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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 7d

While teaching "Being Human," the computer asked @profjoubin.bsky.social to prove my humanity in front of the class. The irony was not lost.

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 9d

Join @profjoubin.bsky.social to consider what Shakespeare and generative AI may have to say to each other at @urochester.bsky.social Humanities Center on October 2 at 5 pm

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 9d

Shakespearean genders constitute "minor" uses of canonical genres. Adaptation as a genre also engages in productive disruption established conventions. Join @profjoubin.bsky.social at @syracuseu.bsky.social for her talk on Transitional Aesthetics on October 3.

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 9d

I am giving both of my talks in the Rush Rhees Library! I'll definitely check out the 4th floor.

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 9d

If you are in upstate New York, join @profjoubin.bsky.social on open pedagogy in the era of AI at @urochester.bsky.social at 12 pm on Thursday October 2

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Open Pedagogy in the Era of AI; Workshop: Alexa Alice Joubin

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 10d

In this 1-minute highlight, @profjoubin.bsky.social talks about Virginia Woolf and the Japanese anime film Your Name with Wendy Lennon on her podcast. #anime #Woolf #speculativefiction

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Q&A 4: Favorite writer, Joubin Interviewed by Lennon

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 10d

@profjoubin.bsky.social sums up Shakespeare in three words!

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 10d

Julia Kristeva traveled to China with a delegation from the French avant-garde journal Tel Quel in 1974. @profjoubin.bsky.social discusses her book and other instances of race "queering" gender.

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Q&A 1: Critical Race Studies, Joubin Interviewed by Lennon

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 10d

@profjoubin.bsky.social observes that gender has a racial dimension in this 1-minute highlight. How do gender-based exclusions help racial prejudices ‘perform’ discriminative acts?

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Q&A 2: Trans as method, Joubin Interviewed by Lennon

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 10d

Trigger warning should be a communal practice rather than a top-down imposition. Here is a 1-minute highlight of Wendy Lennon's interview with @profjoubin.bsky.social on Shakespeare curriculum.

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 10d

@profjoubin.bsky.social described Shakespeare in three words in this 1-minute highlight: capacious, open, and global.

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 10d

What is the purpose of education? In this 1-minute highlight of the Q&A, @profjoubin.bsky.social addresses this question.

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 11d

“Trans as method” can deconstruct problematic notions of purity that inform racism and sexism. In this interview by Wendy Lennon, @profjoubin.bsky.social proposes critical race-oriented trans studies and trans-inclusive race studies. #criticalracetheory #shakespeare #pedagogy

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Critical Race and Trans Studies, Joubin Interviewed by Lennon

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 12d

I concocted pho soup out of freshly squeezed lime juice, pork stock, beef stock, and pho stock, ginger, and cilantro. It's drizzled with scallions, hoisin and Srirarcha sauces. I did a quick stir fry of sliced Bavette steak with garlic. To the noodle soup I added some bok choy and Napa cabbage.

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 13d

How does the sci fi series Years and Years employ humor to critique AI ? In this Q&A, @profjoubin.bsky.social pointed out that trans-humanism is a new way of relating to the world. #humor #scifi #AI #transhuman

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Epistemic Justice, Transness, & Humanistic AI, Q&A: Humor

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 13d

How to critique AI in the humanities classroom is the focus of this Q&A with @profjoubin.bsky.social AI could be used as an interloper to diversify available perspectives in the classroom. #ai #humanities #pedagogy

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Epistemic Justice, Transness, & Humanistic AI, Q&A: Use Cases

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 13d

This short Q&A with @profjoubin.bsky.social covers the questions of embodied experience and disembodied voices in the context of AI and literary studies.

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Epistemic Justice, Transness, & Humanistic AI, Q&A: Embodiment

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 13d

At Louisiana State University @profjoubin.bsky.social uses trans as method to critique AI and enhance epistemic justice. Using Shakespeare a case study, she advocates for a culture of care. Here is the video

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Epistemic Justice, Transness, & Humanistic AI, Louisiana State U

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 13d

Twelfth Night is unique among Shakespearean comedies. It involves a journey of self-discovery in an elsewhere without returning to where one comes from. @profjoubin.bsky.social examined the comedy through queer dramaturgy during her talk at the @folger.edu Here is the video:

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Queer Dramaturgy and Twelfth Night @ Folger

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 14d

Subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) involves creative and emotionally driven decision-making, which AI can’t do.

AI is unable to decide which sounds are important.

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‘Tentacles squelching wetly’: the human subtitle writers under threat from AI

Artificial intelligence is making steady advances into subtitling but, say its practitioners, it’s a vital service that needs a human to make it work

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 14d

Puppy promised that if I kiss him, he'll transform into a prince. I have kissed him thousands of times, but he's still very doggy.

A brown hound smiling, with tongue out. He is wearing a white bowtie.

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 19d

Here is a 1-minute highlight of my talk on Twelfth Night at the @folger.edu

Thee power of unspoken words.

Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 19d

Approaching Twelfth Night from a queer dramaturgical perspective was the topic of my talk at the @folger.edu Here is a video recording:

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The comedy involves a journey of self-discovery in an elsewhere, but characters do not "return" to where the they come from.

Queer Dramaturgy and Twelfth Night, Folger Theatre

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 24d

@profjoubin.bsky.social gave a talk at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She argued that AI operates with similar logics to theater.

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AI and Theatre through a Trans Lens, London

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Alexa Alice Joubin @profjoubin.bsky.social · 24d

We should re-center art in the era of AI to regain human agency. In fact, we should also approach AI from a humanistic and artistic point of view, argued @profjoubin.bsky.social in her talk at the Frederick County Public Library in Maryland on May 31.

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Re-centering Art in the Age of AI, Frederick County Library, Maryland

YouTube video by Alexa Alice Joubin

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