Amy E. Elkins
@amyeelkins.bsky.social
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& 🌈
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).
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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).
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#DHmakes <3s sharing first tries at crafts, making, & art—and documenting your process so others can enjoy, understand, & maybe get inspired to try it too. @loreandordure.com on bookbinding:
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!
Just snuck a quick peek before tucking it back to press and… yeah, it’s a book!
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
#DHmakes <3s sharing first tries at crafts, making, & art—and documenting your process so others can enjoy, understand, & maybe get inspired to try it too. @loreandordure.com on bookbinding:
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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!
Just snuck a quick peek before tucking it back to press and… yeah, it’s a book!
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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!
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...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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...
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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!
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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August 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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!
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
August 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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
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...
Seldom Perceptible: A Traumatic Brain Injury Quilt
Seldom Perceptible: A Traumatic Brain Injury QuiltAmy E. Elkins46 ½” x 58 ½” Eco-dyed fabrics, cyanotype, cochineal and madder-dyed thread, fossilized snake vertebrae, embroidered cheesecloth, and…
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August 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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.
August 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Indigo dying and eco-printing with my neighbors.
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.
August 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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.
I haven’t posted in a while here! This summer I nursed my soul cat through her final months and said goodbye.
August 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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 !!
Yesterday's post, in combination with a self-indulgent visit to Flying Books on College St. in Toronto, made for an especially sumptuous book haul. To mark the start of summer, when so much feels possible.
Look @amyeelkins.bsky.social! Look @jsief.bsky.social !
Look @amyeelkins.bsky.social! Look @jsief.bsky.social !
May 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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
April 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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
April 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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
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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!
April 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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!
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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 ✨🪡📜
April 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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.
April 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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.
April 8, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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.
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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 🙏
March 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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 🙏
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Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer.
"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
March 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer.
"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.
Come on, folks. Grow a backbone and thank you, Senator Smith!
Trump and Republicans set this up as an unprecedented power grab so they can slash and burn government services on their terms.
I’m a firm NO — on cloture and final passage — on this ‘CR’
I’m a firm NO — on cloture and final passage — on this ‘CR’
March 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Come on, folks. Grow a backbone and thank you, Senator Smith!
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If you missed the ACH roundtable at #MLA25 on "Book History and Digital Humanities" The blog post about the session now has slides/talks/info
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ACH@MLA25: Book History and the Digital Humanities
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February 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
If you missed the ACH roundtable at #MLA25 on "Book History and Digital Humanities" The blog post about the session now has slides/talks/info
@ryancordell.org @natmcgartland.bsky.social @whitneytrettien.bsky.social @elikaortega.bsky.social @bibliowingate.bsky.social
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@ryancordell.org @natmcgartland.bsky.social @whitneytrettien.bsky.social @elikaortega.bsky.social @bibliowingate.bsky.social
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NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
February 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.
I blurbed Orlando! An enduring favorite—some might even say “Woolf’s most audacious masterpiece….” (lol). Congrats to Madelyn Detloff, a scholar I’ve admired for so long, on this fabulous new edition ♥️🌈♥️
February 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I blurbed Orlando! An enduring favorite—some might even say “Woolf’s most audacious masterpiece….” (lol). Congrats to Madelyn Detloff, a scholar I’ve admired for so long, on this fabulous new edition ♥️🌈♥️
RIP Michael Longley. Like every great poet (I’m increasingly convinced), he has a quilt poem.
January 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
RIP Michael Longley. Like every great poet (I’m increasingly convinced), he has a quilt poem.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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