1st Edition

Teaching Literature with Artificial Intelligence Sustaining Students' Creativity and Autonomy in ELA Classrooms

By Eric D. Abrams Copyright 2026
226 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Teaching Literature with Artificial Intelligence explores the use of chatbots as participants in the teaching and learning of literature in high school and college classrooms while highlighting potentially outmoded norms and expectations of ELA instruction. Artificial intelligence programs have profoundly altered the daily realities of teachers and students, inspiring concern and opportunity... Read more

Introduction 1. Demystifying the Machine 2. Authority and Interpretive Freedom in Reading 3. Interrogating Dominant Pedagogies of the ELA Classroom 4. The Limits of Literary Discourse with Generative AI 5. Experiments in the ChatBot Book Club 6. Reverse-Engineering Literature Instruction 7. AI as Thought Provider, Partner, and Provoker

Biography

Eric D. Abrams is Clinical Lecturer and Senior Director of Clinical Experiences for the Department of Education at Iona University, USA.