Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her)
@aliciaandrz.bsky.social
assistant prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc
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hi everyone! I’m a Shakespeare prof at William & Mary & a public scholar, writing for venues on everything from early modern abortion to serpent handling. I post about my sobriety journey, pedagogy, motherhood, mental illness, & more.
I hope my Twitter community finds me, I miss them dearly.
I hope my Twitter community finds me, I miss them dearly.
to all the men in my DMs: to prove your level of commitment you must watch the 2015 film version of Macbeth (with Michael Fassbender) & send me a 1-2 paragraph response: what struck or interested you?
I will respond accordingly.
I will respond accordingly.
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
to all the men in my DMs: to prove your level of commitment you must watch the 2015 film version of Macbeth (with Michael Fassbender) & send me a 1-2 paragraph response: what struck or interested you?
I will respond accordingly.
I will respond accordingly.
Reposted by Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her)
my website is getting a lot of hits, maybe from angry men but in any case: if you’re there please skip the CV & read this piece I wrote, parts of which are published in @bostonglobe.com & @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social :
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com/memoir
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com/memoir
the monk, the cobra, and me — Alicia Andrzejewski
We must all bow to what we are scared of. It is the only way it will let us pass.
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
my website is getting a lot of hits, maybe from angry men but in any case: if you’re there please skip the CV & read this piece I wrote, parts of which are published in @bostonglobe.com & @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social :
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com/memoir
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com/memoir
I can’t drink on Friday nights anymore so instead I’m trying to see how many guys in my DMs I can make watch the 2015 film version of Macbeth & come back to me with their thoughts.
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I can’t drink on Friday nights anymore so instead I’m trying to see how many guys in my DMs I can make watch the 2015 film version of Macbeth & come back to me with their thoughts.
my Dean (who used to chair the English department) sends an email to William & Mary faculty every F & divides it into a top part everyone should read & a “below the line” creative musing that is optional. I look forward to it each week.
I wish more administrators were creatives.
I wish more administrators were creatives.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
my Dean (who used to chair the English department) sends an email to William & Mary faculty every F & divides it into a top part everyone should read & a “below the line” creative musing that is optional. I look forward to it each week.
I wish more administrators were creatives.
I wish more administrators were creatives.
I really needed to apologize to someone so I sent them four books I thought they’d like. now they’ll have to get rid of four new, amazing books or forgive me. I’ll keep everyone posted.
(Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Ishiguro’s Klara & the Sun, Murakami’s 1Q84, & Moshfegh’s Eileen.)
(Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Ishiguro’s Klara & the Sun, Murakami’s 1Q84, & Moshfegh’s Eileen.)
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I really needed to apologize to someone so I sent them four books I thought they’d like. now they’ll have to get rid of four new, amazing books or forgive me. I’ll keep everyone posted.
(Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Ishiguro’s Klara & the Sun, Murakami’s 1Q84, & Moshfegh’s Eileen.)
(Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Ishiguro’s Klara & the Sun, Murakami’s 1Q84, & Moshfegh’s Eileen.)
I’m trying to set an example for my eight-year-old daughter. I wasted most of my life hating my body & self—& it benefits mediocre men for women like me to have low self-esteem. but I refuse to make my daughter watch me downplay my accomplishments & bow down to men like this.
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I’m trying to set an example for my eight-year-old daughter. I wasted most of my life hating my body & self—& it benefits mediocre men for women like me to have low self-esteem. but I refuse to make my daughter watch me downplay my accomplishments & bow down to men like this.
I don’t hate men, OK. unfortunately, I’m very attracted to them. at their best, they are good creatures worthy of love & possibly respect. but the men melting down in my DMs & comments are not at their best & it’s my god-given right as a woman on the internet to make fun of them.
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I don’t hate men, OK. unfortunately, I’m very attracted to them. at their best, they are good creatures worthy of love & possibly respect. but the men melting down in my DMs & comments are not at their best & it’s my god-given right as a woman on the internet to make fun of them.
good morning, friends. leaning into the light today.
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
good morning, friends. leaning into the light today.
my website is getting a lot of hits, maybe from angry men but in any case: if you’re there please skip the CV & read this piece I wrote, parts of which are published in @bostonglobe.com & @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social :
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com/memoir
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com/memoir
the monk, the cobra, and me — Alicia Andrzejewski
We must all bow to what we are scared of. It is the only way it will let us pass.
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
my website is getting a lot of hits, maybe from angry men but in any case: if you’re there please skip the CV & read this piece I wrote, parts of which are published in @bostonglobe.com & @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social :
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com/memoir
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com/memoir
I had to make a decision on which Shakespeare play, out of all of them, to gift a friend who hasn’t read him recently. I landed on Macbeth. I think this means in my estimation, as a prof who’s devoted her professional life to Shakespeare—Macbeth is his best play.
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I had to make a decision on which Shakespeare play, out of all of them, to gift a friend who hasn’t read him recently. I landed on Macbeth. I think this means in my estimation, as a prof who’s devoted her professional life to Shakespeare—Macbeth is his best play.
I can’t believe in Feb. it’ll be official & I’ll be a tenured, associate professor at William & Mary.
I plan to use this power to make men even angrier.
I plan to use this power to make men even angrier.
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I can’t believe in Feb. it’ll be official & I’ll be a tenured, associate professor at William & Mary.
I plan to use this power to make men even angrier.
I plan to use this power to make men even angrier.
I made a risky joke today at an event. I was introducing my chair & his bio said he came to William & Mary in ‘93 so I paused & said, “when I was 5 years old.”
there was a pause, then him & everyone else cracked up. I see why comedians go out on a limb because what a feeling.
there was a pause, then him & everyone else cracked up. I see why comedians go out on a limb because what a feeling.
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I made a risky joke today at an event. I was introducing my chair & his bio said he came to William & Mary in ‘93 so I paused & said, “when I was 5 years old.”
there was a pause, then him & everyone else cracked up. I see why comedians go out on a limb because what a feeling.
there was a pause, then him & everyone else cracked up. I see why comedians go out on a limb because what a feeling.
men are lazy these days. just pick up any romance novel & it says exactly what women want: a 6 ft+ large & strong ex-athlete who bakes in his spare time, knows how to give you multiple orgasms, acts emotionally open & available, makes high six-figures+, is loyal to a fault, etc.
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
men are lazy these days. just pick up any romance novel & it says exactly what women want: a 6 ft+ large & strong ex-athlete who bakes in his spare time, knows how to give you multiple orgasms, acts emotionally open & available, makes high six-figures+, is loyal to a fault, etc.
Reposted by Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her)
If you don't know him, I will recommend the very beautiful, haunting poetry by Wilfred Owen on this Veteran's Day. Glad to see others have an interest in him as well!!
I always think about my favorite poet on Veteran’s Day—Wilfred Owen, a soldier who died in combat, who saw terrible things & transformed them into urgent, horrific, & beautiful words.
because it is not “sweet & beautiful” to die for your country.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
because it is not “sweet & beautiful” to die for your country.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM
If you don't know him, I will recommend the very beautiful, haunting poetry by Wilfred Owen on this Veteran's Day. Glad to see others have an interest in him as well!!
if you’re a person who hates your job, I highly recommend having a kid. all of the sudden you’ll find work very freeing & quiet & peaceful.
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
if you’re a person who hates your job, I highly recommend having a kid. all of the sudden you’ll find work very freeing & quiet & peaceful.
some men get enraged at me when I don’t respond to their DMs so I want to apologize publicly: I only respond to men’s DMs if they look handsome in their profile picture, so if I never respond to you it’s because I don’t find you attractive. I’m sorry—I hope that calms you down.
November 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
some men get enraged at me when I don’t respond to their DMs so I want to apologize publicly: I only respond to men’s DMs if they look handsome in their profile picture, so if I never respond to you it’s because I don’t find you attractive. I’m sorry—I hope that calms you down.
for 26 years, when people struggled with my name I’d joke, “I know. I’m going to marry a Johnson.” then I was about to marry a Jenkins & couldn’t let Andrzejewski go. Stockholm syndrome, maybe. I couldn’t imagine being Alicia anything else.
the good news is I stay very Google-able.
the good news is I stay very Google-able.
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
for 26 years, when people struggled with my name I’d joke, “I know. I’m going to marry a Johnson.” then I was about to marry a Jenkins & couldn’t let Andrzejewski go. Stockholm syndrome, maybe. I couldn’t imagine being Alicia anything else.
the good news is I stay very Google-able.
the good news is I stay very Google-able.
really love how country music has always been like, “I love this country & trucks & Jesus & dirt roads—& marijuana. especially marijuana.”
November 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM
really love how country music has always been like, “I love this country & trucks & Jesus & dirt roads—& marijuana. especially marijuana.”
good morning, friends. happy Wednesday. things are wild right now but I feel grateful & pretty this AM, so I’ll take that win.
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
good morning, friends. happy Wednesday. things are wild right now but I feel grateful & pretty this AM, so I’ll take that win.
it is now—when a tree has fallen on my house & I have a huge painful bruise on my arm from a bad blood draw & my front tooth just cracked—that I realized the TMS for my treatment-resistant depression has made a difference. I just don’t feel a heaviness about it—it’s almost funny.
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
it is now—when a tree has fallen on my house & I have a huge painful bruise on my arm from a bad blood draw & my front tooth just cracked—that I realized the TMS for my treatment-resistant depression has made a difference. I just don’t feel a heaviness about it—it’s almost funny.
I’ve taught countless students who’ve loved me. my classes in the Spring are full of repeat students; they even have waitlists. even my rate my professors’ reviews are good.
yet I still think regularly about this one student three years ago that absolutely despised me.
yet I still think regularly about this one student three years ago that absolutely despised me.
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I’ve taught countless students who’ve loved me. my classes in the Spring are full of repeat students; they even have waitlists. even my rate my professors’ reviews are good.
yet I still think regularly about this one student three years ago that absolutely despised me.
yet I still think regularly about this one student three years ago that absolutely despised me.
I always think about my favorite poet on Veteran’s Day—Wilfred Owen, a soldier who died in combat, who saw terrible things & transformed them into urgent, horrific, & beautiful words.
because it is not “sweet & beautiful” to die for your country.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
because it is not “sweet & beautiful” to die for your country.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I always think about my favorite poet on Veteran’s Day—Wilfred Owen, a soldier who died in combat, who saw terrible things & transformed them into urgent, horrific, & beautiful words.
because it is not “sweet & beautiful” to die for your country.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
because it is not “sweet & beautiful” to die for your country.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/...
according to my sobriety app I’ve saved 3.5K not drinking in the past two years, so this present to myself for hitting that milestone more than paid for itself:
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
according to my sobriety app I’ve saved 3.5K not drinking in the past two years, so this present to myself for hitting that milestone more than paid for itself:
in the pickup line listening to Cardi B’s “Outside” like I have a cheating husband. but my husband just sits at his desk copy-editing books all day.
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
in the pickup line listening to Cardi B’s “Outside” like I have a cheating husband. but my husband just sits at his desk copy-editing books all day.