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Katherine Elkins is professor of humanities and Comparative Literature and faculty in Computing at Kenyon College.

Early Life

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Elkins attended Yale as an undergraduate, then completed a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. She is the niece of Henry Elkins.

Teaching

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Elkins is the founding co-director of the KDH lab and co-created the first human-centered artificial intelligence curriculum launched in 2016 at Kenyon College.[1]. She has mentored and co-authored hundreds of student research projects in the humanities, arts and social sciences that have been downloaded over 55,000 times worldwide. Her recorded lectures with The Modern Scholar on The Modern Novel (2021) and The Giants of French Literature (2020) are tailored to broader public audiences via Amazon's Audible.com[2].

Writing

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Elkins is best known for her pioneering work on interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence in Literature, Narrative, Affective Computing and the Ethics of AI. Her bookThe Shapes of Stories, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022,[3] provided a comprehensive methodology for using diachronic sentiment analysis to analyze the emotional aspects of plot across dozens of literary classics using SentimentArcs.[4] This method has been used to analyze narratives in diverse forms including literature,[5] translations,[6] TV scripts,[7] end of life medical narratives,[8] and the evolution of social media narratives for elections[9] and economic crisis.[10]

She presented the first transdisciplinary AI research at leading academic conferences including the Modernist Studies Association in October 2019,[11] The International Society for the Study of Narrative in March 2020[12] and the Modern Language Association Conference in January 2021.[13] Elkins was an early advocate for incorporating AI in literary studies with co-authored essays in The Journal of Cultural Analytics in September 2020[14] and Narrative in January 2021"[15] More recently she focused on how AI redefines creativity[16], authorship[17] and the future of the academic field.[18] A recent paper is a collaborative ICML position paper addressing the risks and benefits of open-source AI.[19]

Her traditional scholarship includes essays on Plato[20], Virginia Woolf[21], Franz Kafka[22], Marcel Proust[23], and William Wordsworth.[24] In 2001 she won the A. Owen Aldridge Prize in Comparative Literature for an essay on Charles Baudelaire.[25] She edited Philosophical Approaches to Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, which brings together essays by leading international Proust scholars, with Oxford University Press in 2022.[26]

Speaking

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Elkins is one of the leading women speaking widely on interdisciplinary AI. As early as 2019, she publically advocated integrating AI into traditional humanities curriculum with a keynote address at the Ohio State University.[27] She gave the Meredith-Donovan lecture at Mount Saint Mary’s University in 2023,[28] an AI Working Group lecture at Wofford College,[29] a presentation at the Stories that Win Symposium at Washington University in 2024,[30] and the keynote for Carleton College's Day of Digital Humanities in 2024.[31]

Elkins has been a co-panelist on interdisciplinary AI conversations with thought leaders from diverse fields. She discussed language, epistomology and the ethics of AI with Ned Block, Francesca Rossi, and Dennis Yi Tenen in October 2022.[32] Elkins debated AI generative art with co-panelist Boris Eldagsen and Shane Balkowitsch on Al Jazeera in April of 2023.[33] She presented her perspectives on emotions at the intersection of AI and literature with experts Rosalind Picard, Joseph LeDoux, and Mabel Berezin[34]. She discussed what gets lost in machine translation on the podcast Merging Minds[35].

Elkins also serves as a bridge between academia and industry. She is the AI industry expert for Bloomberg's new AI Strategy Course launched 2024. Elkinsserves as CAIO[36] of HumanCentricLabs emphasizing humane applications of AI in the workplace.She has given talks alongside industry experts from the Wharton School and Deloitte[37]

Recognition

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Kenyon College awarded Elkins the senior trustee teaching award In 2014.[38] In March of 2024 she was named a Principle Investigator for NIST's US AI Safety Institute representing the Modern Language Association.[39] She was awarded a Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab award in April 2024 to research how well Generative AI can predict recidivism.[40]

References

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  1. ^ Press, Edinburgh University (2023-10-16). "The Evolution of AI". Edinburgh University Press Blog. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  2. ^ "Audible.com Lectures on Tape". Audible.com. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  3. ^ Elkins, Katherine (2022). The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for Narrative. Elements in Digital Literary Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-009-27039-7.
  4. ^ Chun, Jon (2021-10-18), SentimentArcs: A Novel Method for Self-Supervised Sentiment Analysis of Time Series Shows SOTA Transformers Can Struggle Finding Narrative Arcs, arXiv:2110.09454
  5. ^ Perloff, Catherine (2019-10-01). "Doubles and Reflections: Sentiment Analysis and Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire". IPHS 300: Artificial Intelligence for the Humanities: Text, Image, and Sound.
  6. ^ Strain, Flannery (2022-10-01). "The Trials of Translation: A Cross-Linguistic Survey of Sentiment Analysis on Franz Kafka's Trial". IPHS 200: Programming Humanity.
  7. ^ Gow, Alexander (2021-10-01). "Blood in the Water: Storytelling and Sentiment Analysis in ABC's Shark Tank". IPHS 484: Senior Seminar.
  8. ^ Song, Hemmi (2022-10-01). "On Death and Emotion: Evaluating the Five Stages of Grief in End-of-Life Memoirs Using AI Deep Learning Models". IPHS 484: Senior Seminar.
  9. ^ Gimbel, Ben (2022-10-01). "Quantifying Polarization around Election Denial: Measuring Public Sentiment Changes in the 2022 Midterms". IPHS 200: Programming Humanity.
  10. ^ De Silva, Cherantha (2022-10-01). "How Did Sri Lankan Protestors End Up in the President's Pool? Understanding the evolution of an occupy-style protest: A story of economic turmoil, declining social sentiment and resulting political change". IPHS 200: Programming Humanity.
  11. ^ "The Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference: Upheaval and Reconstruction" (PDF). Modernist Studies Association 2019 Conference in Toronto, Canada. October 2019.
  12. ^ "Narrative 2020 Conference Program, March 5-7, 2020 New Orleans" (PDF). Narrative 2020 Conference. March 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  13. ^ "Modern Language Conference Website and Schedule". Modern Language Association Conference 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  14. ^ Elkins, Katherine; Chun, Jon (2020-09-14). "Can GPT-3 Pass a Writer's Turing Test?". Journal of Cultural Analytics. 5 (2). doi:10.22148/001c.17212.
  15. ^ Chun, Jon; Elkins, Katherine (2022). "What the Rise of AI Means for Narrative Studies: A Response to "Why Computers Will Never Read (or Write) Literature" by Angus Fletcher". Narrative. 30 (1): 104–113. doi:10.1353/nar.2022.0005. ISSN 1538-974X.
  16. ^ "Modern Language Association 2024 Conference". Modern Language Association 2024 Conference. Jan 2024. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  17. ^ D’Agostino, Susan. "AI Raises Complicated Questions About Authorship". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  18. ^ "Volume 45 Issue 2 | Poetics Today | Duke University Press". read.dukeupress.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  19. ^ "ICML Poster Position: Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI". icml.cc. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  20. ^ Elkins, Katherine (2020). "Naming the Lyric: Literature versus Philosophy in Plato's Symposium". Philosophy and Literature. 44 (2): 402–417. doi:10.1353/phl.2020.0030. ISSN 1086-329X.
  21. ^ Elkins, Katherine (2008-12-01). "Memory and Material Significance: Composing Modernist Influence". Modern Language Quarterly. 69 (4): 509–531. doi:10.1215/00267929-2008-014. ISSN 0026-7929.
  22. ^ "Project MUSE - MLN-Volume 136, Number 3, April 2021 (German Issue)". muse.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  23. ^ Kattan Gribetz, Sarit; Kaye, Lynn, eds. (2023). "Time: A Multidisciplinary Introduction". Time. De Gruyter Oldenbourg. doi:10.1515/9783110690774. ISBN 978-3-11-069077-4. Retrieved 2024-07-11. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  24. ^ Elkins, Katherine (2022), Hagberg, Garry (ed.), "Wordsworth's Literary Sublime", Fictional Worlds and Philosophical Reflection, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 227–244, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-73061-1_10, ISBN 978-3-030-73061-1, retrieved 2024-07-11
  25. ^ "A. Owen Aldridge Prize | American Comparative Literature Association". www.acla.org. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  26. ^ "Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives | Oxford Academic". academic.oup.com. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  27. ^ ""Programming Humanity" Katherine Elkins (Kenyon College) | Department of Comparative Studies". comparativestudies.osu.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  28. ^ "Katherine Elkins Encourages Mounties to Have a Voice on AI | Mount St. Mary's University Emmitsburg Maryland". news.msmary.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  29. ^ College, Wofford. "AI Working Group Events". www.wofford.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  30. ^ Futures, Incubator for Transdisciplinary (2023-12-27). "Stories that Win Symposium". Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  31. ^ Humanities, Digital. "Day of DH 2024 - Carleton College". www.carleton.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  32. ^ helixcenter (2022-10-16). Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Are Natural Language Generators for Real?. Retrieved 2024-07-12 – via YouTube.
  33. ^ "Is AI better at making art than humans?". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  34. ^ helixcenter (2023-09-24). Emotion. Retrieved 2024-07-12 – via YouTube.
  35. ^ "AI Expert's Adventure with Kate Elkins - Merging Minds". mergingminds.bureauworks.com. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  36. ^ "Essential skills and traits of chief AI officers". CIO. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  37. ^ "HumanCentric Labs on LinkedIn: HumanCentric Labs is hosting How AI is Redefining the Future Organization?…". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  38. ^ "Trustee Teaching Excellence Awards". Kenyon College. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  39. ^ "News from the MLA MLA Will Participate in Department of Commerce Consortium Dedicated to AI Safety". news.mla.hcommons.org. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  40. ^ Walton, Laura Moran (2024-04-22). "Notre Dame–IBM Technology Ethics Lab Awards Nearly $1,000,000 to Build Collaborative Research Projects between Teams of Notre Dame Faculty and International Scholars". Tech Ethics Lab. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
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