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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · Aug 18

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!

The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

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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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

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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

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

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...

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…

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

Indigo dying and eco-printing with my neighbors.

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

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?

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

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.

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

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).

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

I wrote an arboreal elegy for Aspen ♥️

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · May 27

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

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · May 27

Yesterday's post, in combination with a self-indulgent visit to Flying Books on College St. in Toronto, made for an especially sumptuous book haul. To mark the start of summer, when so much feels possible.
Look @amyeelkins.bsky.social! Look @jsief.bsky.social !

SIX books! From left to right, and top to bottom, Amy Elkins' Craftin feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present; Vauhini Vara's Searches: Selfhood in the digital age; then in the bottom row, four books from the Empyrean Series: W.C., The Adventures of Lady Egeria, Harriet Lee, Kruitzner; Rabelais' Doughnuts by Pierre Senge, translated by Jacob Siefring; Jean Paul and Laurence Sterne, Three Dreams

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Apr 26

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

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Apr 26

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

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Apr 26

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

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Apr 5

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!

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

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Christine Jacobson @cejacobson.bsky.social · Apr 15

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 ✨🪡📜

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

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Apr 12

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.

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Apr 8

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.

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Mar 23

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

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Mar 19

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 🙏

Letterpress printing of section 1 of the 14th amendment.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Mar 14

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.

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · Mar 14

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

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · Mar 13

Trump and Republicans set this up as an unprecedented power grab so they can slash and burn government services on their terms.

I’m a firm NO — on cloture and final passage — on this ‘CR’

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