Susanna Sacks
@susannala.bsky.social
just an ordinary bin, out for a walk.
I am beyond shocked & delighted--and deeply honored--by this recognition. So many people gave so much support & time to this book, whose work & words I hope it honors.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I am beyond shocked & delighted--and deeply honored--by this recognition. So many people gave so much support & time to this book, whose work & words I hope it honors.
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I'm not sure what it says about me that Connections is my favorite NYT game, but it can't be good
May 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'm not sure what it says about me that Connections is my favorite NYT game, but it can't be good
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ACLS, AHA, and MLA sue over the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read it:
www.mla.org/content/down...
www.mla.org/content/down...
www.mla.org
May 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
ACLS, AHA, and MLA sue over the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read it:
www.mla.org/content/down...
www.mla.org/content/down...
ooooh this looks so goooooood
Greatly looking forward to @andyhines.bsky.social's forthcoming "University Keywords," which will be essential for the urgent project of thinking / building / imagining a new university www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
University Keywords
How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles.University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original unders...
www.press.jhu.edu
May 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
ooooh this looks so goooooood
Back at writing after a semester filled by administrative slog, and it feels so good. 🦋 Just wish I could write a 1500 word conference paper without writing 5000 words of background first.
Some day, I would like to write a 1500 word conference paper without writing an extra 8000 words first
May 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Back at writing after a semester filled by administrative slog, and it feels so good. 🦋 Just wish I could write a 1500 word conference paper without writing 5000 words of background first.
Reposted by Susanna Sacks
if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
February 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
Updating my slides for today's class on rhythm & meter
February 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Updating my slides for today's class on rhythm & meter
on days when I feel like my job is just TOO HARD and TOO MUCH, I remind myself that the **urgent** things I "have" to do today are (1) comment on a range of exciting ideas about poems I love, and (2) reread Things Fall Apart.
(The job IS too much sometimes, but ... the gifts are real, too)
(The job IS too much sometimes, but ... the gifts are real, too)
January 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
on days when I feel like my job is just TOO HARD and TOO MUCH, I remind myself that the **urgent** things I "have" to do today are (1) comment on a range of exciting ideas about poems I love, and (2) reread Things Fall Apart.
(The job IS too much sometimes, but ... the gifts are real, too)
(The job IS too much sometimes, but ... the gifts are real, too)
Is this "cold snap" just an LL Bean conspiracy theory?
January 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Is this "cold snap" just an LL Bean conspiracy theory?
a good day to teach "the master's tools," the importance of words, and how we tell stories about the past
January 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
a good day to teach "the master's tools," the importance of words, and how we tell stories about the past
Some day, I would like to write a 1500 word conference paper without writing an extra 8000 words first
January 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Some day, I would like to write a 1500 word conference paper without writing an extra 8000 words first
Last day to submit to ACLA! We've received some amazing proposals, with exciting connections. We're hoping for as expansive a discussion as possible... so get yours in, too!
How does development shape literature? Is it all a spiral? What happens when literary scholars dip a toe in economic waters?
How does development shape literature? Is it all a spiral? What happens when literary scholars dip a toe in economic waters?
October 14, 2024 at 9:44 AM
Last day to submit to ACLA! We've received some amazing proposals, with exciting connections. We're hoping for as expansive a discussion as possible... so get yours in, too!
How does development shape literature? Is it all a spiral? What happens when literary scholars dip a toe in economic waters?
How does development shape literature? Is it all a spiral? What happens when literary scholars dip a toe in economic waters?
Hi all! Lauren Horst & I are putting together an ACLA seminar on Literature & International Development.
If you're interested in submitting an abstract (or know someone who might be), we'd love to have you! Please circulate & feel free to reach out with qs
www.acla.org/literature-a...
If you're interested in submitting an abstract (or know someone who might be), we'd love to have you! Please circulate & feel free to reach out with qs
www.acla.org/literature-a...
Literature and International Development | American Comparative Literature Association
www.acla.org
October 9, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Hi all! Lauren Horst & I are putting together an ACLA seminar on Literature & International Development.
If you're interested in submitting an abstract (or know someone who might be), we'd love to have you! Please circulate & feel free to reach out with qs
www.acla.org/literature-a...
If you're interested in submitting an abstract (or know someone who might be), we'd love to have you! Please circulate & feel free to reach out with qs
www.acla.org/literature-a...
My current project is shaping up to be increasingly about how international loans become individual debt. And while many brilliant humanists are tackling this dynamic, the prevailing orthodoxy in economics seems to be that loans=aid. Is that accurate? Whose scholarship might I be overlooking?
August 30, 2024 at 12:11 PM
My current project is shaping up to be increasingly about how international loans become individual debt. And while many brilliant humanists are tackling this dynamic, the prevailing orthodoxy in economics seems to be that loans=aid. Is that accurate? Whose scholarship might I be overlooking?
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The NSF Grad Research Fellowship funds at least 2,500 STEM *grad students* at approx $159k (to be used over 3 years). The NEH Fellowships for *faculty* funds an avg of 71 awards up to $60k for one year. There is 0 funding available for hum grad students. The imbalance is astonishing and harmful.
According to the ACLS, 1,100 people applied for the 60 awards from their single remaining fellowship program for general humanities research. Applications were restricted to early career untenured PhDs. Proof there isn't enough humanities research funding available. www.acls.org/news/america...
American Council of Learned Societies Names Recipients of 2024 ACLS Fellowships
Sixty new ACLS Fellowships recognize excellence in research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
www.acls.org
April 4, 2024 at 8:11 PM
The NSF Grad Research Fellowship funds at least 2,500 STEM *grad students* at approx $159k (to be used over 3 years). The NEH Fellowships for *faculty* funds an avg of 71 awards up to $60k for one year. There is 0 funding available for hum grad students. The imbalance is astonishing and harmful.
Finally overcame my deep-seated fears of typos and ... opened the book.
I would never have predicted how extraordinary it feels to peer into the physical object--to feel, immediately, the many hands that shaped it, from editor and indexer to typesetter and papermaker. It's truly awesome.
I would never have predicted how extraordinary it feels to peer into the physical object--to feel, immediately, the many hands that shaped it, from editor and indexer to typesetter and papermaker. It's truly awesome.
happy publication day to me, and a huge thanks to all the people whose time & thoughts brought this book to life
March 29, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Finally overcame my deep-seated fears of typos and ... opened the book.
I would never have predicted how extraordinary it feels to peer into the physical object--to feel, immediately, the many hands that shaped it, from editor and indexer to typesetter and papermaker. It's truly awesome.
I would never have predicted how extraordinary it feels to peer into the physical object--to feel, immediately, the many hands that shaped it, from editor and indexer to typesetter and papermaker. It's truly awesome.
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Sigh. Bet on 2; start doing 3.
If you were in a humanities program and you got an email from your university president that said this, would you be thinking:
1. everything is fine, normal challenges
2. that smells like cutting humanities bs
3. don't know and start to prep for a fight
4. don't know and don't worry yet
1. everything is fine, normal challenges
2. that smells like cutting humanities bs
3. don't know and start to prep for a fight
4. don't know and don't worry yet
March 13, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Sigh. Bet on 2; start doing 3.
Classes this week are ...
- Intro to Marxist literary analysis
- Impromptu pivot to time management & productivity hacks
- Archives & information systems in literary analysis
The week after spring break is, at last, my time to SHINE
- Intro to Marxist literary analysis
- Impromptu pivot to time management & productivity hacks
- Archives & information systems in literary analysis
The week after spring break is, at last, my time to SHINE
March 13, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Classes this week are ...
- Intro to Marxist literary analysis
- Impromptu pivot to time management & productivity hacks
- Archives & information systems in literary analysis
The week after spring break is, at last, my time to SHINE
- Intro to Marxist literary analysis
- Impromptu pivot to time management & productivity hacks
- Archives & information systems in literary analysis
The week after spring break is, at last, my time to SHINE
Is Word's new default font actually ... good? Or am I imagining things?
March 13, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Is Word's new default font actually ... good? Or am I imagining things?
Teaching in DC means that, when you're looking at Bill Maxwell's F. B. Eyes Digital Archive,* and a student asks a question about how FOIA works ... another student will know the answer because she manages FOIA requests for work
*amazing teaching resource! omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/exhibi...
*amazing teaching resource! omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/exhibi...
March 13, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Teaching in DC means that, when you're looking at Bill Maxwell's F. B. Eyes Digital Archive,* and a student asks a question about how FOIA works ... another student will know the answer because she manages FOIA requests for work
*amazing teaching resource! omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/exhibi...
*amazing teaching resource! omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/exhibi...
happy publication day to me, and a huge thanks to all the people whose time & thoughts brought this book to life
February 29, 2024 at 11:51 PM
happy publication day to me, and a huge thanks to all the people whose time & thoughts brought this book to life
nothing better in the world than sharing my favorite poems with students ... except discovering new favorites with them
January 23, 2024 at 6:43 PM
nothing better in the world than sharing my favorite poems with students ... except discovering new favorites with them
Sufficiently obsessed with my desk treadmill that I want to get a cat exercise wheel (because my cats are an extension of myself). 🤔
January 17, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Sufficiently obsessed with my desk treadmill that I want to get a cat exercise wheel (because my cats are an extension of myself). 🤔
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January 2, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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