Join us for the Pre-Conference Institute on Writing and Generative AI on from 12-3 on February 5, 2025, facilitated by Elizabeth Losh, Co-Chair of the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI. It will include hands-on workshops to help attendees develop strategies for teaching, assigning, and assessing writing in the age of AI. Whether your desire is to integrate generative AI tools into your classes, to develop strategies and assignments that discourage students from relying heavily on generative AI in their writing process, or somewhere in between, these workshops and presentations will help you strengthen your understanding of and approach to teaching, developing policies, creating assignments, and assessing student writing in the present moment. The Pre-Conference Institute will take place in the Hampton/Newport News Room in Webb Center on ODU’s Norfolk campus and will also include a Zoom option. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.
Add the pre-conference institute during your registration: Register for the Spring Conference here.
ODU Faculty who would like to attend the institute without registering for the conference should do so here.
Elizabeth Losh is the Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and English with a specialization in New Media Ecologies at William & Mary, where she also directs the Equality Lab. Previously she directed the Culture, Art, and Technology Program at the University of California, San Diego.
She is the is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (MIT Press, 2009), The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University (MIT Press, 2014), Hashtag (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Selfie Democracy: The New Digital Politics of Disruption and Insurrection (MIT Press, 2022). She is the co-author with Jonathan Alexander of Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013; second edition, 2017; third edition, 2020). She also edited the collection MOOCs and Their Afterlives: Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education (University of Chicago, 2017) and co-edited Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities (Minnesota, 2018) with Jaqueline Wernimont. She currently co-chairs the Modern Language Association – Conference on College Composition and Communication Joint Task Force on Writing and AI and is currently working on a new book about AI literacy.
She has also written many frequently cited essays about communities that produce, consume, and circulate digital content, which have appeared in journal articles and edited collections from MIT Press, Cambridge, Routledge, University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, Duke, Oxford, Continuum, University of Alabama, University of Illinois, University of Pittsburgh, Bloomsbury Academic, and many other presses. Much of this body of work concerns the rising influence of AI and simulation technologies, the legitimation of political institutions through digital evidence, representations of war, violence, and disease in social media and games, and online discourse about human rights.
