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AI and World Literature Special Issue in the Journal of World Literature
Abstracts due September 1, 2026
Book Chapters
Nicole Oliva and Nina Beguš. 'The Midas Myth in Robotics: A Case for Liminality.' Beyond the Turing Test: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About AI. Eds. Ulf Dalvad Berthelsen, Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, and Morten Tannert. Forthcoming with Routledge, 2026.
Essay on this topic is the Los Angeles Review of Books, July 2026.
Papers
Nina Beguš. 'World Wide Models: Literary Tools for Cultural AI. ' Modern Fiction Studies, Forthcoming in Spring 2027. Preprint on ArXiv (2026) and SSRN (2025).
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.02369 & http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5865344
Presented at NYU and TEXT. Reponses in Elvia Wilk's Fast Writing & Public Seminar and in Good Internet.
MLA Group for AI and Research. 'AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship.' June 2026.
Nina Beguš, Metahaven, and Gašper Beguš. 'Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans.' Antikythera, vol. 1, no. 2, February 2026.
Pdf can be found on the journal website and eScholarship.
Reporting in Harvard GSAS, Berkeley Social Sciences, and Who's Afraid of Finnegans Wake documentary. Responses on Kat Zhang's Poetic Engineering, Rick Moss's Further Thinking. Andrej Tomažin's LUD Literatura, Outsider.
Presentations at OpenAI (shorter video), Beaux-Arts de Paris, Modes of Reading (Recording), AI and the Creative Condition, and Venice Biennale (journal launch), Warsaw MoMa, among other venues.
The American Vandal podcast.
Exhibitions at Venice Biennale and Worth Ryder Art Gallery.
Nina Beguš. Experimental Narratives: A Comparison of Human Crowdsourced Storytelling and AI Storytelling. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications October 2024. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03868-8
arXiv preprint from October 2023.
The paper has been used in AI pedagogy (English 101 at U of Louisiana at Lafayette) and AI and writing courses (Future Text at Stanford U, Writing with Robots at U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). It was also used for practical experimentation with LLMs.
The paper was presented at the LMU München workshop, the Conference on AI, Science, and Society at the École Polytechnique, and at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen.
Reporting in The Financial Times, The Independent, Berkeley News, Tech Xplore, Incredibble, NPR, KCBS, and KNX Radio, MBR video, The Scholarly Kitchen, Illumination (English), PresseText (German), Haaretz (Hebrew), The Independent Turkçe (Turkish), ICT Global (Hungarian), LaSexta (Spanish), LeBigData (French), Scientias (Dutch), CNN Brasil (Portuguese), AIGeist (Italian), ICT Global (Hungarian), 续航教育/Forward Pathway (Chinese/English).
Nina Beguš. Engaging Comparative Literature in AI Development. OSF preprint. July 2024. Updated version forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies's issue on Cultural AI.
Nina Beguš. A Typology of the Pygmalion Paradigm. Collected Papers of the 21st Congress of the ICLA: The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms 4 (2021): 319-30.
Nina Beguš. “The Identity Problem” in Prenatal Testing. Voices in Bioethics 6 (2020): 1-4.
Nina Beguš. A Tocharian tale from the Silk Road: A philological account of The Painter and the Mechanical Maiden and its resonances with the Western canon. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 30/4 (2020): 681-706.
The paper was taught in SANSKRIT 198 at Harvard U.
Under Review
Nina Beguš and Margaret Shriber. 'Artificial Humanities: Reading Computation as Cultural Narratives.'
Nina Beguš, Tessa Haining, and Gašper Beguš. 'Latent Reading of Finnegans Wake: A Multidimensional Theory of Communication.'
Nina Beguš and Eoin Brodie. 'Convergent Thermodynamics: Planetary Flows of Entropy, Evolution, and Information.'
Kabir Ahuja, Jivat Neet Kaur, Yulia Tsvetkov, Nina Beguš. 'Popular Culture in the Age of Generative AI: Authorial Aura in Market Incentives and Media Theory.'
Nina Beguš. 'Entropy.' Multispecies Lexicon Vol. II: The Planetary. Berggruen Institute Press, Forthcoming.
Thesis
Artificial Humanities: A Literary Perspective on Creating and Enhancing Humans from Pygmalion to Cyborgs. PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 2020. 1-493.
Response in Literatura editorial.Romani Emila Filipčiča. BA+MA Thesis, University of Ljubljana, 2013. 1-77.
Fašistično proti utopičnemu v romanu Malina Ingeborg Bachmann. BA+MA Thesis, University of Ljubljana, 2013. 1-77.
Some of my earlier scholarly publications, written in Slovenian, are available on Google Scholar. English publications are available on Research Gate and Semantic Scholar.
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