Danica Savonick
@danicasavonick.bsky.social
Education, social justice, feminist worldmaking, literature, pedagogy, technology | English Prof, SUNY Cortland | OPEN ADMISSIONS (Duke UP, 2024)
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
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 🌱
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
Can't remember the last time I was this excited about a course -- Radical Women Writers, coming this fall!
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
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.
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
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.
Excited for my very smart students to present their research on Black women writers! Join us on Tuesday, February 18 at 5 pm EST (Zoom) (which is also Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison's birthday!)
February 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Excited for my very smart students to present their research on Black women writers! Join us on Tuesday, February 18 at 5 pm EST (Zoom) (which is also Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison's birthday!)
The @modernlanguage.bsky.social Digital Humanities Forum is sponsoring an exciting lineup of panels for this January's conference in New Orleans! Topics include AI & ethics, Latinx DH+DH on occupied lands, responsible datasets & DH pedagogy. Please join us! #MLA25 #MLA2025
November 22, 2024 at 2:40 PM
The @modernlanguage.bsky.social Digital Humanities Forum is sponsoring an exciting lineup of panels for this January's conference in New Orleans! Topics include AI & ethics, Latinx DH+DH on occupied lands, responsible datasets & DH pedagogy. Please join us! #MLA25 #MLA2025
Got to visit my book OPEN ADMISSIONS (& all its beautiful friends) at the @dukepress.bsky.social exhibit at #NWSA 😍🌺
November 16, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Got to visit my book OPEN ADMISSIONS (& all its beautiful friends) at the @dukepress.bsky.social exhibit at #NWSA 😍🌺
The introduction to my book OPEN ADMISSIONS is now available for free on the @dukepress.bsky.social website!
Use the code E24SVNCK for 30% off the book!
www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
Use the code E24SVNCK for 30% off the book!
www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
June 5, 2024 at 2:25 PM
The introduction to my book OPEN ADMISSIONS is now available for free on the @dukepress.bsky.social website!
Use the code E24SVNCK for 30% off the book!
www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
Use the code E24SVNCK for 30% off the book!
www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
My book OPEN ADMISSIONS has a cover! Order using the code E24SVNCK for 30% off.
Many thanks to the @dukepress.bsky.social team for helping me share the stories of these activist teacher-poets!
www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
Many thanks to the @dukepress.bsky.social team for helping me share the stories of these activist teacher-poets!
www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
May 30, 2024 at 12:36 PM
My book OPEN ADMISSIONS has a cover! Order using the code E24SVNCK for 30% off.
Many thanks to the @dukepress.bsky.social team for helping me share the stories of these activist teacher-poets!
www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
Many thanks to the @dukepress.bsky.social team for helping me share the stories of these activist teacher-poets!
www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
My book, Open Admissions, is now available for pre-order! If you order before May 24 you can take advantage of Duke’s 50% off sale using the code MAY50!
www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
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May 17, 2024 at 1:20 PM
My book, Open Admissions, is now available for pre-order! If you order before May 24 you can take advantage of Duke’s 50% off sale using the code MAY50!
www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
Winter break 💕❄️📚
December 27, 2023 at 2:44 PM
Winter break 💕❄️📚
Please join us next week for "Teaching DH in Community Colleges" at #mla24! We have an all-star lineup 🤩✨ Friday, 1/5 @ 3:30, Marriott 401-403. @jewonwoo.bsky.social
December 26, 2023 at 2:18 PM
Please join us next week for "Teaching DH in Community Colleges" at #mla24! We have an all-star lineup 🤩✨ Friday, 1/5 @ 3:30, Marriott 401-403. @jewonwoo.bsky.social
& back to the alma mater we go!
November 27, 2023 at 5:07 PM
& back to the alma mater we go!
It’s done! I can’t believe it. 10 years in the making. Just submitted my final book manuscript & immediately burst into tears (of joy? I think?).
November 1, 2023 at 12:51 PM
It’s done! I can’t believe it. 10 years in the making. Just submitted my final book manuscript & immediately burst into tears (of joy? I think?).
So excited for our second Distinguished Voices in Literature event of the year: a reading by fiction author Raul Palma!
October 23, 2023 at 2:59 PM
So excited for our second Distinguished Voices in Literature event of the year: a reading by fiction author Raul Palma!
So honored & excited to be hosting Dr. Chelsea Mikael Frazier at SUNY Cortland tomorrow (Wednesday) @ 4:30 as part of our Distinguished Voices in Literature program! Please join us for her talk, "Black Feminist Ecology: Origins."
October 11, 2023 at 1:16 AM
So honored & excited to be hosting Dr. Chelsea Mikael Frazier at SUNY Cortland tomorrow (Wednesday) @ 4:30 as part of our Distinguished Voices in Literature program! Please join us for her talk, "Black Feminist Ecology: Origins."
This year I'm directing our visiting writers and scholars program, and I couldn't be more excited about our first event! Oct. 11 @ 4:30, Dr. Chelsea Mikael Frazier will give a talk on "Black Feminist Ecology: Origins." Please join us & spread the word!
September 22, 2023 at 2:33 PM
This year I'm directing our visiting writers and scholars program, and I couldn't be more excited about our first event! Oct. 11 @ 4:30, Dr. Chelsea Mikael Frazier will give a talk on "Black Feminist Ecology: Origins." Please join us & spread the word!
The assignment I’m most looking forward to this semester! Students are making 1 pg graphic memoirs inspired by Persepolis that connect their lives to broader social, historical, and political events. I made this one to show them an example (& to figure out how to teach it).
September 6, 2023 at 1:07 PM
The assignment I’m most looking forward to this semester! Students are making 1 pg graphic memoirs inspired by Persepolis that connect their lives to broader social, historical, and political events. I made this one to show them an example (& to figure out how to teach it).
Rereading Freedom Dreams for my grad class & omg it is somehow even more brilliant and inspiring than I remembered
September 5, 2023 at 2:08 PM
Rereading Freedom Dreams for my grad class & omg it is somehow even more brilliant and inspiring than I remembered
Fall 2023 lineup!
September 1, 2023 at 1:24 PM
Fall 2023 lineup!
Week 1 of Black feminist criticism, we're looking at Walker's "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" & quilts by Faith Ringgold & Bisa Butler.
Just read the first student blog post & it was fantastic!
Just read the first student blog post & it was fantastic!
August 23, 2023 at 4:23 PM
Week 1 of Black feminist criticism, we're looking at Walker's "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens" & quilts by Faith Ringgold & Bisa Butler.
Just read the first student blog post & it was fantastic!
Just read the first student blog post & it was fantastic!