Labor, Land, Water, and Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom
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Join CCCC for a critical, nuanced, and thoughtful exploration of generative AI, its costs, and its effects on college writing instruction and writing research. This three-part Reading Circle will be a collaborative space to exchange knowledge and pedagogical practices.
SESSION 2
Discussion of Enduring Digital Damage by Dustin Edwards
Brief Remarks by Dustin Edwards
Facilitated by Hannah Hopkins & Donnie Johnson Sackey
Wednesday, December 10
4:00–5:00 p.m. ET
Dustin Edwards is an associate professor of rhetoric and writing studies and director of the Writing Center at San Diego State University. His research areas include digital and material rhetorics, environmental and land-based rhetorics, technical and professional communication, and rhetorics of science and technology. He is author of Enduring Digital Damage: Rhetorical Reckonings for Planetary Survival (2025).
Hannah Hopkins is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her research engages the tools, practices, and methods that help us make sense of and with large-scale networked infrastructures. Her current book project examines how expanded perceptual fields inform un/shared understandings of environmental impact.
Donnie Johnson Sackey is an associate professor and associate chair of rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas at Austin, and a fellow in Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy. His book Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space was published in 2024.
SESSION 3
Teaching Writing with Generative AI, Labor, Land, and Water in Mind
Discuss how we might apply Hao and Edwards’ work to the teaching of writing.
Facilitated by Maggie Fernandes, Vyshali Manivannan, and Travis Margoni
Monday, January 12
4:00–5:00 p.m. ET
Maggie Fernandes (she/her) is an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of Arkansas. Her scholarly expertise is in digital/cultural rhetorics, institutional oppression, and user experience design. Her work has been published in Computers and Composition, Composition Studies, Enculturation, and Kairos. She is one of the cofounders of the Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies website.
Dr. Vyshali Manivannan is an Eelam Tamil American chronically ill scholar whose work emphasizes the culturally specific nature of chronic pain through diasporic-disabled composition, a practice with which GenAI is incompatible. She is an assistant professor in the Department of English, Writing, and Cultural Studies at Pace University–Pleasantville.
Travis Margoni is an English faculty member at Yakima Valley College, where he has served as department chair and leads WAC initiatives. He has been a member of the CCCC and TYCA Executive Boards. Margoni’s scholarship has been published by TETYC, Kendall Hunt, and the WAC Clearinghouse.
Register by clicking each date below.
Wednesday, December 10 | 4:00 p.m. ET
Monday, January 12 | 4:00 p.m. ET
Throughout this series, members will:
- Access research and resources related to generative AI and how it affects labor, land, water, and writing instruction;
- Connect with colleagues who have a shared interest in unpacking issues related to generative AI in writing pedagogy and research;
- Develop pedagogical works in progress with colleagues in the discipline;
- Discuss the ethical implications of generative AI, which is broadly being taken up in writing classrooms and at education institutions across the US and beyond;
- Gain a deeper understanding of the ethical issues of teaching, writing, and doing research with generative AI; and,
- Address approaches to teaching given this new context of ubiquitous generative AI.
Please contact profdev@ncte.org with questions. Registration will close 90 minutes prior to the event’s start time.
