A presentation on writing assignments in the Age of AI led by University of Illinois Rhetoric Program faculty.

Kristi McDuffie is the Director of Rhetoric and oversees the first-year writing program at UIUC, which teachers around4,000 students a year. In addition to teaching and leading writing program initiatives, she studies the rhetoric of social justice movements 

Dana Kinzy is the Associate Director of Rhetoric and a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Dept. of English. In addition to teaching writing at a variety of levels, she trains current and future writing teachers and conducts research at the intersection of literacy and identity. 

Dani Nyikos is a Lecturer in the Dept. Of English where they teach first-year writing, game design, and creative writing classes. They have trained a few (comparatively small) large language models of their own, including one from the works of Jane Austen