Love, Patrick

Abstract The emergence of Large Language Models and applications like OpenAI's ChatGPT has ushered in a new conversation regarding the use of artificial intelligence, specifically in the composition classroom. Some may view ChatGPT and its various models as a way to make work quick and more efficient; however, the way ChatGPT presents its writing has profound implications for how we view the writing process, namely preventing users and writers from engaging with information and their own writing...

Abstract Since the publication of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble in 1990, transgender scholars have challenged performativity theory on the basis that it describes gender as something frivolous and quickly “taken off” or “put on.” However, these critiques are inadequate because a closer reading of performativity theory shows that the theory stresses the slow sedimentation of gender over time. Regardless, performativity theory still does not properly accommodate...

Abstract My paper examines how Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz leverages a complex form of dialectical irony to subvert her own silencing in her Response to the Most Illustrious Poetess Sor Filotea de la Cruz. Problematizing prior rhetorical scholarship on Response, which has often uncritically reinscribed the language of rescue and martyrdom, I instead call for a panhistorical ironic recovery process that recenters social circulation to...