Joshua Barsczewski
@joshuabarsczewski
Muhlenberg College. Assistant Prof of English Literatures and Creative Writing. Writing Program Director. Writing Center Director. Director of the Center for Ethics
Should've won Best Picture just for this dress. (Also lowkey one of the best novel-to-film adaptations ever.)
This summer I’m rereading old faves. This book by Michael Cunningham is one of the first “adult” books I read as a teenager. It’s still stunning, but reading about characters in the 80s/90s is filling me with so much rage. They still had some optimism that that world was becoming a better place. 😭
Feeling sappy today, but these are pictures of me with some truly brilliant undergrads from Muhlenberg's Writing Center presenting at CCCC in 2025. One of the highlights of my career. I chose CCCC to take them because in my experience, it's a conference that's extremely friendly towards newcomers.
In Brazil right now and the way not a single person here is supporting Argentina is hilarious 😂
TIL that some sheetz that cater to truck drivers have the really good exfoliating soap so they can get oil off their hands. If you need a cheap spa day, you could do worse…
This particular tweet was in response to the amazing essay "Man Crossing an Ice Field" by Laura Glen Louis, but here's my booklist for fall! Staying mostly canonical this year since it's a new class. ,
I understand the bureaucratic reasons why, but seeing a job in my field advertised for 1 to 2 dollars an hour is really something 🙃
Rewatching House of the Dragon and Criston Cole has got to be simultaneously the hottest and the most punchable character in TV history. Can’t stand his beautiful traitorous ass
Breaking: The Magical Mr. Mistoffelees has declined an invitation to perform at Freedom 250
If you hear someone sobbing, it’s me after saying goodbye to our graduating Writing Center tutors! 26 graduating (out of a total staff of 55). Class or 2026 was the group where I feel like I started to hit my stride as a professor and WC director, so saying goodbye to them is especially hard
Me when a student asked me if I ever heard of Sufjan Stevens because he’s “really good.”
Happy birthday to the late, great Louise Glück, the poet I’ve tuned to perhaps more than any other. If you only ever get to read one book of poetry, you might try Averno, imho her greatest (most people say Wild Iris but oh well). It includes, among other things, this tremendous opening:
Just read this miraculous phrase and I will be aiming to work it into at least 2 conversations this week
I'm so excited for my fall classes: Gay Poetry and Reading/Writing Memoir! Two new preps the semester I apply for tenure is perhaps a foolish idea, but oh well. At least I'll get to read lots of gay shit
Not exactly the same but the gays had to suffer through an entire season of RuPaul calling this definitively gold plunger the “Platinum Plunger”
Today in my job I get to prepare my thoughts and remarks for a panel discussion on Heated Rivalry 😂😂 academia is a hoot sometimes
One of the best parts of editing #Adequate has been seeing how writers take up the concept and talk about them in different contexts, for different audiences. Thanks to @oliviawood.bsky.social for organizing an event at CUNY Graduate Center with 3 New York-area contributors.
It’s weird traveling now that my dog Rosie has passed. I used to feel so guilty for abandoning her because she was so devoted to me. The guilt ruined several trips.😂😂 Now, I’m free of that guilt…but I wish i wasn’t. Anyway, everyone hug your dogs. It’s magical. And look how beautiful my lady was
Some of the many contributors to Adequate met up at #4c26!
Fyi if you like some people I know forgot to pack toothpaste, the front desk at the Hilton has some courtesy packs #4c26