All graduate students are welcome but an RSVP is required by May 19th. Contact ihr@ucsc.edu to RSVP and request seminar readings.

Despina Kakoudaki’s work focuses on literature, film, visual and cultural studies, and the history of technology. Her forthcoming book, Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work of Artificial People, traces our fascination with mechanical and constructed people, such as robots, cyborgs, androids and automata.

Despina Kakoudaki is Associate Professor of Literature at American University.

Cosponsored by the Graduate Student Association, Literature Department, Computer Science Department, Film & Digital Media, and Anthropology Department.