Dr. Juliette Paul

Juliette Paul is a literary historian of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (PhD) and a Machine Learning researcher (MS). Her interests lie at the intersection of the study of the materiality of the book and artificial intelligence. Dr. Paul’s current project, titled “Astrea’s Booke: A Deep Learning Edition,” is a convolutional neural network and first scholarly edition of a manuscript that may be the private book of England’s first professional female writer, Aphra Behn (1640-1689). This work, along with Dr. Paul’s teaching, has received awards and funding support, most recently from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Dr. Paul has published in journals such as 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, and has work forthcoming in The Conversation UK, Women’s Writing, and an edited collection on humanities in the age of AI.