Billy Gerchick

Billy teaches English at ASU as associate faculty while serving as full-time English faculty for Central Arizona College and as adjunct faculty for Maricopa Community Colleges.

A curious learner who’s grown from paperbacks, floppy disks, and GPTs, Billy values classic and contemporary scholarship. A lifelong education advocate, Spanish‑proficient, and parent of dual-citizen ESL learners, one of whom has Level 2 Autism and ADHD, Billy cares about diverse students’ upward social mobility through English. For 20 years in Phoenix Title I high schools, he taught at intersections of literacies, languages, cultures, and technologies. 

Also a doctoral student at ASU, Billy is in Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation's "Learning and Innovation" program, Higher Education Change Leadership, “Roadrunner Cohort.” He's focused on researching and developing first-year composition frameworks that help students grow through purposeful, innovative, responsible convergences of non-AI and AI-enhanced, individualized learning in-context of courses to support their college, career, and life goals.

Research interests: contextualized learning, individualized learning, generative AI, educational AI, human-AI dialectics, whole-student needs, & sports literacies.