Charlotte Kupsh

yesterday i asked students to chat about what makes a good college professor, and one of them said "relatable...close to our age...like...you??" 😂

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

thanks for considering! like I said, I trust Y'ALL with that info and want to provide it so NCTE and Cs can have a better sense of the demographics of attendees! but maybe omitting that from the confirmation email that we receive would help preserve data but also keep folks safe :)

if AI is so great why can't it help me delete the blank page at the end of a document

using AI-generated images of students of color in your presentations when there are literal students of color on campus is certainly a choice :)

missing 2 field goals in your indoor turf playpen stadium with no wind is actually hilarious and YES I’m being petty af

Grades are submitted and my writing center work is just about done for the semester so it’s time for my end of semester ritual: Walk Aimlessly Around Apartment Examining Possessions

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

at 6:30 pm I realized it was “okay” to have a Diet Coke so late (💀) because I needed to stay awake for the game

I’m officially “should I pour myself some coffee for this night game” years old.

aren't yall tired? aren't yall feeling a little bit disheartened, too? you are happy reading these essays? you feel fulfilled like this??? you imagine a world full of writers who merely reproduce the same content over and over and over again, and you feel fine??? genuinely, i do not understand.

genuinely, i find it deeply disheartening and depressing that we would encourage students to use a computer generated idea rather than pushing them to really think about the content, to push past their own self-doubt and mental blocks and engage with the content we are trying to teach.

"i encourage my students to use ChatGPT for generating ideas, not writing!" ok, and when you receive a bunch of papers that have the same idea, the same rote structure, when the student has just translated a computer-generated argument into their own words, do you feel good about that?

Faculty don't just know things. They do things. This is why we should be thinking of the labor of teaching and research, not just the products and outcomes.

if you teach at a public U.S. R2 university, any department but preferably English and Rhet/Com, what’s the standard full-time teaching load per semester? (TT, tenured, adjunct — give me the details)

3:3 for TT, 4:4 for lecturers, 2:2 for grad students. Technically tenure line faculty have a 4:4 with a 1:1 release for research, and you can lose that release if you don’t publish. FYW capped at 25.

my classes are over, the packers play tonight, an undergrad complimented my blazer, there is a cute christmas market tonight, i got a zwift ride in this morning, my dog has behaved so well alone at home today, and i have a new jordan love jersey. not to brag but i am living an ENCHANTED life today.

rhet comp friends--i am teaching a course this spring on drama, confrontations, and petty crimes in composition 😈 what's your fav writing studies drama? what debates, fights, and/or petty publications can you not get over? send me your screenshots, your listserv fights, your social media snark!!