Speakers: Ashley Beardsley (Western Illinois University), Jason Palmer (Georgia State University), Antonio Hamilton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) This panel brought together three presentations that, on the surface, may not seem to belong in the same room: a history of Junior League cookbooks, an attempt to define the still-forming category of “AI rhetoric,” and a reflection on invention and writer identity in the age of generative AI. But taken together, these talks formed a productive conversation about how we make meaning across contexts: through food, through machines, and through the persistent, recursive act of writing. Ashley Beardsley opened the panel…
Author: Bri Lafond
Bri Lafond
Dr. Bri Lafond (she/her) is an incoming Educational Development Specialist at Boise State University. She researches content creators' multimodal composing practices as well as how various technologies impact sociopolitical discourse, writing instruction, and writing centers.
Speakers: Maddie Brueger (University of Texas at Austin), Megan Mericle (Georgia Institute of Technology), Alba Newmann Holmes (Swarthmore College) At a conference where most panels centered on the expanding influence of generative AI, “Moving through Space” closed out the conference by refreshingly turning our attention to embodiment, place, and the “more-than-human” world. Each presentation explored different means of surfacing the ecological and rhetorical entanglements that shape everyday life. Whether through thermal imaging, citizen science networks, or digital mapping projects, the panelists offered accounts of how movement and environment co-create knowledge and how rhetoric can intervene in climate crisis not just…
As a writing center practitioner and digital media scholar, I’ve observed with great interest the increasing entanglement of digital technologies in students’ writing processes. I’ve assisted students who struggle to get their words down on paper by setting up voice-to-text tools, allowing them to compose a first draft verbally. I’ve learned about mind-mapping programs like Miro that students use to organize their ideas multimodally. I’ve seen students gain confidence by using Grammarly to correct their writing as they work. While these technologies can be a significant boon for writers, they also introduce new challenges: These instances and others like them…