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About

About: Dr. Amy E. Elkins (she/her/hers). I write about modern and contemporary literature, art theory and visual culture, and feminist 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 serve as the Modern Language Association’s elected delegate for Women and…

Teaching

My classroom is a space of radical joy and intentional pedagogy aimed at guiding students to connect in new and powerful ways with literary texts, with each other, and with their larger social worlds. In these ways, my teaching centers on various modes of student-driven inquiry, experiential learning, and engagement with a generous, global community…

Research

My current book project, Crafting Modernity: Remaking Feminist Time from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present offers a sustained focus on how writers recover, reposition, and repurpose craft materials and processes from photography and needlework to painting, collage, and digital making. The result of these various threads is an alternative, “willful,” to use Sara Ahmed’s term, reorientation…

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

By: Amy E. Elkins February 6, 2018February 6, 2018

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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…

American Craft Council

By: Amy E. Elkins March 11, 2017February 6, 2018

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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 >

Digital Scholarship: The Potter’s Wheel

By: Amy E. Elkins June 11, 2015February 6, 2018

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“’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…