Carly Schnitzler (she/her) is a teacher, organizer, scholar, and artist working in and between digital rhetoric, creative computation, the public humanities, and human-computer interaction.
Her ongoing book project makes a case for reexamining the rhetorical canon using computer-mediated art and poetry and their attendant communities, to understand what creative computation does to amplify and ameliorate social critiques of contemporary digital life. Another creative-critical research project examines the rhetorical history of CAPTCHA, exploring how this technology shapes and reflects broader questions of authorship, verification, and human-machine distinction and relation.
She also co-edited TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies with Annette Vee and Tim Laquintano (WAC Clearinghouse, 2023), an open-access pedagogical collection showcasing early experiments in thoughtfully teaching writing with generative text technology, including but not limited to AI. Updates to this collection are published annually via TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments, where Carly serves as lead editor. Her other critical work appears in edited collections and refereed journals across rhetoric, electronic literature, and human-computer interaction venues: Digital Humanities Quarterly, Pedagogy, electronic book review, CHI, DIS, C&C, and more.
She also founded and continues to co-organize If, Then: Technology and Poetics with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, a community working group and event series promoting inclusivity and skills-building in creative computation for artists, scholars, and teachers.
Carly is a senior lecturer in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to Hopkins, Carly taught writing and literature courses at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she received her Ph.D. Her courses are oriented around digital and public humanities projects and she encourages collaboration, play, and thoughtful revision in (and outside) of the classroom.
Her ongoing book project makes a case for reexamining the rhetorical canon using computer-mediated art and poetry and their attendant communities, to understand what creative computation does to amplify and ameliorate social critiques of contemporary digital life. Another creative-critical research project examines the rhetorical history of CAPTCHA, exploring how this technology shapes and reflects broader questions of authorship, verification, and human-machine distinction and relation.
She also co-edited TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies with Annette Vee and Tim Laquintano (WAC Clearinghouse, 2023), an open-access pedagogical collection showcasing early experiments in thoughtfully teaching writing with generative text technology, including but not limited to AI. Updates to this collection are published annually via TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments, where Carly serves as lead editor. Her other critical work appears in edited collections and refereed journals across rhetoric, electronic literature, and human-computer interaction venues: Digital Humanities Quarterly, Pedagogy, electronic book review, CHI, DIS, C&C, and more.
She also founded and continues to co-organize If, Then: Technology and Poetics with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, a community working group and event series promoting inclusivity and skills-building in creative computation for artists, scholars, and teachers.
Carly is a senior lecturer in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to Hopkins, Carly taught writing and literature courses at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she received her Ph.D. Her courses are oriented around digital and public humanities projects and she encourages collaboration, play, and thoughtful revision in (and outside) of the classroom.
p1: at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2026) // p2: at Baltimore Print Studios (2025)