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John H. Cayley is a Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University, specializing in digital language art, electronic literature, and computational poetics. His work intersects Chinese culture, codework, and networked media. He holds affiliations with institutions like the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) and UCL’s Slade School of Art. Notable awards include the 2017 Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award and the 2001 ELO Poetry Award. Cayley’s research explores the ontology of language in digital media, emphasizing the interplay between orthotextuality and embodied reading practices.
Education: BA from Durham University (1978).
Research Interests: Procedural poetry, digital writing systems, translation theory, and the impact of AI on literary practices. Recent work critiques Large Language Models’ orthotextual bias and their implications for literature’s future.
Key Contributions: Authored Grammalepsy (2018), Image Generation: augmented and reconfigured (2023), and co-developed the Readers Project, a procedural literary framework. His Sounding project interrogates linguistic ontology through dynamic text generation.
