Marit MacArthur
Continuing Lecturer, The Writing Center and University Writing Program, University of California Davis
Marit MacArthur has taught composition, American literature, and professional and creative writing for 20 years, first at California State University Bakersfield and, since 2016, at the University of California, Davis. Her pedagogical research on generative AI and writing is informed by a decade’s collaborative, interdisciplinary research with an open-source LLM for speech recognition, funded by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. She is a Principal Investigator for PAIRR (Peer and AI Review + Reflection), a collaborative three-year grant project funded by the California Education Learning Lab, with seven partner institutions in the California State University and California Community College systems. She is also a co-investigator with the NEH-funded Center for AI and Experimental Futures (CAIEF) at UC Davis. As a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) consultant and administrator at UC Davis, she has extensive experience in professional development for faculty, and at CSU Bakersfield, she helped develop a new general education curriculum focused on writing outcomes. Her work on AI, writing and programming has appeared in AI & Society, Computers and Composition, Digital Rhetoric Collaborative and Inside Higher Ed, and is forthcoming in Bad Ideas about AI and Writing and Frontiers in Communication. She is also series editor for the journal Critical AI on the topic of GenAI and Writing in Higher Ed.
Areas of Expertise
- AI and STEM writing
- Educational equity and AI
- AI literacy activities
- Peer review and AI
- Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and AI
- Writing and programming with AI