Amy J. Elias
As University Chancellor's Professor and Distinguished Professor in English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, my research interests include humanities institutionalism, public humanities, the contemporary arts and the aesthetics of the contemporary, the novel and narrative theory, speculative fiction, time and history studies, and environmental literatures/arts. I also have teaching and research background in digital media, energy humanities, and American Studies. At the University of Tennessee I am affiliated faculty with UT Cinema Studies and UT American Studies and am a fellow at the UT Center for the Study of Social Justice.
I am currently Director of the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (https://humanitiescenter.utk.edu/ ). I work closely with numerous nonprofit organizations in the Knoxville region and the state of Tennessee and sit on the Executive Board of our state NEH council, Humanities Tennessee, and the regional Delaney Legacy Project, as well as the Board for the Big Ears Festival. At UT, I serve on the Boards of the UT Institute of American Civics and the Department of Africana Studies. I have won, as PI, two NEH grants that were chosen by the NEH as example narratives at its website.
I am author of numerous books and articles and have delivered papers internationally, and am the founding co-editor-in-chief of ASAP/Journal, winner of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) "Best New Journal Award" (2017) and "Best New Journal Design Award" (2016) as well as the "Best New Journal in Humanities" from the Association of American Publishers PROSE Awards (2019). I am also the founding president of ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (http://artsofthepresent.org) and hosted the association’s 2009 launch conference.
Phone: 865-974-4222
Address: Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts
Cherokee Mills, Suite 230
2230 Sutherland Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37919
I am currently Director of the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (https://humanitiescenter.utk.edu/ ). I work closely with numerous nonprofit organizations in the Knoxville region and the state of Tennessee and sit on the Executive Board of our state NEH council, Humanities Tennessee, and the regional Delaney Legacy Project, as well as the Board for the Big Ears Festival. At UT, I serve on the Boards of the UT Institute of American Civics and the Department of Africana Studies. I have won, as PI, two NEH grants that were chosen by the NEH as example narratives at its website.
I am author of numerous books and articles and have delivered papers internationally, and am the founding co-editor-in-chief of ASAP/Journal, winner of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) "Best New Journal Award" (2017) and "Best New Journal Design Award" (2016) as well as the "Best New Journal in Humanities" from the Association of American Publishers PROSE Awards (2019). I am also the founding president of ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (http://artsofthepresent.org) and hosted the association’s 2009 launch conference.
Phone: 865-974-4222
Address: Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts
Cherokee Mills, Suite 230
2230 Sutherland Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37919
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Elias, Amy J. "Art and the Commons." ASAP/Journal 1.1 (2016): 3-15.
Elias, Amy J. "Art and the Commons." ASAP/Journal 1.1 (2016): 3-15.
Yet periodization of the contemporary should be seen as a false economy. My overall claims are rather common-sense ones. First, that “the contemporary” is a term that should escape the straightjackets of historical periodization. And second, that it doesn’t matter how we carve up aesthetic periods beyond a certain point, though I would defend certain breaks as logical in human time; rather, what counts is why we do so (and if we know and control why we do so), as well as what insights can result from seeing periods and breaks from new starting and ending points, from the sites of new art forms as they emerge on the historical scene. What is the Contemporary today?
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