In spring 2025, the School of the Arts and the College of Arts and Sciences awarded fellowships to nine faculty to integrate generative artificial intelligence from the cloud to the classroom. The AI Fellows will help our school and students thrive creatively in the 21st century.
The faculty fellows are discussing and planning to incorporate their work into eight courses, as well as studio work and practicums in music, graphic design, film and writing studies. The work is also being integrated into creative works in theatre and arts entrepreneurship.
Here are some samples of work being undertaken as part of this fellowship:
- Professor Gordon Reinhart from the Department of Theatre, Film, and Creative Writing has utilized research and creative exploration to help lead discussions and to create a new one-act play that merges generative AI with Shakespeare’s King Lear. That play debuted on campus in December 2025.
- In the Department of Music, Christina Mancheni infused AI into technical pieces of vocal performance and discussions of self-awareness through music.
- The AI Fellows also contributed to a University Foundations Course. Professor Jenn Mallette, from the Department of Writing Studies, is helping students think critically and determine their own rights of refusal in AI use.