Anglophone Studies in the Age of Generative AI: Scholarship, Criticism, Teaching

Organisation

• Gero Guttzeit

About the Workshop

The rapid growth of so-called generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in interfaces such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Midjourney, and Seedance 2.0 raises fundamental questions for Anglophone studies, its methods, its objects of study, and its didactics. The aim of this workshop is to take stock of recent developments in genAI as they pertain to scholarship, criticism, and teaching, and to foster a dialogue on what these developments mean for Anglophone studies.

The workshop assembles a group of students, early career researchers, and established scholars to discuss these and related questions: How does the technology and political economy of AI affect the production and reception of literature and culture now that texts, images, films, apps, and games can be generated? How can literary and cultural texts help us make sense of these new forms of genAI in light of its longue durée? How are the roles of authors, readers, and scholars changing in this new media ecology? How can we foster critical dialogue between teachers and students at university? Should we be “thinking with AI” or stand “against AI”?