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Access and the Poor College: A Conversation with Matt Brim and Danica Savonick

What does “access” mean for underfunded schools? How have inequities in funding shaped scholarship and disciplines? What is the future of education in an ever-more-unequal America? During this event, we were joined by Matt Brim, author of Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke University Press, 2020) and Danica Savonick, author of Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College (Duke University Press, 2024) to explore these and other questions important for anyone working in public higher education right now. Matt Brim is Professor of Queer Studies in the English department at the College of Staten Island and an affiliate faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies M.A. Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is also the Executive Director of CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies. In addition to Poor Queer Studies, he is the author of James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination (University of Michigan Press, 2014) and co-editor of Queer Precarities in and out of Higher Education: Challenging Institutional Structures (coedited with Churnjeet Mahn and Yvette Taylor; Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), Queer Sharing in the Marketized University (coedited with Yvette Taylor and Churnjeet Mahn; Routledge 2023), and Imagining Queer Methods (with Amin Ghaziani; NYU Press, 2019). Danica Savonick is an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Cortland, where she teaches courses on multicultural and African American literature, feminist theory, and digital humanities. In addition to publishing Open Admissions, she has had research appear in MELUS, American Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Keywords for Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and Hybrid Pedagogy as well as Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle of Higher Education. 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.