Alexa Alice Joubin, Author at Digital Humanities Institute

Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory

ByAlexa Alice Joubin April 12, 2023April 12, 2023

Alexa Alice Joubin views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use ChatGPT responsibly, not as a shortcut. “In our inquiry-driven culture, we need to know how to retrieve information through queries,” Joubin said. “Further, democratic society needs good question-askers as much as good problem-solvers. Asking key questions helps to advance scholarly fields, and students develop editorial, curatorial and critical questioning skills that are employable skills and the foundation of civil society in an era of ChatGPT.”

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Creating Open Education Resources

ByAlexa Alice Joubin April 12, 2023April 12, 2023

Faculty Perspectives: Creating Open Education Resources Wednesday April 12, 2023, 1 pm eastern time Zoom link at: https://open.wrlc.org/events/wed-04122023-1300 Alexa Alice Joubin, author of the open-access Screening Shakespeare, https://screenshakespeare.org/, will share how she created the textbook. Open Education Resources (OER) for higher education have made significant progress over the last few decades. Textbook affordability continues…

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Joubin Receives the bell hooks Legacy Award

ByAlexa Alice Joubin April 10, 2023April 10, 2023

GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books….

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I Am not a Robot: The Entangled Futures of A.I. and the Humanities

ByAlexa Alice Joubin March 27, 2023April 5, 2023

Generative Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) tools have the potential to alter profoundly the ways we work, create, think, and behave. They raise such questions as: What makes humans distinctive? Can machines have consciousness? What is intelligence? Are the methods used to create A.I. tools ethical? In this symposium, we hope to open a discussion on the philosophical, ethical, political, and cultural, challenges that A.I. poses for our society.

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AI is in Your Classroom – Even if You Didn’t Know It!

ByAlexa Alice Joubin January 3, 2023January 31, 2023

GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin recently spoke at a roundtable on artificial intelligence and higher education. Prof. Alexa Alice Joubin embraces instructional AI in her classroom From AI that write papers, essays, and poems, to those that create art or write computer code, these technologies are quickly impacting on…

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Co-Director Receives Two Awards

ByAlexa Alice Joubin November 23, 2022November 23, 2022

GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin received the Trachtenberg award for research as well as a Writing in the Discipline teaching award in 2022.

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Digital Tools for Openness

ByAlexa Alice Joubin September 8, 2022September 19, 2022

Alexa Alice Joubin will be speaking at the 2022 George Washington University Teaching Day to address openly-licensed digital tools that foster inclusiveness in the classroom. The event takes place in Gelman Library Room 218A at 1:15 pm on October 6, 2022. Here is the poster. There are multiple ways to facilitate…

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Creating a Digital Space to Inspire

ByAlexa Alice Joubin September 2, 2022September 2, 2022

In this workshop we will get started creating a custom online space for communicating to and inspiring your students. You will follow a simple approach reflecting on the student’s perspective and pulling together a story to tell using Adobe Creative Cloud Express.

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Screening Shakespeare

ByAlexa Alice Joubin August 23, 2022October 17, 2022

We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexa Alice Joubin‘s online textbook Screening Shakespeare, just in time for the new academic year! The openly-licensed learning modules in the book cover key concepts of film studies, such as mise-en-scène, cinematography, sound and music, and film theory.

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Mapping Women’s Studies

ByAlexa Alice Joubin March 4, 2022March 4, 2022

A Historical Mapping of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Around the Globe Speaker: Clara Montague Monday, March 7, 2022, from 3: 45 pm to 4:30 pm EST on Zoom. Meeting ID: 757 446 5504 This event is part of our Women’s History Month celebrations and helps us mark International Women’s Day! Clara Montague is a…