Daniel Hefko

Poet, teacher, researcher. He/him.

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Update: The embargo has now been reinstated until Tuesday, June 02, 2026.

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Devotees of Edith Wharton may be pleased to know that CUNY has lifted the embargo on Susan Barile’s dissertation, which makes available in transcription for the first time the complete correspondence between Wharton and Bernard Berenson.  Online here: https://t.co/5fuvshHbpY

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In July of 2019 I posted a thread here criticizing a particular academic publisher of really bad research practices. Around that time Emily Hanford was beginning the research that led to her powerful podcast (partly about that same publisher) "Sold a Story." Highly recommended.

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I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

–Emily Dickinson

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On this day eighty-nine years ago, Edith Wharton wrote that she had finished “Roman Fever.” Nine days earlier Mussolini and Hitler met for the first time in Venice.

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@seeshespeak is it possible that this tweet is the way that you're first learning that the title of your most recent book is the correct response to a clue on today's episode of Jeopardy!?

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@seeshespeak Capped at 26 students per class.

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@seeshespeak My most absurd schedule was 2020-21. Community College, FYW, designated writing intensive courses. 6/6 load. 141 students each semester. Impossible.

[Nozlee Samadzadeh @nzle]

I wrote a letter to the publisher from my work email (again) and it feels awful to work here (again).

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It was jarring when this book came in the mail some years ago—German publishers selling Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever” with a still from a film of a novel by E.M. Forster. Even more jarring to learn today that Julian Sands, who played George Emerson, has been missing for 13 days.

[Transatlantic Literary Women (TLW) @atlantlitwomen]

Join us for our first talk of 2023! We’ll be celebrating Wharton’s birthday in a joint event with @EdithWhartonSoc and @dmcampbellwsu 🎉 🍰 23rd January, Zoom, 5pm. Free and open to all! Details below #TeawithTLW https://t.co/NJDbV36Xsg

[EmilyJOrlando @EmilyJOrlando]

Friends at libraries and bookstores, please consider adopting this title. #EdithWharton #TheMount #EdithWhartonReview #Literature #BloomsburyAcademic⭐️📙✍🏼👏🏼💫👏🏼📙 https://t.co/GWb1oUYvpv

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@dmcampbellwsu @LauraLaffrado @EdithWhartonSoc Here’s where I first saw that photo misattributed:
https://t.co/K9G7LSWk7A. The woman in the picture is Wharton’s niece Beatrix Farrand: https://t.co/SGG7X72agd

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@dmcampbellwsu I was leaning in that direction too. Love your insight into alliterative patterns in the poem.

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@dmcampbellwsu No worries :)

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My trouble with transcription is I’m forever inserting question marks in square brackets. An object lesson: Gianfranca Balestra (2016) transcribes the 4th word in the 5th line of Edith Wharton’s poem—“mindless.” Irene Goldman-Price (2019) transcribes it “windless.” Who's right?

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@drlaurarattray Thank you, Laura!

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A fortnight ago I woke up from a ketoacidotic coma that had lasted for the better part of two days. A week later I was at the Chicago Public Library Archive reading Mark Richard’s adaptation of “Roman Fever.” Grateful to be back to writing & researching with renewed purpose.