Some updates for the fall term:

First, my book, Trans-imperial Feminism in England and India is in production! I expect to be muddling through index creation sometime this fall. I have always loved making a good list of words, so this should be a fun skill to develop.

Second, I’ll be representing my university as a participant in the AAC&U’s Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum this fall. I look forward to continuing to pursue ways that generative AI can enhance learning in the college writing and literature classrooms because I believe that AI literacy will be an important skill set for students, going forward. To counter my own anxieties around AI-generated content replacing human writing, I’m also asking students, increasingly, to hand-write in journals in order to hone their voice, style, and ideas. This worked amazingly well in a debates class I taught last January, and research backs up the importance of writing by hand for improved cognition, synthesis and retention of information.

That’s the big news. Otherwise, I’m embarking on some new research and writing projects, but they’re inchoate so I’m not going to waste any reader’s time describing them yet. More concrete plans involve 10k fun runs and Halloween costume making. And I get to teach Howl’s Moving Castle this semester in Children’s Literature!