A "brilliantly original exploration of craftwork and archives": Elkins reads lines of stitching as carefully and imaginatively as she reads lines of text... The book itself is a remarkable object by the standards of academic publishing.
Amy E. Elkins is Associate Professor of English at Macalester College. She has published in such places as PMLA, Contemporary Literature, Modernism/modernity, and Los Angeles Review of Books. In addition to her academic work and teaching, Elkins is a multimedia artist and studies practice-based research in the humanities.