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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 1d

go for broke and hit 19. only 5 left to knock out tomorrow before breakfast.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · Sep 5

paperback coming early 2026! ✨

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Sep 5

HEROES chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Demonstrators block entrance at Broadview ICE facility: 'They know Chicago doesn’t want ICE in our city'

Protesters staged a sit-in and stopped vehicles trying to come in and out of the facility Friday morning. Earlier police ordered tents they had set up to be removed.

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Aug 15

y'all are heroes! thank you so much!

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Jun 9

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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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Jun 3

i almost sent you this!

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · May 21

excellent!

Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Apr 7

dude on the right is sinister AF. def my kill

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Apr 3

in order from right to left? i disagree.

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Mar 31

oh this is good! my course packet is locked down, alas, but next time i'll add this. this time, i have gunn's "the missing" in a unit on elegies

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Mar 28

BRILLIANT. whitman in general, really

Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Mar 28

crash writing a new syllabus for intro to poetry (starting monday!): any fav poems for thinking about communities, social groups, collectives?

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Jan 30

. . . and dirt bag medievalisms: mic drop

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Jan 30

🔥🔥🔥 Grateful to you and all the contributors for joining this convo!

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Dec 10

my employer does this while addressing me as "ms." not "dr." HARD NOPE.

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Nov 11

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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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Nov 6

today's teaching is /convent of pleasure/--thanks, past megan

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Oct 31

pics or it didn't happen

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Oct 29

we are twins in everything in life, including this. literally stalling on 3 papers right now

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Oct 29

u of c is moving towards NTT faculty strike and seeking solidarity, especially from alums. please consider signing and sharing!
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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · Oct 24

Administrators at Harvard are developing “unprecedented” modes for disciplining faculty.

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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Oct 22

it's also the first weekend of winter quarter which is disastrous timing

Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Oct 22

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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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · Oct 22

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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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · Sep 16

remarkable quote 2: “An appeals board made up of professors at this university unanimously found that DePaul violated my academic freedom and the provost accepted the appeal, finding my academic freedom was violated,” said d’Aquino, who was fired last spring
chicago.suntimes.com/israel-hamas...

DePaul adjunct professor fired for optional assignment on how 'genocide in Gaza' impacts health and biology

Students delivered a petition calling for the reinstatement of Anne d’Aquino on Thursday morning. She was fired on May 8 after she offered an optional assignment, asking students to analyze the impact...

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