Amanda L. Sevilla

Amanda's Affiliations: Internships, CEAT

Dr. Amanda Sevilla has presented her work regionally and internationally in various areas of the humanities, including the following: Rhetoric of Technology, Media Studies & The Toronto School, Media Ecology, Critiques of Modernity, Rhetorical Theory, Intercultural Communication, Online Course Design, Sociolinguistics, Phenomenology, Philosophy, and Writing Theory. Her current research explores newer innovations in Artificial Intelligence (AI), as well as ethical-philosophical questions surrounding the use of GPTs (generative pre-trained transformers/generative AI) in higher education and other industries. Additionally, she is part of the Foundational Pedagogy Collective funded through Pitt's "Year of Discourse and Dialogue" to move metacognitive learning theories into pedagogical praxis, for which she will present her applied research results during a panel presentation at the end of 2025. She particularly enjoys working with the Media Ecology Association (MEA), an international, not-for-profit organization dedicated to applying media ecology research (i.e., in social, technological, cultural, political, artistic, literary, and educational contexts). She currently serves as the Pedagogy Editor for the MEA's Explorations in Media Ecology (EME) international journal.