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Danica Savonick
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Education, social justice, feminist worldmaking, literature, pedagogy, technology | English Prof, SUNY Cortland | OPEN ADMISSIONS (Duke UP, 2024)
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🎙✨ Episode #2 is live!
What does academic freedom really mean, and why now? 
Deep convo w/ Moustafa Bayoumi & Michelle Fine, hosted by Shelly Eversley 🔥💬
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba842N-OJCI&list=PLs4s4YzyzpmGp8pMRWPxR9H4rds1715Cm\
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#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #CUNY ✊🏽🗽
FI Podcast Ep. 1:2 - “What Does Academic Freedom Really Mean?”
What does academic freedom really mean—and why does it matter more than ever?Join us for Episode #2 of the Futures Initiative podcast as Faculty Chair Shelly...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
I took inventory. It looked good.
In 2025 We Showed Up: Notes on Resistance to the Regime
Ayoung white woman in yoga clothes berating masked ICE agents in a parking lot this spring. A pope speaking up again and again for immigrants. Furious judges dressing down the Trump administration and...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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dem8z.bsky.social
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
October 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
danicasavonick.bsky.social
I can’t wait for this book!
rcolesworthy.bsky.social Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · Oct 7
I’ve been super excited to share this. The full TOC for TEACHING POETRY NOW, ed by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud, is online & chock full of assignments, experiences, and resources from a range of college classrooms. Out in Feb, available for preorder now.

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Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Preface: Editors' Note on the Now Introduction Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud Part 1: How We Think About Poems 1. A Conversation on Dinétics Esther G. Belin and Jake Skeets 2. Post-Craft Michael Leong 3. Unsettling Modernist Poetry Erin Kappeler 4. Legacies of Empire in the Western Poetic Line: The Problem of Caesura Heather H. Yeung 5. Unpacking the Interpretive Toolbox: Historical Poetics in Introductory Courses Caroline Gelmi 6. "I hear it now"; or, Teaching Students to Read Poems in Novels Annelise Chick and Gabrielle Stecher 7. Moving "Rooms" Across Borders: Putting Pressure on the Stanza Reem Abbas and Heather H. Yeung 8. Under the Sonnet's Menace: Helping Students Navigate Race, Constraint, and Rage in the Post-Romantic Sonnet Anton Vander Zee 9. Rawest Radical Material: Teaching Poetry's Diction William Fogarty 10. Reading, Misreading, and Rereading "We Real Cool" Mike Chasar Part 1 Cluster: Ideas on Teaching Lyric 11. Retheorizing Lyric via the Pedagogy of Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Poetry Chris Chan 12. Lyric Borders: Reading and Writing with Gloria Anzaldúa's New Mestiza Leah Huizar 13. Lorenzo Thomas's Griot Lyric: Reading Persona and Race in the Digital Age Lukas Moe 14. Lyric After Lyricization: Learning and Unlearning the Lyric / in the Activist Classroom Anastasia Nikolis Part 2: What We Do With Poems 15. Poetry as Empathetic Praxis: Black Poetics and the Creative Writing Classroom Monique-Adelle Callahan D. 16. Performing Desire: Collaborating with Sex Worker Poets in the Composition Classroom Philippa Chun 17. Oral Poetries Are (Not) Lost to Us: Ethnopoetics in the Digital Age Kenneth Sherwood 18. Against Mastery: Working Through the Desire for Order in Teaching M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! Jess A. Goldberg 19. Future-Facing Archives: Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Intertextual Poetic Past Sarah Nance 20. Cultivating a Culture of Enjoyment in the Poetry Classroom Rachel B. Griffis 21. Reframing Modernism: Creative Composition and the Analysis of Modernist Poetry at an HBCU Candis Pizzetta 22. Whose Voice Matters? Reading Aloud Across Language and Ability Eileen Sperry 23. Reimagining the Poet's Procedure: Imitation as Literary Analysis Lizzy LeRud 24. From Stifling to Expansive: Reimagining Poetry Teaching and Learning with The South African Poetry Project Sooriagandhi Naidoo, Toni Gennrich, and Eunice Phiri 25. Transgressive Teaching and Subverting Censorship in the Dual-Credit Classroom Ronnie K. Stephens 26. The Florence Poetry Collective: Death Row as a Site of Poetic Production and Expressive Sovereignty Joe Lockard Part 2 Cluster: Project-Based Learning 27. Engaging Poetry: The Review as Critique and Conversation Victoria Chang and Dean Rader 28. City, State, and Self: A Collaborative Book Project James Innis McDougall 29. Experimental Indexes: Quantifying Poetic Patterns and Project-Based Reading Nick Sturm 30. Teaching Anti-Racist Research Practices Beyond Research Papers: Emma Lazarus, Esther Schor, and My First-Year Composition Students Mollie Barnes 31. Student Research, Digital Humanities, and Cross-Campus Collaboration: Building Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde Susan Rosenbaum, Suzanne W. Churchill, Linda A. Kinnahan List of Contributors
October 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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I think that I will host a virtual discussion group on this book in January. www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi... - If anyone might be interested, let me know. It would be one session.
Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College
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October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
danicasavonick.bsky.social
Getting to share this book with my grad students (most of whom are high school English teachers, all of whom are brilliant readers) has been one of the highlights of 2025- a reminder that thinking, reading, and imagining with others is a kind of paradise 🌱
September 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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What skills do young people need for the future of work in the age of AI? Critical thinking, judgment, communication, the ability to learn new things & adaptability. If only there were higher ed departments dedicated to these very things...!!!

(Adding to all my syllabi)
www.npr.org/2025/08/30/n...
What are the skills critical for the future of work
A study from Stanford says AI is taking jobs and making it harder for young people to find work. Tech education company founder Sinead Bovell talks about the skills that will be critical for the futur...
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August 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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It was such a pleasure to talk about my book OPEN ADMISSIONS on @palumboliu.bsky.social's brilliant podcast Speaking Out of Place! Our conversation is available on Spotify and Apple (links below). speakingoutofplace.com/2025/08/23/t...
The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College: A Conversation with Danica Savonick | Speaking Out OF Place
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August 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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palumboliu.bsky.social
Savonick shows how Bambara, Jordan, Lorde and Rich each came to find radical teaching methods in collaboration with newly admitted Black and Puerto Rican students, and how their experiences with this new pedagogy affected their creative and other writing in profound and lasting manners.
August 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Thank you @danicasavonick.bsky.social for this precise, thoughtful review of *The Sisterhood.* I admire the hell out *Open Admissions,* so this means a great deal to me!

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August 19, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.”

bell hooks’ fantastic, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Providing a necessary reminder of the power of teaching, how teaching transforms us all.
July 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
danicasavonick.bsky.social
Can't remember the last time I was this excited about a course -- Radical Women Writers, coming this fall!
July 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
danicasavonick.bsky.social
Absolutely loved this book by Leigh Claire La Berge! Part memoir, travelogue, and critique of capitalism (all of my favorite things), it’s also hilarious and (all too rare) a page turner! Sad to have finished it but very glad it exists.
July 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
danicasavonick.bsky.social
HELL YEAH!!!!
June 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
danicasavonick.bsky.social
@jewonwoo.bsky.social & I are co-editing a special issue of Reviews in DH on teaching #digitalhumanities in community colleges! Favorite DH projects related to this topic that we should feature? Please send them our way! #DH #ReviewsinDH
June 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
danicasavonick.bsky.social
A tiny bright light amidst so much awfulness… I got tenure! ✨ And I vow to use every inch of it to resist the fascism, authoritarianism & plutocratic violence that is terrorizing so many.
June 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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If you’ve never been to a protest and you’re watching coverage with trepidation, I urge you—if you can—to challenge yourself to turn out for one. There’s anger, for sure, but the overwhelming feeling is joy in your community, admiration of your neighbors, and the real power of numbers.
June 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Just starting @danicasavonick.bsky.social 's "Open Admissions" book, and the quotations I wrote down already comprise half of the introduction.
#Pedagogy
Cover of Savonick's book, Open Admissions: the poetics and pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich in the era of Free college. The cover is a rich purple, with photos of the 4 women / teachers / authors studies.
June 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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My students are the first undergrads to have their reviews of digital research projects published in Reviews in DH! Read their reviews of projects on Black women writers, gender representation in novels, 19th C disability & 1970s Paris.
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Vol. 6, No. 5: May 2025 - Reviews in the Classroom · Reviews in Digital Humanities
Vol. 6, No. 5 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universit...
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May 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Don’t miss the editors’ note, where our guest editors reflect on their process and the value of project reviewing in the classroom reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/editors-... #ReviewsInDH
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Editors' Note: May 2025
Editors' note on the May 2025 issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities, guest edited by Danica Savonick, R.C.Miessler, Lu Wang, and Kalani Craig
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May 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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OPEN ADMISSIONS by @danicasavonick.bsky.social "is a crucial and timely reminder not to overlook the work of our contemporary activist teacher-poets." —Jen Ha in the newest issue of #HarvardEdReview: https://bit.ly/42q5KJL
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May 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
danicasavonick.bsky.social
So glad to learn that NEH funds have been reallocated to build a “National Garden of American Heroes” featuring life-size sculptures 🤦‍♀️ 🙄
May 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Why are the worst paying careers mostly the ones that involve helping people, whereas the highest paying careers often reward avarice and selfishness?
The least lucrative degrees for mid-career earnings are: Early childhood education ($49,000) Elementary education ($53,000) Social services ($54,000) General education ($55,000) Special education ($55,000) Secondary education (58,000) Theology and religion ($60,000) Miscellaneous education ($60,000) Family and consumer sciences ($62,000) Health services ($65,000)
May 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Because it’s a Con

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50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.
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May 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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A new study by the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute finds that one in four trans Americans has been forced to relocate to other states/countries.

48% have already moved or want to do so. 82% of those surveyed cited relocation costs as a barrier.
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Trans Americans, Citing Hostile Politics, Seek Safer Homes, Survey Finds — Assigned
Leading Off: A poll highlights “extreme pressure.” A quilt pleads for safety. The rabid right revels in harassment. The top story lines as the week begins.
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May 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM