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Scholarly Reception

Scholarly Reception

Detailed reception evidence across the corpus — named citers, structural adoption, and body-text engagements in humanities, NLP, and AI venues. For program officers, search committees, journalists, and scholars seeking specific citation detail.

AI safety, ethics, and governance

Informed AI Regulation: Comparing the Ethical Frameworks of Leading LLM Chatbots (Chun and Elkins, arXiv:2402.01651, 2024)

  • Liu, Liu & Yu (COLING 2025) — apply the confidence score across 1,613 social decision-making scenarios.
  • Jain, Calacci & Wilson (AIES 2024) — cite the audit framework.
  • Ungless et al., LLM Ethics Whitepaper (2024) — treat it as a representative ethics-based audit.
  • Snoswell, Kilov & Lazar (AAAI 2026 AI Alignment Track) — include it as one of 69 foundational works in their “Beyond Verdicts” survey.

Position: Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI (Eiras, Petrov, Vidgen, Schroeder de Witt, Pizzati, Elkins, et al., ICML 2024 oral)

  • Paris, Moon & Guo (FAccT 2025, Paris) — name the paper as one of three canonical openness frameworks, alongside the Model Openness Framework and Liesenfeld-Dingemanse.

Comparative Global AI Regulation: Policy Perspectives from the EU, China, and the US (Chun, Schroeder de Witt, Elkins, arXiv:2410.21279, 2024)

  • Olugbade (Global Public Policy and Governance, 2025) — engages the paper with six in-text citations.
  • Ilcic, Fuentes & Lawler (Frontiers in AI, 2025).
  • Yew, Marino & Venkatasubramanian (ACM, 2025) — “Red Teaming AI Policy.”

Computational humanities and narrative

The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

  • Hamilton, Wilkens & Piper, NarraBench (EACL 2026) — the methodology as evaluation infrastructure.
  • Yeh et al., Story Ribbons (IEEE TVCG 2026) — visual analytics extension.
  • He, Breithaupt, Kübler & Hills (Scientific Reports, 2023) — methodology applied across 25,728 retellings.
  • Lee (Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2025) — Shakespeare sonnets.
  • Rebora (Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2023) — field survey.
  • Adopted across the Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies series.

Can GPT-3 Pass a Writer's Turing Test? (Elkins and Chun, Journal of Cultural Analytics 5.2, September 2020)

  • Luciano Floridi and Massimo Chiriatti (Minds and Machines 30, 2020).
  • Terence Tao and Tanya Klowden (Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Mathematics, 2026) — the paper sits at the conceptual pivot of their essay.
  • Martin Paul Eve, The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies (Oxford University Press, 2022) — footnote 88.
  • The writer's Turing test concept has been adopted as a named framework across philosophy of AI and NLP evaluation.

Greybox XAI for Diachronic Sentiment Analysis (Chun and Elkins, International Journal of Digital Humanities 5.2, 2023)

  • Cugurullo and Xu (Policy and Society 44.1, 2024) — cited as the theoretical authority on LLMs' obscure epistemological process, cross-disciplinary travel into political theory of urban governance.

In Search of a Translator: A Computational Investigation of Proust's Du côté de chez Swann (Elkins, Frontiers in Computer Science 6, 2024)

  • Huang and Cheung (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Nature portfolio, 2026).

AI, authorship, and the university

AI Comes for the Author (Elkins, Poetics Today 45.2, 2024)

  • James Phelan (Poetics Today 45.2, 2024) — engaged as part of an “instructive debate.”

A(I) University in Ruins: What Remains in a World with Large Language Models? (Elkins, PMLA 139.3, May 2024)

  • Cao et al. (arXiv 2025) — anchor a central theoretical claim on the article: “An ‘objective' model, according to Katherine Elkins, cannot exist.”

Literary scholarship: memory, perception, interpretation, lyric

Stalled Flight: Horatian Remains in Baudelaire's Le Cygne (Elkins, Comparative Literature Studies 39.1, 2002; A. Owen Aldridge Prize)

  • Sonam Singh (Comparative Literature 64.4, 2012) — cites as canonical authority on Horace 2.20 as model for Le Cygne.
  • Marko Marinčič (Acta Neophilologica 42, 2009) — same.

Middling Memories and Dreams of Oblivion: Configurations of a Non-Archival Memory in Baudelaire and Proust (Elkins, Discourse 24.3, 2002)

  • Alison Luyten (Manuscrítica 28, 2015) — adopts the non-archival memory framework; Antwerp / Dirk Van Hulle ecosystem.
  • Taylor Johnston (Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 59.3, 2018).

Naming the Lyric: Literature versus Philosophy in Plato's Symposium (Elkins, Philosophy and Literature 44.2, 2020)

  • Rick Anthony Furtak, Kierkegaard, Socrates, and the Meaning of Life (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives (Elkins, editor; Oxford University Press, 2022)

  • Tom Stern (European Journal of Philosophy 33.2, 2025, p. 723 fn. 6).

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