Amy E. Elkins is a scholar, writer, and artist. She’s assistant professor of English at Macalester College, where she teaches courses on modern and contemporary literature, visual culture, and the politics of aesthetics. She completed her PhD in English at Emory University, where she specialized in the intersection of visual art and literature, modernism, and feminist approaches to the archive. She’s working on her first monograph entitled Crafting Modernity, and her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in PMLA, Journal of Modern Literature, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945. You can find her at https://amyelkins.net.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Has Art Anything to Do with Life?: A Conversation with Ali Smith on “Spring”
Amy E. Elkins discusses “Spring” with novelist Ali Smith....
Writing on Water: A Conversation with Daisy Johnson on “Everything Under”
Amy E. Elkins talks to Daisy Johnson about her new novel, "Everything Under," which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize....
Look Again! A Conversation with Irish Artist-Novelist Sara Baume
Amy E. Elkins talks with artist-novelist Sara Baume about cross-media inspiration, scratch-made art, and miniaturization on the page....
