@amyeelkins
Associate Prof of English; author of Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (OUP, 2022) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/crafting-feminism-from-literary-modernism-to-the-multimedia-present-9780192857835?cc=us&lang=en& 🌈
Developing a new class, Strange Destinies: Pluribus and Kazuo Ishiguro! Glitch Feminism (@ellerustle) and AI ethics; Jung, memory, and the collective (un)conscious; Foucault and panoptic power/surveillance; queer theory; class status and place; utopias & machines; health humanities and wellbeing!!
The forum I edit has a terrific, collaboratively-written article out! Did someone say Stud File?! We go to Princeton’s archive where a 1928 student fan letter from Samuel Steward to Joyce launched the authors into an exploration of an important, understudied queer writer, professor, &tattoo artist!
For those of you on Insta, I post there more regularly—@amyeelkins ♥️ I’d love to connect! (And will try to be better about sharing news on here, too).
This is the (for now) final post of a multi-day thread documenting my first try at bookbinding. Click and scroll up to see the whole story!
Ray Bradbury wrote that books are magic for the ways “they stitc[h] the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” It means the world to me that years into this magical stitching process, new designs keep emerging. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present is out in a brand new paperback edition from Oxford UP! (U.K. now, U.S. release Feb. 2026: code AAFLYG6) Thank you so much to everyone who contributed light to my life & writing. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
I have the Playboy issue that published an illustrated “Goblin Market.” It makes for an intending discussion lol…
Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!
Thank you, she was just the sweetest most special kitty.
And now I’m prepping fall classes! Queer Classics, Film Studies: Poetry in Motion, and Dark Academia. Grateful for the brilliant folks writing about teaching in the AI boom—currently perusing against-a-i.com
The back of the quilt is embroidered with lines from my journal from that period in 2005. amyelkins.net/2025/08/17/s...
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Seldom Perceptible: A Traumatic Brain Injury Quilt
Amy E. Elkins
46 ½” x 58 ½”
Eco-dyed fabrics, cyanotype, cochineal and madder-dyed thread, fossilized snake vertebrae, embroidered cheesecloth, and silk batting.
2025
I completed my second art quilt. This one commemorates 20 years since my traumatic brain injury. It’s printed with my actual xray film and brain scans, uses only natural dyed scraps, and is quilted with snake vertebrae. Why? Full artist statment here: amyelkins.net/2025/08/17/s...
Indigo dying and eco-printing with my neighbors.
Last week I used the rainwater to paint watercolors one of my eco-prints. Using a typewriter, I added a quote from Yeats that I’ve been thinking of often lately: “and a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone” Isn’t that just how love feels?
My last morning with Aspen, I held her in my arms in her favorite spot and a tremendous summer rain came. Rolling thunder. And then after she passed, another summer storm, the weather matching the steady tumult of my grief. I collected rain water that day, not really sure why I was doing it.
During all this, my senior beagle Oakley had to have emergency intestinal obstruction surgery. She is fine now but couldn’t process losing Aspen either—she’s never known life without her. (She’s on better meds now and getting lots of extra walks).
I wrote an arboreal elegy for Aspen ♥️
I haven’t posted in a while here! This summer I nursed my soul cat through her final months and said goodbye.
Happiness is the smartest people you know reading your book. Thank you, @drbibliomane.bsky.social !!
Boston area folks—next week! Looking forward to this fabulous panel with Jen Bervin, Deidre Lynch, and Mande Zecca where all things craft and archives will surface and circulate. Thanks to Harvard English & Houghton Library ♥️ Register: libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/14463391
Did you hear? My book is headed to paperback! As the end of the fiscal year approaches, it’s a great time to see if your library (local or college) has a physical copy of Crafting Feminism ♥️🌈🧵(code: AAFLYG6) tinyurl.com/3k3vuy96
It won’t be recorded this time around, but thank you so much for sharing! ♥️
First page of an article appearing in Representations 170 titled "Charles Lamb's Pen-Pushing: Books, Authorship, and the Writer of Autographs."
Proofs! I hope this article--a labour of love & also about labour (& the work of the hand)--will be of interest to both #19thc & #BookHistory scholars. Sad, however, that tho' the process has been quick, the piece won't quite be out in time for Charles Lamb's 250th birthday (on 10 Feb). I got close!
flyer for event that reads "Houghton Library and the Harvard English Department present SURFACING CRAFT IN THE ARCHIVE | Deidre Lynch, Mande Zecca, Amy Elkins, and Jen Bervin | Thursday May 1, 5:30-7:30PM Edison and Newman Room Houghton Library Harvard Library
please come to Houghton Library on May 1st and hear about botanical paper mosaics! queer scrapbook interior collages! Emily Dickinson's stationery! craft-based pedagogy in collaboration with archives! from the great @drbibliomane.bsky.social @amyeelkins.bsky.social Jen Bervin, & Mande Zecca ✨🪡📜
Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism is coming out this fall in a new paperback edition! More below about my thoughts about all this, which are mostly wonder and gratitude.
DREAM panel at the Houghton Library May 1st— I’d ♥️ to see you there! Co-sponsored by Harvard English and organized by @cejacobson.bsky.social w/ @drbibliomane.bsky.social, Jen Bervin, & Mande Zecca. I’ll be sharing new work in queer craft and archives.
This exact clip inspired me to crate a new course for the fall called Film Studies: Poetry in Motion!
Incredible!! There it is!! @ryancordell.org has printed the 14th amendment. With technology worthy of the period in which it was ratified. Equality before the law!!! Birthright citizenship!!! This is our republic if we can keep it. Remind everyone of what we stand for 🙏