Joseph Rezek
@rezekjoe.bsky.social
English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
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Joseph Rezek
@rezekjoe.bsky.social
· Jun 13
I just submitted my book for peer review. After 15 years of thinking, researching, and writing, and, as I keep saying, 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.
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'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single monster in possession of great loneliness, must be in want of a female with whom he can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for his being.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single monster in possession of great loneliness, must be in want of a female with whom he can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for his being.”
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Jane. I've read them both and I need my sad, poor heroines to get a man.
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Jane. I've read them both and I need my sad, poor heroines to get a man.
I’m going to bed but I fully expect vindication of my deeply held prejudice by the time I wake up!!!
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I’m going to bed but I fully expect vindication of my deeply held prejudice by the time I wake up!!!
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austin.
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
austin.
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Shelley
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Shelley
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In keeping with the logic that under-girds both of their oeuvre, choosing one means choosing all of their literary descendants, and in that sense Mary Shelley wins by a full mile.
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In keeping with the logic that under-girds both of their oeuvre, choosing one means choosing all of their literary descendants, and in that sense Mary Shelley wins by a full mile.
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Jane Austen’s Frankenstein 😍
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Jane Austen’s Frankenstein 😍
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The great pleasure of life is in not needing to choose between them.
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You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The great pleasure of life is in not needing to choose between them.
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All of the Austen people go to bed early, meanwhile Shelley people will be awake until dawn
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
All of the Austen people go to bed early, meanwhile Shelley people will be awake until dawn
I don’t know!!!
Shelley all day every day!!
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I don’t know!!!
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You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Sometimes a novel is the most important thing
Okay that’s a wrap folks! All ready for class tomorrow!!! Glad to have done all this extensive reporting on the most important events of the day
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Sometimes a novel is the most important thing
I am on fire with this lesson plan for Northanger Abbey: “Towards the end of the novel, the narrator declares that the ‘anxieties of common life” have replaced “the alarms of
romance.’ Please come to class prepared to discuss why that is a false binary.”
romance.’ Please come to class prepared to discuss why that is a false binary.”
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I am on fire with this lesson plan for Northanger Abbey: “Towards the end of the novel, the narrator declares that the ‘anxieties of common life” have replaced “the alarms of
romance.’ Please come to class prepared to discuss why that is a false binary.”
romance.’ Please come to class prepared to discuss why that is a false binary.”
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My favorite Austen novel! (Of the two I've read.)
Ok ok Northanger Abbey is a masterpiece. I have abandoned my previous condescension towards this novel. I was a sad little shatter-brained creature before but now I have had a change of feelings and spirits and am in perfect felicity.
I am going through it finishing re-reading Northanger Abbey today to teach it this week (for the first time, mind you). I had just had enough of this silly business but now the romance is over, I’m crying and laughing on literally each page. The writer you are Jane Austen.
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
My favorite Austen novel! (Of the two I've read.)
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Ok ok Northanger Abbey is a masterpiece. I have abandoned my previous condescension towards this novel. I was a sad little shatter-brained creature before but now I have had a change of feelings and spirits and am in perfect felicity.
I am going through it finishing re-reading Northanger Abbey today to teach it this week (for the first time, mind you). I had just had enough of this silly business but now the romance is over, I’m crying and laughing on literally each page. The writer you are Jane Austen.
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Ok ok Northanger Abbey is a masterpiece. I have abandoned my previous condescension towards this novel. I was a sad little shatter-brained creature before but now I have had a change of feelings and spirits and am in perfect felicity.
Henry Tilney read the entirety of The Mysteries of Udolpho in only TWO DAYS! This is what phones have taken from us.
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Henry Tilney read the entirety of The Mysteries of Udolpho in only TWO DAYS! This is what phones have taken from us.
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But on the bright side, the 18thC is clearly winning. @rezekjoe.bsky.social & @profchander.bsky.social bearing witness:
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
But on the bright side, the 18thC is clearly winning. @rezekjoe.bsky.social & @profchander.bsky.social bearing witness:
Ok ok Northanger Abbey is a masterpiece. I have abandoned my previous condescension towards this novel. I was a sad little shatter-brained creature before but now I have had a change of feelings and spirits and am in perfect felicity.
I am going through it finishing re-reading Northanger Abbey today to teach it this week (for the first time, mind you). I had just had enough of this silly business but now the romance is over, I’m crying and laughing on literally each page. The writer you are Jane Austen.
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Ok ok Northanger Abbey is a masterpiece. I have abandoned my previous condescension towards this novel. I was a sad little shatter-brained creature before but now I have had a change of feelings and spirits and am in perfect felicity.
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Volume 124 Issue 4 | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I am going through it finishing re-reading Northanger Abbey today to teach it this week (for the first time, mind you). I had just had enough of this silly business but now the romance is over, I’m crying and laughing on literally each page. The writer you are Jane Austen.
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I am going through it finishing re-reading Northanger Abbey today to teach it this week (for the first time, mind you). I had just had enough of this silly business but now the romance is over, I’m crying and laughing on literally each page. The writer you are Jane Austen.
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Henry Tilney to Catherine
a man is wearing a black hoodie that says lover
Alt: a man is wearing a black hoodie that says lover, emphatically gesturing while saying "you are going to have to GET IT TOGETHER"
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November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Henry Tilney to Catherine
Catherine Morland, pull yourself together.
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Catherine Morland, pull yourself together.
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Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰