talks

Cyborgs, Culture and AI Literacy

ExplAInED, Amazon Music · 2025

A podcast conversation on what it means to be AI literate from a cultural and humanistic perspective, rather than a technical one. Argues that the cyborg is a better metaphor for human-AI relations than the tool.

Me, You, and AI

Lamoille Valley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute · 2025

A public talk for a general adult audience on living and learning alongside AI. Focused on demystifying the technology and opening up questions about agency, creativity, and what it means to think with a machine.

Building Interdisciplinarity

Purdue University Northwest · 2024

A lecture and workshop for faculty on building interdisciplinary programs and curricula. Drew on over a decade of institutional work at Champlain to make the case that interdisciplinarity is a structural problem as much as a pedagogical one.

AI: Our Newest Digital Companion

Vermont Humanities Council · 2024

Part of the Vermont Humanities Council Snapshot Series. Examined AI through the lens of digital humanities, asking what it means to have a companion that thinks, responds, and shapes how we understand ourselves.

Where Are We Now?

Johnson C. Smith University Faculty Summer Institute · 2016

Panelist on a conversation about technology, pedagogy, and the state of digital humanities in higher education.

Second Screens and Critical, Digital Pedagogies

Johnson C. Smith University Faculty Summer Institute · 2014

Plenary lecture on the pedagogical possibilities of second screen culture, arguing that the connected classroom could be a site of critical inquiry rather than distraction.