Steve Shoemaker received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Virginia. He teaches writing courses in the Yale English Department and has previously taught in both the Expository Writing and History and Literature programs at Harvard University, as well as teaching writing and literature (ranging from first-year writing to senior literature seminars) at a number of other schools. He has written about the Objectivist movement in American poetry and many other subjects, and is the editor of Thinking Poetics: Essays on George Oppen. His writing and teaching have often explored the intersections of literature, cognitive science, and neuroscience, and his most recent writing course at Yale, AI Through the Looking Glass, investigates the way AI serves as both a portal to strange new territory and a mirror held up to human nature. This course also asks students to experiment with, and reflect on, the use of AI as a kind of “co-intelligence.” But he still thinks you can’t beat working with your teachers and tutors on writing!
