Trey Conatser is assistant provost for teaching and learning and director of the UK Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT). In this role he represents UK’s educational mission within and beyond the University, and he oversees CELT operations in pursuit of innovative, effective, and engaging teaching and learning at UK. In his leadership roles Trey has participated in a range of initiatives around institutional priorities such as pandemic-era education and operations; transdisciplinary education; and the rise of generative artificial intelligence (for which he co-chairs UK ADVANCE, the university task force on generative AI). Over the past few years, he has overseen a significant growth and diversification of CELT's reach and impact to meet the evolving needs of instructors and students.

Trey holds a PhD in English from The Ohio State University with a specialization in writing, rhetoric, digital humanities, and pedagogy. At Ohio State he began working in educational development as part of the storied Digital Media and Composition (DMAC) Institute. Broadly, Trey’s research has examined technology-enhanced learning in the humanities and writing-based scenarios, and can be found in venues such as College Teaching, Computers and Composition Online, the Journal of Digital Humanities, and the Palgrave Handbook of Digital and Public Humanities, with forthcoming work on the unessay and generative AI, student engagement with generative AI, and teacher and student motivation during the early years of the pandemic.

Recent or forthcoming presentations include venues such as the POD Network Annual Conference, the SACSCOC Annual Meeting, Times Higher Education's Digital Universities US and Student Success US, the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, the Teaching and Learning with AI Conference, and the Higher Education Partnership Network. He contributed to coverage of higher education in Forbes, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and The Atlantic. Trey has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in digital humanities, technical and professional writing, first-year/college writing, literature, and college teaching and learning.