Papers
Nicole Oliva and Nina Beguš. 'The Midas Myth in Robotics: A Case for Liminality.' Manuscript.
Nina Beguš and Eoin Brodie. 'Convergent Thermodynamics: Planetary Flows of Entropy, Evolution, and Information.' Manuscript.
Nina Beguš. 'World Wide Models: Literary Tools for Cultural AI. ' A part of a proposed collection of essays for Modern Fiction Studies, forthcoming in 2027.
Nina Beguš. 'Entropy.' Multispecies Lexicon Vol. II: The Planetary. Berggruen Institute Press, Forthcoming in 2027.
Nina Beguš, Metahaven (Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden), and Gašper Beguš. 'Latent Spacecrafts: Brains, GANs, Finnegans.' Antikythera, January 2026.
Nina Beguš. Experimental Narratives: A Comparison of Human Crowdsourced Storytelling and AI Storytelling. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications October 2024.
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.
In media: The Financial Times, The Independent, Berkeley News, Tech Xplore, Incredibble, NPR, KCBS, and KNX Radio, MBR video, The Scholarly Kitchen (English), PresseText (German), Haaretz (Hebrew), The Independent Turkçe (Turkish), LaSexta (Spanish), LeBigData (French), Scientias (Dutch), CNN Brasil (Portuguese), 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.
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.