Humanities Fellowship: Critical AI Literacy
Anna Guasco is an assistant professor in Marine Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University. She received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Cambridge in 2024 and previously received her M.Sc. in Environment, Culture and Society from the University of Edinburgh and her B.A. in American Studies from Carleton College. Anna’s teaching addresses the social and cultural dimensions of oceans, and her interdisciplinary research spans environmental history, cultural and more-than-human geographies, political ecology, and critical ocean studies. She is currently working on her first book, which centers around gray whale migration and conservation on the North American Pacific Coast.
As a Critical AI Literacy Fellow, Anna will be working on a project that critically analyzes AI-based efforts to translate and speak to whales. She will also build on her in-class efforts to draw attention to generative AI’s negative social and environmental consequences by developing resources and planning events related to ethical critiques of AI.
Financial support for this fellowship was provided by the OSU Libraries' Gray Family Fund.