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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 04/11/2025

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

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Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.

If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Very excited that my paper on data oriented approaches to understanding the importance of African poetry has been accepted! Years worth of work with GlobalPoetics.org culminating in ~8000 or so words. 👩🏿‍💻 Will *hopefully* be published in the winter/spring.

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Global Poetics Project

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Ryan Topper @ryantopper.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...

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Animist Poetics

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I've extended the deadline & adjusted the wording on this scholarship after queries from prospective students. Please encourage students interested in a funded PhD on poetry in either 18c/Romantic and/or settler colonialism & Indigenous sovereignty to get in touch! www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is also what annoys me about companies selling off articles and books to train AI. I can’t get access to that as a scholar without major fees paid by me or my library system. Why does AI get it?

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

The MLA-4C’s task force on Writing and AI has a new working paper out on “Building Cultures of Critical AI Literacy.” A lot of folks put a lot of work into this one: aiandwriting.hcommons.org/working-pape... And something we say at the outset:

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Actually, the true last update is I've picked up home gardening (growing tomatoes is so much fun!) and picked up Ghanaian baking again ( 🎵 I have butter bread, sugar bread, tea bread... all types of bread 🎵 early 2000s Ghanaian diasporan meme song. If you know, you know)

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Last update, I'm on research leave for the year as I finish up THE BOOK. This is very exciting, and the book proposal is DONE and ready to be sent out in a month 🥳

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

My DH & media poetry lab, The Global Poetics Project, had an amazing summer. The summer fellows were a brilliant team to work with, and we worked on producing & analyzing network models that highlight some important questions about genre in African lit. (img from the presentation to DH folks)

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

I forgot I had this account! Since I was last online, I've had two pieces published 1) new media poetry & race: www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23... 2) a Cold War gathering of African, Black American, & Caribbean poets in West Berlin where they debated about poetry&notions of Blackness: t.co/JJNhIQ3GKs

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Back on my building a dataset grind and am instantly reminded of how tedious data collection can be… But when it’s analysis time 🤩 And when it’s visualization time 🥳🥳

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

✨CALLING ALL POETS!✨ The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry is accepting manuscript submissions through February 15! Hanif Abdurraqib will select one winning manuscript for publication by Sarabande Books. Learn more and submit at the link in our bio!

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

I was in Philly walking around this weekend, and I saw so many unhoused people sleeping on top of steaming potholes. The weather was dipping into the 30s. In a country where a J*ff Bez*s can exist, homelessness shouldn’t exist.

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Starting in an hour! Join us! 12:00 PM - 1:45 PM EST 468 -Humanities without Borders 📍PCC - 203 (Grand Hall Level #MLA2024

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

“Without words and images… we just won’t make it… it’s the future of the species to which we belong.” - W.J.T. Mitchell, #MLA2024 Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award speech

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Also, please feel free to say hi! I'd love to catch up with (and meet) folks, chat, grab lunch, explore the city, etc. 😊

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Want to talk about developing community-driven initiatives and projects, cross-institutional incubators and labs, or public-facing publications and exhibitions? 📚✨ If so, come to our #MLA2024 roundtable plenary session, Humanities Without Borders!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

One of the most frustrating narratives links humanities majors w poor employment prospects and outcomes. “The data really does say otherwise.” I wrote abt the new & important Humanities Indicators state level report for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social 🗃️ scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/12/14/h...

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Humanities and Jobs Data: What's the Real Story? - The Scholarly Kitchen

Escalating attacks on the humanities often cite the problem of employment for humanities majors; a new report shows otherwise.

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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

How are we teaching about and/or with AI now? The MLA/NCTE CCCC Task Force on Writing and AI's "Exploring AI Pedagogy: A Community Collection of Teaching Reflections" is a collegial space to browse, comment, and share what you're trying and how it's going! exploringaipedagogy.hcommons.org

exploringaipedagogy.hcommons.org

Exploring AI Pedagogy – A Community Collection of Teaching Reflections

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

“We’re down to 35k…” is a struggle ?!?!😭😭😭 A sudden cash inflow of 35k would actually change my life 😭

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Big news over here in the #AIAINetwork: we're hiring a 2-year postdoc! If you work at the intersection of AI and the humanities, and would be happily housed in the Emory English department, then this job is for you! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/136528

Flyer that reads: "We are looking for an AIAI Postdoctoral Fellow," accompanied by a picture of clouds, set against a pink background.

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Thinking. Writing. Reading. These books are my thinking companions for the evening and 🌙

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

As an exercise, look at your stack of books / folder of downloaded PDFs & try to name the processes that made those sources available to you. You are not a lone scholar! Reframe that as a net good and make that labor visible. Critical archival studies + critical data studies + media literacy.

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winnie e. pérez martínez @winnieepm.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

The Call for Papers and Submissions for archipelagos journal is out!! ✨ It's so wonderful to see a call for a full issue dedicated to scholarship on Papiamentu/o and the Dutch Caribbean. This is a much needed critical intervention. The deadline is Dec 15 ❗

archipelagosjournal.org

archipelagos

A journal of Caribbean digital praxis

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Andrea @akthom.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

My department is hiring! We are looking scholars interested in the creative and critical application of computing in cultural heritage -- e.g. digital humanities, museum informatics, digital curation, more. PLEASE SHARE! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Assistant/Associate Professor, Cultural Heritage Informatics (Multiple Positions)

The faculty member will teach courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels and contribute to mentoring students, including those from underreprese...

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Last year I passed around jollof and plantain, so not as cool, but still tasty 😋

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

End of semester sugar to push us through final presentations. Such great work in all my classes. 💫 Thanks to Pharaoh’s donuts 🍩

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

OK but: What are generative large language models—"AI," I guess—actually *for*? Trying to figure that out is why @tedunderwood.me's work interests me. He's trying to use these things' facility with language to understand language itself, and literature. It's neat!

businessinsider.com

Forget Sam Altman. America's greatest AI visionary is... an English professor in Illinois

In a world filled with AI skeptics and chatbot alarmists, Ted Underwood is making one of the strongest cases for the value of artificial intelligence.

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Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo @cgrbravo.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

This is one of our funded projects, so it’s received a lot of support. I’m so excited to release it to the public in a month or two!!

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

The data work my students did with the Global Poetics Project (GPP) in our study of African little magazines is truly great. When we collaborate on projects & create public-facing work, we really produce amazing results! I love the work that’s being produced for and with the GPP! 👏🏿👏🏿

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Ama Bemma is writing a book on African Poetry @amabemma.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

And just like that, we’re wrapping up the semester. Final week, final reads.

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