Comparative Literature

Teaching and Working in a Time of Technological Determinism

Event Description

The urgent and swift adoption of AI in higher education has focused conversations on compliance and institutional data security, overshadowing the need to contemplate this moment's historical and sociopolitical depth. We know that AI serves as a vehicle for perpetuating biases and untruths, surveilling human behavior, and harms knowledge production.

On April 21, 2026, this panel brought together students, faculty, and organizers to examine the presence of AI in campus work. Panelists discussed and explored what is at stake as AI shapes teaching...

Comp Lit 60AC: "(Re)Making American History"

About the Course Assignment

Since Spring 2019, Dr. Palau has taught and continues to teach Comparative Literature 60AC: “(Re)making American History,” a course that explores Post-Civil Rights (re)makings of American History by studying works by writers and artists who participate in the urgent project of producing alternative and corrective visions of the United States’ past. The creative project in this course asks students to experiment actively with (re)making history themselves by selecting a course material that would serve as a starting...

Karina Palau

Dr. Karina Palau is a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her recent course offerings include a freshman writing seminar on travel literature, "Boroughs & Barrios: Moving in and through NYC and LA," an American Cultures course on (re)making American history in the post-Civil-Rights-Era U.S., and a course that examines depictions of four distinctive cities on the American continent: New York, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, and Mexico City.

Since Spring 2019, Dr. Palau has taught and continues to teach...