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Teaching & Learning Discussion | Distinctly Human: Teaching Disciplinary Skills and Mitigating AI Learning Loss
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Thu, Nov 12, 2026
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM EST (GMT-5)
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Our conversation will begin with insights from Brett Smith, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Jill Campbell, Professor of English. They will share their own thoughts and pedagogical practices and then invite others into the conversation. Participants are encouraged to come ready to contribute their own questions, challenges, and variations on practices related to student engagement and course policies. Lunch will be provided. We are committed to hosting inclusive and accessible events that allow all participants to fully engage. Please contact us at faculty.teaching@yale.edu if there are ways we can support accommodations and access needs, be aware of any dietary restrictions, or for other questions.
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Jill Campbell
Professor of English
Yale University
Jill Campbell teaches and writes about a variety of genres of 18th-century British literature: the novel, drama, poetry, essays, familiar letters and other forms of “life writing.” Her interests in women’s writing and the construction of gender in literature are part of a broader interest in the complex interactions between literary experience and social forms. She is the author of Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding’s Plays and Novels (1995) and is currently completing a book on satiric portraits and self-representations of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Hervey, and Alexander Pope. Part of that book, “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the ‘Glass Revers’d’ of Female Old Age,” recently appeared in Defects: Engendering the Modern Body; and her edition of Fielding’s The Author’s Farce is now available in The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early 18th-Century Drama. Her next book will study the interactions between literary texts and a variety of social practices: conversational wit, Restoration songs, newspaper advertising, instructional texts for children, and hymn-singing. She is also actively interested in the discussion of practical pedagogy for the teaching of reading, writing, and interpretive skills to people of all ages.
Brett Smith
Senior Lecturer in Mathematics
Yale University
Brett Smith received his Ph.D. from Wesleyan University in 2015. After Wesleyan, he spent three years as a Helmsley Postdoctoral Teaching Scholar at Yale. As a postdoc, he collaborated with the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning and Housatonic Community College to implement active learning in a variety of introductory mathematics courses. He also developed a prototype video game designed to help students prepare for Calculus. This semester, Smith is coordinating MATH 115: “Calculus of Functions of One Variable,” where he will design and implement new pre-class explorations to prepare students to engage in classroom activities and discussions. In the spring, he is teaching a section of MATH 120: “Calculus of Functions of Several Variables.”