“Prompted by” as in “occasioned by,” but also as in the new meaning of prompt: to initiate an interaction with a large language model or other artificial entity.
In this conversation, experts from the University of Maryland’s Department of English—representing creative writing, digital humanities, electronic literature, and academic writing—will consider the implications of these new technologies.
In particular, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Jessica Enoch, Matthew Kirschenbaum, and Marissa Parham want to push past the current fixation on student misuse, and consider other meanings and modalities for writing, informed by their long-standing work on media, textuality, archives, authorship, and the diverse communities that make the act of writing—in all its forms—materially manifest.
There will be brief position papers from each participant, an exchange amongst the…
