Arthur C. Graesser PhD

Dr. Graesser is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis, as well as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at San Diego. His primary research interests are in cognitive science, discourse processing, and the learning sciences. More specific interests include knowledge representation, question asking and answering, tutoring, text comprehension, inference generation, conversation, reading, education, memory, emotions, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and human-computer interaction.

He served as editor of the journal Discourse Processes (1996–2005) and is the current editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology (2009-2014). His service in professional societies includes the president of the Empirical Studies of Literature, Art, and Media (1989-1992), the Society for Text and Discourse (2007-2010), the International Society for Artificial Intelligence in Education (2007-2009), and the Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences Foundation (2012-13). In addition to publishing over 500 articles in journals, books, and conference proceedings, he has written 3 books and edited 14 books. He and his colleagues have designed, developed, and tested software in learning, language, and discourse technologies, including AutoTutor, AutoTutor-lite, MetaTutor, GuruTutor, DeepTutor, HURA Advisor, SEEK Web Tutor, Operation ARIES!, I start, Writing-Pal, Point & Query, Question Understanding Aid (QUAID), QUEST, & Coh-Metrix.