Books
Scholarly works spanning AI, narrative, and philosophy.
Published Works
The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for Narrative
The first comprehensive methodology for diachronic sentiment analysis in literature. Builds on the SentimentArcs methodology co-developed with Jon Chun. Student and faculty research applying this methodology has been downloaded over 95,000 times from more than 4,000 institutions across 198 countries via Digital Kenyon, and its methods have been adopted across novels, film, political speech, medical narratives, and social media.
Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives
Gathers leading scholars on Proust's relationship to science, philosophy, and modern life. Introduction and essay by Elkins.
Edited Works
Guest Editor, “Depiction of Good and Evil in Fairytales”
Humanities (MDPI), 2024–2025
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Audible / Public Lectures
Lecture Series
The Modern Scholar: The Modern Novel
A lecture series on the modern novel, covering Joyce, Kafka, Proust, and Woolf.
Lecture Series
The Modern Scholar: Giants of French Literature
A lecture series on the giants of French literature, covering Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus.
In Progress
Knowing Otherwise (working title)
Mechanistic and juridical models of knowing -- the kind philosophy has traditionally endorsed and that AI now instantiates -- fail to capture what literature, body, and mind actually enact. This is not a crossover between two careers but the synthesis the whole body of work has been building toward. Arc: Plato and Sappho, Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Proust and Woolf, Kafka.
AI Trade Book (title TBD)
A book on artificial intelligence for a general audience. In development.
For articles, chapters, and working papers, see the Research page.