Dr. Ana Ilievska holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago (2020) and has studied and held positions at Yale, Brown, Lisbon, Tübingen, Bonn, and the University of Catania. Before joining AUB-Mediterraneo, she was Senior Research Fellow on a joint project between the Universities of Bonn and Cambridge on "Desirable Digitalisation: Rethinking AI for Just and Sustainable Futures." Between 2021-2023 she taught at Stanford University and was Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. Specializing in late 19th- and early 20th-century Southern European/Mediterranean literature and thought, her work examines non-hegemonic humanistic perspectives on technology and AI and the role of the humanities in the digital age. A Fulbright alumna (2018-2019), she has published widely and has been invited speaker at academic and industry conferences at Cambridge, the Sorbonne, Amsterdam, Dubrovnik, Lisbon, Valencia, Catania, Turin, Aix-en-Provence, Hamburg, and Tokyo, on topics spanning literature, philosophy, AI, critical thinking, and translation.
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