social
Assoc prof of ENGL, Marquette U • writing about deafness, disability, queerness in the looong c18 • cat dad • running punk • KEXP listener • novel reader • 🏳️🌈🦻• 🏀🏈 U of U, MU, Bucks, Packers • he/him
@maryfairclough.bsky.social
Professor, Department of English and Related Literature and Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. Books, running, messiness, cats
@cleoocy.bsky.social
AHRC PhD at Stirling/Glasgow/Edinburgh. I work on Scottish Romanticism broadly & Scottish novels in relation to ‘improvement’ specifically, 1800-37. Keen on intertextuality, canonicity, moral philosophy & reading history. BARS ECR Officer. AFHEA. She/her.
@isbrand3.bsky.social
Metropolitan snowflake bringing critical theory to rural Herefordshire. Twitter quitter.
@louisecreechan.bsky.social
Wellcome Early Career Fellow, Durham University. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Ginger. Dyslexic. ADHD. She/her 🏳️🌈 Neurodiversity. Victorians. Musicals. Interrupting people.
@historyhannahb.bsky.social
Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
@green-romantic.bsky.social
Indigenous academic studying Gothic Romantic literature. Also interested in expanding into Indigenous literature. Genderfluid, pansexual, greyro (they/them)
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon, LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com
@emilybstanback.bsky.social
Romanticism / long 18th c (mostly) British literature, disability studies, history of medicine, health humanities, disability & race Associate Prof English + director of minors in Disability Studies / Health & Medical Humanities, U of Southern Mississippi
@judithmpascoe.bsky.social
Writer and reviser. Here's my piece on NEH grant terminations: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article303991626.html
@paulkelleher.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English @ Emory | Author: *Making Love* | Work: 18th- and 19th-Century British Lit, the Novel, Philosophy and Aesthetics, Sexuality, and Disability | Play: National Parks, Yoga, Criterion Channel, and roughly one billion TV shows
@paulstephens.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early-Career Fellow in English @ University of York (Romanticism and the Cost of Living 1780-1830). He/Him • Former AHRC Postdoc Research Fellow, Lecturer, and DPhil @ University of Oxford. https://www.york.ac.uk/english/people/paulstephens/
@michamahlberg.bsky.social
Corpus Linguist, Discourse Analyst, Victorianist, Climate Science & Climate Discourse, Host of the Life & Language podcast https://michaelamahlberg.com/
@arifcmgl.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. @nyushanghai Global 18th and 19th Centuries, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Anglo-Ottoman Encounters, Empire Studies.
@dburgersdijk.bsky.social
Classical Scholar | Late Antiquity | Reception Studies | Valerius Maximus | Hugo Grotius | Classical Education | Romanticism | Suriname @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
@planetclaire.bsky.social
Romanticist @ La Trobe, mother of cats, book on Della Cruscanism, women and the fashionable newspaper out now!
@footnotesman.bsky.social
Prof. at Meiji University, Tokyo. Research: Romanticism; paratexts; Asian adaptations/translations; intermediality; public humanities. Organizer of Tokyo Humanities Café. Like hiking, travelling, museums, music, and movies. https://www.alexwatson.info
@oxford18thc.bsky.social
Eighteenth-Century Literature & Culture Research Seminar, run by the Faculty of English, University of Oxford. All welcome!
@luisacale.bsky.social
Reader in Romantic & 19C literature & visual culture @BirkbeckUoL. Unbound Forms; Cultures of reading, collecting, altered books; exhibitions editor @BlakeQuarterly, associate editor at Word&Image.
@victorianpoetry.bsky.social
Victorian Poetry is a peer-reviewed quarterly dedicated to Victorian poets and poetries (broadly & experimentally construed). Edited by Devin Garofalo, UC San Diego (victorianpoetryjournal@gmail.com). Learn more: https://victorian-poetry.scholasticahq.com
@drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Views my own, not employer’s.
@jenwunder.bsky.social
British Romanticist & expert in cultural/political influences of 17th-20th c. secret societies (no tin foil hats, please). Still trying to make academia better for academics and students and still working on all the rest.
@deborahlam.bsky.social
Non-English Lecturer in English @UoBrisEnglish | art historian in literary critic’s clothing | Art and literature in the overlong 19c
@ecfjournal.bsky.social
ECF is an international, peer-reviewed quarterly devoted to the critical and historical investigation of literature and culture of 1660-1832. Editor Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster University. Posts by ECF editors; contact: ecf@mcmaster.ca.
@cecs-york.bsky.social
• Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for over 25 years • Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850 • Home to the interdisciplinary in MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York
@penfielding.bsky.social
Edinburgh Literature Prof. Scottish writing, spy novels, cocktails, music.
@catrionamac.bsky.social
Lover of paper and porcelain, Romanticist. Editor, Word&Image. Hebridean, not there often enough.
@roseannakettle.bsky.social
ECR, phd from @cecs-york.bsky.social, interested in Romantic urbanism, regionality, ecocrit & book history, lover of old books and new wave 🐝 🇵🇸 🌈
@henrytien0719.bsky.social
Poet☕️PhD in Transatlantic Romanticism at the University of Edinburgh ☀️ Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Intertextuality
@rabarr.bsky.social
Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English, Uni of Cambridge. Irish woman baffled by the fens and the English middle classes. Emotional support provided by a terrier. It seems a lot nicer here than that other place.
@charlottesussman.bsky.social
Chair, Duke English. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Migration Studies, Blue Humanities. Author of PEOPLING THE WORLD: REPRESENTING HUMAN MOBILITY FROM MILTON TO MALTHUS. Remembering the Middle Passage Project. Knitting, running, hopeful cook.
@michaeljsullivan.bsky.social
Literary critic at University of Oxford, St Catherine's College | Poetics | Transnational drift of verse forms | Digital Humanities & Digital Editing | General Editor, OUP Complete Works of Tennyson. Views are my own. www.michaeljsullivan.net
@erikthesimpson.bsky.social
English professor, Grinnell College. Romanticism, history and future of the book, digital humanities, paper engineering, jazz saxophony. I do not speak for anyone but myself. If that.
@victorianmasc.bsky.social
James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
@kristinadecker.bsky.social
Historian & Writer • PhD on Mary Delany and the culture of Improvement at University College Cork • 18thC cultural history, country house & material culture studies, animal histories • Secretary Women’s History Association of Ireland • West Cork
@matthewrowlinson.bsky.social
he/him. Lives on traditional land Attawandaran, Algonquin and Haudenosaunee land. Works on nineteenth century poetry; votes NDP. Can't tell a story. *Biopolitics and Animal Species* (2024) available from Cambridge https://www.cambridge.org/9781009409957
@clareclarke.bsky.social
Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian literature, and 19th century newspapers. New book coming soon(ish) Rep: Aevitas Creative UK
@rhyskamjones.bsky.social
Celtic Revivalism, Romantic Celticism, Celtic Imperialism. Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (Summer 2025) He/They/Fo/Nhw
@dennismhogan.bsky.social
Central American and Imperial Lit | Higher Ed Section Editor @publicbooks.bsky.social | University lecturer & onetime union staffer | Go easy, step lightly, stay free. |
@shahirahathout.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary Research: Posthumanism / New Materialism / Cultural Studies / Aesthetics / 18th & 19th C. (World) Literature/ Anthropocene discourses.
@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.
@profelainechalus.bsky.social
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
@kovesi.bsky.social
Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures. Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
@ktay.bsky.social
Romanticism and the long 18th century, women writers, queer theory, Charlotte Smith, Race in 19th century literature
@dralexiswolf.bsky.social
Editor. Researcher. Writer. Eighteenth-century & Nineteenth-century, Romanticism, Women's Literary History & Creative Nonfiction (memoir & biography). She/her. Pacific NW person living in Sussex. www.alexiswolf.co.uk
@sharonchoe.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoc Fellow @ UCPH, Denmark • Research Associate @ CECS, York • Body Politics, Death Studies, Norse Reception • 🇰🇷🇬🇧 • IG: @/sharonchoewrites • Rep: Laura Crockett, TriadaUS • Always writing something sharonchoebooks.com
@brechtdegroote.bsky.social
Assistant Professor TT of English at Ghent University. Romanticism and 19Ce//theory//lit, media, trsl. Author of De Quincey: Romanticism in Translation (Edinburgh). I am totally horrified, and so on.
@johnhavard.bsky.social
"Disaffected Parties (OUP, 2019) | "Late Romanticism and the End of Politics" (CUP, 2023) | "The Last Man" by Mary Shelley, foreword Rebecca Solnit | Next: Austen, Byron, Ali Smith, Brexit Aesthetics, Policing | Brit in NYC | @johnowen82 www.johnhavard.me
@mjrsangster.bsky.social
Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
@kathylubey.bsky.social
i study pornography, profess literature, cook food, sip cocktails. kathleenlubey.com
@bars.bsky.social
The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture. https://www.bars.ac.uk/main/
@nikkihessell.bsky.social
Prof in 18th Century & Romantic Literature at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, she/her, Pākehā/settler scholar, #toitūtetiriti, 🏀 Books on Romanticism + settler colonialism + Indigenous studies https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/nikki.hessell
@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’
@pamelakgilbert.bsky.social
Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.
@devoney.bsky.social
Professor and Author, ASU. Next book, Wild for Austen, Sept '25. Also sisternovelists.com & makingjaneausten.com. Bylines NYT, WaPo, TLS. Author news: devoney.substack.com
@ceyingst.bsky.social
researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently between Edinburgh & the US currently Bibliography Fellow @ The Linda Hall Library
@19birkbeck.bsky.social
Online open access journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century. https://19.bbk.ac.uk/
@rafaelwalker.bsky.social
I write on literature and issues in higher ed || Assistant Professor at Baruch College, CUNY || Editor of Nella Larsen’s *Passing* for Broadview Press https://tinyurl.com/2s3kt7w9 || Still fun! 🎡 🌈 baruch.academia.edu/RafaelWalker
@drsyntax.bsky.social
Scholar & Writer. Professing 18th & 19th c. literature, Romanticism, disability, book history, bookbinding, and comics. PhD @PennEnglish https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/richman_jared_s.html
@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).
@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover.
@drbeard79.bsky.social
Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
@devingarofalo.bsky.social
Writing and teaching about C19 literature, empire, race, and climate collapse. Editor of Victorian Poetry (JHUP). Lover of all things goth. She / her.
@zugenia.bsky.social
English and Cultural Studies prof; poet; editor of @ecfjournal.bsky.social. Thinking in semiotic squares and cosmological circles. she/they/we
@jacklynch000.bsky.social
Extinguished Perfesser of English at Ruckers–Nork; mooseophile; wine guzzler; author of many books, a few of them readable; harmless eccentric. C18 British lit, dictionaries & lexicography, book history, political smartassery. https://jacklynch.net
@rezekjoe.bsky.social
English Prof at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” under contract with the Omohundro Institute for Early Am History and Culture and UNC Press. https://www.bu.edu/english/profile/joseph-rezek/
@drreznicek.bsky.social
Health Humanities at University of Minnesota, Health, Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in 18th/19thC British and Irish literature. Must love dogs. https://experts.umn.edu/en/persons/matthew-reznicek
@travisclau.bsky.social
(he/him/his) Assistant Professor + Poet @ Kenyon: c18/c19 British Literature/History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)/Health Humanities/Disability Studies travisclau.com
@triciamatthew.bsky.social
Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
@drbibliomane.bsky.social
She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap. Website: https://deidrelynch.org
@profchander.bsky.social
@mckeever.bsky.social
Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
@davidhiggins.bsky.social
Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Leeds, UK. Working on culture and environmental crisis. Writing a book about birds, loss, and restoration. Worried parent. Opinions my own. Reposts ≠ endorsement.
@titachico.bsky.social
Prof of English (18thc) @ U of Maryland Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished University Professor @ U of Bristol *On Wonder* (2025) *The Experimental Imagination* (2018/20) https://titachico.wixsite.com/home
@sinsleyh.bsky.social
Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first. Stephanieinsleyhershinow.com
@emilyrohrbach.bsky.social
🍃Associate Professor of English, Durham University 📚Now writing Codex Poetics - & thinking about poetics and format, intermediality, politics of reading, racialization of the book, Romanticism 💕#adoptdontshop 🐕🦺💕