Developing a new class, Strange Destinies: Pluribus and Kazuo Ishiguro! Glitch Feminism (@ellerustle) and AI ethics; Jung, memory, and the collective (un)conscious; Foucault and panoptic power/surveillance; queer theory; class status and place; utopias & machines; health humanities and wellbeing!!

The forum I edit has a terrific, collaboratively-written article out! Did someone say Stud File?! We go to Princeton’s archive where a 1928 student fan letter from Samuel Steward to Joyce launched the authors into an exploration of an important, understudied queer writer, professor, &tattoo artist!

Modernism/modernity@mmodernity.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New on Print Plus: In their post "“Read a Dirty Book”: James Joyce, Samuel Steward, and the Orientations of Literary Rebellion" in the "Orientations" blog series, Bracken et al trace a missed connection between James Joyce and Samuel Seward. Read it here: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

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).

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!

Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 12mo ago

Just snuck a quick peek before tucking it back to press and… yeah, it’s a book!

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...

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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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 !!

Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · last yr.

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 !

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 🙏

Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · 2y ago

Alright @rezekjoe.bsky.social that was a really good idea & so I worked something up. It’s big type on a small broadside—8.5x11—& kept it in simple black & white so we can print a bunch and just scatter them about. I’m pretty pleased with how it came out.

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!

Tina Smith@smith.senate.gov · 2y ago

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’

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.