Composing with AI

Contributors

Anthony Atkins

Anthony T. Atkins is an Associate Professor of English at University of North Carolina Wilmington. He teaches courses in rhetoric and professional writing, document design, and social media. He is currently the faculty associate in the Center for Teaching Excellence.

James Blakely

James Blakely is a Ph.D. Student at the Ohio State University, where his research focuses on digital rhetorics, cultural studies, and writing pedagogy. He has published work in outlets such as Computers and Composition and the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative's Blog Carnival, as well as presented research at multiple national conferences.

Kathleen Bolander

Kathleen Bolander is a PhD student in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. She is also a graduate mentor with UMN Athletics. Her main area of research is digital rhetoric and the rhetoric of silence.

Stuart Deets

Stuart Deets is a PhD student in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. His research focuses on communicating public policy.

Desiree Dighton

Desiree Dighton is an assistant professor at East Carolina University. Her research centers on the rhetorical and cultural consequences of design. Leveraging interdisciplinary research methods, she’s contributed journal articles and book chapters to illuminate the historical roots and contemporary consequences of designs from computer technologies to neighborhood master plans. She encourages rhetorical and cultural interventions in design work and more inclusive participation in our shared spaces of living and working.

Christopher Eisenhart

Christopher Eisenhart is Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He studies scientific, technical, and public discourse and teaches in UMD's Master's program in Professional Writing & Communication.

Douglas Eyman

Douglas Eyman is the senior editor and publisher of Kairos. He teaches courses in digital rhetoric, technical communication, web authoring, and professional writing at George Mason University. His current research interests include the affordances and constraints of composing with generative AI/LLMs, new media scholarship, teaching in digital environments, and video games as sites of composition. With Dr. Nupoor Ranade, he recently co-edited a special issue of Computers and Composition on "Composing with AI."

Daniel Frank

Daniel Frank teaches composition and multimedia rhetorics, with research interests in generative AI, game-based pedagogy, and connected learning. He helps students find their passions as they create, play, and communicate research, argumentation, and writing across genres, networks, and digital communities.

Asmita Ghimire

Asmita Ghimire is a PhD candidate in the Rhetoric, Scientific and Technical Writing program at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. Her research areas are Rhetoric, International and Intercultural Technical Communication, and Transnational Feminist Studies

Antonio Hamilton

Antonio Hamilton is a doctoral candidate in English, with a concentration in Writing Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research centers on the impact of generative AI on the writing process, formulation of writers' identity, and understanding of diverse writing styles.

Christopher Sean Harris

Christopher Sean Harris is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, where he teaches courses on visual rhetoric, electronic literature, and composition. Recent publications include "First Steps with ePortfolios on a Technology-Hesitant Campus" and “From the CMS Sepulcher, the Phoenix, Moodle Rises," which both appear in Computers and Composition Online Currently, Harris is working on a multimodal analysis of writing instruction of the 1800s.

John C. Havard

John C. Havard is Professor of Early American Literature at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of Hispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity (U of Alabama Press, 2018) and co-editor of Spain, the United States, and Transatlantic Literary Culture throughout the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2021).

Jennifer K. Johnson

Jennifer K. Johnson teaches first year composition, professional writing, and a variety of upper-division writing courses. Her current research interests include TA training, genre theory, and disciplinarity -- particularly in terms of the relationship between composition and literary studies. She has also developed a newfound interest in how LLMs can be utilized in the classroom.

Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch

Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Liberal Arts. Her research investigates rhetoric and digital writing in a variety of settings such as classrooms, professional organizations, and social media. She teaches courses in technical communication, digital writing, usability research, and evaluation of online interfaces.

Jeanne Law

Jeanne Beatrix Law is a professor at Kennesaw State University. Her research includes multimodal languaging and generative AI technologies for writers. Her public scholarship includes scaling historical rhetorics for diverse audiences and emergent modalities. Jeanne serves as a faculty mentor for the AAC&U’s AI Pedagogy Institute.

Jamie Littlefield

Jamie Littlefield studies technical communication and rhetoric at Texas Tech University. Her research examines the impact of technical communication on urban development, focusing on housing, street design, and public space. As a Google Fiber Digital Inclusion Fellow, Jamie partnered with the Nonprofit Technology Network to bridge the digital divide within communities.

Patrick Love

Patrick Love is an Assistant Professor of English and the Associate Director of Composition at Monmouth University. His other work is published in Technical Communication Quarterly and SIGDOC and by Palgrave Macmillan. Patrick received his PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Purdue University in 2019.

Mark C. Marino

Mark C. Marino is a Professor of Writing at the University of Southern California, where he directs the Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab. Since 2008, he has been the Director of Communication for the Electronic Literature Organization. His latest books are Critical Code Studies (2020) and Hallucinate This! an authoritized autobotography of ChatGPT (2023).

Finola McMahon

Finola McMahon is a doctoral candidate in English, with a Writing Studies concentration and a Queer Studies minor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. They research writing norms and the regulation of writers’ behavior in community spaces, online and in-person, as well as how writers queer and complicate these norms.

Alison Obright

Alison Obright is a PhD student in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Her research focuses on the rhetoric of science, pseudoscience, and technology.

Laura Palmer

Laura Palmer is a Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric. Her current work examines the intersections of technology and humanities thinking and technology with a focus on accessibility.

Sierra S. Parker

Sierra S. Parker is currently a PhD candidate in English and Visual Studies at Penn State University. She studies sensory rhetoric, focusing primarily on the visual across various media and applications. Her study of visuality has engaged AI and digital culture, health campaigns and drug addiction, and archival practices.

James P. Purdy

James P. Purdy is a Professor of English/Writing Studies and Director of the University and Community Writing Centers at Duquesne University. His two co-written books, four edited volumes, and numerous scholarly articles and chapters share his research on the technologically mediated research-writing practices of scholars from students to professors.

Nupoor Ranade

Nupoor Ranade is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Communication in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research explores the histories of how the concept of audiences evolved from passive receivers of information (like speeches) to active participants in knowledge production activities, including the production of generative AI content; her work focuses on the role of technology and understanding the needs of special audiences that often get marginalized due to underrepresentation. She began analyzing the landscape of AI research with a humanities lens in 2019, well before the advent of ChatGPT, and has published several articles on AI in Computers and Composition, Technical Communication and AI & Society, among others.

Colleen A. Reilly

Colleen A. Reilly is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in technical writing and editing, science writing, and genders, sexualities, and technologies. From Spring 2018 through Spring 2023, she coedited the open-access Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education.

Jessica Remcheck

Jessica Remcheck is a PhD student in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. Her research areas include rhetoric of health and medicine and rhetoric of science.