CV

My name is Amy E. Elkins (she/her/hers), and I’m an Assistant Professor of Literature in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology. Here is my CV:

Dr. Amy E. Elkins joins the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech this fall as Assistant Professor of Literature. In her research and teaching, she explores the transformative role of everyday creative practices in reshaping systems of power, with a focus on 20th and 21st century Anglophone and diasporic literature, archival and material culture studies, environmental literature, film adaptations of literature, and feminist and queer theory. From 2016-2026, Dr. Elkins was an Associate Professor of English & Creative Writing at Macalester College, where she held a Digital Liberal Arts Faculty Fellowship and was named the 2020-2021 Educator of the Year for her innovative approaches to community-oriented online learning. Her first book, Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (Oxford University Press) shows how craftwork, in practice and imagination, empowers the work of women writers from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith. Her scholarship and artworks reach a diverse range of audiences through a combination of literary scholarship, experimental multimedia writing, creative-critical research methods, art workshops, public humanities programming, and community-engaged learning.

Dr. Elkins currently serves as the Modern Language Association’s elected delegate for Women and Gender in the Profession and is passionate about equity in higher education. She also edits the “Orientations” forum for Modernism/Modernity Print Plus where she promotes new work in writing across genres, collaborative approaches to research, queer archival studies, and more. Her essays have appeared in PMLA, Contemporary Literature, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Modernism/Modernity Print+, and Post45, and she interviews writers for such places as the Los Angeles Review of Books and Novel Dialogue.

This website includes posts with publication news, events, and exhibitions, in addition to more information about my research, teaching, arts & humanities programs, and multimedia arts practice.

Contact: aelkins@macalester.edu -or- amy.e.elkins@gmail.com