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Dr Anna Hegland
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PhD on violence, language, embodiment, and EM drama. Writing and Tutoring Center director, adjunct, and social media manager. Snug’s mom. Being unserious about books, Middleton, and the Cubs. Co-founder of MEMSlib. she/her. Opinions my own.
Caught in the storm of “remove me from this listserv” emails, waiting for someone to realize the link to unsubscribe is at the very top of every message sent out to the listserv. #AcademicSky
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Sometimes I feel like I’m getting nothing done, at work or academically, and then my weekly Grammarly report from the college really puts things in perspective
November 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Stepped on an extremely crunchy leaf on my walk this afternoon, 12/10 very satisfying
November 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
An amazing World Series, but I’m bummed for the Jays.
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Happy licensing of this second Maiden’s Tragedy to all who celebrate!
October 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Working at a small college means that when your coworker gets an email from someone with a deep interest in 17th-century metaphysical poetry, he immediately messages you to say “this sounds like a thing you’d know about, right?” (Yes, of course.)
October 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I have such a wild class this semester — we keep having discussions where they say things like “but what even is a soul??” and then we completely depart from my lesson plan.
October 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I like an extra innings World Series game as much as the next person, but I have a conference in the morning, guys. Please.
October 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I’m fine, it’s fine, we’re fine
October Michael Busch hits different.
October 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Well, that worked. More anxiety tomorrow!
Come on, Cubbies, I want to experience hours-long anxiety again tomorrow!!
October 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Come on, Cubbies, I want to experience hours-long anxiety again tomorrow!!
October 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Got my first choice of #Shax2026 seminar, the only problem is that I don’t remember my idea for the paper I wanted to write… #AcademicSky
October 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Absolutely devastated to report that the Marketing and Communications office called me “the perfect interviewee” this morning, so I will probably never know peace again
October 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Reposted by Dr Anna Hegland
Pleased to see that my review of the new collection “Atrocity and Early Modern Drama” is now up on the English Studies website! It was a pleasure to engage with this volume over the summer, and it’s a collection I look forward to revisiting in my own scholarship.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Atrocity and Early Modern Drama
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I’ve been training for this question, I just didn’t expect it in a conversation about Halloween costumes for a toddler. #EarlyModern #AcademicSky
September 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Today I introduced some unsuspecting freshmen to Paradise Lost 😈
September 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Pleased to see that my review of the new collection “Atrocity and Early Modern Drama” is now up on the English Studies website! It was a pleasure to engage with this volume over the summer, and it’s a collection I look forward to revisiting in my own scholarship.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Atrocity and Early Modern Drama
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I just repotted my new olive tree in a lovely pot, I’ve put out the autumn placemats, I’m listening to the Cubs win, and the sun is shining. Does tomorrow have to be Monday??
September 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Today, September 9, 2025, I have finished all of the grading for my class and for my two staff training modules. This will never happen again, so I’m choosing to celebrate.
September 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I don’t want to complete my workday expenses, I want to be free
September 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Shared my availability with the tutors and writing fellows and then said “except this Friday, when I will be out all morning so I can take my cat to the vet.”

The gasps they gusped. The horrified looks on their faces. She is getting her annual rabies vaccine, my dudes, chill.
August 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The best part of today was when one of my writing fellows gleefully told me that he spent his summer learning how to disable every possible instance of copilot on his new laptop
August 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The bird feeder has arrived.
I was actually working on my syllabus, but now I’m researching bird feeders for Snug. #Caturday
August 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I have spent the last 12 weeks telling people to enroll in the conference and yet I waited til the final 3 weeks of eligibility to do so myself: an autobiography
August 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I was actually working on my syllabus, but now I’m researching bird feeders for Snug. #Caturday
August 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM