Amy E. Elkins

I have the Playboy issue that published an illustrated “Goblin Market.” It makes for an intending discussion lol…

Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!

Thank you, she was just the sweetest most special kitty.

And now I’m prepping fall classes! Queer Classics, Film Studies: Poetry in Motion, and Dark Academia. Grateful for the brilliant folks writing about teaching in the AI boom—currently perusing against-a-i.com

The back of the quilt is embroidered with lines from my journal from that period in 2005. amyelkins.net/2025/08/17/s...

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Seldom Perceptible: A Traumatic Brain Injury Quilt
Amy E. Elkins
46 ½” x 58 ½”
Eco-dyed fabrics, cyanotype, cochineal and madder-dyed thread, fossilized snake vertebrae, embroidered cheesecloth, and silk batting.
2025

Seldom Perceptible: A Traumatic Brain Injury Quilt Seldom Perceptible: A Traumatic Brain Injury QuiltAmy E. Elkins46 ½” x 58 ½”  Eco-dyed fabrics, cyanotype, cochineal and madder-dyed thread, fossilized snake vertebrae, embroidered cheesecloth, and…

I completed my second art quilt. This one commemorates 20 years since my traumatic brain injury. It’s printed with my actual xray film and brain scans, uses only natural dyed scraps, and is quilted with snake vertebrae. Why? Full artist statment here: amyelkins.net/2025/08/17/s...

Indigo dying and eco-printing with my neighbors.

Last week I used the rainwater to paint watercolors one of my eco-prints. Using a typewriter, I added a quote from Yeats that I’ve been thinking of often lately: “and a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone” Isn’t that just how love feels?

My last morning with Aspen, I held her in my arms in her favorite spot and a tremendous summer rain came. Rolling thunder. And then after she passed, another summer storm, the weather matching the steady tumult of my grief. I collected rain water that day, not really sure why I was doing it.

During all this, my senior beagle Oakley had to have emergency intestinal obstruction surgery. She is fine now but couldn’t process losing Aspen either—she’s never known life without her. (She’s on better meds now and getting lots of extra walks).

I wrote an arboreal elegy for Aspen ♥️

I haven’t posted in a while here! This summer I nursed my soul cat through her final months and said goodbye.

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 ♥️🌈♥️