Extended Deadline: February 15, 2026!

Call for Papers

Knowledge in the Age of AI: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Learning, Writing, and Teaching

The English Graduate Organization at North Dakota State University (NDSU) invites proposals for the 2026 Red River Valley Graduate Student Conference, April 10-11, 2026, on the beautiful NDSU campus in Fargo, North Dakota.

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.

Our keynote speaker, Dr. Elaine Auyoung (Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), brings expertise in education and learning in the humanities, aesthetic experience, methods of reading, nineteenth-century British literature and culture, psychological approaches to the arts, literature and philosophy, and epistemic justice.

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. Possible sub-themes include:

• 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

Registration Information:

• Register here!
• NDSU student registration (before February 15th) - $10
• Early bird registration for non-NDSU students, including faculty (before February 15th) - $25
• Registration after February 15th for everyone - $30

Contact Information: 

We invite everyone to send abstracts of no more than 300 words to conference co-chairs, at katilynn.herout@ndsu.edu and habiba.akter@ndsu.edu, by February 15 (extended deadline), 2026.

For inquiries and questions, please contact any of the following: elisabeth.eller@ndsu.edu, pinki.das@ndsu.edu, obehioye.omokhuale@ndsu.edu. Also, visit our Red River Valley Graduate Student Conference website to learn more about the conference and this year's keynote speaker.