Danica Savonick is an ACLS Fellow and an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Cortland, where she teaches courses on multicultural and African American literature, feminist theory, and digital humanities. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the CUNY Graduate Center and a B.A. in English from Rutgers University. Her current book project, Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College is forthcoming from Duke University Press (2024). Her research has appeared in MELUSAmerican Literature, Modern Fiction StudiesKeywords for Digital Pedagogy in the HumanitiesDigital Humanities Quarterlyand Hybrid Pedagogy as well as Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle.

She is currently working on a project about the radical writers and artists who taught at Livingston College (part of Rutgers University) in the 1970s.

Contact her at danicasavonick@gmail.com