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The Smithsonian Quilt Controversy: Cultural Dislocation

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From Uncoverings 1993, Volume 14 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group

1993

By: Elsley, Judy

Judy Elsley has been an assistant professor at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah for the last three years where she teaches writing and literature classes in the English department. In 1990, she completed a Ph.D. dissertation entitled "The Semiotics of Quilting: Discourse of the Marginalized," at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Judy Elsley recently collaborated with Cheryl Torsney to edit an anthology of essays theorizing quilting. Quilt Culture: Tracing the Pattern will be published by the University of Missouri Press in Spring 1994.