Susanna Sacks
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asst prof, @HowardU. ordinary bin, going for a walk. she/her @susannala.bsky.social
Joined October 2015
others forged the road where you now find yourself.
"2) Writing is remembering. it is important not to forget where you come from & those who came before you. Others forged part of the road where you now find yourself. Discover their stories & ensure they won’t be erased even when our history is at risk of being revised.".
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We've received some amazing proposals, with exciting connections, but we're hoping for as expansive a discussion as possible, so would love to add more! How does development shape literature? What happens when literary scholars dip a toe in economic waters? Is it all a spiral?
No idea if anyone's still on here, but if you are. submit to our ACLA seminar on Literature & International Development. Please circulate & feel free to reach out with qs .
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No idea if anyone's still on here, but if you are. submit to our ACLA seminar on Literature & International Development. Please circulate & feel free to reach out with qs .
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happy publication day to me, and a huge thanks to all the people whose time & thoughts brought this book to life
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V excited to be talking through some new work on Koleka Putuma's poetic form & decolonial epistemologies today at 12 ET, for an MLA panel on Poetry as Method! . And the best part? You can attend from the cozy comfort of your hotel room!.
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How do modern and contemporary poets provide creative methods of translation that might expand our traditional scholarly approaches to emergent poetics? Poets might translate premodern lyric in a way...
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extremely 'when it rains it pours' week over here. DELIGHTED to see this piece, on how poets created community during lockdowns, and what that means for our ideas about what digital poetry does/can do, out in Interventions!.
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This essay analyses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poetic production in South Africa to theorize connection as a dominant motif in contemporary poetry. In South Africa, poets compensate for...
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This was such a fun and wild SI to work on, with truly outstanding articles thinking about what it means to center sonic epistemologies & what methods we need to do so. Thanks to @AfricaJacs for all your work pulling it together 🤩.
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RT @AfricaJacs: The last issue of 2023 is finally here, with a set of innovative and exciting articles themed around Sound Studies in Afric….
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Volume 35, Issue 4 of Journal of African Cultural Studies
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HUGE thanks to @AfricaJacs for your incredible work seeing this SI through!. Its articles . 👂reflect on methods for understanding sound; .🏙️ examine urban audio power;.📚read sound in literary media;.📻analyze sonic media structures. & all imagine new ways of thinking w sound.
We are checking final issue proofs today for the last issue of 2023. "Sound Studies from Africa", a special issue edited by @susannalsacks and Scott Newman, full of inventive and original contibutions. Going live any day now!.
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I had an absolute ball organizing this 🎁collection with @brouillettese. (And working with the amazing editors @AtPost45 to get it together) . Exceptionally exciting work inside 👇🏻👇🏻.
‹‹ ¡¡ It’s here !! ›› 🫨 Reading with Algorithms, eds. @brouillettese & @susannalsacks. The pieces discuss BookTok, data privacy, interpretive nuances & new challenges re: algorithms, recommendation algos, SEO, Gilmore Girls, Instagram, Wattpad, & more
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RT @AtPost45: ‹‹ ¡¡ It’s here !! ›› 🫨 Reading with Algorithms, eds. @brouillettese & @susannalsacks. The pieces discuss BookTok, data priva….
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RT @AtPost45: ¡¡New cluster dropping later this week!!. “Reading with Algorithms,” edited by:.@brouillettese & @susannalsacks.ft:.@cparnell….
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African lit folks, has there been much (anything) written on trans identities & dysphoria in /A Question of Power/? Student comments got me thinking about how that would intersect with the book's broader social/structural critiques. .
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so excited for this & so grateful for your incredible support pushing the tech!!!!.
The final issue of 2023 is being prepared, and it is filled with innovations. Our first ever video abstract; articles with embedded soundfiles; and of course topnotch and innovative African language abstracts as always. Loading soon.
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thank you for this.
Sending so much love to all the people that Israel wants to speak for and to claim that have never given it permission to do so, and that have struggled so hard to preserve their world, religion, and culture from being taken over by a militaristic state.
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RT @mtrlgrrrl: 'the best american poetry" account having a zionist meltdown should be a good reminder to all of us that literary prestige i….
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also relevant for fellowship application season!!!.
It’s grad school application season again so I will offer 1 very small but practical tip: create a plain text version of your CV w/ minimal formatting. Many applications want you to enter the information separately in various scattered fields & this will absolutely save you time!.
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Had the honor of reviewing April Sizemore-Barber's book, Prismatic Performances, for Africa Today. Check it out if you're interested in queer studies, national identity, digital cultures, and post-apartheid South African identities!.
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