The widespread availability of generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT has created a considerable amount of fear, excitement and debate across higher education. For the Texas A&M Department of English Department, this crisis only highlights the centrality of writing and reading to the digital technologies we all engage with in our day-to-day lives.
Texas A&M has long had a reputation for innovative research in Shakespeare studies and in the digital humanities alike. A fresh digital arrival in the English Department, the New Variorum Shakespeare, is set to expand that reputation yet further.