📣Announcing Issue 2 of Emblaze, SUNY Cortland's journal of student-authored literary and cultural analysis! 📣 Featuring essays on Sex and the City, Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca, and the horror film Hereditary! sites.cortland.edu/emblaze/

For 4 more days, you can stream Louis Massiah's brilliant documentary "TCB: THE TONI CADE BAMBARA SCHOOL OF ORGANIZING" through the DocNYC film fest! www.docnyc.net/film/tcb-the...

Here to ruin your holidays, one history lesson at a time.

🎙✨ 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\ 🎧 Please subscribe! 🔔 #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #CUNY ✊🏽🗽

I took inventory. It looked good.

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/

I can’t wait for this book!

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.

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 🌱

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...

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...

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.

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! digitalcommons.wayne.edu/cgi/viewcont... @columbiaup.bsky.social

“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.

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.

HELL YEAH!!!!

@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

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.

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.

Just starting @danicasavonick.bsky.social 's "Open Admissions" book, and the quotations I wrote down already comprise half of the introduction. #Pedagogy

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. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n5

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 @danicasavonick.bsky.social @kalanicraig.bsky.social @iconodule.bsky.social

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

So glad to learn that NEH funds have been reallocated to build a “National Garden of American Heroes” featuring life-size sculptures 🤦‍♀️ 🙄

Why are the worst paying careers mostly the ones that involve helping people, whereas the highest paying careers often reward avarice and selfishness?

Because it’s a Con www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tax...

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. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

@mapthepower.bsky.social has dropped new info on Israel bonds littlesis.org/reports/down...

How did the open admissions ethos lead to important pedagogical and literary innovations? OPEN ADMISSIONS by @danicasavonick.bsky.social addresses this question. Read Jen Ha's review of this book in the Spring 2025 issue of #HarvardEdReview: https://bit.ly/42q5KJL

"Generative artificial intelligence produces artificial ignorance in humans where we think critical thought went into the production of a machine generated result." - @jadedid.bsky.social

Previous announcement was buried in thread so to pull it out here - Our next #ByteSizedPedagogy session is “On Failure” with @plach.bsky.social and @lisaironcutter.bsky.social June 24th at 1:00 ET. Registration info below - cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/14655973

"The inevitability narrative is basically an attempt to steal that agency and say, 'It is all-powerful, or it will be soon, so just go along with it, and you're not in a position to understand anyway.' In fact, we are all in a position to understand what it is and what values are involved in it."

UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS has a cover! I cannot wait to share this book — we can all learn so much about the present struggle in US higher ed from its contributors and get straight to the work of fighting back.

Can't wait for Close Reading for the 21st Century! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

This semester, my students created a journal of literary and cultural analysis that will publish the writing of Cortland students and serve our broader community! (🧵1/3) sites.cortland.edu/emblaze/

Tonight!!

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

At today's Futures Initiative webinar on AI and the Future of Higher Education, @cathyndavidson.bsky.social quotes Andrew Chee: "Love yourself enough to write your own term papers," @alexanderchee.bsky.social. SO important that we emphasize love, and foster self-advocacy & self-trust in students!!

Send your manuscripts on Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy to @jitp.bsky.social by June 15th! Editors: @palermog.bsky.social @walshbr.bsky.social @danicasavonick.bsky.social @veritas44.bsky.social & Ana Belen

At this point in Rump’s first presidency there had been 2000 protests. This time, there have been more than 6000. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

Some photos from yesterday’s #handsoff march in NYC!

Apparently 3.5% is the magic number for how much of a population needs to protest to guarantee change. In the US, that means 11 million. I haven’t seen reliable numbers yet for yesterday, but I think we’re well on our way! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

🚨🚨CFP alert!🚨🚨 So excited to be co-editing this special issue of JITP on minimalist pedagogy broadly construed w/ Patricia Belen, @veritas44.bsky.social, @palermog.bsky.social, @danicasavonick.bsky.social . Lots more information in the CFP. Happy to chat further if anyone has interest.

JITP are seeking submissions for a forthcoming themed issue on minimalist digital humanities pedagogy and what it might mean to work with what we have while at the same time advocating for what we need Submissions are due June 15. Call for Issue 27 here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

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!)

📣*CFP*📣 The Educators' Alliance Caucus is sponsoring two guaranteed pedagogy panels for the upcoming American Studies Association Annual Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 20-22, 2025! Please spread the word & consider submitting! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

📣*CFP*📣 The Educators' Alliance Caucus is sponsoring two guaranteed pedagogy panels for the upcoming American Studies Association Annual Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 20-22, 2025! Please spread the word & consider submitting! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

“The last time we’ve seen this level of political interference was during segregation.” - @nhannahjones.bsky.social on the state of academic freedom. #AACU2025 #highered #AcademicSky

Chris Newfield on funding disparities for the humanities and sciences & the ways we are gaslit into believing that the sciences bring more money into universities utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/01/line...