Books, Lectures, and Edited Work
Scholarly works spanning AI, narrative, and philosophy.
These works anchor a longer arc from philosophy and literary form to computational narrative and AI.
Published Books
The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for Narrative
The Shapes of Stories develops an ensemble methodology for diachronic sentiment analysis of full-length narrative and connects computational modeling with close and middle reading. It shows how model selection, smoothing, scale, and segmentation affect the story curve a researcher sees and the interpretation built from it.
The book also treats translation and transmission, asking how narrative patterns persist, drift, or change as stories move across versions and cultural contexts. That question is carried forward in Computational Narrative, Translation, and Cultural Transmission.
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.
Audible / Public Lectures
Odyssey of the West, Part Six: Towards the Modern
Lectures on the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, drawing on Elkins' specialization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French culture.
The Modern Scholar: The Modern Novel
A lecture series on the modern novel, covering Joyce, Kafka, Proust, and Woolf.
The Modern Scholar: Giants of French Literature
A lecture series on the giants of French literature, covering Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus.
Edited Work and Collections
Guest Editor, “Depiction of Good and Evil in Fairytales”
Humanities (MDPI), 2024–2025
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For articles, chapters, and working papers, see the Research page.