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Laura Heffernan

@laheffernan.bsky.social
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English Prof at UNF (Jacksonville, FL). Co-author, The Teaching Archive (U Chicago Press, 2021). Working lately w Jax archivists, historians, writers, and students.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks to @dhnow.bsky.social for picking up the Embedded Pedagogies book announcement! Text is openly available: buff.ly/kQau5oV Launch event on 10/5 at 1:00 ET: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/17640296
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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hey! Just sent off the final version of my book coming out next year-ish, so excited!
title page for "The Quiet Fight: Marriage, Time, and the Fiction of Love Trouble," together with a table of contents
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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just re-upping that @laheffernan.bsky.social and I are proposing an in-person seminar called "Aesthetics for Amateurs" for ACLA in Houston this May. Give it a gander and considering submitting by September 22! www.acla.org/seminar/d6b4...
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View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association
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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s Moby-Dick, and @hesterblum.bsky.social’s podcast is going to help me overcome this once and for all.
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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
You might be interested to check out some of John Hollander‘s exercises that we published on creative critical . net creativecritical.net/daily-themes...
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Daily Themes - Creative-Critical
In 1979, the celebrated poet, scholar and critic, John Hollander took over the long-standing Daily Themes course at Yale and, drawing on his vast knowledge of literature, turned it into an outstanding...
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Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Stanley Cavell + Paradise Lost with some Cronenberg at the end, all with a delightful couple, what more could we want?
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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So looking forward to talking with Nick and @ncte.org about the past and present of high school English!
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Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Moving offices for the first time in years like Lord give me the strength to throw away course packs I made in 2007 🙏
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Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I took a break from hate listening to Silicon Valley brocasts to revel in this absolute joy for 55 minutes. I feared this show would make me feel inadequate in some way but it's lovely and fun and made me think thoughts.
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Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This -- by @emilysteinlight.bsky.social -- is so good. Did not realize how much Victorian Studies, like American Studies, was a post-war US interdisciplinary project -- and this really makes sense of some things for me! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Victorian Studies and the American State | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Victorian Studies and the American State - Volume 141 Issue 2
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Just finished an advance copy of Emily Ruth Capper's Happening Pedagogy: Allan Kaprow’s Experiments in Instruction, which is such a smart, heartening complement to Rachel Sagner Buurma + Laura Heffernan's The Teaching Archive, reminding us that so much impt thinking happens in the CLASSROOM...
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Happening Pedagogy
How Allan Kaprow’s happenings fused modernist pedagogy with an emerging college culture. In Happening Pedagogy, art historian Emily Ruth Capper argues that Allan Kaprow’s famed invention of the happen...
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Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
For everyone trying to login to eGMS Reach to see their NEH message, it just says that they are notifying us of the court’s Opinion and Order — “NEH will update you with further information as it becomes available.”
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Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Already on my fall syllabus!
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 30/01/2025
According to records obtained by The Chronicle, one sociology course was said to be "too focused on women." Another, on labor and globalization? "Too focused on struggles/challenges of those in low wage jobs." How a sweeping Florida law is redefining colleges' gen ed curriculum. chroni.cl/40SqGZ7
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How Florida Scrubbed ‘Identity Politics’ From Universities’ General-Education Curricula
A sweeping new law required vast curricular change, leading to a confusing implementation that has professors contemplating the limits of their autonomy.
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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
AWARDEE SPOTLIGHT | The University of North Florida is one of eight higher ed institutions nationwide to receive a Preservation and Access Education and Training grant from NEH in 2025. The $350,000 award will establish a three-year Archivist-in-Training program. Read more: ow.ly/bFCR50ULcP0
A black and white photograph of philanthropist Eartha M.M. White
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Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Senior seminar students reading Erin Marie Lynch poems (from Removal Acts) + DACS (also poetic!) and writing inspired object descriptions of an item from their own/their family’s “archive” this week.
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Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
NEH grants are out! Humanities + Special Collections faculty at UNF are so pleased to have funding from @nehgov.bsky.social Preservation and Access Division to train UNF students to help process and reflect on local historical materials for the next 3 years!
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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
As I argued at the #MLA25 panel on "Saving Literary History," "plotting the rise of AP English alongside the decline of the undergraduate English major over the last two decades produces something like a perfect X, and does much to explain why literary history...needs saving in the first place."
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Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Lauren and I are proposing a New Deal panel for MSA 2025. Even if you're already committed or won't be attending MSA (Boston this year), please get in touch if you're interested in this topic!
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Laura Heffernan @laheffernan.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Today in Modern Novel!
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