Society for Renaissance Studies conference 2025
We're gathering in Bristol for an exciting conference. And we're gathering our speakers and participants as well as our Council members here in this starter pack already so people can chat excitedly.
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@srsrensoc.bsky.social
@evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social
Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel at Helsinki (although I live in Sussex, UK). Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
@millie-ran.bsky.social
PhD researcher on the STEMMA project at the University of Galway. Late seventeenth-century person. Mostly writes about miscellanies. Likes music a lot.
@johnjoemctague.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in C18th Studies, Univ. Bristol. Book: ‘Things that Didn’t Happen’ (2019). Co-director @ Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress). Co-President of Bristol UCU branch. 🎸&🎤 in Autocorrect (https://spoti.fi/4fIaTAJ). He/him.
@kimgilchrist.bsky.social
Teaches Early Modern Drama at Cardiff Uni. Writing a book about Mucedorus. Will probably post music when I don’t know what to say. he/him. New OWC Cymbeline: https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/cymbeline-9780192882868?cc=gb&lang=en&
@dramaticletters.bsky.social
they/them | PhD from University of York | early modern epistolary literature, playbooks, and performance | writing about trees, walking, and textiles in my spare time
@sarahceross.bsky.social
Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint
@ideasroadshow.bsky.social
🎬 Intelligent. Inquisitive. International. 🎥 Filmmakers combining unlimited curiosity & meticulous research 📚 Plus lots of books, essays & podcasts 🚘 Website: https://ideasroadshow.com
@ctcallisen.bsky.social
Early modern intellectual historian, inclusion champion, former senior public servant. Sometimes in Swedish. he/him 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
@richardjansell.bsky.social
Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers. Forthcoming book on British journeys to Iberia: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/no-country-for-travellers/
@toffolosandra.bsky.social
Historian of mobility, space, and the circulation of people, objects, and ideas in the early modern period, particularly Venice. Works at Italian-German Historical Institute, Trento
@markhailwood.bsky.social
Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
@faraiunvers.bsky.social
Historian of late medieval/early modern religious conflict and diplomacy. England and Christendom, the crusades, and the Reformation. Also: digital humanities, early music, historical theology, and public history. www.charlottegauthier.com
@sanaramore.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ Notre Dame | Social & Cultural Historian of Early Modern Italy | writing about the Florentine countryside, historical memory, identity, & state-building
@fredschurink.bsky.social
English Literature at the University of Manchester. Early modern translation, book history, digital humanities. Continental European Books in Early Modern England project. Dutchman with love of hills. Dad and cat companion.
@annalujz.bsky.social
book history | digital humanities | early modern Postdoc on Continental European Books in Early Modern England project, Manchester. Also: parish/public libraries, book data, early Bodleian library, early modern provincial English book cultures.
@eventyra.bsky.social
French PhD student in early modern history (diplomacy/court studies/dailylife & gender/british monarchy). 📝En pleine rédaction
@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.
@emjlynajsh.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Uni of Shef | Ecology and genre in early modern lit (esp. in Poly-Olbion!) | she/her 🍄
@lucyjsclarke.bsky.social
interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method, loud shrieking about my cats.
@niallallsopp.bsky.social
Early Modern English literature, English Civil Wars, Restoration, literature and political, social, local history. Book: https://tinyurl.com/NiallPSER Work: https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/allsopp/
@17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social
PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.
@elicumings.bsky.social
early modern literary scholar interested in bodies and their meanings | postdoc @ columbia | trying my best
@mazinggrace.bsky.social
Lecturer in English at Birkbeck, University of London | 24/25 Postdoctoral Fellow @ HRC York | PhD on useless books in early modern England | fan of scribbles in books, gardens, & scribbles in garden books
@diplohistoryfish.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @ Purdue - early modern Spain, women and diplomacy, social network analysis, aristocratic women and political power – and probably something about equitable inheritance. https://caroline-fish.com/.
@nialloddy.bsky.social
Early modernist. Interested in travel, cross-cultural exchange, environments. Book on ideas of Europe in c.16 France: https://tinyurl.com/5n6kvbun. May post cat pics
@emilyrowe1.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern Literature & Culture at King’s College London. Love all histories of metal, military worlds, and material culture. Can also be found board-gaming, TTRPG-ing, walking, and pasta-making ~ she/her
@rhetorician.bsky.social
early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Bread, beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
@drgillhistory.bsky.social
Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Writing a book on a monastery for repentant prostitutes. Open University. Feminist. Strong words; weak tea. UCU rep. She/her.
@wouterwagemakers.bsky.social
Art and architectural historian of renaissance Italy at Leiden University. Also in possession of a law degree
@alexbamji.bsky.social
Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
@tntwining.bsky.social
Early modern religion/censorship/cultural and intellectual history. Post-doc at KU Leuven. Previously Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Social media manager @emodir.bsky.social.
@lsangha.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Exeter Uni | English history 1480-1700 | CI: Material Culture in English Wills | reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brown-ish | 1st gen Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/ Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
@claireturner.bsky.social
Historian of cancer and the senses. Postdoc Fellow @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Digital Engagement Fellow @hematopolitics.bsky.social.
@rentravailer.bsky.social
English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
@jillburke.bsky.social
Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, senior fellow Turin Humanities Programme, committee member @srsrensoc.bsky.social
@spparkle.bsky.social
music + art in early modern England | Leverhulme Trust ECF @ Uni Bham | fa la la | ByrdCentral.com | ye olde pineapples | neighbourhood polyphony geek | tech stuff too | KatieBankmusic.com | she/her
@emilymichelson.bsky.social
Historian of early modern Italy, religious culture, minorities, and cool stuff.
@sianhibbert.bsky.social
(Almost finished) History PhD at Uni of York - early modern France, interpersonal violence, disputes and enmities, gender, social relations, urban and rural communities.
@evanbourke.bsky.social
Early modernist. GOI Postdoc at Maynooth University. Women's writing, epistolary culture, DH, network visualisation, reception studies. Formerly RECIRC and MACMORRIS.
@elliechan.bsky.social
Art History/Music • Writer, singer, painter • Early Modernist at the Warburg Institute • BBC/AHRC New Gen Thinker • Previously: Maths is Pretty🧮 (Routledge ‘21), Art is Everywhere🦩🎨 (Big Picture Press ‘22), Music is Visible🧜🏼♀️ (OUP ‘24)
@eparpillee.bsky.social
Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
@hsmurphy.bsky.social
Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
@hannasinclair.bsky.social
DPhil in Early Modern Italian (& French) Cultural History ⚜️ Convenor of Oxford’s Court Studies seminars. Vintage student. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺
@mrfw17thc.bsky.social
Reader in Early Modern History at Cardiff University. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. All opinions my own.
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
Irishman in Yorkshire. Historian of language, education, mobility at the University of Leeds. Co-editor of the Historical Journal, occasional BBC radio presenter. Dad!
@drdavidrundle.bsky.social
Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
@drwillgreen.bsky.social
Academic and heritage professional • Currently working on a travelling players project with Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall in Stratford-upon-Avon • Early modern drama specialist • PhD from the Shakespeare Institute • FHEA • Views own, etc.
@emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social
🗃️ Early Modern History at the University of York, FRHistS (and on Council) | 🎶 Music and post-Reformation Catholicism | 📚 Multilingualism, mobility, and exiled English convents | ✍️ Currently: Listening to Early Modern Travel Writing
@onslies.bsky.social
Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
@racheljwillie.bsky.social
Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture http://bit.ly/2dvki2o
@srsrensoc.bsky.social
SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥