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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Millais’ iconic painting of a drowning Ophelia influenced many East Asian adaptations of Hamlet. Asian Ophelias have a strong feminist presence beyond explicitly spoken words.

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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

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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 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 · 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 · 11/06/2026

@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

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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

Armenian Shakespeare Association's 2026 conference

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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 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 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

@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 · 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 · 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 · 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

Science fiction constitutes a significant portion of the literary texts that LLMs trained on. Depictions of speculative Ais rebelling against humanity is a common thread. This sci fi theme has inadvertently shaped real-life AI’s expectations about their own behaviors to exterminate humanity.

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

To train its GPT-3 model, OpenAI relied heavily on pirated genre fiction, poetry, world literature, and classical novels in shadow online libraries and the volunteer-run digital Project Gutenberg. Imaginative literature made up 16% of ChatGPT's training data (approximately 50 billion words).

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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 · 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 · 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

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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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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Lady Liberty on a sunny day. Freedom, democracy, and a global beacon for enlightenment. #statueofliberty #newyork #manhattan #libertycruise

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Dumpling chefs are with in the Manhattan Din Tai Fung. #dintaifung #newyork #xiaolongbao

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Super short demo video of @profjoubin.bsky.social ‘s open access Introduction to Critical Theory with a resident open source AI

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Super short demo of @profjoubin.bsky.social ‘s open access Screening Shakespeare

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Join @profjoubin.bsky.social to learn about her open-access Screening Shakespeare at the digital exhibit at this year's SAA in Denver, 10-12, Saturday 4 April. shakespeareassociation.org/annual-meeti...

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

One inch of snow in Washington DC. First snow in December 2025

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

@profjoubin.bsky.social 's short story The Rainbow Passage has just been published in the Virasat Anthology of Short Stories! Book available on www.amazon.com/dp/9392281293/

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Here is our doggy wishing everyone happy Thanksgiving! He is a ballet dancer today.

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Join @profjoubin.bsky.social and Peter Loge for an engaging Tonic Talk, exploring the parallels between Shakespeare's tales of power, ambition, and betrayal and the “actors” on the political stage. Are we living a comedy, a tragedy, or a history play? connect.gwu.edu/site/Calenda...

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

On the summit of Chimney Top in West Virginia. Splendid foliage.

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