Liz Smith's Starter Pack
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@lizsmith.bsky.social
@sarahebull.bsky.social
English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. Interested in history of medicine, sexuality, and print culture, text reuse, IP, letterpress, DH/computational approaches Book: Selling Sexual Knowledge coming soon: https://tinyurl.com/5army9dc
@waterman.bsky.social
Lit, hist, art, music. Toggling btwn the 1790s and the 1970s, I write abt seduction, friendship, arts scenes/circles, NYC. 33 1/3 on Marquee Moon. Professing English at NYU since 2001. If I’m not here I’m on the WFMU comments board.
@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
Historian of science, race, and empire. Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction an FT recommended book to read in 2025. Published by Penguin on 5 June, World Environment Day.🦤🐅🦈 🌏🌱 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
@liamsims.bsky.social
Rare Books Specialist at Cambridge University Library | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Bibliographical Society Council Member | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (see pinned post for link to thesis) 🌈
@historyelaine.bsky.social
Historian interested in the everyday, mom, novice potter and recipe/food enthusiast.
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social
Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
@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
@akennedysmith.bsky.social
Author & researcher, with essays & book reviews in TLS, Guardian, History Today, ODNB etc. Writing about Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society 1890-1914 here: https://akennedysmith.substack.com/
@suzpaul.bsky.social
Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
@zoethomas.bsky.social
Historian researching work, gender, & the arts in the Anglo-American world, c 19th & 20th centuries Deputy Editor @ WomensHistoryReview
@lauragreenfield.bsky.social
Director, Services and Engagement, at Cambridge University Library @theUL.bsky.social; Clore Fellow; FRSA. I like books, libraries, culture and cake.
@emmamerkling.bsky.social
Lecturer in British Art at the University of Manchester | Research Deputy @cncsi.bsky.social | Co-Host of @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social | Writing & teaching c19 British art and science | Victorian ecologies, bodies, occultisms, subjectivity | she/they
@carscott.bsky.social
Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
@green-romantic.bsky.social
Indigenous academic studying Gothic Romantic literature. Also interested in expanding into Indigenous literature. Genderfluid, pansexual, greyro (they/them)
@sylvianurse.bsky.social
Interested in eBooks, film, humanities, linked data, machine learning, metadata, instruction, open access, oer and open innovation.
@robralley.bsky.social
Historian of science and medicine. Editor for The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier (1596-1634), now writing about Napier, slowly. And taking photos. Views my own.
@victorianreview.bsky.social
Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on C19 literature & culture Send submissions to submissionsvr@gmail.com Website https://victorianreview.org/ Issues https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journal/508
@c19qmul.bsky.social
Centre for the Study of the Nineteenth Century and its Legacies - QMUL Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/research/19th-century-centre/
@smeadleonard.bsky.social
Art historian, PhD. Victorian #MaterialCulture and #HistoricLandscapes, that kind of thing.
@dustinfriedman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Literature at American University. Aesthete and queer humanist. Author of *Before Queer Theory* and co-editor of *Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s*. He/him/his 🏳️🌈🐻👨❤️👨
@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.
@wilderarthist.bsky.social
Sullivan Collection Curator, Vanderbilt University Museum of Art | Art Historian studying intersections between print media and textiles, especially in the early-mid nineteenth century https://wilderarthist.wordpress.com
@dhchris.bsky.social
Digital archive enthusiast. Head of Academic Partnerships at Gale. Runs Gale Fellowship program, and always on the lookout for opportunities to support research. All views my own. He/him
@drlizsavage.bsky.social
PhD in Dickensian robots & the uncanny | Dog mom | Ghostly & Stagey Special Collections Assistant @theul.bsky.social | Fledgling archivist | Avid crafter | Horror lover | Sondheim worshipper | 🏳️🌈 She/They | Views mine linktr.ee/drlizsavage
@jordanwelshy.bsky.social
Probably found exploring an old building | Researcher in C19th | Aspiring writer | Book lover, tea drinker & tentative beard grower | He/ Him (views my own)
@noramcgregorbl.bsky.social
Digital Curator, Digital Research Team at the British Library specifically and information enthusiast generally.
@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👻
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
The Pre-Raphaelite Society is the international society for the study and appreciation of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and its followers. #PreRaphaeliteSociety https://www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org
@laurenjnixon.bsky.social
Doctor of Gothic Studies, specialising in masculinity, war and nation. One half of The Ghoul Guides, spooky pop culture podcasting. Semi-retired magical girl. She/Her.
@ehaugtvedt.bsky.social
19C British literature; seriality; transmedia; popular culture; fictionality. Assoc. Prof of English @SDSMT. Author of Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century, Palgrave 2022. Views my own.
@conandoyle.bsky.social
he/him, neurodivergent Teaches medieval English, researches Latin medical texts. Assistant Prof (Odborný asistent) FHS UK Prague. Not a "Prof." yet, I haven't even got my 1st Habilitation! Yes I love every critter that crosses my path.
@wendmyway.bsky.social
Former professor of Victorian literature but I'm much happier now as a novelist and memoirist based in Dunedin, NZ. Tangata tiriti. Devoted to Dickens, Woolf, and Radiohead. Don't make me choose.
@deborahlam.bsky.social
Non-English Lecturer in English @UoBrisEnglish | art historian in literary critic’s clothing | Art and literature in the overlong 19c
@thekoreanvictorian.bsky.social
Visiting Lecturer @TCU/ PhD in English @TAMU/Victorianist/George Eliot Enthusiast www.jungahkimphd.com
@susiebeckham.bsky.social
Temporality in Pre-Raphaelite art and visual culture + studying the evolution of the term “Pre-Raphaelite” from 1848 to today + Pre-Raphaelite fandom and semiotics. Postdoc Research Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, University of York.
@char1859.bsky.social
philosopher, historian, stops to pet all dogs, bakes a lot of pie.
@rinnywee.bsky.social
| History #PhD Researcher (experiences of patients in the Sussex County Asylum 1890-1913) | #Librarian | Pagan Chaplain | Sussex Uni | Priestess | Ceridwen | Danu | Macha | Banbha | Lilith | Inanna | #MultipleSclerosis | 🇦🇺🇫🇷 in 🇬🇧 |
@zzaman.bsky.social
Researcher, Lecturer @ UoM. Editor of Pre-Raphaelite Society Review. Loves all things to do with the Pre-Raphaelites, 19thC, Dante, and Islamicate history. Views own. She/her.
@catiarodrigues.bsky.social
PhD Women and Pre-Raphaelite Identity 1848-1865 | Editor @ Women’s History Today | Working in research support @ox.ac.uk | Interested in research impact, museum collections, 19thC art & literature
@morris-on-screen.bsky.social
Documenting all the places Morris & Co. / #WilliamMorris patterns show up in set decoration. A little project by @smeadleonard.bsky.social. Submissions extremely welcome - tag me, DM me, or email MorrisOnScreen@gmail.com
@serena-t.bsky.social
Reader in Victorian Literature, Birmingham City University. Chair, Pre-Raphaelite Society, Senior VP, Birmingham and Midland Institute. Books, art, nature, stone circles, ballet, fresh air. https://serenatrowbridge.substack.com/
@alexxr97.bsky.social
@hjm.bsky.social
Writer. One half of a dynamic duo. H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights. PROPHET with Sin Blache. Rep by the Clegg Agency. Non-binary. They/she
@lizsmith.bsky.social
Digital curator for 19th century science collections, Cambridge University Library. Love food, drink, immersive theatre, culture in general. Attached to many fandoms.