A literary studies journal focusing on the theory and history of the novel. Published by Duke University Press. All submissions to novel_forum@brown.edu
Independent scholar, #portrait enthusiast, book-jazz-tea-choc addict #EarlyModern #C18th #histgender #materialculture #miniature #haiku #photography
never log off, never surrender
host of weird little guys on cool zone media
she/her | charlottesville, va
political economy of higher ed | socialist and communist education | Black studies | author of OUTSIDE LITERARY STUDIES, editor of UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS
(he/him)
Bringing together interdisciplinary research on the politics and culture of the Late Stuart Courts on 7 April 2026 at Christ's College, Cambridge
Historian @tulaneu.bsky.social
Lab Dog is out now: www.labdogbook.com
Rotten Beauty is next: www.rottenbeauty.work
brad.bolman.com
~Views expressed may not reflect those of my employer~
Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
PhD student at the Courtauld Institute, researching fine art and Protestant identity in 18th century Ireland
Leverhulme ECR fellow researching c18-19 lit & theatre & media history at Uni of Glasgow. ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS coming 2026 from Stanford UP.
Member-run book arts collective based in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Successor to the membership of the Virginia Humanities Center for the Book Book Arts Program membership, which was defunded in Spring 2025.) Email: info@vabookarts.org
early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
“Data Travels” Postdoc @UCC 🧳 2025-26 Visiting ECR Fellow @thejohnrylands 📚 Researching women writers, travel and ecologies of the labouring class c.1750-1850 🍃 Long-standing interest in the intersectionality of fatness “pre BMI” 💊
Husband. Father. Sociologist. Author. Former co-editor of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. Newest book: The Power of Sociology
https://collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/the-power-of-sociology-1-290006
Currently writing a book about White people
Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
Associate Prof of English | Romanticism, book history, and everything to do with bookbinding | The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers is out now with Bucknell UP!
Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: https://data.post45.org/
english & the center for the book, uiowa / ed, ui press / author, *the pilgrim & the bee* (penn, 2007) and *the novel & the blank* (jhup, 2025) / opinions about drink are, in a certain sense, from my employer
https://english.uiowa.edu/people/matthew-brown
Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature, Utrecht University. History of books, religion, Bibles. 15th/16th century. Feminist. She/her. Dr. https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/RAHoff
Digital Humanities Librarian at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, magic lantern enthusiast, and maker. Opinions my own.
Book historian, English dept head, hymn scholar, sea lit fan, typewriter fixer
PhD'ing: Discourses of Value in Contemporary Book Culture at Birmingham City University | Beaujolaise at heart 🍇
Book historian; publisher at jadunivpress.org/; harassed dog parent; likes to cycle, play football when possible.
Archivist and Special Collections Librarian
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Researches readers and reading cultures online and IRL. Book Studies, book history and YA studies. Serious about popular books and media. Slightly obsessed with YA TV shows. Professor at University of Alberta on Treaty 6/Metis Nation region 4.
Jesuit priest, editor at large of America Media, founder of Outreach, consultor for the Dicastery for Communication, author of "Come Forth."
https://linktr.ee/jamesmartinsj
Climate scientist and writer. Theoretical astrophysicist by training. Avowed Earth supremacist. Yes, that's my real name. You should read my book, it's good https://shorturl.at/aJRYb
❤️ 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
Assoc. Prof at Santa Clara Univ., long 18c, book history, women's writing, DH, cats. Stainforth Library of Women's Writing stainforth.scu.edu. she/her
Digital Special Collections / Metadata Librarian @nhm_library_archives. Easily distracted by bookbinding(s), blank books, rare books, and book history in general.
Host, Slate Money. Author of THE PHOENIX ECONOMY.
Spies and the archives.
Professor, Stony Brook University. Four books, including the New York Times bestseller BOOK AND DAGGER (Ecco, 2024).
Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
Assistant Prof at Incheon National Univ in S Korea. English PhD @TAMU. Restoration and 18th-C British Lit/Women’s Mobility & Travel/Representations of East Asia
internet meme researcher and historian, sometimes reporter
https://linktr.ee/aidanwalker1
Substack: How To Do Things With Memes, @aidanetcetera TikTok, Insta, YouTubey
Join Natalia, Bethany, and Laura as they delve into the world of #publishing, #bookhistory, and #books. Available wherever you listen. Latest blog: https://strangelandbooks.com/2025/09/27/banned-and-challenged-books-discussions/
A literature comedy podcast by two friends and academics. We take classic texts off their pedestal by making fun of them. Hosted by
@DrAbigailBoucher and @dcjenkin-smith
No DMs
savemefrommyshelf.com
savemefrommyshelf@gmail.com
Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
"Zeitgeistprofessor". Cultural history, gender research at Stanford. Books: WHAT TECH CALLS THINKING (2020); THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC (2024). WHAT TECH CALLS GOVERNING and PROJECT 1933 (2026). Pod: In Bed With the Right. Newsletter: adriandaub.substack.com
A podcast about how conservatives see sex and gender, and how they keep fucking things up for the rest of us. Hosted by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan.
put on this earth to read books about books | rookie librarian and book history grad school student 🎓📜🪶 | they/them |
Lecturer in Book History at IES. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills, out soon with MUP (https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526129390/#generate-pdf). Co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Research and Editorial Manager @cplusc.bsky.social (opinions expressed are my own) • sometimes writing at www.terrain.news • former professional poker player • based in Tuscaloosa, AL
Global poetics+politics @SOAS |author Erasing Palestine @versobooks.bsky.social |The Persian Prison Poem |Writers & Rebels |🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist also on Substack rgould.substack.com
rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Humanities scholar (Victorian and children's lit), parent of 2. Views my own
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Animating-the-Victorians
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/British-Childrens-Literature-of-the-19th-Century
poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Assistant Profesor of English at Kalindi College, University of Delhi. Early Career Researcher. Interested in Booking History (Readership in particular), Translation, Popular Culture and IR.
Love listening to off beat music.
Heirloom beans, etc
www.ranchogordo.com
Digitization librarian at the University of Alberta. I used to be really active on Twitter, but now I just like to lurk.
special collections librarian @ ucsc, book person, editor of printing history, semiretired rocker
We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
Open access, scholarly communications journal for research about contemporary publishing practices. Co-edited by Alyssa Arbuckle and Janneke Adema supported by University of Michigan Press
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/
coll.manag., lit., bks., cult., libr., univ., hrtg., art, manag., coll., spec. coll., mnscrpts., phtgrph., drwngs., digit., #mtamo
An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
Librarian in PA, USA. Wide interests, esp. books, coins, American Indian culture/lit, children's/YA lit, history, music, travel, Lego, cats.
Interested in the history of children's books illustration but you can talk to me about books and libraries in general too! Special Collections Reading Room Coordinator @thejohnrylands and Dr in Museology (book exhibitions).
@SMU PhD candidate. @CollegeKilgore Assistant prof. C19 visual media/history. Posts do not reflect my employer.
PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
Teaching fellow U of Warwick. Book history, Italy, translation, copyright, cultural diplomacy, archives [she/her]
Medievalist, Feminist, Book Historian, Singer | Assistant Professor of Middle Dutch Literature @RU (https://www.ru.nl/en/people/morree-c-de) | currently working on popular song and sexual consent (c.1500-1550)
Lecturer and Programme Leader of MSc Publishing at Edinburgh Napier University. They/she. Book Sceptic.
New book 'Publishing as a Creative Industry' (April 2025) https://www.routledge.com/Publishing-as-a-Creative-Industry/Marsden/p/book/9781032035505
I like history. Horses are also cool.
Reader in Book History and The Printer, Wai-te-ata Press, Te Whare Tā O Wai-te-ata, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Early modern print culture, book history, digital humanities, (digital) feminist pedagogy. Associate Professor at York College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. General Co-Editor of WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly) and Editor-in-Chief of SHARP News.
master's student in children's literature & media (24-26) | picturebook researcher | book history enthusiast | obsessed with animated movies and dragons | in my erasmus era
Researching the uses of narrative and the development of multiple literacies cultivated through self-directed learning experiences. Current associate professor and proud former public and school librarian. Expertise in comics and international libraries.
Senior lecturer and DECRA fellow in literature at the Australian National University. Audiobooks, writers festivals, digital technology. Books! Books? Books. https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/weber-m
UCL MA in Publishing and UCL Centre for Publishing | Department of Information Studies, Faculty of Arts & Humanities | Publishing and book cultures research and education | Bloomsbury
PhD student in English @ Simon Fraser University
Here for book history, print culture, queer bibliography 📚
Studying contemporary book clubs and book bans | South Asian American studies | Assoc. Prof and Chair of American Studies @ UMBC
Vice Dean Wellbeing, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL; Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures; co-chair of the Bookselling Research Network and the Penguin Books Researchers Network; General Editor, CUP Elements series in Publishing and Book Cultures
Historian of early modern #4B Catholic women, especially their patronage of art & architecture. Mostly Southern Low Countries. #nuntastic
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
Developmental scholarly editing: www.SJMoranEditing.com
Material bodies, social identities & embodiment. University of Birmingham. https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social, @earlymodernemma.bsky.social, @leverhulme.bsky.social
#bodyhistory #18thcen #18thcletters
PhD student Uni of Liverpool | Early Modern Family | Witchcraft and Superstition | VL at York St John | She/They 🏳️🌈
Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research 📚🦋
Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage. French-born, London-based cosmopolite. Literary #Archives & #DigitalHumanities #DH #AI
www.lisejaillant.com
Senior Lecturer in English and Director of Research, School of Arts & Humanities at The Open University. Director of OpenARC, current Vice President of SHARP. I'm interested in the history and future of books and reading.
Environmental historian working on the climate emergency
books, beauty, history, folklore. Dickens lover. married to @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
Director of a California rare books/spec coll library. Archivist. Keeper of the gems I am.
CBCP fosters cross-disciplinary research in all things publishing, printing & books. Group account.
PhD researcher interested in world literature, literary representations of print cultures, and censorship.
Coffee lover, plant collector, bibliomaniac.
Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Early Modernist at UVic. Editor. Book historian. Text encoder. Director of LEMDO and MoEML. Fan of Garry Oak meadows, motorcycles, and XML.
Studying Reception and Periodicals and C19/C20 Book History; Edith Whartonian. Co-editor of the journal Reception (PSUP) with @ikax@bsky.social; Author, Tasting and Testing Books (UMass Press)
Sociologie historique du littéraire, book culture, bohemia, literary classics, groups and bands, SFF, board games, history of the left, family (mine), super-heroes, tennis (watching, not playing), etc.
Professeur à l’Université de Sherbrooke.
Librarian & Author of DARK ARCHIVES: A LIBRARIAN’S INVESTIGATION INTO THE SCIENCE & HISTORY OF BOOKS BOUND IN HUMAN SKIN Picador / FSG, literary rep Neon
Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities and AI. PhD in Texts & Technology (2023), specializing in book studies. Really into books and aesthetics/books as aesthetics.
U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.
Edited and published by Colin Sackett since 2011. The project has now adopted a more variable approach, new titles appearing as and when, both uniform and 'nonuniform'.
colinsackett.co.uk / uniformbooks.co.uk
Academic studying 20-21 C. World Lit and Book/Media History.
Books: Making World Literature (UMass Press) and Selling Books With Algorithms (Cambridge UP)
Opinions Mine
Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
STCV is an OA database collecting bibliographical descriptions of early modern books printed in Flanders (Belgium)｜Service of Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken vzw｜Posts by Heleen Wyffels & team
📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
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