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Joseph Rezek
@rezekjoe.bsky.social
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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.bu.edu/english/profile/joseph-rezek/
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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.
Screen shot of my table of contents: The Racialization of Print By Joseph Rezek, Boston University Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press (under contract) For peer review only, do not cite or circulate without permission. Introduction: Print's Racialization over the longue durée Chapter 1. The Europeanization of Print in the Early Anglophone Atlantic Chapter 2. Nominal White Authorship at the end of the Seventeenth Century Chapter 3. Race, Gender, and Genius in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 4. Phillis Wheatley and Her Books Chapter 5. Haiti's Media Revolution Chapter 6. Native American Print Sovereignty, 1826-1837 Chapter 7. The Specimen Logic of Print in the Nineteenth Century Bibliography Word Count: 142,647
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 17m
Tonight!!!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 8d
Thrilled that the brilliant Arielle Zibrak (@zibrak.bsky.social) will present at the next meeting of the American Lit and Culture Seminar at the Mahindra Center at Harvard, Weds, Oct 15, at 6pm. With David Frank Holland responding. Join us if you're in the neighborhood!
Arielle Zibrak: Exceptional Thinking: Eugenic Feminism and the Poetics of Positivity | Mahindra Humanities Center
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 8d
Thrilled that the brilliant Arielle Zibrak (@zibrak.bsky.social) will present at the next meeting of the American Lit and Culture Seminar at the Mahindra Center at Harvard, Weds, Oct 15, at 6pm. With David Frank Holland responding. Join us if you're in the neighborhood!
Arielle Zibrak: Exceptional Thinking: Eugenic Feminism and the Poetics of Positivity | Mahindra Humanities Center
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15h
Burn all the robots! Into the lava pit!!!
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21h
I’m here to speak up for the gay penguin book. I read about the gay dad penguins in the Central Park zoo and I really do see myself as a gay dad! They just wanted a little penguin of their own!!! So much love for little tango!!! 😭❤️🌈
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 21h
Banned books staircase created by Gary M. Herd / Kraken Studios.
Newport Public Library.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 17h
I agree!
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Alicia Stoller @aliciastoller.bsky.social · 18h
Co-sign on behalf of kids! This was one of the most well-loved books in my preschool classroom. Kids with two dads or two moms felt understood & valued by it. Kids who were adopted for any reason did, too. And other kids loved the caring family and the general awesomeness of penguins!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21h
I’m here to speak up for the gay penguin book. I read about the gay dad penguins in the Central Park zoo and I really do see myself as a gay dad! They just wanted a little penguin of their own!!! So much love for little tango!!! 😭❤️🌈
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 21h
Banned books staircase created by Gary M. Herd / Kraken Studios.
Newport Public Library.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 18h
Absolutely not. Nope.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d
The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source
Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT
The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d
NO
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d
The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source
Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT
The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 18h
I did ok
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d
The amount of work I hope to get done today is truly shocking. Anyway I’ll let you know how it goes!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 18h
This right here is a PROFESSIONAL speaking ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18h
you show me the most screamingly opposed reader reports and I WILL insist they’re not irreconcilable and are actually pushing if not for the same then for complementary ends
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21h
I’m here to speak up for the gay penguin book. I read about the gay dad penguins in the Central Park zoo and I really do see myself as a gay dad! They just wanted a little penguin of their own!!! So much love for little tango!!! 😭❤️🌈
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 21h
Banned books staircase created by Gary M. Herd / Kraken Studios.
Newport Public Library.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 23h
Just here to remind everyone that while the federal government is shutdown, all study sections at the NIH are currently on hold. Another blow to science and to early career scientists like myself with young labs and research groups. Very hard to remain positive about this career path.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22h
Ma’am! This is a dissertation!!!!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22h
⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 22h
‼️ The shock and horror on my face just now.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22h
I love this chapter so much 😭
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22h
Yes I am working on revisions to this chapter. Ironically, perhaps, as it is itself about revision!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22h
Absolutely my favorite moment from presenting parts of my book in public was the absolute shock and almost horror on an audience member’s face when I announced that I had manually collated comparable sections of John Smith’s PROCEEDINGS (1612) with his THE GENERALL HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA (1624).
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Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 23h
*this* is the future of handwriting
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 23h
When you break the tip of the lead on your mechanical pencil, it does not fall onto the floor or into your couch to molder unnoticed for decades; instead it flies up weightlessly into the ether and becomes a beneficent lead fairie that blesses all of your good works on this earth.
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Mark Alan Mattes / Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 23h
the beginnings of the 21st-century "it-narrative" right here folks!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 23h
When you break the tip of the lead on your mechanical pencil, it does not fall onto the floor or into your couch to molder unnoticed for decades; instead it flies up weightlessly into the ether and becomes a beneficent lead fairie that blesses all of your good works on this earth.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 23h
When you break the tip of the lead on your mechanical pencil, it does not fall onto the floor or into your couch to molder unnoticed for decades; instead it flies up weightlessly into the ether and becomes a beneficent lead fairie that blesses all of your good works on this earth.
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Noe Montez @noemontez.bsky.social · 1d
I’m very pleased to be named as the next series editor for the University of Iowa Press’s Studies in Theatre History and Culture series. I’ll be working with Heather Nathans though Jan 1, 2027 and will move fully into the role on that date.

Send me your book pitches and/or I’ll come find you!
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d
History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d
The amount of work I hope to get done today is truly shocking. Anyway I’ll let you know how it goes!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d
Scared me for a second there!!
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