Shakespeare Studies
Scholars and practitioners working in/with/against Shakespeare studies, broadly conceived
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@harrymccarthy.bsky.social
@publicradionerd.bsky.social
Author of "British Black and Asian Shakespeareans: Integrating Shakespeare, 1966-2018" LAMDA trained; former PBS and "Masterpiece Theatre" PhD in Shakespeare. Nuts about public radio. Proud West Virginian. Lots of theatre and LiverpoolFC
@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.
@lauraestill.bsky.social
Shakespeare + Early Modern English Lit. Manuscripts. Book History. Bibliography. DH. Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities & English Professor at StFX University
@bradleyryner.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, interested in Shakespeare, early modern drama, rhetoric of economics, performance and, most broadly, how theater and literature help us to conceptualize social and economic systems.
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Lit, U of Manchester| Assoc. Editor Literature & Theology 📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (Reaktion Books, 2025) https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/naomi.baker
@upstart-english.bsky.social
Award-Winning English Tuition, Courses, & Resources @ KS5/4 by DBS-checked, 2013-qualified teacher. WJEC/OCR/AQA. FREE 15-min video chat: https://tidycal.com/upstarttuition/consultation #Shakespeare #poetry #dystopia #gothic #victorianlit
@iangouldhere.bsky.social
Actor, director, teacher, New Yorker, dog person, Shakespeare obsessive
@emilycarding.bsky.social
Actor, author, artist, mystic. Mostly made of Shakespeare, magic, immersive theatre and Tarot. Nerd. #keyofdreams #transparenttarot #richardiii #returntosilenthill www.emilycarding.com
@johngarganourakis.bsky.social
Faculty, English (Mercy University, Queens College, St. John’s) / PhD Student (St. John’s University). Shakespeare. Ecocriticism. Film Theory.
@benbroadribb.bsky.social
Performance Reviews Editor for Shakespeare Bulletin | Shakespeare on screen(s) | Shakespop | metamodernism | performance | adaptation | cinema | theatre | he/him/his
@charlesomalley.bsky.social
writer, dramaturg, arts worker, queer historian, scorpio, dad, union member books: toward a just pedagogy of performance (2023); shakespeare's margaret (2026) current project: theatre for a new age: queer performance in 1970s san francisco
@hollypickett.bsky.social
❤️: Shakespeare, early modern drama, religion, letterpress, linocut Department Head & Prof of English at W&L
@tylerjmoss.bsky.social
Shakespeare and clown performer/teacher. Father and husband. Artistic Director of @TheShakesForum. Loves soccer and sports.
@john-y-wilson.bsky.social
Early modernist (https://discoursesofsuffering.org/), educationist (https://educationalhub.org/) and vlogger (https://youtube.com/anosensei). Author of https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=rWPBkTrcSQEC.
@robcarson.bsky.social
Early modern literature, mostly Shakespeare; philosophy and theory; book history and digital humanities; contemporary performance and politics. Current projects: thinking in threes; the sociable syllable; Marlowe's material remains. (he/him)
@lizamezzo.bsky.social
Mezzo-about-town. Singer, actor, Shakespearean text coach, will translate your opera libretti and song texts. She/they.
@kernmcfadden.bsky.social
I didn’t have any of this on my bingo card- I didn’t even know we were playing bingo. Leo. Human. Actor. Director. Teacher. DJ. Hater of Labels. Lover of Contradictions. Shakespeare Nerd. Star Wars kid. Pansexual. Hell’s Kitchen, NYC Kernmcfadden.com
@plain-kate.bsky.social
Stage director, prison theatremaker, college professor, Shakespeare nerd, trauma-informed / consent-based maker of good trouble, striving to be anti-racist, hates Nazis and patriarchal nonsense. Redhead. #SlawaUkrainii #GoBills 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱
@carladellagatta.bsky.social
Dramaturg | Arts Advocate | Writer | Theatre Historian 💃🏻 Associate Professor | Author: Latinx Shakespeares Co-Editor: Shakespeare & Latinidad https://www.latinxshakespeares.org/ https://www.carladellagatta.com/
@britlitgirl.bsky.social
Shax prof. & hot mess express. Prefer to spend my time with dogs, good books, blue ridge mtns, & kind people. She/Her
@jspen.bsky.social
Professor of English SIUE Research interests in Early Modern Drama, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, and history of print. Also, just because, film, especially the films of the Coen Brothers, and the novels of Thomas Pynchon.
@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 🏳️🌈 💜🖤🤍
@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
@loweee.bsky.social
Principal lecturer; early modern drama, material culture; music, theatre, cats, the outdoors; twin mum. Views my own. She/her. #BLM #lgbtq+ 🌈 #MHmatters
@adambcqx.bsky.social
Editor, Early Modernist - formerly MA and half a PhD at the Shakespeare Institute, now with Reading Early Plays
@glonsber.bsky.social
Shakespeare professor and theater historian into court masques. Experimental music obsessive. Atlanta.
@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
@gemmaallred.bsky.social
Shakespeare / Early Modern / Digital Theatre / Musicals / Innovation / Marketing
@earlymodconv.bsky.social
Ridiculously attracted to red herrings. I teach and write about literary things pre-1650, DH & Pedagogy. Lead instigator at The Kit Marlowe Project.
@earlymodernmel.bsky.social
ECR researching early modern drama, disability, and 'dangerous' women. She/Her.
@mediashakes.bsky.social
Stephen O'Neill, university teacher & Shakespearean | “Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak” | 🇮🇪🇪🇺🏳️🌈
@hlwilson.bsky.social
researching early modern boy actors, enskillment, theatre history. 🏳️🌈 she/her.
@allmirthnomatter.bsky.social
Shakespeare Paratexts in contemporary digital performance and 18th cen. print Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick she/her
@scotttrudell.bsky.social
my jams are poetry, drama, music, media studies, trans studies, and performance studies
@ellamchawk.bsky.social
Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
@hixonbecky.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English at Lourdes University (views my own) Shakespeare, adaptation, and gender and sexuality studies 🥸🤗🐙
@drmisslynsey.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at the Royal Shakespeare Company | Education Committee @bsashakespeare.bsky.social | movement practice | inclusive pedagogies | statues that come to life…
@michaelwitmore.bsky.social
Digital preservationist, Shakespeare scholar, humanities advocate, consultant for cultural institutions, Director Emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
@susananderson.bsky.social
Early modern disability, civic pageantry and music. Also cats.
@stevetpurcell.bsky.social
Academic, director, writer. Co-Artistic Director of The Pantaloons and Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. All views my own.
@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.
@loughnrv.bsky.social
Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent; Gen. Ed., The Oxford Marlowe, The Revels Plays, http://CADREdb.net 🇮🇪🇺🇸
@anitaraychawdhuri.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at UH-Downtown. Early modernist. ✨🪩🏳️🌈
@huwgriffiths.bsky.social
Literature; piano; 🏳️🌈; Blue Mountains; Associate Professor of English Literature at University of Sydney
@shaxbull.bsky.social
Peer-reviewed quarterly journal, publishing articles at the cutting edge of early modern performance studies. Posts by Dr. Peter Kirwan and Katy Shinas.
@ruben-espinosa.bsky.social
Chicano | Professor of English at ASU | Director, ACMRS | President, Shakespeare Association of America | All 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)
@dianahenderson.bsky.social
Still the theater & words Prof. at MIT who now will be trying to reconnect w/ friends who left the other places….
@alanstewart50.bsky.social
Early modern literature professor, sometime editor, sometime biographer
@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
@nashaxpodcast.bsky.social
The podcast that takes neither itself nor Shakespeare seriously. Hosted by Nora (theatre nerd & Shax expert) and James (husband & theatre skeptic). 💫new episodes monthly💫
@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)
@pjsalzman.bsky.social
Early modern nerd, women writers, book history, editing , also trivial personal posts on gardens, food etc
@matthewsteggle.bsky.social
Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit. Shakespeare and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
@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
@ellierycroft.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Theatre at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
@susanrojas.bsky.social
Independent scholar exploring affective ecologies and transitional thresholds in early modern drama (she/her) MA English / FGCU • Co-editor / Kritikon Litterarum • Certificate in Editing / University of Chicago
@kvmfinn.bsky.social
Medievalist. Early Modernist. Fan Scholar. Shakespearean. Interests: queenship, popular history, medievalism, fandoms, then&now
@klippership.bsky.social
Sarah Lawrence College guest faculty; freshly minted PhD from Columbia. Works on neighbourship in early modern English drama. Lover of theatre, archery, paleography.
@eoinprice.bsky.social
Shakespeare troll, now in Scotland https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/eoin-price
@profnmehdiz.bsky.social
UCLA Faculty; Global Renaissance & #ShakeRace. she/her/hers. I own my own Academic and Career Success coaching company: www.daenacoaching.com INTJ. Views are my own.
@willtosh.bsky.social
⭕️Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe 📖Author of STRAIGHT ACTING, and rep’d by Eleanor Birne at RCW 👨🏼❤️👨🏻 Hitched to @pierstorday.bsky.social 🔗 https://linktr.ee/willtosh3 🔗 https://lnk.to/StraightActing-HB
@hamlethologram.bsky.social
Transgender Shakespearean; Baseball Enjoyer; West Virginia's Greatest Disappointment. It can't all be dirtbikes and Mountain Dew.
@jesshamlet.bsky.social
Early modernist; lit professor. Lover of stage directions, textual instability, revenge tragedies, rain, Star Wars, gravy, Oregon, banana slugs, seagulls, and beards! I support trans rights. Thoughts mine own.
@eyweltschmerz.bsky.social
Spread the Weltschmerz! Buffalo / The Shapes of Fancy (https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-shapes-of-fancy)
@laurajaynewright.bsky.social
Writing about early modern sound, women’s voices, screams, prophecies, and hallucinations at Newcastle University. she/her.
@lostplayhouse.bsky.social
Professor of English and Cultural Studies @ University of Southern Queensland. Shakespeare scholar. Finder of lost playhouses. FSA FRHistS. He/him.
@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.
@drpetekirwan.bsky.social
Performance, theatre reviewing, early modern drama, film watching, editing, cat wrangling, immigrating. General Editor at Shakespeare Bulletin; professing at Mary Baldwin Uni. He/him
@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.
@curtisperry.bsky.social
Meh. Old professor of old books at UIUC. Woke discontent provider. Anti-Zionist secular Jew. Amateur of music and fervent acoustic guitar enjoyer. <Honk> …and one duck egg he/him/his
@heather1576.bsky.social
Archaeologist with a penchant for 16th and 17th century playhouses of all shapes and sizes, FSA. 🎭🏺
@kathrynvsantos.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English at Trinity University. Co-founder of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva. Author of Shakespeare in Tongues (forthcoming June 2025). kathrynvomerosantos.com borderlandsshakespeare.org
@mgyarn.bsky.social
Chronicler of bookwomen (misc.) Currently 17thC women printers. Previously SHAKESPEARE'S 'LADY EDITORS' (CUP). Freelance indexer/editor/researcher. A remarkably Independent Scholar.
@roaringgirle.bsky.social
¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & handwriting in old books (vide milton reads shakespeare &c) ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com
@zacharylesser.bsky.social
Book history, Shakespeare, early modern studies @ Penn English. Views just my own. Image in header is from: https://shorturl.at/FtfZQ / Gen'l Ed., Arden Shakespeare / https://pennmaterialtexts.org/ / http://shakespearecensus.org / http://deepplaybooks.org
@dnmcinnis.bsky.social
Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne). | Co-Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr). | Lost plays. | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
@saaupdates.bsky.social
The Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) is a professional organization for the advanced study of Shakespeare's works, times, and afterlife. Visit linktr.ee/saaupdates for more information on events and member updates.
@adamzucker.bsky.social
As Stated - The Professor one at UMass Amherst. Shakespeare, Jonson, et al. Journal co-editor, English Literary Renaissance. Author: "Shakespeare Unlearned" (OUP 2024). Music: Outro; The Young Old; The Father Figures; Bring It To Bear.
@norajw.bsky.social
Associate Dean for Access & Participation @ BIMM Uni | Canonical Misogyny out now from Edinburgh UP! | less funny half of @nashaxpodcast.bsky.social | she/her | 🇱🇧
@callanjd.bsky.social
early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
@literasyme.bsky.social
Historian of European theatre, working on early modern England and 20th & 21st-century Germany. Lover of archives. Professor at U of Toronto. Occasional theatre maker. Haphazard gardener. Full time dog person. More: https://syme.dispositio.net
@miramiraculous.bsky.social
Book: Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens,& Constructions of Race in Early Modern England, under contract @ACMRSPress | 23-24 Long-term Fellow, @FolgerLibrary | Arab | dilettante
@drdadabhoy.bsky.social
Anglophile, Ottomaniac, Fangirl, Early mod prof. One of these is not like the others.
@starcrossed2018.bsky.social
Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare; editing (2GV for Arden), introducing (R&J for Cambridge), writing (Textile Shakespeare, forthcoming from Oxford UP Nov 2025!) Teaching in Cambridge (Catz). Kiwi.
@yasminehachimi.bsky.social
PhD in Early Modern Literature & Culture | Popular Representations of Premodern Queens | Period Dramas | Pop Culture | Romance Reader | Fangirl Probably talking about the Tudors. 👑 https://linktr.ee/yasminehachimi
@rentravailer.bsky.social
English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
@emer.bsky.social
professional Shakespeare opinion haver, token hot autistic person, quare fellow. she/her. IRISH SHAKESPEARES: GENDER, SEXUALITY, & PERFORMANCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY coming v soon. loves shoegaze, Frasier, & the Criterion Channel. i’m also very nice
@bkadams.bsky.social
I am an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Arizona State University who works on book history, premodern critical race studies and early modern English drama. I spend a lot of time with Barnabe, an adorable dog. These posts are my opinion.
@stevementz.bsky.social
#bluehumanities, Shakespeare, swimming, eco-poetry. English prof at St. John's (NYC).
@nicosiamarissa.bsky.social
Renaissance literature, temporality, politics, material texts, historical recipes; Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play https://tinyurl.com/historical-futures
@profkfh.bsky.social
Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
@arifriedlander.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, UMiss. Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics (OUP '22). New work on Milton, gender, disability, race. he/him. ari-friedlander.com