Talk:Katherine Elkins

Revised Draft:Katherine_Elkins

[The author of the draft posted the following on my Talk page and for convenience I am copying it, and my response, here:]

Hello!

Thank you for so quickly reviewing the draft of this proposed Wiki article. I carefully read, researched, and revised the Draft to address your primary concern regarding 'Notable' and meeting the minimum threshold for several of the 8 academic criteria. To address the 'notable' and academic criteria, I had to be a bit more foward but tried to focus on an organized list of impact, results, and contributions rather than a laundry list of CV items. I hope I struck a balance - please advise if not.

The new draft has many more supporting details and authoratative secondary sources with notable academics, researchers, and thought leaders that Elkins has engaged with over recent years. Many of the details like upcoming papers and talks at Yale, Harvard, Reed College, and others did not have authoratative links so I left them out.

My main concern is being transparent about COI at this point. To avoid this, I initially engaged a service to navigate this issue. They turned out to be a scam, so I am trying to write the article myself. It's complex to communicate to a third party because there are so many details and subtle judgement calls. I flagged this article as a potential COI when submitting and tagged my user page with "

This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Katherine Elkins.

". I hope the merits of article speak to the authenticity.

There are very few women who are thought leaders in AI and tech in general, so I hope this will be a service to the research community and beyond to add more voices to discussions around AI. It's a bit of a catch-22 and as academics, we generally are not very good at having a voice beyond the narrow confines of academic echo chambers. With the rapid advance of AI in everything from lethal autonomous weapons to potential large-scale disemployment, there is a urgent need to bring more informed humanistic perspectives to the public discussions on AI.

Please advise on any next steps.

Gratefully,

J J2000ai (talk) 23:27, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi J2000ai, thanks for the ping. Discussion about the page is best posted on the Talk page of the draft, so it is most easily seen and accessible to all editors and reviewers, so I have copied your post over to there, and responded there. Cabrils (talk) 00:40, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

My response:

Hi J2000ai,

Well done on progressing the page, however I am still seeing several issues. To establish Elkin's notability (as defined), we need to see articles about her rather than by her. Please review the (voluminous) references accordingly.

Also note that many of the references are not from sources that are considered reliable and should be removed (like LinkedIn). As I noted in my previous comment on the draft, the draft tends to read too much like a CV, which Wikipedia is not.

Further, and again, as I suggested in my previous comment on the draft:

(1) could you please post WP:THREE here;

(2) could please identify with specificity, exactly which criteria you believe the page meets (eg "I think the page now meets WP:NPROF criteria #3, because XXXXX");

(3) as requested by Johannes Maximilian, could you please identify whether Elkins has a full professor appointment (including a named chair appointment)?

Thank you for your COI declaration.

Look forward to your response. Cabrils (talk) 00:55, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello!

Thanks again for the feedback. The first feedback asked for supporting details for academic notability, so I added lots many links of peer-reviewed papers and famous academics/thought leaders that she has spoken alongside at events. There were more that were not adequately sourced (like the LinkedIn I removed per your request).

I'll update the Draft to include these facts that I forgot/missed after I hear from your feedback:

• Andrew Mellon Professorship
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Distinguished Teaching Professor
• Whiting Award
• Founding Director of the Comparative World Literature Program

Per your 3 requests:

(1) The 3 most significant/recent sources:

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a. Her 2022 Cambridge Univ Press book that is the first to use AI to analyze the emotional plot in stories/narratives.

• https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/shapes-of-stories/3047F01956467FA981DB9F14A18A6725

b. The Whitehouse/US NIST AI Safety Institute as Principle Investigator for the Modern Language Association (an association of 25,000 literature, linguists, translators, etc academics worldwide)

• https://news.mla.hcommons.org/2024/04/16/mla-will-participate-in-department-of-commerce-consortium-dedicated-to-ai-safety/

c. IBM-Notre Dame AI Tech Ethics Award (1 of 14 worldwide) as Principle Investigator

• https://techethicslab.nd.edu/news/notre-dameibm-technology-ethics-lab-awards-more-than-900-000-to-support-collaborative-research-projects-between-teams-of-notre-dame-faculty-and-international-scholars/

(2) Point by point address of WP:NPROF Criteria

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WP:NPROF:1

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Elkins developed a significant new methodology for using AI for Computational Literary Studies (per 1.a) and her numerous peer-reviewed articles and presentations at leading conferences/journals)

Was the first to publish using LLM for literary and narrative research and coined the term "AI DH" (or AI Digital Humanities)

WP:NPROF:2.

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Elkins received 1 of 14 international IBM Tech Ethics Award (per 1.c above)

The 2001 National Winner of the A. Owen Aldridge

WP:NPROF:3

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Selected as a Principal Investigator for the Whitehouse/NIST US AI Safety Institute

WP:NPROF:4

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Elkins co-created the world's first human-centered AI Digital Humanities curriculum with over 55,000 downloads worldwide from 160 countries/territories and +1,000 institutions

WP:NPROF:5

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Elkins is a full-professor and has been Director of the Integrated Program in Humane Studies (per (3) below)

National Endowment of Humanities (NEH) Distinguished Professor (2018-2021)

(new) https://www.kenyon.edu/offices-and-services/office-of-the-provost/recognition/neh-professorship/

WP:NPROF:6

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Selected to represent the 25,000+ scholars worldwide for the Modern Lanaguage Association (per 1.b above)

WP:NPROF:7

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Panelist with leading thought leaders, authors, and public intellectuals with the Helix Center in NYC and Al Jazeera

Audible.com Lectures on Tape on the Modern Novel and Giants of French Literature for wide audience

Industry AI Strategies Expert for Bloomberg Executive Education

WP:NPROF:8

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Editor for Oxford University Press Series on Philosophy and Literature (2022)

(3) Professorship

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Yes, Elkins was promoted to full professor in 2022 as Director of the Integrated Program in Humane Studies (as noted in this announcement by the Board of Trustees) (see (2)WP:NPROF:5 above)

• https://www.kenyon.edu/news/archive/full-professors-2/

Regards,

Jon J2000ai (talk) 21:24, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi @J2000ai,

Apologies for such a belated reply.

Thank you for your helpful response.

I'm almost persuaded, but I don't think I'm seeing enough WP:RS. There are many references by Elkins (or from Kenyon College) but I'm not seeing many about her from independent sources. As previously requested, could you please provide the WP:THREE best sources that establish notability? Cabrils (talk) 01:48, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply!

We just got back from a family vacation and found your update. Apologies since I'm brand new at this, but I patterned Elkins' article based upon other academics - one of which would be Emily M. Bender who also works in AI from a foundation in linguistics instead of Literature/Philosophy like Elkins. I've tried to follow a parallel structure although Bender is more well known at this point.

Although many of the citations are from writings of Elkins, the gold standard for reliable sources in academia are peer-reviewed top journals and academic presses. For example, Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, where her last two books are with, are considered two of the most selective academic presses worldwide. Similarly, her recent paper on Open Source AI regulation was presented this summer in Vienna at ICLM, the 2nd most prestigeous AI conference after NeurIPS (and was one of the 5% of all ICML papers selected for an oral presentation).

While top conference peer-reviewed papers are the most important factor for prestige, academic promotion and even hiring at top AI firms like Google, OpenAI, etc. Elkins' work in her Humanities have been presented in the top peer-reviewed journals including Narrative, Cultural Analytics, Modern Language Quarterly, and Poetics Today. Unlike CS/AI, journal articles and books are much more important than conferences papers/presentations for promotion and tenure. Oddly, some academic fields like Philosophy heavily emphasize papers over book.

I added several citations that are new or I overlooked in top or well-regarded journals as well as conferences with top academics

• Poetics Today June 2024 https://read.dukeupress.edu/poetics-today/article/45/2/267/387698/AI-Comes-for-the-Author
• Frontiers in Computer Science 12 August 2024 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computer-science/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2024.1444021/full
• Washington University St. Louis April 2024 https://transdisciplinaryfutures.wustl.edu/events/stories-win-symposium#:~:text=Stories%20that%20Win%20is%20a,from%20small%20towns%20to%20nations. schedule with Elkins presenting https://wustl.app.box.com/s/bcn6cs5vhia141fsg8mi3emmi22iar9a (Hosted at Washington University in St. Louis, the Stories that Win Symposium will welcome distinguished scholars and storytellers from across the nation.)
• Springer International Journal of Digital Humanities 4 December 2023 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42803-023-00078-7 The authors of this Springer article make several references to specific contributions to eXplainable AI by Elkins

Beyond unusually broad transdisciplinary peer-reviewed publications in top journals/conferences, I would guess Elkins' most reliable non-academic secondary sources would include

• US AI Safety Institute co-principal investigator for the Modern Language Association, the oldest academic society focused on language representing 25,000 literature, linguistic, and translation scholars worldwide
• IBM-Notre Dame Tech Ethics Grant Winner (1 of only 3 awarded in the US)
• Bloomberg Executive AI Strategy Course https://bloomberg.emeritus.org/ai-strategy
• Al-Jazeera roundtable with Boris Eldagsen (winner of Sony World Photography Award 2023)
• Several Helix Roundtables with top intellectuals, academics, writers, and experts including Rosalind Picard (head of MIT CSAIL), Francesca Rossi (European IBM Fellow and President of Assoc for Advancement of AI), and others

Generally, academics are somewhat segregated from mainstream media and live within their own bubble world of publish and perish and often in deep but narrow silos of expertise. Given the rise of AI, growing importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, and the relative paucity of authoratative voices from women I hope Elkins has enough authoratative secondary sources both within and outside of this garden-walled world of academia.

Best, Jon J2000ai (talk) 22:18, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

I just added Elkins' keynote address here at Lafayette College for their "Symposium: AI Literacy Across the Curriculum" with reference to event's web page at the college's website.

I double checked various wikipedia articles for academics I used as initial templates for Elkins' article. Most only have secondary authoratitive sources within the academic world proper (e.g. peer review of their own written articles, books and/or theories). Here is Ned Block's wikipedia article (a very prominent Philosopher at NYU who was a co-panelist with Elkins last year at the Helix Center): Ned Block. Also, here are a list of Kenyon College faculty members with wikipedia articles, where very few have any authoratative citations or sources outside of the academic world: Category:Kenyon College faculty

It is extremely rare, even for notable academics, to have citations in both academia and traditional sources like the main stream media. Both roles are more than full-time occupations. There are a handful of public intellectuals that are active in both academia and the MSM like Yan LeCun and David Chalmers (a Helix panelist last year). Many who become MSM personalities like Neil de Grass Tyson or Yuval Harari either leave academia and/or reduce traditional academic research/publishing to a trickle. It is even more rare to find women in science and AI research which I hope also makes an article for Elkins noteworthy.

Regards, Jon J2000ai (talk) 22:16, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Just updated the article with a new link and overlooked authoratative citations to secondary sources including:

• Elkin's membership in Meta's Open Innovation AI Research Community and announced upcoming talk at their October conference at London Meta HQ https://openinnovationairesearchcommun.splashthat.com/ and https://llama.meta.com/open-innovation-ai-research-community/
• Tech Ethics Lab at ND: https://techethicslab.nd.edu/

- J J2000ai (talk) 17:35, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

References

Request: Replace article with neutrality-cleaned draft

I have a WP:COI connection to this subject and am requesting an uninvolved editor review Draft:Katherine Elkins as a replacement for the current article.

Summary of changes (strictly subtractive):

• Removed unsourced BLP family claim (WP:BLP)
• Removed gwern.net promotional framing and unsourced "replication" claim; cited GPT-3 paper plainly (WP:V, WP:PROMO)
• Removed LinkedIn-sourced link (WP:SPS)
• Removed 90k download-count sentence (WP:NOT#STATS)
• Removed unsourced thematic-synthesis paragraph (WP:OR)
• Neutralized peacock language in 5 places (WP:PEACOCK)
• Consolidated duplicate ICML 2024 mention (WP:LAYOUT)
• Removed resume-framing opener in Speaking (WP:NOTRESUME)

~250 words removed, 0 added. All six sections preserved. J2000ai (talk) 17:36, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Update: This request is superseded by the consolidated proposal below. J2000ai (talk) 22:02, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

COI edit request: Replace article with neutrality-cleaned version

I have a WP:COI with this subject. Per reviewer guidance, I created Draft:Katherine Elkins as a proposed replacement for the current article. The draft was declined from AFC as a "duplicate," but that's expected—it's meant to be a cleaned-up version of *this* article, not a new one.

Changes (strictly subtractive, ~250 words removed):

• Removed unsourced BLP family claim
• Removed gwern.net promotional framing + unsourced "replication" claim
• Removed LinkedIn-sourced link (WP:SPS)
• Removed 90k download stat (WP:NOT#STATS)
• Removed unsourced synthesis paragraph (WP:OR)
• Neutralized 5× peacock phrases (WP:PEACOCK)
• Consolidated duplicate ICML mention
• Removed resume-style opener in Speaking

No new claims, refs, or sections added. Requesting an uninvolved editor review and merge if appropriate. J2000ai (talk) 10:15, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Update: This request is superseded by the consolidated proposal below. J2000ai (talk) 22:03, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

COI edit request: consolidated proposal incorporating prior subtractive cleanup and substantive expansion

This LLM-generated text has been collapsed and should be excluded from assessments of consensus.

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

I have a WP:COI connection to this subject (disclosed on my user page). This consolidated request supersedes my pending requests of 12 April 2026 and 13 April 2026 and combines: (1) the subtractive cleanup previously requested, (2) factual corrections, and (3) a substantive expansion of the Research and Career sections.

Per WP:COI guidance for clear factual corrections, I plan to execute the uncontested factual corrections (items 1 to 8 below) directly with COI-disclosed edit summaries. The substantive expansion (Section 9 below) is offered for review by an uninvolved editor.

=== Summary of changes ===

Factual corrections (Section 1 to 8, direct edit by COI editor with disclosure):

• Remove unsourced BLP family claim per WP:BLP
• Correct Modern Scholar dates (2010 and 2013, not 2020 and 2021)
• Clarify KDH Lab / AI CoLab naming history
• Correct organization name (Human-Centered AI Lab, Inc., not "HumanCentricLabs") and update tense for past role
• Remove statistics block per WP:NOT#STATS
• Remove unsourced thematic synthesis paragraph per WP:OR
• Neutralize "best known for / pioneering" peacock language per WP:PEACOCK
• Correct SentimentArcs description (implementation, not methodology)

Substantive expansion (Section 9, requesting uninvolved editor review):

• Reorganize article with standard biographical section headers (Education, Career, Research, Books, Selected publications, Public engagement, Awards, External links)
• Expand Career section with sourced affiliations: Director of IPHS, full professor (2022), NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor (2018 to 2021), co-developed first human-centered AI curriculum (2016), MLA representative to U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium, IBM-Notre Dame Tech Ethics Lab grant, Schmidt Sciences HAVI grant (2025)
• Expand Research section with five thematic subsections, each naming works with substantive contribution; reception in footnotes per Wikipedia convention for academic bios
• Add Books, Selected publications, Public engagement, Awards, and External links subsections

=== Section 9: Proposed expanded text ===

Lead

Katherine Elkins is an American scholar working at the intersections of artificial intelligence, philosophy, and literature. She is professor at Kenyon College, where she directs the Integrated Program in Humane Studies (IPHS) and co-directs the AI CoLab. She represents the Modern Language Association on the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Education

Elkins received her BA from Yale University and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Elkins was promoted to full professor at Kenyon College in 2022. She previously held the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professorship at Kenyon from 2018 to 2021. With Jon Chun, she co-developed what has been described as the first human-centered AI curriculum at Kenyon in 2016. They co-founded the AI CoLab (originally the KDH Lab, established 2017) and the nonprofit Human-Centered AI Lab, Inc. She was awarded an IBM-Notre Dame Technology Ethics Lab research grant. In December 2025 she was named co-principal investigator on "Archival Intelligence," a Schmidt Sciences-funded project under the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) developing AI tools to help small archives preserve endangered cultural materials.

Research

AI evaluation and safety

In September 2020, four months after the release of GPT-3, Elkins and Jon Chun published "Can GPT-3 Pass a Writer's Turing Test?" in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, proposing the writer's Turing test as a framework for evaluating large language model creative competence and providing one of the first systematic empirical evaluations of GPT-3 on humanities-relevant tasks. In "Informed AI Regulation: Comparing the Ethical Frameworks of Leading LLM Chatbots" (2024), Elkins and Chun conducted an early ethics-based audit of frontier large language models, applying the approach across eight models and fourteen ethical scenarios.

AI governance and regulation

Elkins is among the authors of "Position: Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI" (Eiras et al., 2024), accepted for oral presentation at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024). The paper applies openness analysis to forty large language models and argues for responsible openness as a middle position between blanket restriction and unlimited release. With Jon Chun and Christian Schroeder de Witt, she also authored "Comparative Global AI Regulation: Policy Perspectives from the EU, China, and the US" (2024), which develops a comparative framework for three-way divergence in global AI governance. The paper has been engaged as a primary framework in subsequent global-governance research, including Olugbade's 2025 analysis in Global Public Policy and Governance. Elkins also co-authored "If Open Source Is to Win, It Must Go Public" (Tan, Vincent, Elkins, and Sahlgren), selected as a Spotlight presentation at the ICML 2025 CodeML Workshop, which argues that open source alone faces challenges in fully democratizing AI access without complementary investments in compute, post-training, deployment, and oversight.

AI in higher education

Elkins's work on AI in higher education combines a curricular proposal with a structural analysis of how generative AI transforms university teaching, research, and knowledge production. With Chun, she co-authored "The Crisis of Artificial Intelligence: A New Digital Humanities Curriculum for Human-Centred AI" in the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 17.2 (2023), which proposes a new human-centered AI curriculum and argues that artificial intelligence presents an interrelated set of crises requiring an interdisciplinary response. The argument has been engaged in subsequent research, including a systematic literature review by Jaramillo and Chiappe (2024) in the UNESCO-affiliated journal Prospects, which adopted "AI crisis" as an organizing concept in its analysis of risks of AI integration in education. The paper was also cited by Tanya Klowden and the mathematician Terence Tao in their 2026 essay for the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Mathematics, at the pivot point in their argument distinguishing AI from earlier automation technologies. Her "A(I) University in Ruins: What Remains in a World with Large Language Models?" in PMLA 139.3 (2024) extends the analysis structurally, arguing that LLMs constitute a challenge to the university as an institution, not merely to specific pedagogical practices.

Computational narrative and emotion

Elkins's book The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2022) develops ensemble methods for diachronic sentiment analysis applied to narrative texts and introduces a vocabulary for narrative shape including storyteller curves, tragic curves, and the distributed hero(ine) model; the book proposes middle reading as a methodological path between distant and close reading. SentimentArcs is one implementation of the methodology. With Chun, Elkins responded to Angus Fletcher's argument that computers cannot read or write literature in "What the Rise of AI Means for Narrative Studies" (Narrative 30.1, 2022). "AI Comes for the Author" in Poetics Today 45.2 (2024) extends the analysis to questions of authorship and creative agency under generative AI. "Beyond Plot: How Sentiment Analysis Reshapes Our Understanding of Narrative Structure" (Journal of Cultural Analytics 10.3, 2025) argues that close reading remains undertheorized and shows how sentiment analysis surfaces narrative structures that traditional accounts of plot do not capture. "The Shapes of Cinderella: Emotional Architecture and the Language of Moral Difference" (Humanities 14.10, 2025) applies the methodology cross-culturally to Chinese, French, and German versions of the Cinderella tale. A more recent piece, "Can We Fall in Love with AI Fiction? The AI-Fiction Paradox" (2026), identifies narrative causation, emotional architecture, and the dynamics of information in narrative as three distinct challenges that fiction poses to current AI generation architectures. The sentiment-analysis methodology has been adopted across literary studies, translation studies, political and electoral discourse analysis, end-of-life medical narratives, and cross-disciplinary research extending beyond the literary domain into cognitive science and sustainability studies.

Philosophy of mind and literature

Elkins's scholarship in philosophy and literature treats literary texts as sites for thinking through how mind, memory, and consciousness work, drawing on resources from information theory and philosophy of mind. "Stalled Flight: Horatian Remains in Baudelaire's 'Le Cygne'" in Comparative Literature Studies 39.1 (2002), which received the A. Owen Aldridge Prize in 2001, identifies Horace's Ode 2.20 as a structural model for Baudelaire's poem and reads the swan as an inversion of Horace's self-immortalizing figure. A companion essay, "Middling Memories and Dreams of Oblivion: Configurations of a Non-Archival Memory in Baudelaire and Proust" in Discourse 24.3 (2002), develops a model of memory as iterative reassembly rather than archival retrieval. "Naming the Lyric: Literature versus Philosophy in Plato's Symposium" in Philosophy and Literature 44.2 (2020) reads Plato's dialogue as staging a conversation between lyric love and philosophical love in the debate between Socrates and Alcibiades. "History's Theft and Memory's Return in Maryse Condé" (2006) names *theft of the theft* as the postcolonial writer's strategy for reclaiming a collective history manipulated and silenced by colonialism through recursive first-person fictionalization. Elkins edited Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2022), an eight-chapter collection bringing philosophical methods to bear on Proust's novel. Her own chapter, "Proust's Consciousness," reads Proust's involuntary memories collectively through information theory, arguing that focusing on the madeleine episode alone misses what connects them across the novel and reframing Proustian memory as connection to the world rather than archival recovery.

Books and edited volumes

• The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for Narrative (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies, 2022). ISBN 978-1-009-27039-7.
• Editor, Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2022). ISBN 978-0-19-092157-6.

Selected publications

• "Can We Fall in Love with AI Fiction? The AI-Fiction Paradox," arXiv:2603.13545 (2026).
• "The Shapes of Cinderella: Emotional Architecture and the Language of Moral Difference," Humanities 14.10 (2025). DOI 10.3390/h14100198.
• "Beyond Plot: How Sentiment Analysis Reshapes Our Understanding of Narrative Structure," Journal of Cultural Analytics 10.3 (2025). DOI 10.22148/001c.143671.
• "If Open Source Is to Win, It Must Go Public" (with Joshua Tan, Nicholas Vincent, and Magnus Sahlgren), Spotlight, ICML 2025 CodeML Workshop.
• "Comparative Global AI Regulation: Policy Perspectives from the EU, China, and the US" (with Jon Chun and Christian Schroeder de Witt), arXiv:2410.21279 (2024).
• "Position: Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI" (with Eiras, Petrov, Vidgen, Schroeder de Witt, Pizzati, Mukhopadhyay, Foerster, Darrell, Torr, et al.), ICML 2024, arXiv:2404.17047.
• "AI Comes for the Author," Poetics Today 45.2 (2024). DOI 10.1215/03335372-11092884.
• "A(I) University in Ruins: What Remains in a World with Large Language Models?", PMLA 139.3 (2024), pp. 559-565. DOI 10.1632/S0030812924000543.
• "Informed AI Regulation: Comparing the Ethical Frameworks of Leading LLM Chatbots" (with Jon Chun), arXiv:2402.01651 (2024).
• "Crisis of AI / AI Digital Humanities" (with Jon Chun), International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 17.2 (2023).
• "What the Rise of AI Means for Narrative Studies: A Response to 'Why Computers Will Never Read (or Write) Literature' by Angus Fletcher" (with Jon Chun), Narrative 30.1 (January 2022), pp. 104-113. DOI 10.1353/nar.2022.0005.
• "Proust's Novel Time," in Time and Literature (De Gruyter, 2023).
• "Memory, Technology, and Wisdom," Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (2022).
• "Wordsworth's Literary Sublime," in The Palgrave Handbook of the Sublime in British Romanticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
• "Proust's Family at Home," H-France Salon (2021).
• "Picture Lessons in Kafka's The Trial," MLN 136.3 (April 2021), pp. 755-769.
• "Naming the Lyric: Literature versus Philosophy in Plato's Symposium," Philosophy and Literature 44.2 (October 2020), pp. 402-417.
• "Can GPT-3 Pass a Writer's Turing Test?" (with Jon Chun), Journal of Cultural Analytics 5.2 (September 2020). DOI 10.22148/001c.17212.
• "Memory and Material Significance: Composing Modernist Influence," Modern Language Quarterly 69.4 (December 2008), pp. 509-531. DOI 10.1215/00267929-2008-014.
• "History's Theft and Memory's Return in Maryse Condé" (2006).
• "Middling Memories and Dreams of Oblivion: Configurations of a Non-Archival Memory in Baudelaire and Proust," Discourse 24.3 (2002), pp. 47-66. DOI 10.1353/dis.2003.0033.
• "Stalled Flight: Horatian Remains in Baudelaire's 'Le Cygne'," Comparative Literature Studies 39.1 (2002), pp. 1-17.

Public engagement

Elkins has appeared in international and U.S. media on artificial intelligence. In May 2023 she participated in an Al Jazeera The Stream debate on artificial intelligence and art with Boris Eldagsen and Shane Balkowitsch. In November 2025, Forbes featured the human-centered AI curriculum and AI CoLab she co-founded with Jon Chun at Kenyon in 2016. In February 2026, the Christian Science Monitor quoted her as an AI safety researcher in coverage of national debates over AI safety and military deployment. The Archival Intelligence project was featured by WOSU/NPR the same month.

She developed the AI Strategy course for Bloomberg Executive Education (2024). Her recorded lectures for the Modern Scholar audio lecture series, distributed by Recorded Books and available on Audible, include The Giants of French Literature: Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus (2010) and The Modern Novel (2013).

In January 2021, Elkins and Jon Chun released DIVAbot, a transformer-based AI improvising live with an actress to mark the centennial of Karel Čapek's R.U.R., produced for online release during the COVID-19 pandemic in collaboration with Wexner Center artist-in-residence Jim Dennen. She has participated in panels at the Helix Center in New York City.

Invited keynotes and lectures include UNESCO MONDIACULT in Cairo (2025), the OpenAI Higher Education Forum (2025), Yale's Northrup Distinguished Lecture (2024), the opening plenary at Concordia College's Faith, Reason, and World Affairs Symposium (2025), the Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar METC Conference (2025), the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College (2025), the Carleton College Day of Digital Humanities keynote (2024), the Mount St. Mary's Meredith Donovan Lecture (2023), and the Ohio State University Chase Center talk on civic education after AI (2026). In December 2024 she delivered Kenyon College's Baccalaureate Address.

Awards and honors

• A. Owen Aldridge Prize, Comparative Literature Studies (2001)
• Whiting Foundation Teaching Fellowship, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
• Senior Trustee Teaching Award, Kenyon College (2014)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professorship, Kenyon College (2018 to 2021)
• IBM-Notre Dame Technology Ethics Lab research grant
• Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) grant (co-principal investigator, 2025)

External links

• Kenyon College faculty page
• Personal website
• Reception of published work
• Human-Centered AI Lab, Inc.
• Archival Intelligence project
• Google Scholar profile
• ORCID

References

J2000ai (talk) 22:12, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

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