Megan Heffernan
@thecompass.bsky.social
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paperback coming early 2026! ✨
September 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
paperback coming early 2026! ✨
Working on ecology in premodernity? Come share your stuff with us! Proposals for 2025-2026 Premodern Studies Seminar at the Newberry Library are due July 7!
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June 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Working on ecology in premodernity? Come share your stuff with us! Proposals for 2025-2026 Premodern Studies Seminar at the Newberry Library are due July 7!
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crash writing a new syllabus for intro to poetry (starting monday!): any fav poems for thinking about communities, social groups, collectives?
March 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
crash writing a new syllabus for intro to poetry (starting monday!): any fav poems for thinking about communities, social groups, collectives?
good day to break my wordle streak www.nycclc.org/news/2024-11...
New York Times Tech Guild on ULP Strike
The Times Tech Guild—the union that powers the technology behind The New York Times—has walked off the job in a ULP strike. The work stoppage began at 12:01am Monday despite multiple rounds of intense...
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November 11, 2024 at 2:03 PM
good day to break my wordle streak www.nycclc.org/news/2024-11...
today's teaching is /convent of pleasure/--thanks, past megan
November 6, 2024 at 3:00 PM
today's teaching is /convent of pleasure/--thanks, past megan
u of c is moving towards NTT faculty strike and seeking solidarity, especially from alums. please consider signing and sharing!
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October 29, 2024 at 8:44 PM
u of c is moving towards NTT faculty strike and seeking solidarity, especially from alums. please consider signing and sharing!
act.seiu.org/a/facultyfor...
act.seiu.org/a/facultyfor...
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Administrators at Harvard are developing “unprecedented” modes for disciplining faculty.
October 24, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Administrators at Harvard are developing “unprecedented” modes for disciplining faculty.
who's going to MLA in january? should i go?? not giving a paper, but it's in new orleans & the warmth would be nice . . .
October 22, 2024 at 4:47 PM
who's going to MLA in january? should i go?? not giving a paper, but it's in new orleans & the warmth would be nice . . .
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Happy pub day to *Disrupted City* www.chapatimystery.com/archives/slo...
Slow Burn Lahore Ends
what is the vertiginous chapati saying to me?
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October 22, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Happy pub day to *Disrupted City* www.chapatimystery.com/archives/slo...
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Hi friends, I have received an actual, real-life copy of my first book, Glorious Bodies, and it is the thing I am most proud of in this world. If you're interested in trans history and theology, I hope you'll take a look!
August 14, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Hi friends, I have received an actual, real-life copy of my first book, Glorious Bodies, and it is the thing I am most proud of in this world. If you're interested in trans history and theology, I hope you'll take a look!
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Emily Drabinski reporting that this includes every librarian.
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WIU sends out layoff notices to nearly 90 employees
The administration is eliminating 57 faculty positions and 32 staff positions.
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August 12, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Emily Drabinski reporting that this includes every librarian.
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if you had a to order books for a Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter course, how would you do it? Asking for myself obvs!
Plenty of excellent digital resources . . . So maybe I could get away with just the Broadview Paper Bodies Cavendish reader?
Plenty of excellent digital resources . . . So maybe I could get away with just the Broadview Paper Bodies Cavendish reader?
August 5, 2024 at 6:37 PM
if you had a to order books for a Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter course, how would you do it? Asking for myself obvs!
Plenty of excellent digital resources . . . So maybe I could get away with just the Broadview Paper Bodies Cavendish reader?
Plenty of excellent digital resources . . . So maybe I could get away with just the Broadview Paper Bodies Cavendish reader?
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It’s PUBLICATION DAY!!! 🥳
I’ll post a little teaser every day on each ch. In our introduction, Chloe Preedy & I…er…introduce vol. & explain what on earth possessed us to publish a book on a writer mostly associated ŵ prose in a PLAYS companion series.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526149466
I’ll post a little teaser every day on each ch. In our introduction, Chloe Preedy & I…er…introduce vol. & explain what on earth possessed us to publish a book on a writer mostly associated ŵ prose in a PLAYS companion series.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526149466
![“Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance” ed. Chloe Kathleen Preedy and Rachel Willie in Revels Plays Companion Library. Greene strip to left [it’s what Nashe would have wanted] and white text on black background to the right.
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526149466](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2o2t5rihdhyswmy7pq4hxhh/bafkreidws7pulqkmo5hjxcq3bixudpkazexm3wecqnbpi4iot4utfd4wqa@jpeg)
July 23, 2024 at 7:35 AM
It’s PUBLICATION DAY!!! 🥳
I’ll post a little teaser every day on each ch. In our introduction, Chloe Preedy & I…er…introduce vol. & explain what on earth possessed us to publish a book on a writer mostly associated ŵ prose in a PLAYS companion series.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526149466
I’ll post a little teaser every day on each ch. In our introduction, Chloe Preedy & I…er…introduce vol. & explain what on earth possessed us to publish a book on a writer mostly associated ŵ prose in a PLAYS companion series.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526149466
RSA 2025
RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES: THEN AND NOW
How do libraries mediate the materials of Renaissance Studies? How should we understand the spaces that connect the past to the present?
Send abstracts to @tarallyons.bsky.social & to me. Due July 22.
See you in Boston!
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RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES: THEN AND NOW
How do libraries mediate the materials of Renaissance Studies? How should we understand the spaces that connect the past to the present?
Send abstracts to @tarallyons.bsky.social & to me. Due July 22.
See you in Boston!
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
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July 15, 2024 at 4:03 PM
RSA 2025
RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES: THEN AND NOW
How do libraries mediate the materials of Renaissance Studies? How should we understand the spaces that connect the past to the present?
Send abstracts to @tarallyons.bsky.social & to me. Due July 22.
See you in Boston!
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES: THEN AND NOW
How do libraries mediate the materials of Renaissance Studies? How should we understand the spaces that connect the past to the present?
Send abstracts to @tarallyons.bsky.social & to me. Due July 22.
See you in Boston!
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
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UGH. Ten years and 4 months later, I re-located this footnote to an antislavery pamphlet pointing out that it was printed on linen and not cotton paper so as to avoid the material economy of slavery.... that REALLY should have made it into my book but didn't bc I forgot. Oh well. Here it is anyway.
June 18, 2024 at 11:26 PM
UGH. Ten years and 4 months later, I re-located this footnote to an antislavery pamphlet pointing out that it was printed on linen and not cotton paper so as to avoid the material economy of slavery.... that REALLY should have made it into my book but didn't bc I forgot. Oh well. Here it is anyway.
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Today a wonderful post by @elizaaudacis.bsky.social on two devotional books with early modern female signatures as Beth considers dirt, tears, and detritus as evidence of book use buff.ly/3Rx5mDF #HerBook #EarlyModern #C17
The Whole Duty of Man Laid down in a Plain and Familiar Way (1712) with Private Devotions for Several Occasions, Ordinary and Extraordinary [1712].
By Beth DeBold These two devotional texts, bound together in dark brown goatskin with faded gilt ornaments and fore-edges, represent a fairly commonplace survivor of the early eighteenth century. The ...
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June 18, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Today a wonderful post by @elizaaudacis.bsky.social on two devotional books with early modern female signatures as Beth considers dirt, tears, and detritus as evidence of book use buff.ly/3Rx5mDF #HerBook #EarlyModern #C17
RSA 2025 CFP
RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES: THEN AND NOW
Got a paper that explores how Renaissance Studies has been mediated by libraries? I'm organizing a set of panels with @tarallyons.bsky.social & BSA sponsorship.
Send us your abstracts! Proposals due July 22.
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RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES: THEN AND NOW
Got a paper that explores how Renaissance Studies has been mediated by libraries? I'm organizing a set of panels with @tarallyons.bsky.social & BSA sponsorship.
Send us your abstracts! Proposals due July 22.
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Renaissance Society of America
Fordham University 441 E. Fordham Road Faber Hall 463 Bronx, NY 10458 • USA
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June 17, 2024 at 4:48 PM
RSA 2025 CFP
RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES: THEN AND NOW
Got a paper that explores how Renaissance Studies has been mediated by libraries? I'm organizing a set of panels with @tarallyons.bsky.social & BSA sponsorship.
Send us your abstracts! Proposals due July 22.
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES: THEN AND NOW
Got a paper that explores how Renaissance Studies has been mediated by libraries? I'm organizing a set of panels with @tarallyons.bsky.social & BSA sponsorship.
Send us your abstracts! Proposals due July 22.
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
new author line for me
June 11, 2024 at 5:18 PM
new author line for me
my employer pulled this
May 26, 2024 at 5:44 PM
my employer pulled this
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Created this for an in-service day to explain the much-overlooked role private equity plays in higher education.
May 24, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Created this for an in-service day to explain the much-overlooked role private equity plays in higher education.
i am unfortunately away for the great cicada descent. but i applaud this local ingenuity. chicago terroir in the SW burbs:
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Cicada-infused Malört shots are all the buzz at Lombard brewpub
Noon Whistle Pub's timely offering is made with the real insects.
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May 22, 2024 at 4:53 PM
i am unfortunately away for the great cicada descent. but i applaud this local ingenuity. chicago terroir in the SW burbs:
chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...
chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...
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"We do not believe that one should know what one is looking for before arriving here. Instead, we embrace the theory of the spectacles, where readers are given time determine what is of interest to them."
— @bkadams.bsky.social
exploratory book history FTW! 👓📖
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— @bkadams.bsky.social
exploratory book history FTW! 👓📖
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Spectacles of the Arizona Book History Group
by Brandi K. Adams
medium.com
May 14, 2024 at 2:15 PM
"We do not believe that one should know what one is looking for before arriving here. Instead, we embrace the theory of the spectacles, where readers are given time determine what is of interest to them."
— @bkadams.bsky.social
exploratory book history FTW! 👓📖
medium.com/the-sundial-...
— @bkadams.bsky.social
exploratory book history FTW! 👓📖
medium.com/the-sundial-...
glimmer of good news! depaul's president insisted that students vacate their encampment by sunday but they remain in place and safe from the cops blockclubchicago.org/2024/05/12/d...
DePaul Students Pledge To Keep Encampment After Talks With University Reach 'Impasse'
DePaul University and pro-Palestinian student protesters paused talks Saturday after the university asked students to dismantle the camp by Sunday.
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May 13, 2024 at 5:54 PM
glimmer of good news! depaul's president insisted that students vacate their encampment by sunday but they remain in place and safe from the cops blockclubchicago.org/2024/05/12/d...