The TU Writing Center, Cook Library, College of Liberal Arts, and Johns Hopkins University Writing Program invite faculty to participate in an event designed to help them navigate the terrain of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in the context of student writing. We welcome keynote speaker Dr. Dan Cryer for a talked titled "AI and the New Academic Responsibilities." Powerful technologies now permeate our and our students’ writing environments, offering us tools to enhance or outsource our work. What are teachers’ responsibilities in this new landscape? What are students’ responsibilities? This talk aims to chart an ethical, critical path through these difficult questions.  

Following the keynote, faculty will engage in a collaborative workshop designed to help them create meaningful and practical policies for GenAI use in classes and on writing assignments. The event closes with a panel discussion featuring Dr. Cryer, as well as Dr. Carly Schnitzler from Johns Hopkins University and Earnest Anderson from Cook Library. Faculty participants may submit questions to the panel in advance of the event. 

Dan Cryer is Associate Professor of English at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. His website, The AI Minimalist, offers tools and resources for college instructors teaching with and against AI in writing-intensive courses. His research interests include AI and writing, pro-gun rhetoric, and the American environmental movement. His work has appeared in Inside Higher Ed, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, English Studies, and other scholarly journals. He is a TU alum and plays drums in the Baltimore-based funk band Jay Jay. 

Carly Schnitzler teaches writing at Johns Hopkins University in the University Writing Program. Her research and teaching center digital rhetoric, creative computation, and the public humanities. She is co-editor of TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies (WAC Clearinghouse, 2023) and TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments (2024, 2025), open-access pedagogical collections showcasing early experiments in thoughtfully teaching writing with generative text technology, including but not limited to AI. She is also the founder of If, Then: Technology and Poetics, a community of artists, scholars and teachers invested in promoting inclusivity and skills-building in creative computation.