Associate Professor of English & Linguistics Brenta Blevins
Associate Professor Brenta Blevins in the Department of English & Linguistics has recently published two book chapters exploring literacy pedagogy in the context of emerging technologies.
Her chapter, “A Generative AI (GAI) Writing Pedagogy: How Composition Pedagogy Can Inform the GAI Turn,” appears in the 2025 Routledge collection Rethinking Writing Education in the Age of Generative AI. The chapter examines how established composition theories can guide the development of generative AI literacy and instruction and offers strategies for integrating generative AI into writing pedagogy.
A second chapter, co-authored with Wagner College Associate Professor of English/Director of the Writing Center Lindsay Sabatino and published in Impact of Emergent Technologies on Writing Centers and Pedagogy (2025), explores how writing centers and faculty development can cultivate digital literacy. Titled “Encouraging Emergent Technological Exploration through Pedagogy of Play: How Centers Can Promote Digital Literacy,” the chapter highlights how playful, exploratory approaches can support student engagement and learning with digital media and technologies — including virtual and augmented reality, photography, and generative AI — across instructional environments.