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Joseph Rezek
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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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I cannot believe how cool this blogpost is. This post will end all posts. Everyone can stop blogging now
But among all the statements made that day in a three-minute performance, little discourse focused on the true message flowing on stage: stormwater management matters. In retrospect, there are several lessons worth discussing further. Rainfall calculations When the rainfall hit the floor, so did jaws. But my shock was more at how much surface runoff was generated so quickly. The on-stage downpour lasted for about 40 seconds. And on the platform, it didn't take much for dancers to be sloshing in what looked like at least a sole-depth of water. But how strong was that simulated storm?
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Somebody needs to tell Cher this is happening on my birthday
Screenshot from Twitter Pop Crave announcing that Arianna grande and Cher will appear on SNL on Dec 20
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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This is a gay archive novel, and a brilliant one.
Photo of Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Ok, merciless jumpscare middle-aged targeted Facebook advertisement!!! yes I will rotate!!!
Animated skeleton on Facebook ad for spine rotation
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Me in the Dome with some hand gestures at the American Antiquarian Society last year. Wiggins Lecture in book history
Overhead picture of me in the dome of the American Antiquarian Society Picture of me making a strange gesture at the podium at the American Antiquarian Society dome
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Idk idk!!!
Screen shot of website “Join the Icarus Experience”???
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
Logo for Icarus flying academy in Farmingdale, NY
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Meeting Cookies, a little sad!! But they’re here 😭🤷‍♂️
Picture of sad meeting cookies
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Behold! My study binder for my oral exams in literature, which I took 20 years ago, and which I am now consulting as I prepare to teach this week. Precious, glorious, oral exam study binder!!!
Literally the binder containing my study notes for my oral exams
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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I only post Twitter screen shots if they are extremely important LMAO
The tweet says “what's Joyce Carol Oates' best novel, I'm gonna have to financially support at this point”
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Yall are going through it
Screenshot of two quote posts my original post, the one says “Mary Shelley without question” the other “Austen and it’s not even close”
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Ladies and gentlemen, I had a photo shoot!!!!
A picture of me sitting against a stone wall
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Thrilled that Kelly Wisecup and Christopher Pexa will present at the next meeting of the Am Lit & Culture seminar at the Mahindra Center at Harvard, Nov 12, 6pm. This event is co-sponsored with the Native Cultures of the Americas Seminar. Join us if you are in town!
Poster describing the event. Title of talk: ‘your own work eats up trees’: Birchbark Bookmaking, Settler Memory, and Paper Histories
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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My cousin Jennifer remains undefeated on Facebook. I swear I am still on there only for her memes
Cartoon of an angry skeleton telling another “and who texted you this!” And on the phone there is a pic of a skeleton pelvic area
November 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Terrifying!!!
A pumpkin carved with the numbers. 6 7
October 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Everybody please take my seminar next semester!!! I can’t wait to teach this.
Course title “The Literature of Revolution: Franklin, Wheatley, Wollstonecraft, Louverture” Description: “Timed for the 250th anniversary of the American War for Independence, this course considers literature that shaped the Age of Revolution. We will begin with the iconic texts of 1776 (including Tom Paine's Common Sense and the Declaration) and then focus on four revolutionary writers of the period.“
October 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Every American’s blood should boil at the very idea T and his supporters are trying to shred the constitution and “try” for a third term. Every elected Republican needs to condemn this immediately or resign from office.
From NYT: “Last week, Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump's former strategist, said that he was part of "a plan" to help the president get elected to a third term. "Trump is going to be president in '28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that," he said.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I published my first book ten years ago!!! When I was literally a baby. Look at that face
Me ten years ago holding my book
October 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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The absolute lawlessness of this administration. Blatantly illegal deadly stuff happening all over the place.
From NYT article “A broad range of specialists in laws governing the use of lethal force have called Mr. Trump's orders to the military patently illegal. They say the premeditated extrajudicial killings have been murders - regardless of whether the 43 people blown apart, burned alive or drowned in 10 strikes so far were indeed running drugs.”
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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We literally have laws!!! Who will stop this!!!
Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown The move could violate a law prohibiting federal agencies from spending money in excess of congressional appropriations or from accepting voluntary services.
October 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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The East Wing is totally gone. I can’t believe it
Ariel view of the demolition, with east wing circled in white.
October 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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POV you are a meteor coming for all of American music 😂😂😂
October 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Behold! The snacks I have provided for a grading session with our TFs. The world is not all DOOM and GLOOM!!!
Plate of Halloween snacks, mostly purchased from a bakery, Flour; including three bat-shaped Oreo cookies
October 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Don’t make me tap the sign
Tom Paine poster, “in America the law is king”
October 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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These are the top ten songs on the Billboard Hot 100 this week. I think this is bad for society.
Numbers 1-5, all Taylor swift songs Numbers 5-10, also all Taylor swift songs
October 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM