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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Blake Cottage Trust Ambassador!
A nice birthday gift: I’m officially and proudly now a Blake Cottage Trust Ambassador. Do take a moment to read about our work! In honor of this occasion, here’s a bit from the chapter-draft-in-progress about my first visit to Blake’s cottage in Felpham this July. Conclusion: Felpham’s Vale On a hot July day in 2026, […]
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Teaching in the AI era: a philosophy.
(For my students in Fall 2026 and beyond, from the revised introduction to my next book.) When we remember, when we try harder, when we feel joy, when we think and dwell in moments that stretch us, we build capacity. In my teaching and life, capacity means the kind of inner energy and reserve you […]
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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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