Dr. Randy Laist
Dr. Randy Laist is a professor of English, Chair of the English Department, and Director of the Division of Arts and Humanities at the University of Bridgeport. He is the author of Rethinking Writing Instruction in the Age of AI, The Twin Towers in Film: A Cinematic History of the World Trade Center, Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s, and Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in the Novels of Don DeLillo. He has also edited books of essays on various topics, including critical plant studies, the television show Lost, the Indiana Jones franchise, movies about college, retro representations of the 1980s, and Universal Design for Learning. His writing has appeared in Salon, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New York Times. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife, assorted children, and Sigmund the cat.