{"id":5773,"date":"2023-10-04T22:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T22:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-the-words\/?page_id=5773"},"modified":"2024-08-07T17:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T17:05:25","slug":"prof-amy-elkins-launches-her-debut-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/home-2\/the-words-october-2023\/prof-amy-elkins-launches-her-debut-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Amy Elkins Launches her Debut Book!"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Charley Eatchel \u201923 (Dec)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, September 22nd, the English Department held a lovely launch party for Professor Amy Elkins\u2019s first book, <\/span>Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present <\/span><\/i>(Oxford University Press, 2022)<\/span>.<\/span><\/i> The celebration brought together people from across Professor Elkins\u2019s career: from current students and colleagues to alums, family, and grad school friends! After a heartfelt introduction from fellow professor Daylanne English, Professor Elkins presented an overview of her work. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Elkins posing with copies of her book for sale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In describing <\/span>Crafting Feminism,<\/span><\/i> Professor Elkins said, the book \u201cargues for the significance of craft to feminist and queer writing,\u201d and went on to emphasize, \u201cCraft\u2019s subjective, gendered status makes it a rich area for exploring the queer networks and liminal spaces that constitute both maker cultures and the modernist archive.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She then gave a reading from the book and answered a few questions! When asked about the different crafts she experimented with in the process of writing her book, Professor Elkins spoke about the connection she made with pottery. \u201cM.C.Richards, who\u2019s an amazing poet and maker, who\u2019s also a potter, has this book called <\/span>Centering<\/span><\/i>, and I\u2019ve been doing pottery and reading <\/span>Centering <\/span><\/i>in conversation with one another. It\u2019s been the most intense craft practice I\u2019ve had for a while\u2026 so pottery has really been this thing that has hung on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The night was complete with delicious book cookies (bookies!) that showed off the beautiful cover of Professor Elkins\u2019s wonderful book. It was a lovely night for everyone who came out to celebrate Professor Elkins\u2019s exciting work!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yummy book cookies that featured the cover of Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present.<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Charley Eatchel \u201923 (Dec) On Friday, September 22nd, the English Department held a lovely launch party for Professor Amy Elkins\u2019s first book, Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (Oxford University Press, 2022). The celebration brought together people from across Professor Elkins\u2019s career: from current students and colleagues to alums, family, and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":5677,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5773","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7753,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5773\/revisions\/7753"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/the-words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}