Exploring Learning, Writing, & Teaching in an AI-Driven World

April 10–11, 2026 | North Dakota State University | Fargo, ND

The English Graduate Organization at North Dakota State University invites graduate students, scholars, and researchers to join us for the 2026 Red River Valley Graduate Student Conference. Hosted on NDSU’s beautiful Fargo campus, this conference explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the ways we learn, write, teach, and create knowledge across disciplines.

While we welcome papers that broadly engage with English studies, we are especially interested in interdisciplinary work exploring how AI contributes to acquiring and disseminating knowledge. The conference theme, "Knowledge in the Age of AI: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Learning, Writing, and Teaching," examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping pedagogical practices, research methods, and humanistic inquiry across fields.

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Conference Details

April 10–11, 2026 | North Dakota State University | Fargo, ND

Dr. Elaine Auyoung

Associate Professor, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities

Dr. Auyoung’s scholarship spans education and learning in the humanities, aesthetic experience, reading practices, nineteenth-century British literature and culture, psychological approaches to the arts, literature and philosophy, and epistemic justice. Her keynote will offer a rich exploration of how humans understand, create, and interpret knowledge in an AI-driven world.

Given the rapid impact of AI on education and the surge of research examining how we learn, write, and teach with these technologies, we encourage submissions from diverse disciplines beyond rhetoric and composition. We welcome proposals that engage with the conference theme from diverse perspectives, including but not limited to:

  • Digital AI Usage
  • Effects of AI when it comes to literature and culture
  • Impact of technology on various disciplines
  • Relationship between human emotion and technology
  • Effects of AI in writing
  • Embodied knowledge in the age of AI
  • Feminist/women’s studies
  • Psychology
  • Rhetorics of technology
  • Teaching in the age of AI
  • Teaching literature with/against AI
  • Writing in the age of AI
  • Digital rhetorics in academia and the private sector
  • Impact of AI on creative writing

We invite abstracts of up to 300 words, submitted by January 15, 2026, to the conference co-chairs:

  • NDSU student registration (before January 15, 2026): $10
  • Early Bird registration for non-NDSU students and faculty (before January 15, 2026): $25
  • General registration after January 15, 2026 (all attendees): $30

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Questions? Contact Us

For inquiries, please reach out to any of the following: Elisabeth Eller, Pinki Das, or Obehioye Omokhuale.

Elisabeth Eller Pinki Das Obehioye Omokhuale

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