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Department of English Newsletter–December 2024

Letter from the Chair/Holiday Party/Department News/Sadar Lecture/Intersections/Summer Internships/Colloquium/Alumni News/Send Me Your News// Ryan Pfeiffer delivers the MacIntyre Lecture on Friday, December 6th: "Edward Taylor’s Epideictic Imagination." Letter from the Chair One of my favorite descriptions of a university comes from the poet Adrienne Rich, who calls it “a place where people can find...

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This Year’s Sadar Lecture: “Automating Writing from Androids to AI”

A Lecture by Annette Vee. Tinkham Veale University Center Senior Classroom. Monday, December 11th, 2023, 3:15—4:30pm (reception following). Generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT have suddenly thrust the automation of writing into the public spotlight. The machine learning techniques behind Large Language Models such as the GPT series may be new; however,...

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Department of English Newsletter: September 2023

//Letter from the chair/Welcome back party/Bob Wallace book/Department news/Cleveland Humanities Collective/Alumni news/Conversation with Sangeeta Ray// Letter from the Chair When second-year English major Molly McLaughlin stepped to the front of the room at Waterloo Arts in Collinwood, she didn’t know she’d be reciting her villanelle to an audience that included Michelle...

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