Teaching Public Writing in the Graduate Seminar
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...
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“We was girls together”: Toni Morrison and the Aesthetics of Female Friendship
I first read Toni Morrison in a college literature class on “Experimental Lives.” In this course we traced the will to experiment across novels like Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Paul Bowles’ The...
View ArticlePodcast on Inclusive Teaching
Episode 60 of Tea for Teaching podcast hosted by John Kane and Rebecca Mushtare. “Are your class conversations dominated by a small number of voices? In this episode, Dr. Danica Savonick joins us to...
View ArticleConcluding a Course with a Collaborative Public Project: Keywords for...
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...
View ArticleInterview: Feminism, Activism, and the Digital Humanities
Interview by Rebekah Jo Aycock I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Danica Savonick over the phone on May 18, 2020. I am grateful for her time and energy towards this project and especially...
View ArticleCollaborative Close Reading Online
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,...
View ArticleThe Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks
On December 15, the Black feminist scholar, writer, and teacher bell hooks died at her home in Kentucky. She was 69. The author of more than 30 books on subjects from teaching to love to popular...
View ArticleLiterary Studies in Marginalized Spaces: the City College SEEK Program
In the late 1960s, at the height of the era’s social movements, four of the twentieth century’s most important authors were teaching down the hall from one another at Harlem’s City College. Like the...
View ArticleThe Activist Roots of Student-Centered Pedagogy
In 1968, Toni Cade Bambara made a radical decision. At the time, Bambara—writer, activist, and more—was teaching a remedial writing class at the City University of New York. There, she met students...
View ArticleTeaching DH on a Shoestring: Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy
This article explores minimalist digital humanities pedagogy: strategies for teaching DH at institutions that don’t have many resources for doing so. Minimalist digital humanities pedagogy aims to...
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