Heidi Hanrahan
@heidihanrahan.bsky.social
Coming soon: _American Women Writers of the 19th Century_
https://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/product/American-Women-Writers-of-the-19th-Century/
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Heidi Hanrahan
@heidihanrahan.bsky.social
· Dec 20
Very excited to say that this is coming soon(ish): mcfarlandbooks.com/product/Amer...
I first read this poem in my father's final days. It took my breath away. Tomorrow will mark one week since we lost him, but I know he's still with us. So grateful to have (finally!) read _The People's Project_, edited by @theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, where it appears.
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I first read this poem in my father's final days. It took my breath away. Tomorrow will mark one week since we lost him, but I know he's still with us. So grateful to have (finally!) read _The People's Project_, edited by @theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, where it appears.
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It's time to celebrate a little-known writer called... Willa Cather! 🎉 (Born on this day in 1873!)
Read much about Cather with:
- Melissa Homestead's "Willa Cather in the Denver Times in 1915 and New Evidence of the Origins of The Professor's House": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Read much about Cather with:
- Melissa Homestead's "Willa Cather in the Denver Times in 1915 and New Evidence of the Origins of The Professor's House": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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December 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It's time to celebrate a little-known writer called... Willa Cather! 🎉 (Born on this day in 1873!)
Read much about Cather with:
- Melissa Homestead's "Willa Cather in the Denver Times in 1915 and New Evidence of the Origins of The Professor's House": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Read much about Cather with:
- Melissa Homestead's "Willa Cather in the Denver Times in 1915 and New Evidence of the Origins of The Professor's House": muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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When a poem becomes a prayer.
Siegfried Sassoon (1934)
Siegfried Sassoon (1934)
December 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
When a poem becomes a prayer.
Siegfried Sassoon (1934)
Siegfried Sassoon (1934)
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Today we celebrate the birthday of... Louisa May Alcott! 🎈
You can read our latest forum on Alcott, edited by Max L. Chapnick and Eagan Dean for the 15th anniversary of Little Women: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... ✨
But also:
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You can read our latest forum on Alcott, edited by Max L. Chapnick and Eagan Dean for the 15th anniversary of Little Women: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... ✨
But also:
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November 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Today we celebrate the birthday of... Louisa May Alcott! 🎈
You can read our latest forum on Alcott, edited by Max L. Chapnick and Eagan Dean for the 15th anniversary of Little Women: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... ✨
But also:
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You can read our latest forum on Alcott, edited by Max L. Chapnick and Eagan Dean for the 15th anniversary of Little Women: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... ✨
But also:
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thinking of her today
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
thinking of her today
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Trying to get us to advertise as: "No AI, small classes, people-first." Or something similar.
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Trying to get us to advertise as: "No AI, small classes, people-first." Or something similar.
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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Man, do you know what rules? Actually loving other people, reminding us that we deserve a government that cares for us, and inspiring us to meet our neighbors.
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Man, do you know what rules? Actually loving other people, reminding us that we deserve a government that cares for us, and inspiring us to meet our neighbors.
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Chuck Schumer is a sentence.
November 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Chuck Schumer is a sentence.
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“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement.
After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”
After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”
November 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement.
After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”
After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”
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2/2 By the window, forever pouring that careful little stream of milk. What was hanging, earlier, on that nail behind her, or at the other nail-holes on that wall? Johannes Vermeer's quiet mysteries.
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
2/2 By the window, forever pouring that careful little stream of milk. What was hanging, earlier, on that nail behind her, or at the other nail-holes on that wall? Johannes Vermeer's quiet mysteries.
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Born on this day in 1632, in Delft, the incomparable painter Johannes Vermeer. What he can do here with the color blue! It's miraculous. The mysteries of that window are infinite.
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Born on this day in 1632, in Delft, the incomparable painter Johannes Vermeer. What he can do here with the color blue! It's miraculous. The mysteries of that window are infinite.
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It's only fitting that Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, author of many ghost stories and a play about the Salem trials, would have been born on Halloween! (October 31, 1852) 🎃
Read more about her with:
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Read more about her with:
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October 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM
It's only fitting that Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, author of many ghost stories and a play about the Salem trials, would have been born on Halloween! (October 31, 1852) 🎃
Read more about her with:
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Read more about her with:
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As much as I care about what happens in classrooms, colleges achieve much by containing a range of multimodal, liberatory spaces.
Hutchins said, “At the least, the U.S. university renders the scions of Robber Barons harmless to society.”
That’s no small thing.
No wonder they wish to destroy it.
Hutchins said, “At the least, the U.S. university renders the scions of Robber Barons harmless to society.”
That’s no small thing.
No wonder they wish to destroy it.
October 31, 2025 at 1:32 AM
As much as I care about what happens in classrooms, colleges achieve much by containing a range of multimodal, liberatory spaces.
Hutchins said, “At the least, the U.S. university renders the scions of Robber Barons harmless to society.”
That’s no small thing.
No wonder they wish to destroy it.
Hutchins said, “At the least, the U.S. university renders the scions of Robber Barons harmless to society.”
That’s no small thing.
No wonder they wish to destroy it.
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It's time for a celebration of Sarah Josepha Hale, born on the October 24, 1788! 🎈
Enjoy readings of her work with:
- "Embodied Pedagogies: Femininity, Diversity, and Community in Anthologies of Women's Writing, 1836–2009" by Karen L. Kilcup - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 1/3
Enjoy readings of her work with:
- "Embodied Pedagogies: Femininity, Diversity, and Community in Anthologies of Women's Writing, 1836–2009" by Karen L. Kilcup - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 1/3
October 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
It's time for a celebration of Sarah Josepha Hale, born on the October 24, 1788! 🎈
Enjoy readings of her work with:
- "Embodied Pedagogies: Femininity, Diversity, and Community in Anthologies of Women's Writing, 1836–2009" by Karen L. Kilcup - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 1/3
Enjoy readings of her work with:
- "Embodied Pedagogies: Femininity, Diversity, and Community in Anthologies of Women's Writing, 1836–2009" by Karen L. Kilcup - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 1/3
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Higher ed is struggling, and in that struggle I am reminded that those of us who work in HE often have no clue about the differences between types of institutions, their cultures, challenges, and resources (R1, SLAC, Comm. Coll, Regional Pub, etc.). HE is not a monolithic sector.
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Higher ed is struggling, and in that struggle I am reminded that those of us who work in HE often have no clue about the differences between types of institutions, their cultures, challenges, and resources (R1, SLAC, Comm. Coll, Regional Pub, etc.). HE is not a monolithic sector.
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Make your jokes about Faculty Senate meetings (we do!) but governance structures prevent costly fad-chasing! Small-d democratic procedures esp union workplace democracy *should* deflate overinvestment in the latest "innovation"
The centrist democratic position between 2006-2016ish was all “lean orgs!” And I kept saying, “oh yes sure make it easier for stable institutions to break.” We need to own how much our bleating about bureaucratic efficiencies created an easier-to-capture university.
Everyone wants to streamline bureaucracy, but maybe we'd get better results by making it *harder* for university admins to chase fads. Imagine the money we'd save with a mandatory cooling-off period before launching a "Center for Blockchain Studies" or dumping millions into the latest edtech toy.
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Make your jokes about Faculty Senate meetings (we do!) but governance structures prevent costly fad-chasing! Small-d democratic procedures esp union workplace democracy *should* deflate overinvestment in the latest "innovation"
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If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
The danger is that degrees are regarded as worthless as nobody believes students have acquired any skills any more, at least not ones they couldn't have hot from just going into an office job from school.
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
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Happy (not quite) birthday to Hannah Crafts, whose precise date of birth is unknown (circa 1830), but who still deserves to be celebrated!
Read about Crafts with:
- "Addition by Subtraction: Toward a Literary History of Racial Representation" by Gene Andrew Jarrett: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Read about Crafts with:
- "Addition by Subtraction: Toward a Literary History of Racial Representation" by Gene Andrew Jarrett: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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October 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Happy (not quite) birthday to Hannah Crafts, whose precise date of birth is unknown (circa 1830), but who still deserves to be celebrated!
Read about Crafts with:
- "Addition by Subtraction: Toward a Literary History of Racial Representation" by Gene Andrew Jarrett: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Read about Crafts with:
- "Addition by Subtraction: Toward a Literary History of Racial Representation" by Gene Andrew Jarrett: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Leading a "book club" discussion on TKaM next week at my public library for Banned Books Week. Tempted to play this...
October 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Leading a "book club" discussion on TKaM next week at my public library for Banned Books Week. Tempted to play this...