Dr. Claire Nettleton, PhD
Author, speaker, professor, curator, consultant & Coach
What does it mean to be human today in era of AI and technological transformation?
Dr. Claire Nettleton, PhD, is an interdisciplinary Los Angeles-based author, professor, speaker, curator, and parent whose work examines what it means to be human, both historically and today. Her internationally published scholarship explores the intersections of the humanities, the arts, science, and technology, with a focus on language, literature, ethics, and ecology in a rapidly changing technological world. She is the author of The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and co-editor of Art and Biotechnology: Viral Culture from CRISPR to COVID (Bloomsbury, 2024. She holds a Ph.D. in French from the University of Southern California. She currently teaches at the University of California, Irvine, and offers over 20 years of experience in higher education teaching, research, and museum leadership. Dr. Nettleton is available for speaking, teaching, curating, consulting, and coaching.