Teaching East Asian Literature and Media with AI: Explorations in Pedagogy, Technology, and Cultural Engagement
Due Date: 06-15-2025
We invite proposals for chapters that explore the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the teaching of East Asian literature and media. As AI tools become increasingly embedded in educational contexts, this interdisciplinary topic calls for critical engagement with both the affordances and challenges of such technologies in the humanities classroom.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
- innovative AI-driven assignments in courses on East Asian literature, film, television, or digital media
- critical analyses of AI tools (e.g., language models, generative art, machine translation) as teaching aids in East Asian cultural studies
- comparative approaches to AI-assisted pedagogy across East Asian languages or national traditions
- ethical considerations in deploying AI tools when teaching literature or media from China, Japan, Korea, and beyond
- case studies of classroom implementation: success stories, failures, or ongoing experiments
- the impact of AI on student engagement with traditional and contemporary East Asian texts
- theoretical reflections on the intersection of digital humanities, AI, and East Asian cultural production
- multilingual and cross-cultural dynamics in AI applications, such as machine translation and sentiment analysis in East Asian languages
- AI-generated content and the question of authenticity in teaching literary and media narratives
- collaborations between educators, students, and AI systems: co-authorship, creativity, and criticality
We welcome contributions from scholars in literature, media studies, digital humanities, education, Asian studies, and related fields. We are particularly interested in voices from a range of institutional contexts and geographic locations, especially those focusing on Japan and Korea.
Submission Guidelines:
Please submit a 300-word abstract along with a brief bio (100 words) to jluo@gettysburg.edu and rebecca.ehrenwirth@sdi-muenchen.de by 15 June 2025. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 30 June 2025.
Accepted contributions may be considered for publication in an edited volume on Teaching East Asian Literature and Media with AI.
For questions or more information, contact Junjie Luo (Gettysburg Coll.) jluo@gettysburg.edu or Rebecca Ehrenwirth (Univ. of Applied Sciences / SDI Munich) rebecca.ehrenwirth@sdi-muenchen.de.