Amy E.

Elkins
Emory University Department of English
N-302 Callaway Center, Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
aelkins@emory.edu

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EDUCATION
Ph.D., English, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Degree Expected 2016
Committee: Walter Kalaidjian and Jennifer Wicke (Univ. of Virginia) co-chairs,
Geraldine Higgins, and Dalia Judovitz

M.A., English Literature, University of Virginia, Charlottesville May 2010
Thesis Advisor: Rita Felski (University of Virginia)

B.A., English and Art, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas May 2008
Cum laude and with Distinction in English; Study Abroad in Oxford, UK

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Transnational modernism, twentieth century Anglo-American literature, art and literature,
Irish studies, gender and aesthetics, history of the book, visual culture and theory, digital pedagogies

PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Cross-Cultural Kodak: Snapshot Aesthetics in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Forthcoming Fall 2014
South Atlantic Review

ARCHIVES: Old Pages and New Readings in Virginia Woolfs Orlando, Spring 2010
Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring 2010)

Review Essays
Touching on Modernism (Review of Haptic Modernism: Touch and the Tactile in Forthcoming 2014
Modernist Writing by Abbie Garrington), Journal of Modern Literature

Book Reviews
Review of Savina Stevanato, Visuality and Spatiality in Virginia Woolfs Fiction, Spring 2013
Woolf Studies Annual, Vol. 19 (2013)

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
Modernist Studies Association Conference Travel Grant, November 2014
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Fellowship, to support digital Fall 2013
humanities project, Making Splendid Things: The Potters Wheel Online Archive
http://potterswheel.omeka.net/

Modernist Studies Association Conference Travel Grant, August 2013
Brighton, United Kingdom



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Visual Scholarship Initiative Research Grant, Emory University April 2013
Project Title: Process and Praxis in the Wet Collodion Photographs
of Julia Margaret Cameron

English Department Graduate Essay Prize for Art and the Archive: April 2012
Navigating Trauma in H.D.s Within the Walls, Emory University

Graduate Student Essay Prize for Cross-Cultural Kodak: Snapshot Aesthetics August 2011
in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf, South Atlantic Modern Language Association

Rare Book School Reese Fellowship. Staff position and tuition for Teaching the June 2011
History of the Book, Rare Book School, Charlottesville, Virginia

2011 Piedmont TATTO Fellow in Sustainability, Teaching, and Curriculum May 2011
Workshop Hosted by the Emory University Piedmont Project

Laney Graduate School Fellowship, Emory University Dept. of English September 2010-2015

Rare Book School Directors Scholarship. The Printed Book Since 1800, Rare Book June 2010
School, Charlottesville, Virginia

Thomas J. Griffis Prize for the Best Essay by a Student in the First Year of April 2009
Graduate Work in English, University of Virginia
Visiting the Past: Space and Narrative in the Paratext of Virginia Woolfs Orlando

Murphy Foundation Education Granttwo year M.A. Fellowship to pursue August 2008-May 2010
graduate studies at the University of Virginia

Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Summer Research Grant June 2007
Virginia Woolf in London, Oxford, and Rodmell

CONFERENCES
Conference Presentations
Mother(board) Ireland: Technology, Nature, and Gender in Irish Literature, November 2014
Modernist Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Fractured Optics: Modernisms Glass Aesthetic, Sight Unseen Panel Organizer, August 2013
Modernist Studies Association Conference, Sussex, United Kingdom

Elizabeth Bowens Haunted Cartographies: The Cuala Press and the Visible February 2013
Wor(l)d of Irish Politics in Seven Winters, American Conference for Irish Studies

Domestic Feminisms in Elizabeth Bowens Joining Charles, November 2011
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia

Cross-Cultural Kodak: Snapshot Aesthetics in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf, November 2010
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia

The Fabric of Ethnic Identity in The Woman Warrior: Maxine Hong Kingston March 2009
and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Graduate English Students Association Conference,
University of Virginia


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The Intertextuality of Repression: Social Propheteering in the Metaphysics of February 2008
Blake and Woolf, Associated Colleges of the South Annual British Studies
Symposium, Birmingham-Southern College

Conference Seminar Presentations
Digitizing Splendid Things: DIY Feminism and Modernist Aesthetics, November 2014
Digitizing the Texts of Modernist American Women Poets and the Pedagogy of Making
it New Seminar. Leaders: Demetres Tryphonopoulos and Sara Dunton.
Modernist Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Londons Cinematic Art-Dimension: H.D. and the Blitz, Modernist Cities August 2013
Seminar. Leader: Tamar Katz. Modernist Studies Association Conference,
Sussex, United Kingdom

Conference Participation
Teaching Modernism in the Digital World, Special Session Chair November 2013
South Atlantic Modernist Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia

THATCamp Southeast (The Humanities and Technology Camp), March 2011
Pedagogy Track BOOTcamp and conference participant, Atlanta, Georgia

The Long Nineteenth Century: Time, History, Culture, Symposium attendee November 2010
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come, Mellon Foundation March 2010
Conference. Conference assistant to Jerome McGann, University of Virginia

Woolf and Fashion, Panel chair, 19th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference June 2009
Fordham Lincoln Center, New York, New York

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Development and Outreach Coordinator, World Shakespeare Project, August 2012-August 2013
Emory University

Graduate Tutor and Coordinator, Emory University Writing Center August 2011-August 2012
Coordinated undergraduate staff group on Tutoring Personal Statements
Across the Disciplines

Manuscript Processing Graduate Assistant, Emory University August 2010-April 2011
Manuscript, Archives, Rare Book Library (MARBL)

Editor and Proofreader, Eating the Tropics by Valrie Loichot July 2010-September 2010

Editors Assistant and Researcher, The Papers of George Washington May 2009-August 2009
Office, University of Virginia

Research Assistant to Professor Rita Felski, University of Virginia August-December 2008
Research on Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age for New Literary
History and The Hermeneutics of Suspicion for book project/articles




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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Academic Service
Manuscript Referee, Studies in the Novel January 2012-present

Public Outreach
Practicum facilitator, Microteaching Capstone Assessment, Laney Graduate School August 2014
Teaching Assistant Training Program (TATTO) Summer Workshop, Emory University

Invited public lecture, A Literary Tour of Photography October 2013
Monroe, Georgia Art Guild

Presenter and Organizer, Creative, Visual, Critical: Using MARBL in the May 2013
Composition Classroom
Emory University Graduate English Advisory Committee Teach-In

Invited panelist, Getting your Ph.D.: A Panel Discussion March 2013
Emory University Career Center

Invited speaker, Service Learning and Technology February 2013
Eat. Talk. Teach. Run! Graduate Pedagogy Event, Emory University

Invited panelist, Brown Bag Lunch, Publishing, Professionalization Panel November 2012
Emory University English Department Graduate Program

Invited panelist, Brown Bag Lunch, Pedagogy and Sustainability: Emorys October 2011
Piedmont Project, Emory University Sustainability Initiatives Outreach Program

National Public Radio Interview, Weekend Edition Sunday show, Students Get July 2011
Up Close and Personal With Rare Books by Sandy Hausman

Manuscript, Archives, Rare Book Library (MARBL) Blog posts: The Cummington July 2011
Press Records and Harry Duncan Papers Now Available for Research Parts 1 and 2,
on Robert Lowells first book, The Land of Unlikeness

Volunteer and Campus Guide, Emorys Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, May 2011
Coan Middle School students, hosted by Center for Women at Emory

Department Leadership
Chair (elected), Emory Graduate English Advisory Committee (GEAC) May 2011-May 2013
Emory University Department of English

First-Year Graduate Student Mentor August 2012-May 2013
Emory University Graduate Department of English

Organizer, Professor Gordon Hutner Lecture and Workshop, March 2012
Emory University Department of English

Elected 20
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Century Area Representative May 2009-May 2010
University of Virginia Graduate English Student Association (GESA)




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Founder and leader of Book History in the 20
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Century reading and August 2009-May 2010
discussion group,
University of Virginia Graduate Department of English

First-Year Graduate Student Mentor July 2009-May 2010
University of Virginia Graduate Department of English

Graduate Student Conference Committee Member: December 2008-March 2009
Navigating the Body: Spaces, Mapping, and Embodiment
University of Virginia Graduate English Student Association (GESA)

Student Representative, Faculty Search Committee November 2007-May 2008
Hendrix College Department of English

Academic Peer Mentor and English Major Mentor June 2007-May 2008
Hendrix College Office of Retention and Department of English

TEACHING GRANTS AND AWARDS
Classroom Mini-Grant: Emory Universitys Center for Faculty Development Fall 2014
and Excellence (CFDE) to support art practicum curriculum and supplies
in ENG211W

Out There Arts Program Grant, Emory Center for Creativity and Arts (CCA) Spring 2013
to support experiential learning trip to Andalusia, the home of Flannery
OConnor as part of ENG181 curriculum.

Classroom Mini-Grant: Emory Universitys Center for Faculty Development Fall 2012
and Excellence (CFDE) to support a digital collaboration with Heifer
Internationals Creative Director as part of ENG101 curriculum.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Associate
ENG211W (Literature and the Other Arts): Make it New: Modern Art and Literature Fall 2014
Instructor, Emory University Department of English

ENG181 (Writing About Literature): Literature, Space, and Gender Spring 2013
Instructor, Emory University Department of English

ENG101 (Expository Writing): Culture, Body Vision: The Rhetoric of Advertising Fall 2012
Instructor, Emory University Department of English

ENG181 (Writing About Literature): British and Irish Modernisms Summer 2012
Instructor, Emory University Department of English

Teaching Assistantships
ENG 256: British Literature Since 1660 Spring 2012
Weekly Discussion Section Leader; Grader; Lecture on Mrs. Dalloway
Professor Paul Kelleher, Emory University

ENG 389: Cognitive Science and Fiction Fall 2011
Student Mentor; Lectures on The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Alices Adventures
in Wonderland (incorporated iPad technology), and Mrs. Dalloway
Professor Laura Otis, Emory University
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Pre-College Instruction
Serious Fancy: Writing for College Success (two sections) Summer 2013
Instructor, Emory University Pre-College Program

Serious Fancy: Writing for College Success (two sections) Summer 2014
Instructor, Emory University Pre-College Program

Tutoring
Graduate Writing Center Tutor, Emory University August 2011-August 2012

Graduate Writing Center Tutor, University of Virginia, August 2008-May 2010

Writing Center Peer Tutor, Hendrix College August 2007-May 2008

PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING
ENG 789R: Colloquium in the Pedagogy of Literature Spring 2014
Professor Patricia Cahill, Department of English, Emory University

ENG 791: Teaching of Composition Spring 2012
Professor Sheila Cavanagh, Department of English, Emory University

Inquiry Guided Learning, workshop participant March 2012
Laney Graduate School and Center for Faculty Development and Excellence,
Emory University

Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity (TATTO) program, Fall 2011
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University

GRADUATE COURSEWORK
Emory University
Marlowe and Company, Professor Patricia Cahill
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, Professor Todd Cronan
History of the Book and Reading Practices, Professor Walt Reed
Making History in Irish Literature, Professor Geraldine Higgins
Archives of Modernity, Professor Walter Kalaidjian
Great Films/Great Novels, Sir Salman Rushdie
Sympathy, Professor Paul Kelleher
Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Poetry, Professor Ronald Schuchard
Feminist Literary Theory and Critical Practice, Professor Martine Brownley
History, Theory, Methods, Professor Deborah White

University of Virginia
Books as Physical Objects, Professor David Vander-Meulen
New Modernisms, Professor Jennifer Wicke
Victorian Fin de Sicle, Professor Stephen Arata
Interethnic American Fictions, Professor Caroline Rody
Literary and Critical Theory, Professor David Golumbia
Narrative Theory and Life Writing, Professor Allison Booth
Renaissance Literature: Masks of Desire, Professor Clare Kinney

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
MLA, Modern Language Association
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SAMLA, South Atlantic Modern Language Association
International Virginia Woolf Society
MSA, Modernist Studies Association

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST