Carly Schnitzler joined the University Writing Program as a Lecturer in 2023. Her teaching and research center on digital rhetoric, creative computation, and the public humanities.
Her book project, Crafting What We Cannot Live Without: How Creative Computational Communities Generate Social Change, makes a case for reexamining the rhetorical canon using computer-generated art and poetry and their attendant communities, to understand what creative computation does to amplify and ameliorate social critiques of contemporary digital life. She also co-edited TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies with Annette Vee and Tim Laquintano (WAC Clearinghouse, 2023), an open-access pedagogical collection showcasing early experiments in thoughtfully teaching writing with generative text technology, including but not limited to AI. Updates to this collection are published annually via TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments, where Carly serves as lead editor.
Her other critical work appears in refereed journals and edited collections: electronic book review, The CEA Critic, Textshop Experiments, Writing Centers and AI: Generating Early Conversations, and Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures, among others. She also founded and continues to co-organize If, Then: Technology and Poetics with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, a community working group and event series promoting inclusivity and skills-building in creative computation for artists, scholars, and teachers.
Before coming to Hopkins, Carly taught writing and literature courses at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she received her Ph.D. Her courses are oriented around digital and public humanities projects and she encourages collaboration, play, and thoughtful revision in (and outside) of the classroom.
- Reintroduction to Writing: Digital Doppelgangers
- Digital rhetoric
- Creative computation
- Public humanities