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Alexa Alice Joubin

@profjoubin.bsky.social
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Global Shakespeare, ethical AI, digital humanities, adaptations, Asian studies, film, theatre Writer, educator, advocacy speaker

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@profjoubin.bsky.social 's book launch, Transitional Shakespeare, Gender and Adaptation, at the Feminist Bookstore will be in English as a hybrid in-person and online session. November 26 at 7:30 pm Taiwan / 6:30 am NYC time. Sign up here reurl.cc/rkkxdy #Shakespeare #transtheory #adaptation #film
Professor Joubin's book launch, Transitional Shakespeare, Gender and Adaptation, will be in English as a hybrid in-person and online session. November 26 at 7:30 pm Taiwan / 6:30 am Washington DC time. Sign up here https://reurl.cc/rkkxdy
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can we have joy in the era of AI? Yes, and the answer lies in literature. Join @profjoubin.bsky.social on 15 Sept at 5 pm UK (12 pm US eastern) for "The Pleasure of Artificial Experience" Sign up forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon... #criticalAI #joy #Macbeth #subjunctive
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can we have joy in the era of AI? The joy of estrangement is in and by itself the purpose of education. Join @profjoubin.bsky.social on 15 Sept at 5 pm UK (12 pm US eastern) for "The Pleasure of Artificial Experience" Sign up forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon... #genAI #joy #subjunctive
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@profjoubin.bsky.social on subjunctive pleasure in Macbeth and how we can use estrangement to restore the joy of reading in the era of AI. #Macbeth #subjunctive #genai #estrangement
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@profjoubin.bsky.social 's talk on Creativity in the Era of Mechanical Mimesis. When AI-generated fiction wins literary prizes, what do the judges actually reward? Even though we may feel estranged in a world dominated by AI, estrangement can be a tool to restore joy. youtu.be/Zc79gFF0xUs
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From Promptbooks to AI Prompts: Creativity in the Era of Mechanical Mimesis. Georgetown
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@profjoubin.bsky.social took her undergraduate and graduate students to the Folger to attend a demonstration of the printing press as part of their study of the "human condition." #printingpress #renaissance #bookculture
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
#cinquetorri #Dolomites #Italy #alpinehiking #chairlift
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A Shakespearean in the World! Ahead of my keynote (November), the Wenshan Review published an interview of me. Thank you Taiwan Shakespeare Association! #interview #globalShakespeare #Taiwan #keynote wreview.org/index.php/cu...
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The Wenshan Review - A Shakespearean in the World: An Interview with Professor Alexa Alice Joubin (Professor of English at George Washington University, USA) | The Wenshan Review
Founded in 1995, The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture is a refereed, generalist journal with an emphasis on original research into Western and Eastern literatures and cultures. Issued biannual...
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Dancing in the square in #SelvadiValGardena in the Italian Dolomites. Very German!
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The latest volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook examines mixed race casting, performance, and critical practices. Critical MixedRace Studies challenges hypodescent and monoracial norms. www.routledge.com/The-Shakespe...
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The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Mixed Race Studies
The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare’s wo...
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Allez les Bleus! 🇫🇷 France beat Norway 3:1 #worldcup #fifa #France #Boston
Our puppy wearing blue to cheer team France
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
@profjoubin.bsky.social 's keynote in a Hong Kong frames global performances of Shakespeare as heterotopia, performative spaces that evoke other cultural spaces.
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Join @profjoubin.bsky.social in person or online at NYU in DC to explore the damages caused by AI deepfakes. We begin with a staged reading of Ben Hatt's Imposed. This will be followed by a panel discussion. Wednesday June 24 at 6:30 PM www.nyu.edu/community/go... #deepfake #AI #socialjustice
Join me in person or online at NYU in DC for an evening that brings together theater, technology, and public policy to examine the growing impact of AI-generated deepfakes and digitally enabled exploitation. The program will begin with a semi-staged reading of Imposed, a new play by Ben Hatt, inspired by real-world stories of two young women targeted by deepfake revenge pornography. This will be followed by a panel discussion. 
Wednesday June 24 at 6:30 PM
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
In her keynote in Hong Kong, @profjoubin.bsky.social argues that blobal Shakespeare operates as a heterotopia, a parallel space that contains and evokes other spaces. youtu.be/aRWPTlFa2R4
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Shakespeare’s Worlds within Worlds, Keynote in Hong Kong
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
In @profjoubin.bsky.social 's keynote in Armenia, she showcased comparative analysis in theory and practice, highlighting the educational benefits of contrasting previously unassociated performances of the same pivotal scenes of Macbeth. youtu.be/jNlct3J9d7o
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Global Macbeth as Inclusive Pedagogy, Keynote in Armenia
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Shakespeare, gender, and adaptation are transitional genres and practices. Transness is the state of being in a transitional space, time, or genre. In @profjoubin.bsky.social 's new book, she uses trans as method to highlight the power of the unspoken words. youtu.be/NrOjIQdK0o8
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Transitional Shakespeare, Gender, and Adaptation, New Book
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
@profjoubin.bsky.social gives a snapshot of her new book on Transitional Shakespeare, Gender and Adaptation This book launch was part of the International Shakespeare conference in Hong Kong.
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
@profjoubin.bsky.social thanks the Sigur Center for Asian Studies for the research grant. She looks forward to examining Beijing opera in Verona, Italy! #Shakespeare #adaptation #Beijingopera #Italy #Taiwan #JuliusCaesar
Professor Joubin receives a research grant from the Sigur CenterProfessor Joubin receives a research grant from the Sigur Center
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
On the Festive Stage @profjoubin shared a humanistic perspective on trust in the era of AI. AI disrupts trust as a social norm, which is predominantly an interpersonal relationship rather than merely a characteristic of a machine. The Innovation Fest celebrates interdisciplinary research. #genai
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Gen AI makes education transactional. @profjoubin.bsky.social advocates for restoration of the joy of learning. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... We can prioritize the affective processes of discovery and community-oriented storytelling.
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Join @profjoubin.bsky.social on Wednesday at 11 am US eastern / 4 pm UK to theorize performances of Shakespeare across cultures, based on her work that received the @saaupdates.bsky.social 's 2026 Barbara Hodgdon Award. Zoom mit.zoom.us/j/93777456836 Event page warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
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Theatre and Performance Studies Research Events
Research seminar programme in the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick.
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Join @profjoubin.bsky.social at 11 am US eastern / 4 pm UK time to theorize performances of Shakespeare across cultures. Zoom: mit.zoom.us/j/93777456836 More about the event: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
AI is a killjoy, but @profjoubin.bsky.social argues that we can restore the joy of discovery. Practicing meta-cognition can turn us into spectators of our own thoughts. Estrangement can be a joyful tool for discovery. #criticalAI #highered #joy #estrangement #metacognition youtu.be/Op2Tkg70R_E
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[Highlight] Joy of Estrangement
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
@profjoubin.bsky.social shows how to restore the joy of learning despite estrangement in the era of AI in her distinguished lecture at Case Western Reserve University #genAI #joy #metacognition #highered
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Higher ed should be a public good, not part of an AI extractive economy that deepens inequality and erodes democratic life.
AAUP's flyer stating that AI's extractive economy deepends inequality and erodes democratic life.
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Universities have approved multi-million dollar AI contracts despite the lack of educational use case. #criticalai #highered #publicgood #publicinteresttechnology
AAUP's flyer stating that AI is a problem in higher education
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
@profjoubin.bsky.social 's "Transness as radical hospitality" is open access! Her semi-autoethnographic accounts of failures become a counter-archive, showing that invisibility and hyper-visibility have led to academia failing women. www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Why we build the open-access Teach Anything AI. Highlights from one of my distinguished lectures at Case Western Reserve University. #openaccess #ailiteracy #highered
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
@saaupdates.bsky.social awarded this year’s Barbara Hodgdon Award to @profjoubin.bsky.social ‘s article on Shakespeare in heterotopia. #award #globalshakespeare
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Honored to receive the Dymond Distinguished Teaching Award in recognition of my the teaching of writing across multiple fields. Writing makes thinking possible. It creates community and a sense of belonging. youtu.be/eEyNhJU0Xos
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Dymond Distinguished Teaching Award 2026, George Washington University
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
How do Shakespearean fictional worlds and soliloquies help us understand generative AI’s realms of virtuality and performativity? This is the topic of my seminar on AI and Virtuality at @saaupdates.bsky.social youtu.be/Xa7yq69mxtY
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AI and Virtuality at Shakespeare Association of America 2026
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I am honored to receive the Barbara Hodgdon Award from the @saaupdates.bsky.social in Denver, which recognizes “work that is innovative in method and scope and that opens up new avenues of inquiry in the field of performance. youtu.be/Qkjy8K0NK7w
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Shakespeare Association of America Award Ceremony 2026
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
@hamletcurrents.bsky.social used my open-access Teach Anything to build an embedded AI on Living Hamlet Edition! antic-disposition-sample.netlify.app Check it out! #hamlet #criticalAI #humanistic #FirstFolio
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This scene in Wake Up Dead Man (2025) satirizes fear-mongering tactics and political opportunists. youtu.be/G7pIoB0SO2Y #whodunit #politicalsatire #pandering #election
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Wake Up Dead Man (2025): Failed Politician Scene
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"The Epistemologies of Trust” explores 4 different worldviews. As the second author, @profjoubin.bsky.social argues that trust is a human-centered and relational concept. It grew out of the ongoing Oxbridge-style interdisciplinary conversation initiated by Joubin. ow.ly/MgfB50YV9iY
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Let us restore joy of learning, but first let us become strangers to ourselves. Education and work have become joylessly transactional. @profjoubin.bsky.social argues that estrangement can be a cognitive and affective intervention. youtu.be/GtlPSHKla94 #criticalAI #digitalhumanities #Shakespeare
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The Joy of Estrangement in the Era of AI: Distinguished Lecture, Case Western Reserve University
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Motorcade. Police escort. A casual Tuesday in Washington DC. #motorcade
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Researchers invented a fake medical condition "Bixonimania" and seeded it online. Within weeks, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini were confidently telling users it was real. Copilot called it "intriguing and relatively rare." Gemini said it was caused by blue light exposure.
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
We should treat Al's output as fiction. LLMs are trained on a large amount of imaginative literature especially science fiction.
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
In this video @profjoubin.bsky.social reads Plato and Shakespeare through each other to gain insights into philosophy and drama. The case study is A Midsummer Night's Dream. youtu.be/doxapMlYd1c #Plato #AMidsummerNightsDream #Shakespeare #heterotopia #caveallegory
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Plato & Shakespeare: Cave Allegory & A Midsummer Night's Dream, Community Shakespeare of New England
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Join @profjoubin.bsky.social for this hybrid event on Plato and Shakespeare, Monday May 4 at 5 pm eastern time. Read Plato and Shakespeare through each other to gain insights into philosophy and drama! communityshakespearene.org/product/spec...
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Special Guest Speaker: Alexa Joubin - Community Shakespeare of New England
Plato and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream 📅 Date: Monday May 4th ⏰ Time: 5 pm to 6:30 pm 📍 Format: Hybrid (In-person & online) 💵 By Donation Registration: suggested donation $20 upto any amoun...
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
In @profjoubin.bsky.social 's upcoming lecture in Cleveland, she advocates for using estrangement as a cognitive and affective intervention to re-center intellectual joy against AI's interference. community.case.edu/hat/rsvp_boo...
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Experimental Humanities Distinguished Lecture Series: Alexa Alice Joubin, "AI and the Joy of Estrangement" - Humanity and Technology
The Second Annual Experimental Humanities Distinguished Lecture Series will feature Dr. Alexa Alice Joubin, Director of the Digital Humanities Institute and Professor of English, Women's, Gender a...
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
@profjoubin.bsky.social will lead a workshop on open access in Cleveland. In the liberal arts, AI is happening to us rather than with us and for us. We need an inclusive environment to share untold stories and to tell new stories about society and civic technology community.case.edu/hat/rsvp_boo...
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Experimental Humanities Distinguished Lecture Series: Teach Anything, Open-Access AI for Educators, a Workshop with Dr. Alexa Alice Joubin - Humanity and Technology
The Second Annual Experimental Humanities Distinguished Lecture Series will feature Dr. Alexa Alice Joubin, Director of the Digital Humanities Institute and Professor of English, Women's, Gender a...
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Driving from Winter Park to Denver in Colorado for the @saaupdates.bsky.social conventions
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Thank you @saaupdates.bsky.social for the honorable mention of Publics Award for my open-access Screening Shakespeare online textbook. Join me in Denver this Saturday during the digital exhibit. screenshakespeare.org #shax2026 #award
Digital Exhibit: Open Access Screening Shakespeare
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Join us to explore Shakespeare, AI and virtuality at the @saaupdates.bsky.social in Denver this Friday! How do Shakespearean "worlds" and soliloquies help us understand generative Al's realms of virtuality and performativity? shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meeti... #shax2026
AI and virtuality at the SAA in Denver
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Discover my open access textbook, which received an honorable mention of this year's @saaupdates.bsky.social Publics Award. screenshakespeare.org At the conference in Denver I will demo it at the digital exhibit. #shax2026 #openaccess #shakespeare
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Lauren Goodlad, during her keynote, made a great point about the real AI we are contending with: Authoritarian Intelligence. AI as a predictable model of scale. Imaginative literature provides unpredictability. Let us delight in a world that is not scripted by others. #criticalAI #predictability
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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Thank you Lauren Goodlad for your enlightening keynote on a new theory of language as action. #gwu #criticalAI #literature #language
Group photo after Lauren Goodlad's keynote
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