Spotlight: AI Fellows in the Humanities and Teaching and Learning

The AI Literacy Center, a collaboration between the OSU Library and the Center for Teaching and Learning, funded several AI Literacy Faculty Fellows in 2025-2026 through support from the OSU Library’s Gray Family Fund.  Fellowships were developed with the CTL or with the Center for the Humanities (part of PRAx). This integrated approach allows the AILC to support different types of Fellowships in research, service, and pedagogical exploration, while also ensuring that faculty Fellows have a supportive cohort to work over the course of their appointments. In this newsletter, we're featuring two of the AI Faculty Fellows and their projects:   

 

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Demian Hommel

Demian Hommel, Associate Professor of Teaching in the College of Earth, Oceanic, and Atmospheric Sciences, is working across units at OSU to interpret and move forward with the university’s AI guidelines for teaching and learning through invited talks, consultations, and applied classroom examples. His fellowship also includes public-facing scholarship on AI pedagogy, including a forthcoming Faculty Focus article (“Beyond Bans: Rebuilding Teaching for a World With AI”) and a CTL blog interview series, Stories of AI @ OSU, highlighting innovative and reflective faculty practices.

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Anna Guasco

Anna Guasco, Assistant Professor of Marine Studies in the College of Liberal Arts, is organizing the "Critical AI Literacy in Practice and Community" online speaker series this term. The series highlights community efforts to raise knowledge about, and respond to, social and environmental issues related to AI, particularly around data centers. She is also working on a research project analyzing efforts to use AI to communicate with whales.

 

More Information

If you want to know more about these exciting projects, or if you have ideas for future AI-focused Fellowships, please contact Laurie Bridges, AI Literacy Center Director. Stay tuned for the forthcoming call for Center for Teaching and Learning AI Faculty Fellows for 2026–2027. 

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