Danica Savonick
@danicasavonick.bsky.social
Education, social justice, feminist worldmaking, literature, pedagogy, technology | English Prof, SUNY Cortland | OPEN ADMISSIONS (Duke UP, 2024)
Immensely enjoyed day one of the #ACH2026 pre-conference workshops. What a treat to hear @danicasavonick.bsky.social and Chelcie Juliet Rowell talk pedagogy all day. I learned a lot, and I was deeply impressed by the way they structured things to offer a range of learning contexts.
First up: a trio of exciting pre-conference workshops from June 22-23 with only a handful of seats remaining! June 22 we'll be joined by @danicasavonick.bsky.social and Chelcie Juliet Rowell for "DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative and Critical Assignment Design." Excited to see so much interest in this!
“The East Village is the charged, nostalgic backdrop for all of these contemporary queer stories because it was the origin point from which queer life jumped from the fringes into mainstream North American culture.”
Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago"'Waiting on a Friend' is a horror story where all the monsters are real – but so are the heroes." Hugh Ryan reviews Natalie Adler’s "Waiting on a Friend": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/waiting-friend-natalie-adler-east-village-aids-crisis
"Not everything can be included in a memoir, even if the author wants it to be." Sarah McEachern on "Famesick" and Lena Dunham's memoirist flourishes: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lena-dunham-famesick-memoir-girls-celebrity-chronic-illness
Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing movement, led by alarmed parents, is saying enough.
The EdTech Backlash Is Here, and It's Just Getting Started
Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing movement, led by alarmed parents, is saying enough.
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Nobody wants to join a boring movement. Socialists can’t change the world if we aren’t providing people with a good time.
The Left Needs to Have More Fun
Nobody wants to join a boring movement. Socialists can’t change the world if we aren’t providing people with a good time.
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How AI is ruining the messy/beautiful work of teaching & learning, and why so many of us are completely burned out www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I.
“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”
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Chelcie J. Rowell & I are pouring our little hearts into our virtual workshop "DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative and Critical Assignment Design." Emphasis on community, knowledge sharing & peer review. Leave w/ an assignment for a class or workshop of your own! ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops...
Pre-Conference Workshops
Low-cost virtual pre-conference workshops for ACH 2026, June 22-23, 2026. Topics include DH pedagogy, web archiving, and DH at teaching-focused institutions.
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"I believe writers...have a role to play in liberation work. By restoring specific narrative to abstract casualty data, we restore for readers the urgent somatic obliteration of individual loss." lithub.com/kaveh-akbar-...
Kaveh Akbar on Fiction’s Role Towards Revolutionary Action
The following speech was given at the Dayton Literary Peace Prize ceremony on November 10, 2025. * I want to thank my editor, Jordan Pavlin, il miglior fabro, for believing in me and this book from…
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In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
Ahhh this is such a brilliant, urgent, necessary guide to teaching towards institutional and social change! An absolute must-read (not to mention, it's gorgeously written). Bravo @walshbr.bsky.social !!!
Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · 3mo agoNow that I've signed the contract, excited to share my first book "Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change" is forthcoming with @openbookpublish.bsky.social! Much more info about it on the publisher site here. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
"Killing student writing outside the classroom means an enormous reduction in the volume of time spent writing, and learning more generally: it is a loss of thousands of hours of reading, thinking, puzzling over problems, writing, revising."
Nick Seaver@nickseaver.website · 3mo ago“the hours must be recovered” is a pretty good assessment of the teaching situation substack.com/home/post/p-...
Excited to talk about Audre Lorde's work as a professor this Friday at Nevada State University!
So excited to be part of this collection! My chapter is about M. NourbeSe Philip’s beautiful, brilliant, and haunting poetry collection Zong!
Mitch R. Murray@mitchrmurray.bsky.social · 3mo agoTEACHING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE: ESSAYS FROM THE CLASSROOM Officially under contract and coming in 2028! It's a monster volume: 33 teacher-scholars from around the world writing provocative, shortform essays in the service of pedagogy
#TalkAboutHumanities We need scholars across the humanities, because these are the fields where we study what it is to be human, to inhabit different identities, and to connect with each other, to be human together. youtu.be/T7Lc6QNxolQ...
Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities, Emily M. Bender
YouTube video by Simpson Center
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Emily Callaci’s Wages for Housework is a gorgeous history about imagining & fighting for a world beyond capitalism, where people are compensated for care work. “Less work in general; more time for living meaningful lives. Calling work what is work... to rediscover what is love.” I sobbed at the end.
and it occurs to me, if someone was willing to sponsor it, I would happily rework this into billboard format. Put it up in the midst of all these ridiculous ai product billboards! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
“I’m interested in trying to make a case for feminists to think structurally about these major institutions of work, family, and prison…it’s shocking how unschooled we are in thinking at the level of social structures." dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Abolitionist Feminism - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Kathi Weeks.
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Faculty wages decreased and remain below pre-pandemic levels, AAUP's 2025-26 Faculty Compensation Survey confirms. "Two steps forward, one step back. That's been the story for full-time faculty. For part-timers, it's been no steps forward at all. The AAUP data makes that undeniable."
Faculty Purchasing Power Declines as Inflation Outpaces Salary Growth, AAUP Finds
Preliminary data from the nation's largest faculty compensation survey shows real wages fell for the first time since the pandemic.
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SUNY Chancellor John B. King @sunychancellor.bsky.social announces SUNY's "absolute & unwavering commitment" to DEI: "Some are cowering & backing away. We cannot and will not. We will not retreat, we will not back down... DEI is in our DNA." Super grateful & proud to teach @ SUNY!
Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.
Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...
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My college is rolling out an AI buddy for students and I… want them to have real friends? I am still close friends with people I met in college. They changed my life for the better. They remind me of who I was. When I was great, when I was shitty. One night some of them saved my life.
Trump is flat wrong when he claims that birthright citizenship was intended only for the "babies of slaves." Martha Jones and I have the receipts. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...
Opinion | Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was for ‘the Babies of Slaves.’ He’s Wrong.
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All SUNY & CUNY folks, please sign!!!
Citizen of Somewhere Else@citizense.bsky.social · 4mo agoI’m asking my SUNY and CUNY followers on here—particularly those with more followers than me—to help spread the word about this effort to align state budget priorities of faculty, staff, and students from every campus and sector and to support system and union efforts. hdl.handle.net/1951/88718
Hoping @danicasavonick.bsky.social will repost and convince friends, colleagues, and students to let their state legislators know they want them to fight for the priorities laid out in this open letter. The time to get involved is now—and every day until we have an Enacted Budget. #PublicGoodU
Citizen of Somewhere Else@citizense.bsky.social · 4mo agoI’m asking my SUNY and CUNY followers on here—particularly those with more followers than me—to help spread the word about this effort to align state budget priorities of faculty, staff, and students from every campus and sector and to support system and union efforts. hdl.handle.net/1951/88718
I spoke w/ a reporter at The Guardian about AI & she used one of my quotes as the title of her article 😂. Thanks to Alice Speri & @theguardian.com for covering our Sisyphean struggle. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities – and society at large
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