Joseph Rezek
@RezekJoe
English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. “The Racialization of Print” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press.
I just submitted my book for peer review. After 15 years of thinking, researching, and writing, and an NEH this year to finish up. I’m furious about the gutting of that institution, which makes so much knowledge possible. I hope this book eventually lives up to that honor.
Extraordinary.
The Beekeepers and the Birdnester, a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, created around 1568.
cc: @blgtylr and @SandTClassics! Link here: bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/art…
It's your boys @RezekJoe and me in The Boston Globe! In print on Sunday! (We are in a big fight about how to interpret the ending of Poe's novel and the illustration poignantly captures the strain in our friendship.)
As Pym says, “it might be supposed” that “catastrophe” early in life might have “cooled my incipient passion for events at the Harvard Bookstore” yet “I never experienced a more ardent longing” for such events than when “Nate and Joe announced their edition of my narrative!”
Happy pub day to @SandTClassics edition of Poe’s NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM — featuring an afterword by me & @RezekJoe! And pls join us at Harvard Bookstore on Monday where we will continue the conversation and I will reveal the next iteration of my thematic hairdo.
Happy pub day to @SandTClassics edition of Poe’s NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM — featuring an afterword by me & @RezekJoe! And pls join us at Harvard Bookstore on Monday where we will continue the conversation and I will reveal the next iteration of my thematic hairdo.
Uhm. That's a very suspicious thing to do.
Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. nyti.ms/4nZtblR
If you’re mad about something I tweeted, there’s no way you’ll be able to handle what I argue about German Romanticism
I know that guy…😉
Congratulations to Adam McNeil on winning The SHEAR Dissertation Prize. #SHEAR2025
Love her but I wouldn’t rank all six like this, just five [runs]
Jane Austen died on this day in 1817. In her too short 41 years on this planet, she wrote six of the greatest novels in the English language, laid the groundwork for the modern romance, and gifted us with some of the best quotes ever. Pour one out for Jane today.
I am 54 years old today. I advise sun protection and plenty of Vitamin C.
Oh thank god! I’ve totally forgotten about the Epstein files now!
write this
Before social media what did people do to get attention???
Fuck the nationalist agitprop that is part of the new MAGA art regime. I'm sorry but this is such bullshit. No women wore their hair like that in the covered wagon days. This is just miserable mall art.
Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
Moderate Dems can never lecture the left ever again about falling into line.
In it to win it.
LFGGGGGG
My edition of ARTHUR GORDON PYM has arrived! Wooo!!!