Productive Messiness and AI Campus Literacies: Lessons from a Cross-Campus Humanities Collaborative

Thursday, January 22, 2026

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time

Location: Union Station - Level M3

Primary Presenter(s)

Emily Todd

Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Eastern Connecticut State University
Willimantic, Connecticut, United States

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Co-Presenter(s)

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Stephanie Hedge

Director of the Writing Program and Associate Professor of English
University of Illinois at Springfield, United States
Krystyn Moon

Professor of History and American Studies
University of Mary Washington, United States
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Victoria Russell

Director of the Center for Teaching and Associate Professor of Education
University of Mary Washington, United States

Faculty and administrators from three regional public liberal arts colleges will share lessons learned from a cross-campus collaboration to develop artificial intelligence (AI) literacy among humanities faculty who in turn were in a better position to support the AI literacy of their students. Supported originally by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, project participants discovered the importance of faculty-driven learning communities and time for experimentation and messy exploration. Offering perspectives from a teaching and learning center director, composition program director, history professor, and arts and sciences dean, the panel will provide audience members with models for structuring faculty learning communities and specific humanities curricula that engage with AI tools, grounded in the unique perspectives that the humanities bring to conversations about AI. The panel should be of interest to campuses looking to create a humanities curriculum engaging AI and to design meaningful professional development in support of AI literacy.