Marie Theresa O’Connor recently published an article in Minds and Machines entitled, “In the Craftsman’s Garden: AI, Alan Turing, and Stanley Cavell.” This article focuses on rising skepticism about the nature of so-called black box AI, meaning AI whose processes are unknown even to their creators, and takes up the larger question of how we...
In spring 2024, Pavesich started a term as the public humanities officer for the Rhetoric Society of America, a position which includes stewardship of the Rhetorics for All collection of public humanities projects. He also has a chapter about his DC/Adapters project in the just-published Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship
Nate spoke at a recent CTEI Lunch & Learn alongside Robert Leheny, professor and department chair of physics, and Michael Falk, vice dean of undergraduate education and professor of materials science & engineering. In a lively conversation that ranged from choral reading to air traffic control, all three faculty members discussed philosophies and practices of...
In a recent Hub interview, Writing Around An AI Taboo, Dr. Carly Schnitzler delved into the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in writing. She acknowledges concerns about AI replacing human creativity among writers and instructors but highlights its potential to enhance creativity. Schnitzler emphasizes the need to balance AI with human creativity and research. Regarding...
Published in Written Communication, this essay takes as its focus the everyday writing that people compose: the self-sponsored, nonobligatory texts that people write mainly outside of work and school. Through analysis of 713 survey responses and 27 interviews with accompanying writing samples, this study provides a panoramic view of the functions of self-sponsored writing and...
Lisa Wright and co-editors Natasha Tinsley, Anna Sicari, and Hillary Coenen’s Peitho Cluster Conversation, Addressing The Barriers Between Us and that Future: (Feminist) Activist Coalition Building in Writing Studies is live! The conversation brings together experienced activists and social justice workers who show up to do antiracist and social justice work in our writing and academic spaces: our...
The University Writing Program is proud to announce Don Berger as a 1st place winner of the 2023 James Tate Prize! In addition to a monetary award, Don will have his roughly 30-page chapbook of poems published by SurVision Books in late 2023 or early 2024. Join us in congratulating Don on his poetic win!
The University Writing Program is running a search for a Senior Lecturer position beginning in 2024-2025. Learn more about the position and apply here.
In Neşe Devenot’s paper, “TESCREAL hallucinations: Psychedelic and AI hype as inequality engines,” they argue that the hype behind the AI and psychedelics industries are interconnected. Based on rhetorical analysis, Devenot presents evidence that these parallel hypes are driven by a cluster of colonial ideologies that justify accelerating inequality. Despite promises to fix the world’s...
Join UWP in celebrating the book launch of Carly Schnitzler, and co-editors Annette Vee and Tim Laquintano’s edited collection on AI and other text generation technologies. A little about the collection: Generative AI is the most influential technology in writing in decades—nothing since the word processor has promised as much impact. Publicly-accessible Large Language Models...
