MLA Commons | Danica Savonick | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/danicasavonick/activity/ Activity feed for Danica Savonick. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:37:34 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d3098fa2e72f0decaea1b570fcc83f9c Danica Savonick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864091/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 14:40:58 -0500 0 ffb2eebaecfa2122f32348637781d2d1 Danica Savonick changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1763792/ Sat, 25 Dec 2021 04:48:24 -0500 0 b548f32e339d2b299e581df27afad177 Danica Savonick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1763791/ Sat, 25 Dec 2021 04:45:19 -0500 0 3ce419cddae3c34250e7eb2c3d26d059 Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1763725/ Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:25:32 -0500 This article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.

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]]> 0 f91248439d4aaaac3db62a315373eaaa Danica Savonick deposited The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1763667/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 01:39:07 -0500 This article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.

]]> 0 c737a21b36177b461aacf4a85a302ef5 Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Collaborative Close Reading Online, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=159 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:38:00 -0400 This blog explains how collaborative close reading can be done online. I recommend reading that post before this one.
Since posting my collaborative close reading activity nearly two years ago, photographs of […]

]]> 7b03fae018b4258df8eafe51040b3bf9 Danica Savonick deposited Syllabus for Digital Divides: Race, Class, and Gender in the Age of the Internet in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1683668/ Sat, 11 Apr 2020 16:27:00 -0400 Syllabus for an upper-level English seminar at SUNY Cortland | Is Google racist? Is Wikipedia sexist? In this course, we will critically reflect on the digital tools and platforms that mediate so much of our daily lives. More specifically, we will explore how digital technologies can reproduce and challenge conditions of racial, class, and gender…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f7f558eb74fbb40300783a3f1c8e39a Danica Savonick deposited Syllabus for Digital Divides: Race, Class, and Gender in the Age of the Internet in the group Education and Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683667/ Sat, 11 Apr 2020 16:26:54 -0400 Syllabus for an upper-level English seminar at SUNY Cortland | Is Google racist? Is Wikipedia sexist? In this course, we will critically reflect on the digital tools and platforms that mediate so much of our daily lives. More specifically, we will explore how digital technologies can reproduce and challenge conditions of racial, class, and gender…[Read more]

]]> 0 975e57fc4f32cd9afc68098964759135 Danica Savonick deposited Syllabus for Digital Divides: Race, Class, and Gender in the Age of the Internet in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683666/ Sat, 11 Apr 2020 16:26:36 -0400 Syllabus for an upper-level English seminar at SUNY Cortland | Is Google racist? Is Wikipedia sexist? In this course, we will critically reflect on the digital tools and platforms that mediate so much of our daily lives. More specifically, we will explore how digital technologies can reproduce and challenge conditions of racial, class, and gender…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f814df0a2dd710be43c8f1365269dbb Danica Savonick deposited Syllabus for Digital Divides: Race, Class, and Gender in the Age of the Internet in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683665/ Sat, 11 Apr 2020 16:26:24 -0400 Syllabus for an upper-level English seminar at SUNY Cortland | Is Google racist? Is Wikipedia sexist? In this course, we will critically reflect on the digital tools and platforms that mediate so much of our daily lives. More specifically, we will explore how digital technologies can reproduce and challenge conditions of racial, class, and gender…[Read more]

]]> 0 f781259c11236d1cae24abda88ca9c1f Danica Savonick deposited Syllabus for Digital Divides: Race, Class, and Gender in the Age of the Internet https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683561/ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 19:29:28 -0400 Syllabus for an upper-level English seminar at SUNY Cortland | Is Google racist? Is Wikipedia sexist? In this course, we will critically reflect on the digital tools and platforms that mediate so much of our daily lives. More specifically, we will explore how digital technologies can reproduce and challenge conditions of racial, class, and gender…[Read more]

]]> 0 416b0076237dc0d90025b497cfef33a7 Danica Savonick deposited Intro to Multicultural Literature Syllabus in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683547/ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:26:47 -0400 Fall 2019 Syllabus | SUNY Cortland

What is literature and why does it matter? How can literary texts help us think differently about the world? In this course, we will explore these and other questions through works of modern and contemporary U.S. literature. In particular, we will consider the ways resources are unevenly distributed along…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b0840ebdf1ebd08704c9a9e4b267504 Danica Savonick deposited Intro to Multicultural Literature Syllabus in the group Education and Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683546/ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:26:41 -0400 Fall 2019 Syllabus | SUNY Cortland

What is literature and why does it matter? How can literary texts help us think differently about the world? In this course, we will explore these and other questions through works of modern and contemporary U.S. literature. In particular, we will consider the ways resources are unevenly distributed along…[Read more]

]]> 0 691f37ae4d55a45048e94fed4b1ba01c Danica Savonick deposited Intro to Multicultural Literature Syllabus in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683545/ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:26:27 -0400 Fall 2019 Syllabus | SUNY Cortland

What is literature and why does it matter? How can literary texts help us think differently about the world? In this course, we will explore these and other questions through works of modern and contemporary U.S. literature. In particular, we will consider the ways resources are unevenly distributed along…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad2cd373f79ac1fb22493f55efd689b6 Danica Savonick deposited Intro to Multicultural Literature Syllabus in the group American Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683544/ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:25:48 -0400 Fall 2019 Syllabus | SUNY Cortland

What is literature and why does it matter? How can literary texts help us think differently about the world? In this course, we will explore these and other questions through works of modern and contemporary U.S. literature. In particular, we will consider the ways resources are unevenly distributed along…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea3283f4676233b0ed72cb58ce43516d Danica Savonick deposited Intro to Multicultural Literature Syllabus https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683438/ Thu, 09 Apr 2020 15:04:15 -0400 Fall 2019 Syllabus | SUNY Cortland

What is literature and why does it matter? How can literary texts help us think differently about the world? In this course, we will explore these and other questions through works of modern and contemporary U.S. literature. In particular, we will consider the ways resources are unevenly distributed along…[Read more]

]]> 0 54c4abb8d1762a998b7fbc388c1a95da Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Concluding a Course with a Collaborative Public Project: Keywords for Literary Studies, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=434 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 10:42:00 -0500 This blog describes how I organized my Introduction to Multicultural Literature course around a collaborative, public final project. Rather than a traditional final paper, the course concludes with students […]

]]> 4680ce2c7e3d0c66ea916b7dc80abd5c Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Teaching Public Writing in the Graduate Seminar, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=544 Sun, 19 May 2019 20:37:00 -0400 In Fall 2018, I attended an event at my college organized by my colleague Cori McKenzie on “Innovations in English Language Arts Teaching and Learning.” In this event, McKenzie’s graduate students presented their […]

]]> dfaecf6c22529397a306235452f5a88a Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Collaborative Close Reading, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=757 Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:04:00 -0400 Close reading – observing the stylistic details of a text in order to analyze an author’s use of language – is a skill taught in almost all college literature classes. Often, I describe this to students as c […]

]]> 8d906702b7c80556af097e92ac192a3a Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Why I Teach with HASTAC: Platforms as Critical Pedagogy, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=789 Tue, 07 Aug 2018 08:58:00 -0400 This post is part of a two-part series that considers digital learning platforms as an issue of critical pedagogy.
HASTAC as Critical Pedagogy
I teach students to write and research with HASTAC.org because I’m com […]

]]> 85e6a177de03ebe22dc58533af66b663 Danica Savonick wrote a new post, The Feminist Art of Writing About Teaching, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=791 Thu, 02 Aug 2018 22:39:00 -0400 Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland
@danicasavonick
Thursday, August 2
1:00 – 2:15
Digital Pedagogy Lab Institute
Today I was honored to share some of my favorite writings about teaching with a group of passionate […]

]]> 3a823ceb5eb15721f55b6085ecbb87d0 Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Torn Apart/Separados Hackathon & HASTAC Meet-up Recap, on the site Social and Political Issues https://social-political-issues.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=159 Sun, 08 Jul 2018 19:45:00 -0400 Map of allies
Post by Alex Gil and Roopika Risam
Torn Apart / Separados, which launched on July 25th, is a set of rapid response data visualizations created by a small team of researchers using data they c […]

]]> af30aed7c0ed5453d56bcbcfb6d6dd25 Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Dear Fellow Graduate Student, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=863 Tue, 08 May 2018 19:32:00 -0400 Dear Fellow Graduate Student,
As you well know, this is a rough time to be pursuing an advanced degree. We are underfunded, overworked, exploited, and devalued by a society that (to take just one recent example) […]

]]> 4a09a752dcdc92c136e947a3306b6f26 Danica Savonick started the topic CFP: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Special Issue on Archives in the discussion Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-journal-of-interactive-technology-and-pedagogy-special-issue-on-archives/ Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:27:52 -0400 <h4>The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue: Teaching and Research with Archives</h4>
Issue Editors:
Jojo Karlin, CUNY Graduate Center
Stephen Klein, Digital Service Librarian, CUNY Graduate Center
Danica Savonick, CUNY Graduate Center

As an open-access journal comprised of educators, scholars, and librarians deeply c…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd095a6d74e8b021ead029cc59e6636a Danica Savonick started the topic CFP: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Special Issue on Archives in the discussion Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-journal-of-interactive-technology-and-pedagogy-special-issue-on-archives/ Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:27:52 -0400 <h4 align=”center”><i>The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
</i>Themed <i></i>Issue</h4>
<p align=”center”><b><i></i></b>Issue Editors:
Jojo Karlin, CUNY Graduate Center
Stephen Klein, Digital Service Librarian, CUNY Graduate Center
Danica Savonick, CUNY Graduate Center</p>

<h2>Teaching and Research with Archives</h2>
As an o…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8f7db2e39e8a24bd686de01fd6334e8 Danica Savonick wrote a new post, New Issue of JITP: Re-viewing Digital Technologies and Art History, on the site Humanities, Arts, and Media https://humanities-arts-media.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=464 Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:01:00 -0500 Calling all art historians and digital research and pedagogy enthusiasts! Issue Twelve of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, “Re-viewing Digital Technologies and Art History” is now live! Read […]

]]> a5542e815bfd7edf0ba50a7689c3d323 Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Going Public: How and Why to Develop a Digital Scholarly Identity, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=941 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 22:59:00 -0500 On Sunday, January 7, 2018, Lisa Marie Rhody, Danica Savonick, Lisa Tagliaferri, and Katina Rogers gave a presentation on “Going Public: How and Why to Develop a Digital Scholarly Identity” at the Modern La […]

]]> 5930fc00433b53507478fcd73ff56661 Danica Savonick deposited How to Begin is also Where: Placemaking Pedagogy and June Jordan's His Own Where in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594814/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 05:36:34 -0500 This paper highlights the multiple modalities through which writer, activist, and educator June Jordan materialized a placemaking pedagogy, grounded in the art of structural critique and using language in the service of social change. In this paper, I show how Jordan “implicitly instructs” her students and young readers in cultivating a str…[Read more]

]]> 0 f16c5fd9f61c149c81bb7c3ade9b157d Danica Savonick deposited How to Begin is also Where: Placemaking Pedagogy and June Jordan's His Own Where in the group Education and Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594813/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 05:36:32 -0500 This paper highlights the multiple modalities through which writer, activist, and educator June Jordan materialized a placemaking pedagogy, grounded in the art of structural critique and using language in the service of social change. In this paper, I show how Jordan “implicitly instructs” her students and young readers in cultivating a str…[Read more]

]]> 0 7536ef78eeb4c1539e10b19413fed163 Danica Savonick deposited How to Begin is also Where: Placemaking Pedagogy and June Jordan's His Own Where in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594812/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 05:36:29 -0500 This paper highlights the multiple modalities through which writer, activist, and educator June Jordan materialized a placemaking pedagogy, grounded in the art of structural critique and using language in the service of social change. In this paper, I show how Jordan “implicitly instructs” her students and young readers in cultivating a str…[Read more]

]]> 0 0464da1f998c1eea5be910140c79cea0 Danica Savonick deposited How to Begin is also Where: Placemaking Pedagogy and June Jordan's His Own Where https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594725/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:40:17 -0500 This paper highlights the multiple modalities through which writer, activist, and educator June Jordan materialized a placemaking pedagogy, grounded in the art of structural critique and using language in the service of social change. In this paper, I show how Jordan “implicitly instructs” her students and young readers in cultivating a str…[Read more]

]]> 0 be78b473f40fafa9118f5f5548a0c430 Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Teaching Through Publishing: Scholarly Journal Article as Collaborative Final Project (a How To Guide), on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=1069 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:02:00 -0400 On August 30, 2017, three students from my Queens College composition course published an article in the scholarly, peer-reviewed journal Hybrid Pedagogy. Their article, “The Ultimate Life Experience: Preparing S […]

]]> 914273b85dd03de05163ed3ee2250d44 Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Queens College Undergraduates Publish Article in Hybrid Pedagogy, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=1078 Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:32:00 -0400 On August 30, 2017, Hybrid Pedagogy, one of the leading scholarly, peer-reviewed academic journals on education, published an article co-authored by three undergraduate students at Queens College: Sumedha Madan, […]

]]> 36038694017b96e126224ef02620606d Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Community Guidelines: Fostering Inclusive Discussions of Difference, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=1091 Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:52:00 -0400 In this blog, I describe how my class co-authored a set of community guidelines in order to create a supportive environment for discussing issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
This past semester, I had […]

]]> 82caa446397a3aa8dbd0a3615a520c6b Danica Savonick changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1579035/ Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:35:10 -0400 0 bcf422b13fbb2c218537c832cd70f584 Danica Savonick's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1579033/ Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:27:47 -0400 0 e0426c71f0975d0189dec2c82de8b80b Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Timekeeping as feminist pedagogy, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=1135 Tue, 20 Jun 2017 12:03:00 -0400 Whether you have known me as one of my students or a colleague, you may have noticed that I am obsessive about timekeeping in meetings, events, and the courses I teach. If you haven’t known me in either c […]

]]> 8a248eafb8cf4d69b68feb2f9a153029 Danica Savonick wrote a new post, Final Projects from Students in The Arts of Dissent at Queens College, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=1215 Fri, 19 May 2017 13:09:00 -0400 This semester students in my ENG 241 course at Queens College took what they learned and co-created their own “arts of dissent”: original websites, videos, timelines, lesson plans, poetry, photography, and dr […]

]]> 3f360dcee6d8090aba2b3c637558f274 Danica Savonick wrote a new post, HASTAC 2017 Call for Panelists | Building a Feminist Future: On (Digital) Pedagogical Praxis, on the site Teaching and Learning https://teaching-learning.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=1299 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:03:00 -0500 HASTAC 2017: The Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities
University of Central Florida, Orlando, November 2-4 
Building a Feminist Future: On (Digital) Pedagogical Praxis
This panel explores how digital feminist […]

]]> e23a4bf4c89787d7daa0b3cd4b613d36 Danica Savonick wrote a new post, “So what do we do now?” Lessons from the AAC&U 2017 Annual Meeting, on the site Educational and Cultural Institutions https://educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.org/?p=307 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 13:31:00 -0500 At whose expense are service learning and diversity courses effective? Can U.S. education policy stop telling poor students what to do (and instead provide them with resources and opportunities)? How can we avoid […]

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