Dr Leah Henrickson
Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures
School of Communication and Arts
Affiliate of Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing
Research Centre in Creative Arts and Human Flourishing
Affiliate of Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies
Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies
+61 7 334 68255
Researcher biography
Dr Leah Henrickson is a Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures at the University of Queensland. She is the author of Reading Computer-Generated Texts (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and other peer-reviewed articles about how we understand text generation systems and output, artificial intelligence, and digital media ecosystems. Dr Henrickson also studies digital storytelling for critical self-reflection, pedadogy, community building, and commercial benefit. She is the author of Digital Storytelling: An Introduction (Polity, 2025).
Dr Henrickson is especially keen to collaborate on projects involving digital methods and media, hermeneutics, histories of communications media, and unconventional text production and dissemination.
Publications
Book
Henrickson, Leah (2021). Reading computer-generated texts. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108906463
Book Chapters
Henrickson, Leah (2024). Mit den Toten chatting. Die Hermeneutik von Thanabots. Quellcodekritik: Zur Philologie von Algorithmen. (pp. 245-275) Berlin, Germany: August Verlag. doi: 10.52438/avaa1004
Henrickson, Leah (2023). Artificial intelligence in politics. Handbook of digital politics. (pp. 242-271) edited by Stephen Coleman and Lone Sorensen. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781800377585.00026
Henrickson, Leah (2022). “Ummmmm, guys? Don’t microwave your books”: readers, authors, and institutions in #PandemicReading tweets. Bookshelves in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic. (pp. 259-279) edited by Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Shafquat Towheed. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-05292-7_13
Henrickson, Leah (2020). What natural language generation means for authorship and why we should care. Attention à la marche! Penser la littérature électronique en culture. (pp. 115-133) edited by Bertrand Gervais and Sophie Marcotte. Montréal, Canada: Les Presses de l'Écureuil.
Henrickson, Leah (2020). Authorship in computer-generated texts. Oxford research encyclopedia of literature. (pp. 1-21) edited by Paula Rabinowitz . Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1226
Journal Articles
Henrickson, Leah (2025). You are an old man in a cave: The authenticity of vagueness. Communication Teacher, 1-9. doi: 10.1080/17404622.2025.2516227
Henrickson, Leah and Brooker, Sam (2025). Digital authoring, Reading, publishing: introduction. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 31 (1-2), 1-6. doi: 10.1080/13614568.2025.2466351
Henrickson, Leah and Meroño-Peñuela, Albert (2025). Prompting meaning: a hermeneutic approach to optimising prompt engineering with ChatGPT. AI and Society, 40 (2) 101359, 903-918. doi: 10.1007/s00146-023-01752-8
Henrickson, Leah (2024). Gespräche mit niemandem. Text+Kritik, 142-150.
Henrickson, Leah, Jennings, Grace and Bewick, Bridgette M. (2024). Belonging through Creative Connections: a feasibility study of an arts-based intervention to facilitate social connections between university students. Cogent Education, 11 (1) 2373181, 1-21. doi: 10.1080/2331186X.2024.2373181
Henrickson, Leah (2024). Conversations with no one. Poetics Today, 45 (2), 291-299. doi: 10.1215/03335372-11092924
Natale, Simone and Henrickson, Leah (2024). The Lovelace effect: perceptions of creativity in machines. New Media and Society, 26 (4) 14614448221077278, 1909-1926. doi: 10.1177/14614448221077278
Munn, Luke and Henrickson, Leah (2024). Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models. Learning, Media and Technology, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/17439884.2024.2327024
Henrickson, Leah, Hall, Benjamin and Procter, Timothy (2024). On constructive bewilderment: using special collections material for teaching digital practices. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 50 (2) 102852, 102852. doi: 10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102852
Dietz, Laura and Henrickson, Leah (2023). Introduction: books on screen. Participations, 19 (3), 259-271.
Henrickson, Leah (2023). Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots. Media, Culture and Society, 45 (5), 949-966. doi: 10.1177/01634437221147626
Henrickson, Leah (2023). Review of: Mark Vareschi and Heather Wacha, eds. Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. 202 pp. $79.95. Hardcover (ISBN 9780299338107).. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 117 (2), 262-264. doi: 10.1086/725503
Henrickson, Leah, Jephcote, William and Comissiong, Rhys (2022). Soft skills, stories, and self-reflection: applied digital storytelling for self-branding. Convergence: The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies, 28 (6), 1577-1597. doi: 10.1177/13548565221091517
Henrickson, Leah and Merono-Penuela, Albert (2022). The hermeneutics of computer-generated texts. Configurations, 30 (2), 115-139. doi: 10.1353/con.2022.0008
Henrickson, Leah (2022). Juan Enriquez, Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics reviewed by Leah Henrickson. Prometheus, 37 (4), 409-413. doi: 10.13169/prometheus.37.4.0409
Henrickson, Leah and Dumbill, Eleanor (2021). Tangling and untangling the Trollopes: a stylometric analysis of Frances Milton Trollope, Frances Eleanor Trollope, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, and Charles Dickens. Victorian Review: an interdisciplinary journal of victorian studies, 47 (2), 243-262. doi: 10.1353/vcr.2021.0032
Henrickson, Leah (2020). Review: Jennifer Edmond (ed.), Digital technology and the practices of humanities research. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 52 (4), 1253-1254. doi: 10.1177/0961000620945125
Henrickson, Leah (2020). Review: Arthur I. Miller, The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity. Configurations, 28 (3), 398-400. doi: 10.1353/con.2020.0023
Henrickson, Leah (2020). Review: Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, by Martin Paul Eve. English, 69 (265), 194-197. doi: 10.1093/english/efz050
Henrickson, Leah (2020). THE BOOK IN THE DIGITAL AGE: AN INTRODUCTION. Publishing History, 83, 7-18.
Henrickson, Leah (2019). Scenarios of countercultural representation: an analysis of inventory books' visualities. Visual Communication, 147035721987756. doi: 10.1177/1470357219877560
Henrickson, Leah (2019). Review: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature. English, 68 (260), 95-98. doi: 10.1093/english/efz010
Henrickson, Leah (2018). Computer-generated fiction in a literary lineage: breaking the hermeneutic contract. Logos, 29 (2-3), 54-63. doi: 10.1163/18784712-02902007
Henrickson, Leah (2018). Butterflies, busy weekends, and chicken salad: genetic criticism and the output of @Pentametron. Authorship, 7 (1). doi: 10.21825/aj.v7i1.8619
Henrickson, Leah (2018). Tool vs. agent: attributing agency to natural language generation systems. Digital Creativity, 29 (2-3), 182-190. doi: 10.1080/14626268.2018.1482924
Conference Paper
Anand, Pranit, Li, Dongmei, Keen, Joel and Henrickson, Leah (2023). Positioning large language model artificial intelligence tools within discourse analysis : Opportunities, challenges and ethical considerations. ASCILITE 2023 Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3-6 December 2023. Tugun, QLD, Australia: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. doi: 10.14742/apubs.2023.524
Creative Work
Henrickson, Leah, Tang, David, Nolan, Maggie and Mills, Catriona (2024). Australian AI in the Archive. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: AustLit.
Video Document
Newspaper Articles
Henrickson, Leah and Carlon, Dominique (2024, 06 25). An influencer’s AI clone started offering fans ‘mind-blowing sexual experiences’ without her knowledge The Conversation
Henrickson, Leah and Natale, Simone (2022, 05 10). Is AI-generated art really creative? It depends on the presentation The Conversation
Henrickson, Leah (2019, 12 17). The long history of books as Christmas gifts The Conversation
Henrickson, Leah (2019, 10 24). Humanities computing, digital humanities, and computational humanities: What’s in a name 3:AM Magazine
Henrickson, Leah (2019, 03 19). The shelf space quandary: Stocked or scarce minor literature[s]
Henrickson, Leah (2018, 09 17). Crime of culture: American Animals and the history of rare book heists The Conversation
Henrickson, Leah (2018, 07 16). The Policeman’s Beard is Algorithmically Constructed 3:AM Magazine
Henrickson, Leah (2017, 10 03). We, robot: the computer co-authoring a story with a human writer The Conversation
Henrickson, Leah (2017, 09 05). We need to consider the social implications of bots writing books about instant chocolate milk The Conversation
Henrickson, Leah (2017, 08 29). Behold the Amazing Poetry-Generating Machine! Slate