Megan Heffernan

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

paperback coming early 2026! ✨

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.

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

y'all are heroes! thank you so much!

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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i almost sent you this!

excellent!

dude on the right is sinister AF. def my kill

in order from right to left? i disagree.

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

BRILLIANT. whitman in general, really

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

. . . and dirt bag medievalisms: mic drop

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

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

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...

good day to break my wordle streak www.nycclc.org/news/2024-11...

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

pics or it didn't happen

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

u of c is moving towards NTT faculty strike and seeking solidarity, especially from alums. please consider signing and sharing!
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Administrators at Harvard are developing “unprecedented” modes for disciplining faculty.

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

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 . . .

Happy pub day to *Disrupted City* www.chapatimystery.com/archives/slo...

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...

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
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remarkable quote 1: “It’s grown people bullying the children,” said Freeman, who was visibly emotional after he spoke at the rally. “I think it’s time to choose to be on the right side of history and hold these people accountable, no matter if they move me or anybody else from this school.”

DePaul Students Rally Around Security Guard Who Says He Was Removed For Being ‘Pro-Palestine’ Terrance Freeman, who worked for an outside security company, said he was fired after university officials reprimanded him for taking a picture with pro-Palestine demonstrators.

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hahahaha. this also probably means that it's easier for the uni to claim ownership of the "intellectual property" of the course, such as it is.

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!

this scenario lowkey fills me with terror. you and i are very different teachers