Justin Cary - Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies

College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies

Justin Cary

Senior Lecturer

jcary1@charlotte.edu

Cameron 128

Education

M.A. English, Xavier University

Digital Humanities | Interdisciplinary Work

ECU Digital Humanities Presentation May 18, 2024

“AI Literacy as Equity in First-Year Writing: Building the Framework”

NEXUS Participant 2024

AI in Teaching and Learning

Member of the AI in Teaching and Learning Task Force (October 2024)

Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) AI Faculty Fellow

Presenter at the 2nd Annual AI Summit for Smarter Learning (May 2024)

Personal Thoughts about AI and Writing on “The Cosmic Invisible” (Substack)

Presenter at several of Charlotte’s “AI Literacy Day” workshops (March 28, 2025)

Attendance at the AI2(squared) Summit, February 2025

Online Teaching and Learning | Online Writing Instruction

Communications Officer and Active Member of the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE)

Experienced Online Course Designer and Instructor

Center for Teaching and Learning Online Course Design Bootcamp Participant (2025)

Accessibility Studies | Collective Access

Experienced leading workshops for using digital design tools and AI platforms for developing online courses, materials and curricula.

Game Theory in Writing Studies

“Designed to Fail: How Video Games Made me a Better Writer” (Substack)

Original Designed to Fail Website Project

Updated “Designed to Fail” Video Essay Project

Podcasting

“The Studio” A First-Year Writing Companion Podcast for Students

Falling, Floating, Dreaming: The Magic of Twin Peaks (non-academic project)

Other Publications

[I Already Critically Reddit]: A Writer to Writer Discussion of Reddit, Critical Reading and Cultures of Participation.

Fire Walk with Me Or The Metamodern Prometheus: Demythologizing AI Tools through AI Literacy (forthcoming publication in Research in Online Literacy Education (ROLE) )