Amy E. Elkins

Happiness is the smartest people you know reading your book. Thank you, @drbibliomane.bsky.social !!

Boston area folks—next week! Looking forward to this fabulous panel with Jen Bervin, Deidre Lynch, and Mande Zecca where all things craft and archives will surface and circulate. Thanks to Harvard English & Houghton Library ♥️ Register: libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/14463391

Did you hear? My book is headed to paperback! As the end of the fiscal year approaches, it’s a great time to see if your library (local or college) has a physical copy of Crafting Feminism ♥️🌈🧵(code: AAFLYG6) tinyurl.com/3k3vuy96

It won’t be recorded this time around, but thank you so much for sharing! ♥️

First page of an article appearing in Representations 170 titled "Charles Lamb's Pen-Pushing: Books, Authorship, and the Writer of Autographs."

Proofs! I hope this article--a labour of love & also about labour (& the work of the hand)--will be of interest to both #19thc & #BookHistory scholars. Sad, however, that tho' the process has been quick, the piece won't quite be out in time for Charles Lamb's 250th birthday (on 10 Feb). I got close!

flyer for event that reads "Houghton Library and the Harvard English Department present SURFACING CRAFT IN THE ARCHIVE | Deidre Lynch, Mande Zecca, Amy Elkins, and Jen Bervin | Thursday May 1, 5:30-7:30PM Edison and Newman Room Houghton Library Harvard Library

please come to Houghton Library on May 1st and hear about botanical paper mosaics! queer scrapbook interior collages! Emily Dickinson's stationery! craft-based pedagogy in collaboration with archives! from the great @drbibliomane.bsky.social @amyeelkins.bsky.social Jen Bervin, & Mande Zecca ✨🪡📜

Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism is coming out this fall in a new paperback edition! More below about my thoughts about all this, which are mostly wonder and gratitude.

DREAM panel at the Houghton Library May 1st— I’d ♥️ to see you there! Co-sponsored by Harvard English and organized by @cejacobson.bsky.social w/ @drbibliomane.bsky.social, Jen Bervin, & Mande Zecca. I’ll be sharing new work in queer craft and archives.

This exact clip inspired me to crate a new course for the fall called Film Studies: Poetry in Motion!

Incredible!! There it is!! @ryancordell.org has printed the 14th amendment. With technology worthy of the period in which it was ratified. Equality before the law!!! Birthright citizenship!!! This is our republic if we can keep it. Remind everyone of what we stand for 🙏

Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer.

"Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

Come on, folks. Grow a backbone and thank you, Senator Smith!

If you missed the ACH roundtable at #MLA25 on "Book History and Digital Humanities" The blog post about the session now has slides/talks/info

@ryancordell.org @natmcgartland.bsky.social @whitneytrettien.bsky.social @elikaortega.bsky.social @bibliowingate.bsky.social

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Yes I will send details in the morning!

Oh how I dread permissions. Yes I worked with PRH UK for my Greenberg image & for the Zadie Smith interactive map project I cite in my critical making coda and for the Pickstone collages in Artful (& a few others). Some were grey areas. Beau Sullivan was my contact. They were prompt but expensive.

Screenshot of grant guidelines with highlighted funding restrictions that include promotion of gender ideology, promotion of discriminatory equity ideology, promotion of dei or deia activities or initiatives, and environmental justice initiatives or activities.

NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

I blurbed Orlando! An enduring favorite—some might even say “Woolf’s most audacious masterpiece….” (lol). Congrats to Madelyn Detloff, a scholar I’ve admired for so long, on this fabulous new edition ♥️🌈♥️

RIP Michael Longley. Like every great poet (I’m increasingly convinced), he has a quilt poem.

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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Not for this particular project. But those are great suggestions all the same.

Wow these are very powerful resources. Thank you so much!

Thank you! I’ve got a fractured skull in Slaughterhouse-Five on the list too (which I read rather bizarrely when I had a fractured skull).

Hello friends—I am looking for references to traumatic brain injury in literature and/or theory. What comes to mind (lol)?

Works created by students during an experimental typography workshop.

I’ll put it on my list! I ended up with 1Q84 (my first Murakami)…not realizing it’s 46 hours lol

Loved reading this—thank you so much for sharing!

Omg I’m glad someone said it! I listen to the archives episodes only now for this reason. & because he laughs at people like he’s embarrassed for them…it’s hard to explain but it’s a tone thing. I’m sure he’s amazing in real life & I would totally be friends with him but not sure he’s right for ST…

Down with a migraine. Best audiobooks you’ve listened to recently? I need something absorbing and beautiful 💋 As thanks, my recent favorites: Martyr!, Intermezzo, Ishiguro’s Nocturnes, Our Wives Under the Sea.

I think they are hooking her up so, silver lining I guess😂 Beth is a wonderful scholar I met in Cardiff!

The intrigue! My book causing crime at #MLA2025 … 🧐🤓