Susanna Sacks

A tabby cat staring at the camera, sitting on my lap in front of my desk

Not to brag, but I've got the best writing accountability system

grouping things FUN
Also, it results in only one of 2 feelings - either cleverness OR righteous indignation ('how aboslutely dare you') - which are each among my favorite things to feel

I'm not sure what it says about me that Connections is my favorite NYT game, but it can't be good

ACLS, AHA, and MLA sue over the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read it:

www.mla.org/content/down...

but look I just think that if we really want to understand the importance of the World Bank in Zambia then like yeah we DO need to know the specific biographical details of every founding faculty member in the humanities at UNZA, and I don't see why there's not space for that...

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.

if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives

I love all of these

A slide asking students to compare the meter in two lines: "No one elected Elon Musk" & "Elon Musk was not elected"

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)

It sounds like you finished the day. Time for a nap.

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

A tabby cat sits on a counter next to a laptop with a word document open

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?

Literature and International Development | American Comparative Literature Association

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...

(I recognize my primary network is humanists, but any references pointing outside our echo-chamber would be amazing!!)

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?

Yes, if you're using college or grant funding, but not in general (answer to #2 is the same)

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.

thank you, Rose!

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.

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

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...

The book, "Networked Poetics," is pictured with a glass of wine, a plate of cookies, and some flowers

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