Sean Meehan
Washington College
About
Sean Meehan is Professor of English, Director of Writing, and the Co-Director of the Cromwell Center for Teaching and Learning at Washington College. He is the author of A Liberal Education in Late Emerson: Readings in the Rhetoric of Mind and Mediating American Autobiography: Photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman. His exploration of AI pedagogy and its rhetorical uses and limits is part of a larger work in progress, Against Originality: A Rhetoric for Renovation in the Arts and Sciences. You can learn more about his teaching here.
Assignments
Generative AI and Stasis Theory
Use Generative AI to update and enhance engagement with a classical rhetorical heuristic–the four questions of Stasis Theory–effective for developing an argument by locating the issue or dispute in a case.