Gabi Kirilloff

Associate Professor, English

Area of Study

Literary and Cultural Studies, Humanities Analytics

Bio

Working at the intersection of cultural analytics, feminist theory, and American literature, Gabrielle "Gabi" Kirilloff uses large-scale computational methods to challenge dominant narratives about literary history. Her current book project, Keeping You Close, examines moments of direct address in a corpus of over 2,000 Anglophone novels to argue that female and African American writers used such rhetorical strategies to contest shifting cultural attitudes about empathy. She is co-founder of the AI Humanities Lab at Washington University, has three book manuscripts in progress (including one under contract with Duke UP on video games), and writes a biweekly public-scholarship column for Forbes. She has received teaching awards both at TCU and at WashU.

Education

Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2018