The YAWP: Villanova's Graduate English Program Blog

On Friday Sept. 15th, Dr. Megan Quigley presented a paper in Switzerland (really on zoom!) on reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s   Klara and the Sun   with ChatGPT and the Logic and Modern Literature Conference at the University of Lausanne. She thanks Erica Hayes, in Falvey Library’s Digital Scholarship Lab, and Jamie Wojtal, her RA, for assistance with AI side of the project. What do you think ChatGPT wrote when prompted to answer if the border between human and artificial intelligence was vague? And what does that mean for humanity’s “evolution” with AI?

 Professor Kamran Javadizadeh reviews Ben Lerner's  The Lights  in  The New Yorker.  Check out his essay here .

Professor Adrienne Perry recently visited Emily Dickinson's house. She shares some photos from the visit below. In her words: " What was most inspiring and exciting to me about this visit was to see how her family home has changed over time, as it's been decorated with period furnishings, including wallpaper created from scraps found in the home. I am always struck by the size and simplicity of her writing desk, to think that she wrote some 1,800 poems in this place, and to hear the docents speak about the wo rld around her. There was also a fascinating display about her editorial and drafting process, and a first edition of her poems, which featured the images of ghost pipe flowers. Talk of ghost pipe and the images of them, alongside Emily, sort of followed me around all weekend." A portrait of Emily Dickinson and her siblings from the drawing room Emily Dickinson's bedroom/ writing desk Emily Dickinson's bedroom Professor Adrienne Perry in front of Emily Di...