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Join co-authors Dr. John Sherrill and Dr. Michael Salvo for a talk covering their 2025 work Artificial Infrastructures. Grounded in expert interviews, Artificial Infrastructures investigates how generative AI is reshaping writing in high-tech industries and reveals how professionals co-write with AI, rethinking authorship, labor, and infrastructure. 

This work connects rhetoric and technical communication with day-to-day workplace realities, making it both theoretically rich and practically useful for instructors and students alike.

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Michael J. Salvo is a Professor of Professional Writing in the English Department at Purdue University, where he directed the Professional Writing Program from 2009-2019. Routledge published his book Writing Postindustrial Places: Technoculture amid the Cornfields, exploring globally competitive firms in the American Midwest (2018).

John T. Sherrill is a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at Michigan Technological University after four years abroad. For more than a decade, he has engaged with digital fabrication technologies, investigating emergent communities of alternative making and the evolving role of artificial intelligence in processes of pseudo- or mass-customization.

Together, they have published and presented research and scholarship focused on artificial intelligence at conferences in Australia, Europe, and the Americas over the last five years, both virtually and in-person.