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Art + Public Scholarship

My research, writing, and multimedia arts practice often intersect with public humanities/arts programming. Because all of these areas of my creative/intellectual life are grounded in research-creation, social justice, and interdisciplinary collaboration, I often share work across media and with diverse audiences. Here you’ll find a selection of those projects and events: Seldom Perceptible: A Traumatic Brain…

Teaching

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

Research

My first book, Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022 (2023 in the U.S.)–and is forthcoming in paperback November 2025. This book focuses on how writers recover, reposition, and repurpose craft materials and processes from photography and needlework to painting, collage, and digital making. Craft offers…

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…