Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
People I've come across online and offline at Research Society for Victorian Periodicals conferences and events, and others I haven't met yet!
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@marielsj.bsky.social
@kekondrlik.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @WCUofPA. Health/tech writing teacher. 19th c medical rhetoric/writing scholar. Grown up Lisa Simpson, insufferable triathlete, horror buff, salsera.
@profjt.bsky.social
The Illustration Archive is the world’s largest searchable archive dedicated to historical book illustration: https://illustrationarchive.cf.ac.uk/. Account run by Prof Julia Thomas. Interested in the Victorians, word and image, digital humanities
@lucyklawrence.bsky.social
AHRC PhD student at Newcastle University | Late-Victorian print culture, the environmental humanities, periodical studies, aestheticism/decadence, Celtic studies, & the history of science | she/her :)
@mariafrawley.bsky.social
Teacher (19th c literature; the novel), environmentalist, animal caretaker, library lover, GBBO watcher. My book, Jane Austen in 50 Words, out in 2025!
@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
@jkdiedrick.bsky.social
Parent, partner, leftist, scholar, tennis player , 🐦 watcher, photographer. More at jamesdiedrick.agnesscott.org
@fbaillet.bsky.social
Prof. of British History and Culture at @universite-caen.bsky.social Director of @eribia.bsky.social. Victorianist. Newspapers & magazines. Labour and the illustrated press. Principal Investigator (PI) of @punchspocketbook.bsky.social. She/her
@finkelsteind.bsky.social
Business & Cultural Historian, personal capacity blurbs. Co-Editor, The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals, https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-british-colonial-periodicals.html
@drrcgreene.bsky.social
Things I like: #Victorian Studies, Adventure, #Scottish Studies, Material Culture, Writing Studies, Technical Writing, #Classic Film. Trivia. Cute Pets. Things I do: Assessment, Instructional Design, and Composition Instruction. gre926@gmail.com
@lucysussex.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, historian and editor. Also dispenser of weird facts and snarky comments
@drewhobbs.bsky.social
Historian of the provincial press,looking at how 19C local papers and 20C county magazines express our sense of place. Despairing socialist. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=20iBowIAAAAJ
@aktange.bsky.social
Victorianist & lit professor, gardener, lover of quirky details. Writing sporadically at https://andreakastontange.com
@marinadossena.bsky.social
wants Scotland back in Europe asap, preferably as an independent republic; in love with history and its impact on language change. Music and cats always very welcome. 🏴
@digivictorian.bsky.social
Historian • Broadcaster • Victorian Pop Culture • Presenter of 'Killing Victoria' on BBC Sounds 🎙️ • www.bobnicholson.co.uk
@professorjen.bsky.social
Victorian literature specialist, live music fan, lover of old homes and vintage housewares, seeker of productive social exchanges
@ttendthetale.bsky.social
James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family (Routledge, July 2024) https://www.routledge.com/James-Malcolm-Rymer-Penny-Fiction-and-the-Family/Nesvet/p/book/9781032431598?_ga=1674154651.1719792000
@pfyfe.bsky.social
Assoc Professor at NC State University. Wandering between worlds of C19th British lit, comparative media studies, critical data literacies. New book *Digital Victorians* https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians
@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).
@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
@janschrayder.bsky.social
professor and chair of English at Carleton U editor of Victorian Review jigsaw puzzle influencer, tea convert, cat butler
@drhorrocks.bsky.social
SL in Cultural History, published researcher on Victorian magazine culture, Punch & Dickens. Submissions Editor for Victorian Periodicals Review (@RSVP)
@simonrennie.bsky.social
Victorianist Prof @exeter.ac.uk. Cotton Famine Poetry. C19th working-class and provincial newspaper poetry. Director of @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social. Also delusional multi-instrumentalist, veg grower, U12 football coach.
@catherinefaver.bsky.social
Professor Emerita of Victorian Literature and Print Culture, Dickensian and long-distance walker.
@nmhouston.bsky.social
Reading poetry with computers | Assoc Prof, digital humanities & Victorian literature, U Mass Lowell | personal productivity coach for academics & adults with ADD | vegan, dog companion
@aprilpatrick.bsky.social
assoc prof & honors director. research in women's health, narrative med, periodicals, DH. mom to 2 mostly-domesticated cats + 1 feral child. book: Women's Health in Britain & America: Texts & Contexts (Palgrave) / next proj: women & wellness in periodicals
@adeleguyton.bsky.social
PhD on astronomical knowledge in German and British popular magazines, 1890-WWII. Singer, reader of SF, sewist. She/her. I'm the person on the left in my profile pic.
@vicmanch.bsky.social
Victorianist. President Elect of the British Association for Victorian Studies. Just published Darwinism's Generations. The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909. https://tinyurl.com/52xkw9rj Check me out at profmartinhewitt.com
@kmoruzi.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Children’s Literature. Currently working on children’s literary culture, far right children’s books, and consent in YA fantasy
@miladaskalova.bsky.social
Exploring intersections between literature and psychiatry in the 19th century as a British Academy and LKAS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow / Medical Humanities Research Centre. Into literature, the history of medicine, and book history.
@frankendodo.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research Fellow HPS Leeds | Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Formerly York SATSU & DPhil Oxford EnFac | Editor Lewis Carroll Review | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | Polymath | #scicomm #envhist #histmed
@sorgeway.bsky.social
Minty fresh PhD, teacher, researcher in DH & 19c women’s periodicals, general lover of in-between spaces 💙
@vjctorianist.bsky.social
By day: historian and editor for hire. By night, historian and enthusiast of Chartism, the 19thC, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own drvicclarke.co.uk
@c19thnewshound.bsky.social
PhD student at Edge Hill University & The British Library, researching the nineteenth-century press, focussing on short-lived newspapers. Funded by the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme.
@mercedessheldon.bsky.social
19th Century Studies Scholar. Literature Lover. Enthusiastic Educator. Persnickety Parent. {she/her}
@thomassmits.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Digital History and AI @ University of Amsterdam | Visual news culture | Visual memory of protest | http://thomassmits.eu/
@3volumenovel.bsky.social
Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne. I have a database of >25k Victorian novels: www.victorianresearch.org/atcl
@patrickleary.bsky.social
Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile.
@lesliehowsam.bsky.social
Book historian. Special interests in history books (as material objects) and Eliza Orme (Victorian lawyer). Past president of SHARP (2009-2013). https://lesliehowsam.ca/
@kmcdono.bsky.social
History + DH @ Lancaster University. MapReader. Formerly Living with Machines/Alan Turing Institute. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/history/about/people/katherine-mcdonough
@helenagoodwyn.bsky.social
Assistant Professor | c.19 Studies | Editorial Teams JEPS https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/the-northern-echo-and-the-politics-of-place/?p184577
@francescac.bsky.social
UW (Seattle) grad student in English Lit, focusing on Victorian poetry and the weirdness of subjective time. NAVSA Poetry Caucus grad coordinator if you want to read some poetry together.
@claregs.bsky.social
Impact at the RCA ∣ Policy consultant ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
@bethgaskell.bsky.social
Lead Curator, News & Moving Image at the British Library. Researcher of press history, military-media relations, and social and literary history in the long 19th century. Views all my own.
@mdamkjaer.bsky.social
Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now
@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
@marielsj.bsky.social
❤️ editing texts 🎤 💃 Montréalaise in Nijmegen, Nederland Dissertation doula • accompagnante au dépôt de thèse • hulp bij het afronden van je proefschrift Book history • histoire du livre • boekgeschiedenis