AUHE Seminar Series: Provocations: Literature and AI

Please join us for four short talks about literature and AI from four Australian researchers working on different aspects of this topic.

Katherine Bode is professor of literary and textual studies at the Australian National University. Her research employs computational methods to engage with literary phenomena and literary methods to engage with computational phenomena in books including A World of Fiction (2017) and Reading by Numbers (2012).

Isabelle Wentworth is an early career researcher currently working at the University of Wollongong. Her first book, Catching Time: Temporality, Interaction, and Cognition in the Novel (Routledge), is forthcoming in 2024.

Judith Bishop is a former Senior Director of AI Specialists at Appen, an Australian AI data services company, where Judith directed teams of linguists working on AI training datasets for more than 17 years. She has also had a 35-year career as a creative writing practitioner. Judith is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, Event (Salt Publishing, 2007) and Interval (UQP, 2018), and three limited edition chapbooks, including Here Hear (Life Before Man, 2022). A third full collection, Circadia, is forthcoming from UQP in 2024. Judith’s awards include the 2019 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for Interval, the Anne Elder Award for Event, and the Peter Porter Poetry Prize (2006, 2011).

Chris Danta is a professor of literature and an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Cybernetics at the Australia National University. His research operates at the intersection of literary theory, philosophy, science and theology. He is the author of Literature Suspends Death: Sacrifice and Storytelling in Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Animal Fables after Darwin: Literature, Speciesism and Metaphor (Cambridge UP, 2018).