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.