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Susan Ray is associate professor of English at Delaware County Community College outside Philadelphia. Susan teaches a mix of on-site and online composition courses, and she’s been redesigning her teaching for a few years now in response to generative AI. We highlight some of her teaching practices in our new book, The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching, including an AI-integrated syllabus activity.

In my conversation with Susan, we talk about that syllabus activity, as well as the AI transparency journals she asks her students to keep during her courses. We also talk about how her personal background prepared her to navigate the challenges and opportunities that AI has posed to her teaching, how she approaches assessing student learning in this age of AI—especially in her online asynchronous courses—and much more.

Episode Resources

Susan Ray’s Substack

Susan Ray on LinkedIn

“I Embraced AI in My Community College English Class—and My Students Loved It!”, Susan Ray, EdSurge, July 21, 2025, with details about Susan’s AI-integrated syllabus activity

“Technological Privilege, AI, & the Fourth Literacy in the Classroom,” Susan Ray, Susan’s Substack, February 28, 2026

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