Peter Paolucci, Ph.D.



Semi-Retired, but on contract with York's Departments of English and Writing.

Departments of English and Writing
York University
Toronto, Ontario

Email: paolucci@yorku.ca

Curriculum Vitae

Resumé
Peter Paolucci
#EnglishLiterature

#AI Developer

#Editing

#QuantitativeStylistics

#Shakespeare XML

#TeachTheTeacher

#Rehabilitating Students

#SmallScreenAddiction

Helping Teachers Teach and Students Learn

Academic Statement



PRIMARY AREA OF CURRENT RESEARCH: GenAI (Artificial Intelligence) Developer

Developing a GenAI Agent (“22 Essay Errors”) to identify and explain writing deficiencies and suggest practical remedies. The agent also identifies essay strengths. Starting soon: experimentation in this AI's ability to autonomously evaluate argumentative, thesis-based essays in the humanities. Thanks to the generous support from The University of Sydney’s Cogniti Project. (https://cogniti.ai/), 2026.

Early adopter of AI, integrating prompt engineering into the assignment design in AP/WRIT 3740, "The Fundamentals of Editing." See my pedagogical contribution to McMaster University's "Generative AI and Assessment" study https://www.genaiteach.ca/, 2025.

ONGOING AREAS OF RESEARCH I

Digitizing Shakespeare in XML and Editing Shakespeare and the English Renaissance (Early Moderns), electronic texts (XML markup and editing), digital humanities, the history and scholarship of editing Shakespeare electronically and in print: see my Shakespeare XML Project, the history and development of English prose through style and quantitative stylistics. This research fed my 4th-year honours seminar, "Editing Shakespeare."

ONGOING AREAS OF RESEARCH II

Dracula, Vampire fiction and film; horror fiction and film (vampires, witchcraft, ghost stories, and lycanthropy), especially Bram Stoker's Dracula, Victorian Ghost Stories, and The Gothic Tradition.