Process & Praxis: Creative Pedagogies in Literary Studies, Cardiff. U

  Creative Pedagogy Workshop at Cardiff U. I recently spoke to community members at Cardiff University about creative approaches to pedagogy and how we might understand our role as teachers in the 21st c. classroom.  After an introductory lecture, I invited participants to engage in close reading of Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel To the Lighthouse…

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Public Lecture: Cardiff U.

Public Lecture – The Exploded iPhone: ‘Homemade Tech’ in the Age of Feminist Critical Making Image Works: Research and Practice in Visual Culture at Cardiff University is pleased to present our next event combining creative and critical approaches to visual culture. Amy E. Elkins is Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College in Minnesota and…

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Writing on Water: A Conversation with Daisy Johnson on “Everything Under”

My new Q&A is up over at LARB: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/writing-on-water-a-conversation-with-daisy-johnson-on-everything-under/ Such a delight talking painting, photography, transgender characters, and environmentalism.  Johnson writes “women in the world” with mystery and anger but also with attention to how beauty emerges in the details.  Check it out!

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“A Stitch in Time: H.D.’s Craft Modernism as Transhistoric Repair” by Amy E. Elkins

My publication about H.D.’s needleworks in The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945. Abstract: H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961) maintained a longstanding interest in the material and artistic history of needlework, a practice that helped her conceptualize, theorize, and overcome traumatic wartime experiences. This essay presents, for the first time, an archive of H.D.’s needlework and demonstrates…

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Welcome!

Amy E. Elkins (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor of English at Macalester College. (Curriculum Vitae: Elkins_CV_Dec22) I write about modern and contemporary literature, art theory and visual culture, and feminist/queer approaches to the archive. As an artist, theorist, and interdisciplinary scholar, I emphasize dynamic, global approaches to research and student-driven inquiry across media. I also currently serve…

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