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Professor Campbell teaches courses in English Composition at JCU at all levels. Her courses foster a workshop-oriented atmosphere, where students strengthen their writing by participating in weekly peer review. She draws on a variety of texts, both contemporary and historical, including poetry, prose, and podcasts, to engage students in wrestling with contemporary issues such as sexism, racism, and fascism by examining them through a historical lens. Her research interests include gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world and their influence on modern politics; folklore and fairytale; and Greek and Roman epic poetry. In addition to her work at JCU, she is a communications consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and at the World Health Organization (WHO), where she works as an editor of various publications.

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    A Liberal Arts Guide to Academic Writing in the Age of AI: Crafting Meaning, Empowering Students. Making the Most of Artificial Intelligence Tools to Enhance the Liberal Arts Approach in Academic Writing
    (2024) Campbell, Christin; Keenan-Thomson, Tara; Lindo, Theresa; Romano, Nicoletta; Rutt, Andrew
    The advent of generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) and large language models (LLMs) will require a sea change in how and what we teach students of all levels. Research strongly suggests that most university students are regularly using it in our courses, so it is incumbent on us to establish norms and best practices in our classes regarding AI use, ethics, and literacy. This strengthening guide provides modular lesson plans for an advanced university-level English Composition course that focuses on the teaching of critical reading and writing as well as information literacy. This guide provides: • practical lessons that address genAI and LLMs and its interaction with Liberal Arts approaches to teaching and learning; • genAI tools to use and suggestions about when to use them in class; and • assignments and assessment rubrics. We argue that the appropriate response to advancements in these technologies lies in the foregrounding of the liberal arts approach and the direct use and exploration of these new tools to enhance that perspective. This requires a shift in teaching that moves from product to process and focuses on critical reading and writing in shorter collaborative bursts that build toward a final written project rather than production of full-length assigned papers to be completed by students at home on their own. This guide was written by an interdisciplinary team of instructors and reference and instruction library professionals at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. The project was completed in partnership with Parami University through the Open Society University Network and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.
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    The Future of Writing Instruction at John Cabot University
    (2025) Campbell, Christin; Keenan-Thomson, Tara; Lindo, Theresa; Romano, Nicoletta
    John Cabot University (JCU), like many other institutions, has been adapting to the changes in writing and research brought on by the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in academia. However, JCU’s Writing Center also presents an interesting case study, as it grapples with additional hurdles in heterogeneous writing, language, reading and information literacy skills based on its diverse student body and with Italian labor laws that have led it to be solely run by faculty tutors. Through its collaborations with the JCU Frohring Library and Center for Teaching and Learning in the form of information and AI literacy workshops and a recently published Strengthening Guide, the Writing Center is ready for the future of harnessing AI in the writing process.