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).
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...
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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...
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
The back of the quilt is embroidered with lines from my journal from that period in 2005. amyelkins.net/2025/08/17/s...
August 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The back of the quilt is embroidered with lines from my journal from that period in 2005. amyelkins.net/2025/08/17/s...
amyelkins.net/2025/08/17/s...
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
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
August 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
amyelkins.net/2025/08/17/s...
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
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
Indigo dying and eco-printing with my neighbors.
August 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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?
August 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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?
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).
August 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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 ♥️
August 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
My book is 40% off through OUP w/ code EXMLA25. Please see if your library has a copy—if not, send them a link and request ♥️ And for yourself—a book this pretty doubles as decoration thanks to Billie Bond’s stunning work, which graces the cover. global.oup.com/academic/pro... 📚
January 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My book is 40% off through OUP w/ code EXMLA25. Please see if your library has a copy—if not, send them a link and request ♥️ And for yourself—a book this pretty doubles as decoration thanks to Billie Bond’s stunning work, which graces the cover. global.oup.com/academic/pro... 📚
I’m not at #MLA2025 this year but this is your reminder to check out the book exhibit! I won the @hopkinspress.bsky.social drawing at MSA and they sent me some titles of my choosing—treasures all!
January 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I’m not at #MLA2025 this year but this is your reminder to check out the book exhibit! I won the @hopkinspress.bsky.social drawing at MSA and they sent me some titles of my choosing—treasures all!
New review by Claire Battershill ♥️ “This book is rich, and full, and maximalist. It is a triumphant and brave first book that remakes feminist scholarly practice. It is a joyous celebration of texture, text, and textile, and of the human fragility and feeling that those media can help us see.” Wow!
January 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
New review by Claire Battershill ♥️ “This book is rich, and full, and maximalist. It is a triumphant and brave first book that remakes feminist scholarly practice. It is a joyous celebration of texture, text, and textile, and of the human fragility and feeling that those media can help us see.” Wow!
Favorite documentaries? Especially those related in various ways to art, material culture, literature. Please share! A few of mine are: Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Gleaners and I,
Finding Vivian Mayer, Looking for Langston…
Finding Vivian Mayer, Looking for Langston…
January 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Favorite documentaries? Especially those related in various ways to art, material culture, literature. Please share! A few of mine are: Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Gleaners and I,
Finding Vivian Mayer, Looking for Langston…
Finding Vivian Mayer, Looking for Langston…
Artwork for my main floor bathroom, inspired by a vintage wallpaper design I came across in my baths research. I think they turned out pretty cute! ♥️🛁🫧♥️
January 5, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Artwork for my main floor bathroom, inspired by a vintage wallpaper design I came across in my baths research. I think they turned out pretty cute! ♥️🛁🫧♥️
Engaged praxis pedagogy as community care and multidisciplinary inquiry: my First Year Course students kept a stitch journal of their 1st semester of college, which we turned into a class quilt!
December 17, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Engaged praxis pedagogy as community care and multidisciplinary inquiry: my First Year Course students kept a stitch journal of their 1st semester of college, which we turned into a class quilt!
The final lines of Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Quilts.” RIP to a beloved poet ♥️
December 10, 2024 at 4:32 AM
The final lines of Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Quilts.” RIP to a beloved poet ♥️
My first book was on craft, which intersected with community, wellness, queerness. My second multi-pronged project is on bathing rituals—similar resonances but I’m working w/ different frameworks. It’s the end of the semester & I only had half an hour to dip into that today but look at this icon!
December 10, 2024 at 4:01 AM
My first book was on craft, which intersected with community, wellness, queerness. My second multi-pronged project is on bathing rituals—similar resonances but I’m working w/ different frameworks. It’s the end of the semester & I only had half an hour to dip into that today but look at this icon!