Literature Specialist

Agency; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

Agency seeks a freelance analyst to engage language models with literary passages, analytical questions, and interpretation tasks. You will verify factual accuracy and coherence of model outputs, evaluate depth of literary analysis, and document failure modes.

This role emphasizes metacognitive feedback and structured reporting to improve prompts and reasoning quality, with remote work available for candidates based in the United States.

Qualifications

• Strong familiarity in areas such as classical literature, modern fiction, poetry, drama, or literary theory.
• Ability to perform thematic interpretation, narrative structure analysis, and close reading.
• Clear, metacognitive communication skills to explicitly articulate reasoning steps.
• Ability to work as a freelance contractor with own secure computer and high-speed internet.

Responsibilities

• Engage language models with literary passages, analytical questions, and interpretation tasks
• Verify factual accuracy and coherence of model outputs
• Evaluate the depth and validity of literary analysis
• Capture reproducible error traces and document failure modes
• Provide structured feedback to improve prompts, evaluation criteria, and reasoning quality

Skills

Literature knowledge

Close reading

Metacognitive communication

Education

Degree in literature or related humanities

Job description

Responsibilities

• Engage language models with literary passages, analytical questions, and interpretation tasks
• Verify factual accuracy and coherence of model outputs
• Evaluate the depth and validity of literary analysis
• Capture reproducible error traces and document failure modes
• Provide structured feedback to improve prompts, evaluation criteria, and reasoning quality

Requirements

• Strong familiarity in areas such as classical literature, modern fiction, poetry, drama, or literary theory
• Ability to perform thematic interpretation, narrative structure analysis, and close reading
• Clear, metacognitive communication skills to explicitly articulate reasoning steps
• Ability to work as a freelance contractor with own secure computer and high-speed internet

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in literature, English, comparative literature, or a related humanities field
• Experience in teaching, academic research, or editorial work
• Extensive reading and writing experience

About the Company

This project focuses on shaping the future of AI by providing high-quality training data to help large-scale language models analyze texts, interpret themes, and support literary scholarship.