Me with Prof. Nate Wolff at the Harvard Book Store, for a book launch for our edition of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, from Smith & Taylor Classics. July, 2025.

I have had many opportunities to speak in public about my work and also at special events where I’m called in as an expert or interviewer.

I also have a lot of fun with academic friends and colleagues on social media: for a long time on Twitter, and now mostly on Bluesky: follow me at @rezekjoe.bsky.social.

Above: Me on stage at a “Talk Back” conversation after a performance of Moby-Dick, by Plexus Polaire, at the Emerson College Theater. January, 2025.

Below: Me in the reading room at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island. November, 2024.

I love my work and have fun doing it.