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All my gratitude to Lorna Goodison for joining me in conversation and sharing her work in Asheville, North Carolina! And thanks to the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center for inviting us. Here I am with Lorna on the site of Black Mountain College in front of the “Studies Building,” which was built by…

I recently sat down with Ocean Vuong to record the season opener of one of my favorite podcasts! Listen to “We Have This-ness, Y’all! Ocean Vuong and Amy E. Elkins” over at Novel Dialogue or wherever you get your podcasts. Season 5 of Novel Dialogue opens with an impassioned refresher course in literary theory brought…

Really looking forward to moderating a discussion between Amy Sands and Nicole Sara Simpkins this week! Although the event sold out pretty fast, you can read all about their incredible work here: https://www.highpointprintmaking.org/calendar/2022/2/1mcknight?fbclid=IwAR0kHtR6I-J2FrP6OBC5U4RnIhUEeWl9vGsbYDP_tl7aOlaNC24JKEwhc1w

Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present is out now (or out soon, depending on where you are and which platform you use). If you order through Oxford University Press, promo code AAFLYG6 applies a 30% discount. A recent (first) spotting of my book in the wild…a display copy at the Modernist Studies…

My forthcoming book begins with thinking about Eve Sedgwick’s idea of the “weaver’s handshake” as “a tactile interrogation,” an inherited gesture for testing our surroundings, a subtle movement that measures the “rub of reality.” In my final section, I return to this idea, adding to it the “threader’s kiss”–a term I use to describe the…

The Museum of Art and Design currently features an exhibit on “garmenting,” described as artists “making or altering clothing for expressive purposes” to “create garments, sculpture, installation, and performance art that transform dress into a critical tool. Adopted globally as an artistic strategy, garmenting uses the language of fashion to challenge traditional divisions of form…

Recent publication: “Typestruck: On Women and Writing Machines” co-authored with Glenn Adamson over on the Modernism/Modernity Print Plus platform, part of the “Visualities” series annd edited by Alix Beeston: https://modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/elkins-adamson-typestruck We argue for the gendered significance of typewriting and look closely at Stevie Smith’s Novel on Yellow Paper as a technographic text. The collaborative, dynamic…