Ana Ilievska
Dr. Ana Ilievska is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago and has studied and held visiting positions at Yale, Brown, Lisbon, Tübingen, and at the University of Catania in Italy. Before coming to Bonn, she served as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and Lecturer in the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University. 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.