Dana J. Gavin

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Education

2024: PhD, English – Literature and Culture/ Technology and New Media. Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA)

MA, English Literature with Creative Writing, Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX)

BA, English Literature with Distinction, Southern Methodist University

Employment

  • 2022-Present:
    • Director of the Writing Center at Dutchess Community College.
    • Educator of Record, English 218: Advanced Composition and Peer Tutoring
  • 2019-2022                  
    • Part-Time Educator, Dutchess County Community College
    • Courses taught (online asynchronous, in-person, and hybrid formats):
      • English 241: Creative Non-Fiction
      • English 101: Composition
      • English 003: Composition
  • 2006-2022  :                
    • Adjunct Instructor, Marist College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
      • Courses taught:
      • Writing for College
      • Intermediate Writing for College
      • Introduction to Professional Writing
      • Literature and Gender (in person and fully online)
      • College Writing I and II

Publications

Publishing on November 18, 2025: Generative AI and the Humanities: Reading, Writing, Teaching, Labor. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/9783032065339

Brandon, Esther. et al. “Cross-Campus Approaches to Building a Generative AI Policy.” EDUCAUSE Review, 12 Dec. 2023, er.educause.edu/articles/2023/12/cross-campus-approaches-to-building-a-generative-ai-policy.

Brandon, Esther. et al. “In the Room Where It Happens: Generative AI Policy Creation in Higher Education.” EDUCAUSE Review, 29 May 2025, https://er.educause.edu/articles/2025/5/in-the-room-where-it-happens-generative-ai-policy-creation-in-higher-education.

Ouellette, Marc A., Dana Gavin. “A Flat (Packed) Affect: Theorizing Pedagogies of Seriality in Unboxing and Assembly.” In Handbook of Curriculum Theory and Research. Springer International Handbooks of Education, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas, Susan Jagger. Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82976-6_24-2.

Works in Progress

Gavin, David, Dana Gavin and Joanne Gavin. “Ethics of the Profession: Educating in a Generative Artificial Intelligence World.” Target: Journal of Business Ethics, fall 2025.

Grants and Awards

  • 2025-2026      
    • SUNY AI Fellow ($10,000)
  • 2019
    • Marist College Office of the VPAA / Dean of Faculty Travel Award ($1,021)
  • 2018  
    • English Graduate Organization Conference Travel Award ($989)
    • English Graduate Organization Conference Travel Award ($891)
  • 2017               
    • Rhetoric Society at Old Dominion University Conference Travel Award ($200)

Conference Presentations

  • January 11, 2025        
    • “Ethical Engagement: AI Literacy and Student-Author Empowerment,” Modern Language Association singe author paper presentation
  • January 11, 2025        
    • “‘[A] curious thing’: Critical AI Literacy for Scholarship,” Modern Language Association singe author paper presentation
  • December 13, 2024    
    • Presentation for Digitally Engaged Learning (DEL) In Between Session, with FACT² Task Group co-chairs, Billie Franchini and Jeffrey Riman
  • November 20, 2024   
    • “The Human Touch: Generative AI and Writing Assessments,” NERCOMP: Unlocking the Power of Generative AI in Higher Ed— In-Person Workshop single author presentation
  • August 8, 2024           
    • “The Room Where It’s Happening: Strategies for Making Sure Folx are Part of the AI Conversation, ID and AI in Higher Education” Zoom Workshop for ID and AI in Higher Education Group, co-presenter
  • March 25, 2024          
    • “A Round of Musical ChAIrs: Reviewing, Implementing, & Revising AI Policies,” 2024 NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP), partnering with EDUCAUSE (workshop co-facilitator)
  • March 7, 2024            
    • “’[H]ow dangerous […] to reason from insufficient data’: AI’s Deleterious Effects on Reading,” NeMLA single author paper presentation
  • February 16, 2024      
    • “The Assemblage of Generative AI,” SUNY WCC’s 4th Annual Composition Summit “Writing, Reading, and Learning in the Age of AI”
  • January 6, 2024          
    • “’[D]iscovering traces’: AI Scholarship as Revealing Assemblages,” Modern Language Association
  • March 27, 2023          
    • “Institutional Policy Development for AI Generative Tools in Teaching and Learning,” NERCOMP co-presenter
  • January 9, 2022          
    • “[A] network of points”: I Am Lost Without My Boswell as Authentic Sherlockian Reconstruction, Modern Language Association singe author paper presentation
  • June 3, 2021               
    • “The End of The World Is Just the Beginning: Melancholia, Mental Illness, And Remaking Chronology,” Pop Culture American Culture Association (PCA) singe author paper presentation
  • March 11, 2021          
    • “’Alas, For Our Fallen Nature!”: Serialized Novels as Eco-fiction,” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) singe author paper presentation
  • February 25, 2021      
    • “Four Seasons Total Landscaping Becomes a VRChat Hangout for Furries”: Politics in Gamespaces, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) singe author paper presentation
  • March 6, 2020            
    • “Practical Magic: Adding Skills Development Practicum to Graduate Student Education,” Northeast MLA (NeMLA) singe author paper presentation
  • February 21, 2020      
    • “Hidden Labor: Using Digital Game Cartography Interfaces to Illuminate Assemblages,” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) singe author paper presentation
  • March 23, 2019          
    • “Physically Separate but Essentially Equal: Labor Concerns for Distance-learning Graduate Students,” Northeast MLA (NeMLA) singe author paper presentation
  • January 6, 2019          
    • “‘And Many a Holy Text around She Strews, / That Teach the Rustic Moralist to Die’: Education and Deviation in Z for Zachariah, Modern Language Association singe author paper presentation
  • April 20, 2018            
    • “Technology, Masculine Performance, and Fan Production in BBC’s Sherlock,” Humanities Unbound single author presentation
  • April 12, 2018            
    • “Expect Resistance (To the Message): Effective Design in Protest Signs from 2017 Women’s Marches,” Northeast MLA (NeMLA) singe author paper presentation
  • February 8, 2018        
    • “’It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of London:’ The Allure of Geography and Nostalgia in Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) singe author paper presentation

Professional Service

  • 2021-Present              
    • Faculty Advisor, Gender-Sexuality Alliance Club at DCC
  • 2022-Present              
    • Secretary, Dutchess United Educators of Dutchess Community College Executive Council 
  • 2019-Present              
    • Area Chair: Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture at NEPCA
  • 2021-2022                  
    • Appointment to NYSC AAUP Committee on Faculty Holding Contingent Appointment
  • 2020-2022                  
    • Part-Time Educator Member-at-Large, Dutchess United Educators of Dutchess Community College Executive Council
  • 2020-2022              
    • President, NeMLA Graduate Caucus
  • 2018-2020                  
    • Communications Director, NeMLA Graduate Caucus
  • 2018                           
    • Co-host, 2018 Humanities Unbound Graduate Conference, ODU
  • 2017-2018                  
    • President, English Graduate Organization, ODU
  • 2016-2017                  
    • Distance Student Liaison, English Graduate Organization, ODU

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