Institute Faculty
Jason Gulya
Professor of English, Berkeley College
Jason Gulya is Professor of English at Berkeley College, where he serves on the AI Task Force and the Faculty Senate Technology Committee. He is a specialist in 17th- and 18th-century British Literature, and specifically in the history of allegory. His first book, Allegory in Enlightenment Britain: Literary Abominations, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2022. Recently, his research has shifted towards how colleges can use AI to improve teaching and learning for their students and to encourage critical thinking. He has published widely on AI and education, including an article titled “Rebranding Originality for The Age of AI,” in Visionarium: International Journal of Emerging and Disruptive Innovation in Education and a forthcoming chapter on educational chatbots in Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI: Evidence-Based Approaches to Pedagogy, Ethics, and Beyond (Routledge). Currently, he is focusing on the role of close reading in The Age of AI. Jason has also worked widely as a consultant and keynote speaker on AI. He has worked with dozens of colleges and thousands of faculty members and administrators. For his work on AI and education, he has been featured in Insider and Forbes
Areas of Expertise
- AI-enhanced teaching
- Allegory
- English literature
- Enlightenment literature and philosophy
- Genre studies
- Instructional design
- Literary theory
- Literature and close reading
- Narrative studies
- Pedagogy