Amy J. Elias
Biography of Amy J. Elias
Amy J. Elias is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she teaches and writes about arts and aesthetics of the post-1945 period, time and history studies, narrative theory, globalization/planetarity studies, and contemporary fiction. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters as well as Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction (Johns Hopkins UP), which won the George and Barbara Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative. She is also the co-editor (with Christian Moraru) of The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century (Northwestern UP). Professor Elias is the principal founder of A.S.A.P.: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present and hosted the association’s launch conference in Knoxville in 2009, and is the founding co-editor of ASAP’s scholarly publication, ASAP/Journal, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
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