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Lauren M. E. Goodlad

Lauren M. E. Goodlad is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rutgers, the chair of Critical AI @ Rutgers, and the editor of Critical AI (a new journal from Duke University Press coming out in 2023). Her recent work includes a co-edited December 2020 special issue of MLQ, What Is and Isn’t Changing: Critique after Postcritique and several articles and presentations from her current book project, Genres that Matter: The Ontological Work of Nineteenth-Century Fiction (several chapters of which concern the Victorian-era origins of “AI”). Her published work in Victorian studies includes The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience (2015). icon

Now the Humanities Can Disrupt “AI”

By Lauren M. E. Goodlad & Samuel Baker

The world’s humanists might just be the new MVPs in the struggle for the future of critical thinking.

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