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English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
Teach courses in English language and literature, including linguistics and comparative literature. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Teach writing or communication classes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.Mostly human for now
- 05Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as poetry, novel structure, and translation and adaptation.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Assist students who need extra help with their coursework outside of class.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.People already use AI for this at work
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss36%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
53%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 94% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.