Brenta Blevins (sblevin2)

Associate Professor of English

Communication & Digital Studies

Writing Studies, Digital Studies, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality, Multimodality/Multiliteracy

Combs Hall Room 329
sblevin2@umw.edu
540-654-5986

Academic Degrees

B.A., Virginia Tech; M.A., Radford University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Brenta Blevins in the News

Blevins Publishes Book Chapters on Generative AI and Emerging Media Pedagogy

Associate Professor Brenta Blevins in the Department of English & Linguistics has recently published two book chapters exploring literacy pedagogy in the context of emerging technologies. Her chapter, “A Generative AI (GAI) Writing Pedagogy: How Composition Pedagogy Can Inform the GAI Turn,” appears in the 2025 Routledge collection Rethinking Writing Education Read more…

Summer Enrichment Program Serves High-Schoolers a Slice of College Life

Students turned an unusual array of objects – a puffy pink pony, a giant nose, one wooden hoop – into charcoal sketches at the University of Mary Washington earlier this week.“Awesome stuff, guys,” Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing Ashe Laughlin said of the rising 10th- through 12th-graders’ still-life creations. Read more…

Let’s Chat About ChatGPT: UMW Faculty Perspectives on Emerging AI Technology

When you ask how UMW is using ChatGPT in the classroom, you’ll hear a variety of responses. Some students and faculty have yet to hear of the emerging AI technology. Some know it well and make use of it for their assignments whether instructors know it or not. Some say Read more…

Banned Books Read-Out

In recognition of the annual American Library Association’s Banned Books Week (September 26-October 2), a Read-out was held on Wednesday, Sept. 29, on Campus Walk, in front of Lee Hall, and on the University Center steps facing Ball Circle, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. President Paino and other administrators, faculty, and students read from selected banned Read more…

National Day on Write and Why I Write

October 20th is National Day On Writing. Around UMW and all over the globe people will share their love for writing through the #WhyIWrite campaign sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English. Join others on Simpson's Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages and tell us why you write. You Read more…

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