I was so happy that Amy Elkins was able to visit USC and give a talk in English/Art History/the Visual Studies Research Institute today - this was a brilliant presentation on "'Homemade Tech': Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, and the Art of Critical Making," which not only linked material craft and modes of writing, but suggested a whole range of approaches to research (not least the importance of having hands-on experience with material creativity). It's great to hear something (and, yes, at this stage of the semester) that makes one reflect not just on what we do, but on how we do it - and how critics and scholars can borrow from the inventiveness of writers and artists. And tomorrow Amy gets to visit my Woolf class!
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