A Professor of Comparative Literature, Romance Studies & Cognitive Science at Cornell University, as well as the Director of French Studies, Laurent Dubreuil founded the Humanities Lab in the 2019-20 academic year. Dubreuil also holds the IWLC International Chair of Transcultural Theory at Tsinghua University.

Dubreuil is the author of more than fifteen books, and has served as editor for diacritics and for Labyrinthe. Among his publications are The Intellective Space: Thinking Beyond Cognition (Minnesota: 2015), Poetry and Mind: Tractatus Poetico-Philosophicus (Fordham: 2018) and Dialogues on the Human Ape, co-authored with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (Minnesota: 2019).

Within the Humanities Lab, Laurent Dubreuil programmed the regular meetings (both “esoteric” and “exoteric”) that were held from 2019 to 2022. He organizes all Humanities Lab public events and is the director or co-director of the current research projects:  the Poetry and AI experiment, the Semantic Mapping of the French Lexicon of Indigeneity, the Visual Art and Bonobo experiment, The Ape Testimony Project, as well as the Odyssey‘s flora collaborative effort.