Emily Singeisen

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Emily Waller Singeisen is a PhD student and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work has been published in Classical Receptions Journal, Cusp: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures, and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. She is embarking on a dissertation project examining receptions of ancient Greco-Roman texts in illustrated books, attending particularly to the ways in which Freudian psychoanalysis reshaped visual representations of antiquity from the turn of the century to the interwar period. When she's not reading Freud, she can be found watching reality TV and playing with her small menagerie of cats and dogs.

Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI 

Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.

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