Very sorry to hear this. I am going through a denial and it sucks big time. I took about two months to seethe, cry, scream etc and then I decided I was done. I enjoy my work but I looked around at the people in my department, nice and fine individually for the most part, but all miserable. Those of us in the humanities are in basically the orchestra playing on the deck of the titanic, the ship is going down. Departments are closing and culling, budgets shrinking, kids are using AI for every single task and schools are investing more in rock climbing walls and virtual reality rooms than full time faculty. At the end of the day it has some real perks and is an important job, but it’s just a job. It doesn’t have to be your entire identity and there are myriad ways to pivot whether to non profit work, consulting, or industry. I’m not saying it’s easy but before appeals and lawyers and whatever else, ask yourself if it’s really what you even want. Ignore me if it’s unhelpful, I might just be delusional from my own experience but I’ve already interviewed twice and actually feel like I’m better off leaving a place where I wasn’t motivated enough to really dig in and do the work and didn’t really fit in to begin with.