Publications & Scholarly Work

Research publications and selected scholarly, critical, literary, and computational-media work by Eran Hadas.

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Individual publication and digital-work records — metadata, abstracts, full-text links, and archival copies for selected works.

Journal articles

Validating LLM-based alternative uses test scoring across ages

2026 Hadas, E., Avital-Lev, B., & Hershkovitz, A. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 60, Article 102066.

Validation of general-purpose LLM scoring of AUT flexibility and originality across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

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Assessing creativity across multi-step intervention using generative AI models

2025 Hadas, E., & Hershkovitz, A. Journal of Learning Analytics, 12(1), 91–109.

Generative-AI scoring used to analyze the dynamics of divergent-thinking dimensions across repeated AUT sessions.

Paper page · DOI · Open-access PDF

Using large language models to evaluate alternative uses task flexibility score

2024 Hadas, E., & Hershkovitz, A. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 52, Article 101549.

An LLM-based approach that generates semantic categories and classifies AUT responses to automate flexibility scoring.

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Selected scholarly book chapters

• Hadas, E. (2021). Hallucination or classification: How computational literature interacts with text analysis. In E. Navas, O. Gallagher, & xtine burrough (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of remix studies and digital humanities (pp. 289–301). Routledge. DOI
• Hadas, E. (2020). Algorithmic translation: New challenges for translation in the age of algorithms. In M. Reynolds (Ed.), Prismatic translation (pp. 262–285). Legenda. DOI

Conference proceedings

• Hadas, E., Avital-Lev, B., & Hershkovitz, A. (2025). Validating AI-based scoring of divergent thinking in elementary school children. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Learning Evidence and Analytics. Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education. Paper page · Proceedings · PDF
• Gruss, E., & Hadas, E. (2019). The electronic curator or how to ride your CycleGAN. In Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art (pp. 170–171). City University of Hong Kong.  Full-text PDF · OSF archive

Other contributions to edited volumes and catalogues

• Hadas, E. (2022). Elitist selection. In I. Manouach & A. Engelhardt (Eds.), Chimeras: Inventory of synthetic cognition (pp. 257–259). Onassis Foundation. Digital edition
• Hadas, E. (2016). About the emotional effect of mechanical movements. In Amplified entity: Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler (pp. 25–33). 1822-Forum der Frankfurter Sparkasse.
• Hadas, E. (2016). ההתחלה [The beginning]. In Y. Ataria & A. Shalev (Eds.), העידן הפוסט־אנושי: בין פנטזיה לחיי נצח לבהלה קיומית [The posthuman age: Between a fantasy of eternal life and existential anxiety] (pp. 347–356). Pardes. Chapter page
• Hadas, E. (2012). רשת חברתית [Social network]. In A. Handel, U. Edelman, M. Givoni, N. Yuran, & Y. Kenny (Eds.), קריאת המחאה: לקסיקון פוליטי [Reading the protest: A political lexicon] (pp. 342–346). Hakibbutz Hameuchad. Publication page

Selected invited talks, panels, and academic service

• 2026 — Program Committee Member, 2nd International Conference on Learning Evidence and Analytics (ICLEA 2026), APSCE, Kumamoto, Japan. Program committee
• 2018 — Invited lecture, “From Computational Literature to Digital Storytelling,” MIT Open Documentary Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, September 11. MIT Open Documentary Lab
• 2017 — Invited seminar, “Computational Literature: How Can a Computer Generate Literary Text?”, Artificial Intelligence Seminar, USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA, June 14. USC Information Sciences Institute
• 2017 — Moderator, “Computational Literature,” Art + Tech Speaker Series, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, April 24. Panelists: xtine burrough, Nick Montfort, and Brian Kim Stefans. Caltech event record
• 2017 — Panelist, “Artists at the Intersection of Art and Technology,” Continued Conversations in Arts and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, April 7. Moderator: Ken Goldberg.
• 2016 — Chair and commentator, “Origins” panel, Oh-Man, Oh-Machine 2016: The Question Concerning Technology and Biology, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, December 19–20. Conference program

Selected conference presentations

• Hadas, E., & Naishtat Bornstein, L. (2020). Digital analysis of Coleridge’s Hebrew translations. From Manuscript to Digital: Worldwide English Literature and Worldwide Literatures in English, Universidad de Jaén, Spain, December 1–3.
• Hadas, E. (2017). Hebrew in the age of computational literature. 2017 National Association of Professors of Hebrew International Conference on Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture, New York University, New York, NY, June 27–29.
• Hadas, E. (2016). The consequences and biases of computational poetry. Innovative Poetries — Innovations in Poetry, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland, September 29–30.
• Hadas, E. (2015). Algorithmic translation: New challenges for translation in the age of algorithms. Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Annual Conference: Prismatic Translation, University of Oxford, October 1–3.

Forewords, afterwords, and introductory essays

• Hadas, E. (2021). אחרית דבר [Afterword]. In A. Shabtai, מבחר ושירים חדשים 1966–2021 [Selected and new poems 1966–2021]. Am Oved.
• Hadas, E. (2021). על שירת הביט [On Beat poetry]. In D. (Neo) Buhbut & R. Shoaly (Eds.), דור הביט: אנתולוגיה לשירה [The Beat generation: A poetry anthology] (pp. 19–32). Ktav.

Selected essays and book reviews

• Hadas, E. (2026). בחזרה אל חוקי הרובוטים [Back to the laws of robotics]. מעלה: כתב עת לביקורת ספרות [Maala: Journal of Literary Criticism], 22. Article
• Hadas, E. (2025). המשחק עתיק מהספרות [The game is older than literature]. מעלה: כתב עת לביקורת ספרות [Maala: Journal of Literary Criticism], 18. Article
• Hadas, E. (2018). Poetry and artificial intelligence are tricky to define. Poetry International. Article
• Hadas, E. (2018). Creativity in constraint: Why less can be more in digital storytelling. Immerse. MIT Open Documentary Lab and The Fledgling Fund. Article archive
• Hadas, E. (2018). Information addition: The moment when machine learning stopped imitating reality and started reversing it. Maarav, 24, “Fake It Make It.” Trans. M. Ilan. Article
• Hadas, E. (2015). שלושה מהלכים בשירה האמריקאית שלאחר מלחמת העולם השנייה [Three movements in American poetry after World War II]. ננופואטיקה [Nanopoetica], 8, 24–42.

Additional essays and reviews on AI, computational aesthetics, digital culture, games, poetry, American poetics, and contemporary Hebrew literature have appeared in Maala, Maarav, Yekod, Maayan, Nanopoetica, Harama/Manofim, and Tav+.

Book-length translations

• O’Hara, F. (2026). פרסוניזם [Personism] (E. Hadas & Y. Vizan, Trans.; Y. Vizan, Ed.). Dehak.
• MacDiarmid, H. (2025). למשורר צעיר [To a young poet] (A. Shtir, Y. Dayan, E. Hadas, & Y. Vizan, Trans.; Y. Vizan, Ed.). Dehak.

Selected new media, computational literature, and AI art projects

• Hadas, E. (2019). Blue jeans & bloody tears [Lyrics-generation model for an AI-generated Eurovision song; project with Oracle Innovation].
• Hadas, E. (2018). Half reading [Augmented-reality poetry book]. Barhash.
• Hadas, E., & Gruss, E. (2015). Word2Dream: A Reader’s Companion [Computational text artwork / software project].
• Gruss, E., & Hadas, E. (2017). The electronic curator [Interactive AI artwork and automated art curator using competing neural networks].
• Hadas, E. (2014). Mind your poem [EEG-based poetry-generation system].
• Hadas, E., Eshel, G., & Sheleff, M. (2013). Frankie, the documentarian robot [Interactive documentary robot].

Literary interviews and conversations

Co-interviewer of a series of literary conversations with internationally prominent poets, including Susan Howe, Christian Bök, Rae Armantrout, Charles Simic, and Charles Bernstein, published in Dehak: A Magazine for Good Literature (2015–2018).

Selected poetry books

Author of nine poetry books published by Barhash, Pardes, Maayan, Plonit, and digital literary platforms, including תאים [Cells], עדות [Testimony], קוד [Code], and מקש הרווח [The Space Bar].

Literary editing: books and journals

Editor or co-editor of more than fifteen poetry books and literary journal issues, including:

• Hadas, E., & Levy, N. (Eds.). (2025). רֶסֶן: גיליון ב׳ — הוראה [Resen: Issue B — Teaching]. רֶסֶן: כתב עת לספרות אילוצית ואלגוריתמית [Resen: Journal of Constraint-Based and Algorithmic Literature].
• Ben Ami, A. (2025). לראות ולהתראות [To see and to meet again]. Edited by E. Hadas & Z. Gurevitch. Barhash.
• Shaham, N. (2025). הדשא של תשרי [The grass of Tishrei]. Edited by E. Hadas & M. Moshe-Albo. Barhash.
• Gurevitch, Z. (2024). בית בית [House house]. Edited by E. Hadas. Barhash.

Additional edited books include poetry collections by Tami Asoulin, Zali Gurevitch, Neta Lev Tov, Ella Novak, Noam Dovev, Yonadav Freedman, and Noa Shaham, published primarily by Barhash.

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