Speaker: Dennis Yi Tenen
Associate Professor English, Columbia University, PhD Alum 2012
Title: Narrative Intelligence: Theory and Practice for Literature Scholars in the Age of AI
Dennis Tenen’s research happens in the fields of literary history, media theory, computational humanities, sociology of literature, narratology, and history of science and technology. In this talk, he will draw on his recent book Literary Theory for Robots (2024) to offer a broad view of the shared pasts of literature and computer science, ranging from medieval Arabic philosophy to Hollywood fiction factories, to missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. Then, he will present new work that puts large language models into conversation with one another—literally—to study their techniques of persuasion.
Co-Sponsored by the Harvard metaLAB
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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