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Avery Slater is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, specializing in Twentieth-Century American Literature and Critical Theory. She teaches courses such as ENG250Y American Literature and ENG372H Critical Theory and AI, with a focus on global literature, computational technologies, and ecocriticism. She is affiliated with the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and serves on the Executive Committee of the MLA's Digital Humanities Forum.
Education:
- BA, University of Washington
- MPhil, University of Cambridge
- MA, Cornell University
- PhD, Cornell University
Her research examines how information technologies reshape human and nonhuman language, with a book project Apparatus Poetics analyzing mid-20th-century poets' engagement with computation and machine translation. She has held fellowships at Cornell's Society for the Humanities and the University of Texas at Austin, and contributes to the Brill series Studies in the Lyric.
Scientific Awards:
- Society for the Humanities Fellowship (Cornell)
- University of Texas at Austin Fellowship
Slater's recent publications bridge AI, literature, and environmental studies. She advises graduate students and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams, exploring intersections of technology, trauma, and ecological crisis.
