Frontiers | Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be...

I'm on a 38(!)-author paper just published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, "Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology". We splice Schleiermacher and hermeneutic theory into AI debates, arguing AI are "context machines".
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A little write up about the Mitchell Library's 'Performing 19th-Century Glasgow' exhibition from this past autumn! Featuring an 1839 Ira Aldridge playbill. www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/fa...

Pantomime exhibition opens at Glasgow City Chambers The history of pantomimes in Glasgow is on display at the city chambers in...

If you're in Glasgow this month, check out this exhibition on Scottish pantomime at the city chambers! I curated the sections on panto's handling of slavery and empire, and its subversive treatment of gender. hellorayo.co.uk/clyde/local/...

Applications for @uofglasgow.bsky.social Special Collections research fellowships are now open. Come work with our collections! Closes Jan 5th. www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

Book cover! Coming 2026 from Stanford UP ✨

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place

'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3

Talk: Performing Race and Empire in Victorian Glasgow - Glasgow Life Talk on 19th century Glasgow Theatres

Giving at talk about race and performance in early Victorian Glasgow this Saturday at the Mitchell library! www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/talk...

My colleagues in computer science and I co-authored this article about using LLMs to extract and tag data from c18-19 playbills. Spoiler: ChatGPT is easily confused by genre designations of plays, less so by 'straightforward' info like cast lists. umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view...

We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social

I polled my students during today's lecture on which Cockney 'To the Grasshopper and the Cricket' sonnet they prefer. Keats wins by a landslide! (Hunt on the left and K on the right)

Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨

Helen, I'm potentially interested! Send me a dm!

And if you were wondering if the exhibition includes a children's puppet theatre and c19 toy theatre sheets for coloring, it does indeed.

There's also a joint display of illustrated Glasgow playbills, 'Imagining Empire on Glasgow's Stages,' at @uofglasgow.bsky.social Special Collections!

Exhibition: Performing 19th Century Glasgow: Nation, Celebrity, Empire - Glasgow Life Exhibition on Glasgow Theatres

Glasgow pals, check out my new exhibition at the Mitchell Library on c19 theatre, empire, and celebrity! On display thru October. I'm also giving a talk at the Mitchell on race and c19 theatre on October 4 😊 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/exhi...