English Faculty Lunch and Learn

English Program Lunch and Learn
Thursday, April 2, 2026
12:00 – 1:00 Katz library and on Zoom

Please bring your lunch and join us to hear about our English Faculty’s new research. This panel features three exciting areas of inquiry:

Jessica Winck: Schooling as Constraint in Self-Help Books on Writing
Description: Self-help books on writing consistently portray formal education as a negative influence on learning, writing, and creativity. In this brief talk, I explore this portrayal and its possible lessons for the teaching of writing in higher education.

Kay Retzlaff: Laughing on the Inside: Satire, Status, and the Irish in the Nineteenth-century US
Historian of Irish America Charles Fanning argues that satire is the result of a profound Irish habit of mind, especially pre-Irish Famine, which was overwritten by the Famine. His interpretation of why overly simplifies a complex series of events. Fanning overlooked the eras of the various immigrations as well as the gender and class of the immigrants themselves.

Noel Tague: “The OG Chatbot: Automated Writing as a Foundation for Critical AI Literacy.”
Description: Many writing instructors struggle with how to teach AI and writing in ways that align with pedagogical principles, best practices, and beliefs in what writing is for. In this presentation, I offer a foundation for critical AI literacy in the classroom in a lesson plan on automated writing.