Posted May 18, 2025
Scholarship on Machine Learning/AI and Close Reading culled by Scott Newstok from his Close Reading Archive
Scott Newstok shared this list with Alan Liu on May 18, 2025, with permission to share publicly.
- Joanna Beaufoy and Lars Kjær, “Can Automatic Reading Be Close?”
https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/publications/can- automatic-reading-be-close-on- the-implications-of-using-a- lar - Boston University, “AI and the Humanities”
https://www.bu.edu/research/files/2025/04/AI-Slides-ROT-4_ 16.pdf -
Jenny Costello, Zeljka Doljanin, Naomi McAreavey, Fionnuala Walsh, “Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences in the Era of GenerativeAI”
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George Fletcher, Olha Nahurna, Matvii Prytula, Julia Stoyanovich, “CREDAL: Close Reading of Data Models” https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.
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Luciano Floridi, “Distant Writing: Literary Production in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/
papers.cfm?abstract_id=5232088 - Ashley Gong, Katy Ilonka Gero, Mark Schiefsky, “Augmented Close Reading for Classical Latin using BERT for Intertextual Exploration,”
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John Guillory, On Close Reading
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Jason Gulya, “The future will desperately need Close Reading”
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jason-gulya_the-future- will-desperately-need-close- reading-activity- 7222610042062024705-2tK3/ -
Carl Hendrick, “Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us”
https://carlhendrick.substack.com/p/ultra-processed-minds- the-end-of -
Andres Karjus, “Machine-assisted quantitizing designs: augmenting humanities and social sciences with artificial intelligence” https://www.nature.com/
articles/s41599-025-04503-w - Mun-Hou Lo, “Close Reading and Its Alternatives”
https://www.routledge.com/Close-Reading-and-Its-Alternatives -An-Essential-Reader/Lo/p/ book/9781032775746 -
Michael Lockett & Scott Jarvie, “A Close Writing Playbook: Coupling Creative Writing with Close Reading: An Editorial Introduction”
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Warmhold Jan Thomas Mollema, “AI-generated literature, distant writing and the reader: Reflections on Floridi and Calvino” https://philpapers.org/
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Rod Naquin, “Close reading with NotebookLM” https://rodjnaquin.substack.
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Andrew Rejan, “Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: Rehumanizing Literary Reading” https://publicationsncte.org/
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Ward Risvold, “Close Reading in the Age of AI: A Critical Digital Literacy” https://www.torontomu.ca/
centre-for-excellence-in- learning-and-teaching/ workshops-and-events/2025/02/ close-reading-in-the-age-of- ai–a-critical-digital- literacy/ - Katia Schwerzmann, “Workshop: New Reading Scenes. On Machine Reading and Reading Machine Learning Research”
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/02/12/workshop-new- reading-scenes-on-machine-read ing-and-reading-machine-learni ng-research - Yael Segalovitz, “How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism”
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/133918 - Dan Sinkyin, Johanna Winant, “Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century”
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691265704/cl ose-reading-for-the-twenty-fir st-century -
Peiqi Sui, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Philippe Laban, Dean Murphy, Joseph P. Dexter, Richard Jean So, Samuel Baker, Pramit Chaudhuri, “KRISTEVA: Close Reading as a Novel Task for Benchmarking Interpretive Reasoning” https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.
09825 - symplok? special issue “The Ethics of Close Reading?”
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/53972 - UCL Graduate Conference 2024: “Close Reading in the Digital World”
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/04/04/close- reading-in-the-digital-world -
Terry Underwood, “Distant Writing: Time Travel to the Distant Future” https://terryu.substack.com/p/
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Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus, Maria Antonia, “Sonnet or Not, Bot? Poetry Evaluation for Large Models and Datasets” https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.
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