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Megan Heffernan

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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The graphic that the Book Cellar created for my conversation about my forthcoming novel Man Overboard! with @amrangowani.com this coming Tuesday 7/7 at 6:30 pm is a delight. See you there! RSVP at the link!
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
For DePaul, money is tight. But tight is relative: The university managed to come up with enough scratch to start construction this year on a $42 million basketball and athletics center on its Lincoln Park campus. chicago.suntimes.com/architecture...
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Cash-strapped DePaul closes the curtain on Downtown’s historic Reskin Theatre
The landmarked 1,400-seat Beaux-Arts playhouse was designed by Benjamin H. Marshall, one of Chicago's preeminent architects.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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DePaul Art Museum Advisory Board Calls on University to Save the Institution, Expressing ‘Anger, Frustration, and Deep Sadness’ Over Abrupt Closure
A scathing letter from the DePaul Art Museum advisory board calls on DePaul University to reverse its decision to close the museum.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
If you’re as incensed as everyone at DePaul is about the closing of the university art museum, consider signing this letter. Thanks for the support! openletter.earth/letter-oppos...
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Letter Opposing the Closing of DPAM
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Closure shows “there’s not a priority for the arts or the humanities” at DePaul, especially when the university is investing & developing other divisions...City Council approved DePaul’s plans for a $60 million basketball & athletics practice facility in December blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/d...
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DePaul Art Museum Closing In June: 'It's A Huge Loss'
The museum's final exhibits will open March 5. The decision to close was made "to ensure long-term financial sustainability for our university," DePaul's president announced Thursday.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
so, my employer is defunding libraries while building a $60 million gym to be used only by athletes . . . teams that have accepted bribes to lose games chicago.suntimes.com/college-spor...
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Former DePaul players and ex-Bull Antonio Blakeney charged in scheme to rig games
In the 70-page indictment, authorities say fixers recruited the college basketball players with "bribe payments" usually ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 per game.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A whole host of colleges & universities are using Trump as cover for shock doctrine cuts to faculty & staff, while diverting funds to public-private partnerships & SaaS contracts they hope will float rocky investing by trustees & endowment managers. Don't regurgitate their barely cogent rationales.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"universities are being infiltrated by a commercial industry that exploits students+faculty as data mines frenzy w/o consulting their faculty, collecting empirical data on whether gen AI is pedagogically useful, or pausing to inquire about the long-term impact" www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
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Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
😮 A university without a library ceases to be a university. Full stop. I’m flabbergasted that a “determination” about a library’s future — besides FUND IT AND STAFF IT — needs to be made by an institute of higher learning.
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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲
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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
paperback coming early 2026! ✨
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
HEROES chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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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 · 09/06/2025
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! newberry.slideroom.com?utm_source=C...
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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 · 11/11/2024
good day to break my wordle streak www.nycclc.org/news/2024-11...
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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 · 06/11/2024
today's teaching is /convent of pleasure/--thanks, past megan
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
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...
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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Administrators at Harvard are developing “unprecedented” modes for disciplining faculty.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
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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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Happy pub day to *Disrupted City* www.chapatimystery.com/archives/slo...
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Slow Burn Lahore Ends
what is the vertiginous chapati saying to me?
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
blockclubchicago.org/2024/09/16/d...
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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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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
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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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
Emily Drabinski reporting that this includes every librarian. www.tspr.org/tspr-local-n...
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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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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
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?
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Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social · 23/07/2024
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
“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
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 15/07/2024
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...
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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
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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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
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
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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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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
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...
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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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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
new author line for me
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 26/05/2024
my employer pulled this
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
Created this for an in-service day to explain the much-overlooked role private equity plays in higher education.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
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/...
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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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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
"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-...
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Spectacles of the Arizona Book History Group
by Brandi K. Adams
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 13/05/2024
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...
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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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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 12/05/2024
"Notes from Rob" offices.depaul.edu/president/no...
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2023-24 | Notes from Rob | President Robert L. Manuel | DePaul University, Chicago
Academic Resources
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
"The ordinary members of the university community are related to the Chicago Principles in something like the way that the employees of Procter & Gamble are related to the “values” described on its corporate website."
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Donkey Song? Usually I'd show you the unicorn volvelle in this fortune-telling book full of loud animals, but today's #WorldDonkeyDay. Here's a musical ass playing kettledrums! @NewberryLibrary (Case PT1795.W7 K87 1671) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...
Donkey playing drums woodcut, labeled Der Esel mit der Heerpaucken (Kettledrums)
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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
in which I try to parse the meaning of “principled neutrality”, long-standing forms of student repression, and why we should figure out what’s happening at Vanderbilt, the first and only university to expel anti-genocide protestors this spring proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/d...
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Discipline and Protest • Protean Magazine
Andy Hines writes with a critique of the systems of prestige at elite universities like Vanderbilt and Columbia, and how their structural self-interests align administrations against their students an...
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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
Hind’s Hall (in memory of Hind Rajab)—- apr 30, 2024
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
well done
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Matteo Pangallo @pangallo.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
An ad in the May 12, 1854 “Oregon Spectator”…
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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Big Con in Higher Ed: Thur, 3/28, 7pm ET Join in a conversation to learn how private consulting firms are transforming the university and how to fight back.   Register at bit.ly/bigcon <<<<<< Co-sponsored by HELU, @lawcha.bsky.social, UCW-GA, and #LaborSpring @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
For part of spring break I went down a research rabbit hole involving trompe l'oeil paintings & prints in the #c19. So I want to share with you this amazing specimen by Louis Leopold Boilly, featuring a cat (who resembles my Mr Bean!) as the chaos agent who has turned surface into depth. #catpics
The back of a painting on canvas. We see a fluffy grey cat who has pushed through the canvas, creating a tear.  Through the tear we also a bowl with a bottle and some sort of log.  The cat is contemplating a pair of drying fish suspended on a string attached to the back part of the canvas's frame.
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
yesssssss
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Megan Heffernan @thecompass.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
blockclubchicago.org/2024/03/06/h...
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Here Are Chicago’s 7 Most Endangered Buildings
The buildings — including Downtown office towers, an Art Deco high school and a five-story bakery — face a variety of threats including fire damage, decades of divestment and looming redevelopment pro...
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 03/03/2024
“The ‘enrollment cliff’ is a racist dog whistle.” Here's how it works (I know, threads suck here) 1. It is much more accurate to call this a 'shift' than a 'cliff.' The number of college-eligible graduates is not going to change. The only sharp decline is among white-identified prospective students
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Renaissance Side-Eye Recently seen in the wild at #NewberryLibrary
Portrait engraving reading Il Cavalier Marino
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 21/02/2024
Apparently ChatGPT had a breakdown last night. We're living in a pretty weird science fiction novel lately, but I cannot lie — I love this subgenre. Delaney-esque metafictional shit.
Don't know the source; a conversation with ChatGPT when it notoriously went off the rails last night.
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