Ben Glaser is Director of AI Initiatives in the Humanities at the Poorvu Center and Yale Library. He is developing university-wide strategies to explore Generative AI’s impact on and integration into teaching and research. He supports faculty with course design, policies and practices for ethical AI use, and deploying and assessing AI tools. He is particularly interested in increasing both AI literacy and interpretability across Yale’s scholarly community.
Ben Glaser received his PhD from Cornell University in 2012, joining Yale’s English department in 2013. His research on poetry and poetics has been published in a range of venues, including his book Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics (JHUP, 2020). He is currently studying the poetic prosody and phonology of Large Language Models.

Heather Klemann is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Yale University, and the Course Director for Yale’s introductory English course English 1014: Writing Seminars. She received her AB from Princeton University in 2003 and her PhD from Yale University’s Department of Comparative Literature in 2013. She is interested in the performance of reading and her research has appeared in Studies in Romanticism, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and The Lion and the Unicorn. In 2022, she received the Fred Strebeigh and Linda Peterson Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2022. She is currently working on manuscripts on the performance of reading and writing pedagogy.