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(F)unemployment: Rethinking Graduate Education in the Age of Gen Z and ChatGPT
Friday, February 9, 2024
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
If grad school is supposed to prepare students for professional life or train future academics, what happens when that work and that academy cease to exist? And what about new students with altogether different expectations? As managers replace writers with LLMs and universities slash humanities budgets and teaching jobs, our panelists consider the promises and pitfalls of graduate education and explore how we must evolve to meet the needs of today’s diverse students in and outside the classroom.
Participants
Kurt Milberger is an assistant professor of English at Kennesaw State University. He teaches courses on publishing, professional writing, literature, and book history.
Jennifer S. Davis is the author of three story collections: Her Kind of Want, winner of the Iowa Award for Short Fiction; Our Former Lives in Art, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection; and We Were Angry. She teaches in the MFA program at LSU.
Michael Horner is the author of the novel Damage Control: Public Relations for the Perfectly Fine Family. He directs the MFA program in creative writing at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
A professionally produced playwright and YA novelist, Aaron Levy is an associate professor of creative writing and English education and currently serves as interim director of the MA in Professional Writing at Kennesaw State University.
Abhijit Sarmah is a poet and a researcher of Indigenous literatures with particular focus on Native American women writers and writings from the Northeast of India. Currently, he is a PhD student and an Arts Lab Graduate Fellow at the University of Georgia. He is from the state of Assam in India.
