Shelly is an Associate Professor of English Literature and Affiliate Faculty of the Women’s and Gender Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, African and African American Studies, and the Foundations Programs at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. The focus of her teaching and resource is American art and culture, especially American horror and African American participation in America’s frontier mythology. Her Hub affiliate project is about designing online asynchronous classes taking advances in generative AI into consideration and developing project based learning for Humanities courses, especially English.
Shelly’s Recent Blog Posts
Conversation as Care: Why Talking to Students About AI is Our Most Essential Task Right Now
A model for talking to students about genAI from asynchronous English Literature courses For my second blog post of my Hub Affiliate series “Responding to Generative AI with an Ethics of Care,” I want to talk about what happened when I asked my students directly about generative AI. In the winter and summer of 2024,… Read More &raq…
Yes, we need an AI policy for our courses. But developing one is just the beginning
Like many other educators, I am not alone in feeling that Generative AI has upended my world. As a literature professor who teaches most of my classes in the online asynchronous format, my entire pedagogy for the last 20 years has been built on student writing. Now, a technology exists that can generate often good,… Read More &raqu…
Confessions of a Blissful Online Instructor (And Can We Help Students Feel the Same?)
~By Associate Professor of English Literature Shelly Jarenski This post is part of a series from the Hub Department Liaisons Program, Winter 2023 Focus: Offline/Online Teaching Strategies I have what I suspect might be an unpopular opinion: I love teaching online courses. I often hear from colleagues who lament the shift toward …