Dr Alexandra Huang-Kokina

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1037-8205

Monographs (Academic Books)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Invited talks, seminars & lectures

• ‘Experience report from the interactive AI opera premiere’, AI Lund network research seminar (Lund, Sweden), November 2025 (video here)
• ‘Vocal Clones & Digital Doubles: Navigating the AI Voice Era’, at the Music Frontiers Conference by Music & Tech Germany (Berlin, Germany), September 2025 (link here)
• ‘AI Crafting Collective Creativity?: Radical mediation, speculative fiction and immersive storytelling’, Guest lecture for Edinburgh Futures Institute (‘Narrative Futures’ postgraduate programme), February 2025
• ‘Intermediality and Digital Humanities: A Lecture on New Media Cultures’, Linnaeus University (Sweden), January 2025.
• ‘Remediating Chamber Music Practices: AI Mediation for Intermedia Performances through Word-and-Music Interactions’, the International Word and Music Studies Forum, University of Cologne (Germany), December 2024.
• ‘Intermediality, Music & Literature: From musical fiction to multimedia performances’, Department of English Literature at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, December 2024.
• ‘OperAI: Exploring science-fiction opera and human-AI interactions in immersive opera theatre’, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, November 2024. (Event link)
• ‘Touching through Music: Pianistic touch and the transmission of affect’, Orpheus Institute & Ghent University (Belgium), June 2024.
• ‘Artificial Emotional Intelligence for New Music Theatre: Enhancing artificial-human co-creativity in contemporary science-fiction opera’, Department of Music and Art, Linnéuniversitetet, May 2024.
• ‘Emotion AI: A multimodal exploration of artificial emotional intelligence through opera with Alexandra Huang-Kokina’, Institutionen för film och litteratur, Linnéuniversitetet, March 2024.
• Workshop for the PhD course: ‘Intermediality and Digitalisation’, the Graduate School in Multimodality and Intermediality: Humanities Research in a Digital World (MID World) at Linnaeus & Örebro University (Sweden), March 2024.
• ‘Intermediality and Digital Humanities’. Guest Lecture at Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (Sweden), February 2024. (Event link)
• AI, Music & Digital Humanities: A guest lecture for the University of Monterrey (Mexico), March 2024

Conference papers

• ‘AI in Chamber Music: From Creative Collections to Collective Creativity’. EGOS Conference on ‘Creativity that Goes a Long Way’ (Athens, Greece), July 2025.
• ‘Performative Craft: AI Crafting Collective Creativity for Immersive Chamber Music Performances’. Kyoto Craft Workshop, Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan), April 2025.
• ‘AI in Opera: The case of adapting Yotsuya Kaidan into an immersive “science-fiction” opera’. Intermediality Workshop, University of Edinburgh, March 2025.
• ‘Emotion AI and Affective Robots: AI innovations in multimodal emotional transmediation in 21st-century digitally-mediated opera’. The First International Conference in AI Music Studies 2024, KTH Stockholm (Sweden), December 2024.
• ‘Artificial Emotional Intelligence: AI perspectives on emotional transmediation in science-fiction opera’. Intermedial Networks: The Digital Present and Beyond, the 7th conference of the International Society of Intermedial Studies, Linnaeus University (Sweden), October 2024 (Invited panellist).
• ‘Artificial Emotional Intelligence: AI perspectives on in 21st-century Taiwanese science-fiction narratives’. From the Invention of Writing to the Emergence of Artificial Intelligence: Cultural Approaches to Information Technology, Interfaceing 2024 conference, National Taiwan University (Taiwan), September 2024 (accepted).
• ‘Intermedial Musical Poetries: Voice Translation and the Transmission of Affect in Feng Zhi’s Sonnets and Jiang Wenye’s Peking Inscriptions’. The Third International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA): Modernism between Past and Future, the University of Hong Kong, June 2024.
• ‘Exploring the Performativity of Affect in the Intermedial Musical Poetries’. Theories and Practices of Intermediality Today: An International and Interdisciplinary Workshop, the University of Edinburgh, March 2024.
• ‘Reimagining Future Soundscapes: Piano performance beyond traditional concert settings in early-20-century piano novels’. Brown Bag Seminar Series at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London, November 2023.
• ‘Exploring Affective Performativity in the Intermedial Musical Poetries by Ojārs Vācietis’. Affective Intermediality International Conference, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Romania), October 2023.
• ‘The Performative Logic of Modern Essays: Exploring the Autonomy of the Essay Form in Philosophy and Literature’. Logic and Modern Literature, University of Lausanne (Switzerland), September 2023.
• ‘Intermedial Musical Poetries: Voice Translation and the Transmission of Affect in Feng Zhi’s Sonnets’, British Association for Chinese Studies, King’s College London, September 2023.
• ‘Resonating Bodies: Exploring the Transformative Affect in Piano Performance’. Intermediality and the Body Symposium, Lund University (Sweden), June 2023.
• ‘Pianistic Singing as Hopeful Female Voice in Early Twentieth-Century Novels’. Hopeful Modernisms: British Association for Modernist Studies 2022 Conference, University of Bristol, June 2022. 
• ‘The Ethics of Wagnerian Death in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and Jacob’s Room’. The 2022 International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Online, June 2022. 
• ‘Musical Performativity of the Piano Novels by Thomas Mann, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf’. Northeast Modern Language Association’s 53rd Annual Convention, Johns Hopkins University & The University of Buffalo (U.S.A.), March 2022.
• ‘The Pianistic Performance Ecosystem in the Novels by Virginia Woolf and Thomas Mann’. Words, Music and Environment Virtual Conference by the Forum at the International Association of Word and Music Studies, Online, February 2022.
• ‘Musical Performativity of Piano Performance in Thomas Mann’s Tristan, E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View, and Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out’. Acoustic Text Symposium, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), October 2021.
• ‘Inter-subjective Musical Connectivity: Virtuosic Piano-playing in Tristan, A Room with a View, and The Voyage Out’. 13th GradNet Annual Conference, University of Southampton, June 2021.
• ‘Reconfiguring the Positivity of Death Narratives in Virginia Woolf’s Novelistic Writing’. English Literature Work-in-Progress Seminar, University of Edinburgh, January 2020. 
• ‘Happiness in Sweet Death: A Positive Reading of Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room and The Waves’. Happiness: Enlightenment to Present Conference, University of Cambridge, October 2019. 
• ‘Word and Music Studies: Surveying beyond Cultural and Aesthetic Fields’. Taiwanese Scholars in Scotland Symposium, Taiwanese Scholars Association in Scotland, May, 2019.