For those of you on Insta, I post there more regularly—@amyeelkins ♥️ I’d love to connect! (And will try to be better about sharing news on here, too).

#DHmakes <3s sharing first tries at crafts, making, & art—and documenting your process so others can enjoy, understand, & maybe get inspired to try it too. @loreandordure.com on bookbinding:

This is the (for now) final post of a multi-day thread documenting my first try at bookbinding. Click and scroll up to see the whole story!

Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present is out in a brand new paperback edition from Oxford UP! (U.K. now, U.S. release Feb. 2026: code AAFLYG6) Thank you so much to everyone who contributed light to my life & writing. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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 ach.org/news/2024/12...

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.

SHARE WIDELY. 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. (1/3)

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.

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.

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

My book is 40% off through OUP w/ code EXMLA25. Please see if your library has a copy—if not, send them a link and request ♥️ And for yourself—a book this pretty doubles as decoration thanks to Billie Bond’s stunning work, which graces the cover. global.oup.com/academic/pro... 📚

I’m not at #MLA2025 this year but this is your reminder to check out the book exhibit! I won the @hopkinspress.bsky.social drawing at MSA and they sent me some titles of my choosing—treasures all!

New review by Claire Battershill ♥️ “This book is rich, and full, and maximalist. It is a triumphant and brave first book that remakes feminist scholarly practice. It is a joyous celebration of texture, text, and textile, and of the human fragility and feeling that those media can help us see.” Wow!

Favorite documentaries? Especially those related in various ways to art, material culture, literature. Please share! A few of mine are: Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Gleaners and I, Finding Vivian Mayer, Looking for Langston…

Artwork for my main floor bathroom, inspired by a vintage wallpaper design I came across in my baths research. I think they turned out pretty cute! ♥️🛁🫧♥️

Engaged praxis pedagogy as community care and multidisciplinary inquiry: my First Year Course students kept a stitch journal of their 1st semester of college, which we turned into a class quilt!

The final lines of Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Quilts.” RIP to a beloved poet ♥️

My first book was on craft, which intersected with community, wellness, queerness. My second multi-pronged project is on bathing rituals—similar resonances but I’m working w/ different frameworks. It’s the end of the semester & I only had half an hour to dip into that today but look at this icon!

Costar Astrology says I’m doing it wrong lol

Introduced my students to Elliott Smith via Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go today, so I’m calling that a win-win ♥️

A big project, coming soon…! First Year Course class quilt 🧵🪡

modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts... @mmodernity.bsky.social ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Absolutely delighted to launch the newest Modernism/modernity Print Plus“Orientations” post: “Queer Domestic Architectures: Theorizing Kinship and Communal Modernism” by Laura Tscherry!

Haven't seen one yet so wanted to make a starter pack for modernist studies organisations (and related platforms) as more migrate to Bluesky. Do help us out by letting us know who to add & do share so we can get connected! go.bsky.app/VAe3Wb1

A reminder that it’s that time of year again! Those of us with tenure should all be teaching this:

Today!

Friends, new and old! My book is 40% off with code EXMSTA24 for a short time. Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present global.oup.com/academic/pro...

My Berlantian teaching experiment continues this year w/ Cottage Core (currently teaching Dark Academia)—I’m curious what you’d teach: post-1885 literature set in cottages (or similar dwellings, beach houses, etc). + favorite theoretical readings on escapism, the pastoral, etc? Prefer non-American 🍂

Grateful to poet & friend @RichieHof for allowing me to make a poetry broadside for “Idyll,” my favorite cicada poem. A very limited run of only 30 numbered prints -signed by the poet- are for sale! $30 (+ $12 shipping in the U.S., $20 international). 9x12”. Msg to purchase ♥️ or order via Etsy:

This is fabulous!

EXMSTA23 code for 40% off. Not a bad deal ($54 and free shipping too I think) and won’t last long. Thanks to @oxunipress for including my book in their special deal! global.oup.com/academic/pro...