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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Look Again! A Conversation with Irish Artist-Novelist Sara Baume
LA Review of Books recently published my Q&A with Irish novelist Sara Baume, which includes lots of beautiful images of Baume’s work, along with the photographic variants between editions of A Line Made by Walking. 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) 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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American Craft Council
Dr. Amy Elkins: The Craft of Survival talk at the American Craft Council Library Salon Series March 8, 2017, 7pm Minneapolis, MN < Information about the talk > < Five Questions Salon Edition with Dr. Amy Elkins > < Interview: The Craft of Survival >
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Digital Scholarship: The Potter’s Wheel
“’Making Splendid Things’: The Potter’s Wheel Online Archive” is a digital archive collection focused on the lives and works of the Potters, a women’s art collective that created a handmade, multimedia magazine. This group of early-20th century women writers, artists, and designers lived and worked in St. Louis, Missouri. This site aims to do three…
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