Andrew Dean
Andrew Dean is Lecturer in Writing and Literature at Deakin University, Victoria. In 2021, he published “Metafiction and the Postwar Novel: Foes, Ghosts, and Faces in the Water”, with Oxford University Press. He has written on issues from campus politics to the legacies of neoliberalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. He won the Landfall Essay Competition in 2021 for “The New Man”, a work on Jewishness and family. His most recent research has been on Jewish American literature after 1945.
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AI and the Future of Literary Studies
Generative AI calls into question much that we think we know about the relationship between writing and the self. Or, to put it more precisely, generative AI surfaces the extent to which language is a set of patterns, ones that though they may be invisible to us, can in fact be recognised by a machine when trained on an unimaginably large corpus.