Ana Ilievska
Dr. Ana Ilievska is Assistant Professor of Global Liberal Arts (Comparative Literature) at the American University of Beirut - Mediterraneo. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago (2020) and has studied and held positions at Yale, Brown, Lisbon, Tübingen, Catania and the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn. Before joining AUB-Mediterraneo, she was Senior Research Fellow on the Desirable AI project and remains affiliated with the project. Between 2021-2023 she taught at Stanford University and was Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. A comparatist specializing in late 19th/early 20th century European literature, culture, and thought, her teaching and research focus on humanistic approaches to technology and AI from a Southern European/Mediterranean perspective as well as on the critical role of the humanities and academia in the age of digital technologies. Dr. Ilievska’s publications include co-edited books, peer-reviewed articles, translations, and public scholarship on Luigi Pirandello, Eça de Queirós, Fernando Pessoa, Southern European Modernism, poetry, sound studies, and the problem of critical thinking, consciousness, and AI.