Join us for the workshop Beyond the Prompt: Writing with AI with Dr. Dennis Tenen.

About the workshop: In this workshop, we will examine practical strategies for improving the quality of AI-assisted writing in interdisciplinary contexts from across the Humanities, Art, and Design. Rather than treating artificial intelligence as a substitute for human creativity, we will approach it as a tool that requires direction, judgment, and revision. Participants will experiment with concrete prompting and editing techniques while considering how to maintain authorship when working with generative systems. The goal is not automation, but augmentation: to write more deliberately, more responsibly, and at a higher standard.

Open to all faculty, undergraduate students, and graduate students.

About Dr. Tenen: 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.

Date: Friday, April 10

Time: 1 PM - 3 PM

Location: Marston 2155