- Speaker:
Dennis Tenen
- Time
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Thursday, Apr 09, 2026 from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
- Location
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Curtiss 0127
- Co-Sponsors:
Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
CEAH Annual Donald R. Benson Memorial Lecture
Dennis Yi Tenen is an associate professor of English at Columbia University, where he also co-directs the Narrative Intelligence Lab. His published work can be found in monographs including Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation (Stanford University Press, 2017), Literary Theory for Robots (W.W. Norton, 2024) and Author Function under contract with Chicago UP. His recent articles appear on the pages of Modern Philology, New Literary History, Amodern, boundary2, Computational Culture, and Modernism/modernity on topics that span literary theory, the sociology of literature, media history, and computational narratology.
A long-time affiliate of Columbia’s Data Science Institute, formerly a Microsoft engineer in the Windows group and fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, his code runs on personal computers worldwide.
Note: Card scanning will not be offered at this event, and it will not be recorded.