Topic 2b: Rethinking the Essay

  • Rethinking the essay in Literary Studies: working with, against and around ChatGPT.

    Rethinking the essay in Literary Studies: working with, against and around ChatGPT.

    Russell Smith This semester I taught a course on Literary Theory that uses, as its primary text for analysis, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as well as a couple of films that play out the Frankenstein scenario in an AI context. Given that another key theme of Literary Theory is ‘The Death of the Author’, this course was already…