Amy E. Weldon
Writer. Teacher. Seeker.
Amy Weldon, an Alabama native, is Professor and Department Head of English and Dennis M. Jones Chair in the Humanities at Luther College and codirector of the biennial Luther College Writers Festival. She is the author of Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein (Sea Crow Press, 2025), Advanced Fiction: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), Eldorado, Iowa: A Novel (Bowen Press Books, 2019), The Writer’s Eye: Observation and Inspiration for Creative Writers (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), and The Hands-On Life: How to Wake Yourself Up and Save The World (Cascade Books, 2018). Her next book, A Thing of Beauty: Reading the Romantics in a World on Fire, is scheduled for publication by Bloomsbury Academic in 2027.
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My purpose as a teacher is to build students’ capacities for life in our challenging, still-beautiful world, so they can power themselves into the future with knowledge, curiosity, and wonder.
The Cheapskate Intellectual
A journey through matters of spirit, sustainability, and self-reliance
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William Blake at the circus.
In the 1790s, as William and Catherine Blake were living in Lambeth, printing Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Songs of Experience, and the engraving commissions that made them, for a little while at least, relatively prosperous, they would have had an unusual neighbor – London’s first circus, a fifteen-minute walk from their house. Astley’s Amphitheatre, […]
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Odyssey and Ozymandias.
What if the fallen statue in Percy Shelley’s killer sonnet “Ozymandias” is a vampire? And if so, what is it a vampire of? This is the question that sprang fresh into my mind as I listened, rapt, to Piya Pal Lapinski lecture on “The Vampire Isles of Greece: Byron, Revenants, and Archaeology in the Ottoman […]
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A parking ticket from William Blake.
For the Blake-Shelley chapter draft in progress, which also includes Derek Jarman. On a hot July day just after my visit to Blake’s cottage at Felpham, the spirits of three related artists – Blake, Shelley, and Jarman – strike me, Milton-in-the-tarsus style, right outside the St Pancras tube as I’m hustling to the British Library. […]
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