Books & Publications

Books, Lectures, and Edited Work

Scholarly works spanning AI, narrative, and philosophy.

The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for Narrative — Katherine Elkins, Cambridge Element, Cambridge University Press, 2022
Cambridge Element, Cambridge University Press, 2022

The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for Narrative

The book develops a comprehensive methodology for diachronic sentiment analysis in literature, connecting computational modeling with close and middle reading.

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Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Katherine Elkins, Oxford University Press, 2022
Editor and contributor, Oxford University Press, 2022

Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives

Edited volume in Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature, published by Oxford University Press, with Elkins' introduction and chapter “Proust's Consciousness.” The volume brings together philosophers and literary scholars to read Proust as a thinker of consciousness, memory, time, selfhood, ethics, and aesthetic experience.

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Audible / Public Lectures

Audible / Public Lectures

The Modern Scholar: The Modern Novel cover
Recorded Books / Audible

The Modern Scholar: The Modern Novel

A lecture series on the modern novel, covering Joyce, Kafka, Proust, and Woolf.

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The Modern Scholar: The Giants of French Literature cover
Recorded Books / Audible

The Modern Scholar: Giants of French Literature

A lecture series on the giants of French literature, covering Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus.

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Edited Work and Collections

Edited Work and Collections

Guest Editor, “Depiction of Good and Evil in Fairytales”

Humanities (MDPI), 2024–2025
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