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Megan Heffernan

is an Associate Professor of English at DePaul University, where she teaches early modern literature, poetry and poetics, book and media history, and Shakespeare. Her research focuses on the relationship between literary form and the material history of 16th- and 17th-century England. Her first book, Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2021.
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A guest post by Megan Heffernan Working in the Folger Shakespeare Library this year has opened my eyes to the important role that research centers play in shaping knowledge. If this sounds like a truism, bear with me for a…