Dear all, If you missed Stuart Selber’s talk, “Framing AI for Curriculum Reform,” you may watch it here. Selber’s talk offered useful and responsible ways of thinking about AI in writing classes, and it was the unofficial kickoff to the ISUComm Foundation Courses Redesign Institute, which takes place in June (detailed information can be found … Continue reading Director’s Letter — April 2024 (End of semester)
The end of the semester often focuses on reflection, and Ali Ebrahimpourlighvani and Sam Arthur have taken shared activities that encourage students to put their design skills into practice while sharing about themselves and their experiences. Ali’s activity, “My Life’s Two-Minute Snapshot,” gives students the opportunity to take the floor in mini oral single-slide presentations. … Continue reading Up Next in ENGL 150/250 – Multimodal Reflection Activities
Cornell Brellenthin is an instructor teaching in the ISUComm Foundation Courses program, an active faculty member in the ISUComm mentorship program, and a creative writer exploring genres such as magical realism. While Brellenthin has been teaching for two decades now, she originally came to academia later in her career: she began work in the banking … Continue reading Instructor Spotlight: Finding Voice through Reflection and Imagination with Cornell Brellenthin
Jorge Ambacher, MA, ENGL Samuel Arthur, MA, ENGL Zack Bukovich, MFA, CWE Haley Greer, PhD, RPC Droste Hennings, MA, TESL Katie Painter, MA, ENGL What do you wish your students knew about you? Jorge: One thing … Continue reading New TA Q&A
Congratulations to the following graduate students! Recipients of the Graduate College Research Excellence Awards (REA) and/or Teaching Excellence Awards (TEA) by the Graduate Studies Committee Spring 2024 Research Excellence Awards Spring 2024 Abdulrahman Alharthi ALT Gary Ockey, Major Professor Jessica Brock CWE Charissa … Continue reading The Department of English recognizes graduate student excellence in teaching and research for Spring 2024
Evgeny Chukharev (PI) and Emily Dux Speltz (Co-PI) received a $50,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to organize a workshop on how humans and artificial intelligence systems comprehend and generate written language. Workshop participants will discuss their current research, identify key challenges, explore possible solutions, and map future research directions. Through dialogue between the cognitive, … Continue reading Evgeny Chukharev & Emily Dux Speltz received a grant from the National Science Foundation
You’re invited to attend Stuart Selber’s talk, “Framing AI for Curriculum Reform,” at 1:10pm on Wednesday, April 17. This presentation will prepare the ground for curriculum reform by providing ways to think about artificial intelligence that are both useful for students and professionally responsible for teachers. The goal is to establish working assumptions about AI … Continue reading Framing AI for Curriculum Reform
Summer Awad, a third year Creative Writing and the Environment MFA student from Knoxville, Tennessee, has been named a Fulbright Award winner for the 2024-25 academic year. She will be teaching English at the university level in Morocco. “I am grateful to have the opportunity to go back to Morocco after spending time there last … Continue reading Summer Awad named a Fulbright Award winner
Feel free to come to Ross 212 between 4:15 and 5:15 on Friday, April 12, to ask him questions and learn more about his research. Are humans fundamentally irrational? Is that why so many people commit statistical and logical blunders and fall for fake news, medical quackery, paranormal woo-woo, and conspiracy theories? Is Artificial Intelligence … Continue reading 2024 Goldtrap Lecture meet and greet — “Natural and Artificial Intelligence: How Rational Are Humans?”