Nana Ariel is a rhetoric and literary scholar and a senior faculty member at Tel Aviv University. She has been a guest lecturer and speaker at various international institutions, including Harvard University, Sciences Po, Paris and UC Berkeley. Her research and teaching span rhetoric from antiquity to the preset, specifically modernist rhetoric and material cultures, manifestos, conventionality and originality, language technologies and AI. She is co-author with Dana Riesenfeld of Clichés We Live By: From Modernity to AI (Oxford University Press, 2026) and of “AI and Clichés” (AI & Society, 2026). An enthusiastic educator, she is also deeply engaged with pedagogy and learning, with a recent focus on epistemic curiosity.

Dana Riesenfeld is a philosopher of language and teaches at Tel Aviv University. She also heads the philosophy program at Ironi Aleph School of the Arts. Her research engages with linguistic rules, conventions, and normativity, as these are understood across analytic and continental traditions. She has a longstanding interest in the philosophy of Donald Davidson and is exploring language as it is used on digital platforms. She is co-author with Nana Ariel of Clichés We Live By: From Modernity to AI (Oxford University Press, 2026) and of “AI and Clichés” (AI & Society, 2026).