Join us for the 2nd annual Conference Institute on Writing and Generative AI from 1-3:20 PM on February 24, 2026, facilitated by Kate Navickas and Laura Davies. This event is open for free to ALL ODU faculty interested in the teaching of writing & all Spring Conference on the Teaching of Writing registrants. Register here today!
Their workshop, Let’s Try It Now: Classroom Experiments for Developing Critical AI Literacy will guide participants through hands-on examples that address both the messy challenges and the surprising wins of integrating AI into our teaching of writing. Then it’s our turn: participants will brainstorm which AI experiments could work in their own courses and begin mapping out the practical details (timing, prep work, student assignments, reflection prompts) with the workshop facilitators, leaders of ODU’s writing programs, and colleagues from various disciplines nearby ready to brainstorm and discuss with a goal of creating a collective resource we can all learn from.
Location: Cape Charles/ Isle of Wright, Webb Center (ODU Norfolk campus)
Snacks and Refreshments provided for in-person attendees.
Kate Navickas is director of the Cornell Writing Centers and teaches in the Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell University. Her praxis-oriented research in writing pedagogy and writing centers explores assignment design, emotional labor in administration, tutor professional development, and teaching critical AI literacies. She is co-editor of The Things We Carry: Strategies for Recognizing & Negotiating Emotional Labor in Writing Program Administration.
Laura Panning Davies is Professor and Chair of English at SUNY Cortland, where she teaches in the Adolescence English Education, Professional Writing, and first-year writing programs. Her research examines writing pedagogy, writing program administration, and student composing processes. She is a co-author of They Say / I Say with Readings (W. W. Norton & Co.
This event is sponsored by the College of Arts & Letters, The Department of English, The Center for Faculty Excellence, and the Thistle Foundation. For more about this exciting event, email Kristi Murray Costello at kcostell@odu.edu.