Annette Vee

Annette Vee is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Composition Program at University of Pittsburgh. Her book Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming is Changing Writing (MIT Press, 2017) examined the historical connections between textual literacy and the coding literacy movement and has been cited across multiple fields including Computer Science education, Composition, Literature and Digital Humanities. She's also written about NFTs and aura of art, early BASIC computer games, and Twitter bots as political actors. Her work generally explores intersections between computation and writing—how coding is a form of writing; how computation is shaping writing environments, practices and writers themselves; how computation is being used to generate writing. She is currently working on a book about attempts to automate writing through mechanical, spiritual and computational methods and what that means for our concepts of humans, machines and the nature of intelligence. Website: https://www.composition.pitt.edu/people/annette-vee