Ben is Director of AI Initiatives in the Humanities at the Poorvu Center and Yale Library. He is developing university-wide strategies to explore Generative AI’s impact on and integration into teaching and research. He supports faculty with course design, policies and practices for ethical AI use, and deploying and assessing AI tools. Ben is particularly interested in increasing both AI literacy and interpretability across Yale’s scholarly community.
Ben received his PhD from Cornell University in 2012, joining Yale’s English department in 2013. His research on poetry and poetics has been published in a range of venues, including his book Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics (JHUP, 2020). He is currently studying the poetic prosody and phonology of Large Language Models.
Outside of work he practices yoga and handstands, enjoys gardening and woodworking, and attempts to rear his two kids Margaret and Alan. He likes the Sterling stacks, dancing at Café 9, and cocktails at Ordinary.
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