Marc Watkins, MFA, directs the AI Institute for Teachers and is an assistant director of academic innovation at the University of Mississippi, where he is a lecturer in writing and rhetoric. He has led research initiatives, exploring generative AI’s impact on student learning, training workshops for faculty on AI literacy, and several institution-wide AI institutes. His work with training faculty in AI literacy has been profiled in The Washington Post, and he regularly writes about AI and education on his Substack, Rhetorica.