Plath Profiles
Plath Profiles: Archived Issues
Plath Profiles archives are free. To read an issue click the links below.
Volume 4
Summer 2011
Volume 3 Supplement
Fall 2010
Volume 3
Summer 2010
Volume 2
Summer 2009
Volume 1
Summer 2008
Plath Profiles: Call For Papers Archive
Call for Papers: Plath Profiles 4, Summer 2011
Guest Editor: Gail Crowther
As Guest Editor for Plath Profiles 4, I invite submissions which explore the idea of Plath and Place via essays, art work, photography and poems that examine the importance of places and spaces for Plath in her own life and work. The notion of secular pilgrimage seems to be strongly associated with Plath and yet today, with the rise of the internet, both pilgrimage and geography in many ways are not quite as stable as they may have once seemed; for example, with Google street view we can (virtually) walk the streets Plath walked in any country she visited. And while literary pilgrimage may be nothing new, the motivations for people visiting the site of a poem or a journal entry are multifaceted. I have recently become interested in the idea of surrogate authorship, that is, one reason why people enjoy places associated with Plath is that they can see a place which she then transformed into a text or a poem and in some way feel a part of that creative transformation. However, I am sure there are many other reasons and ideas out there that would make wonderful essays, art work, or other contributions to me by 1 April 2011.
Call for Papers: Plath Profiles 3, Summer 2010
Guest Editor: Amanda Golden
The third issue of Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sylvia Plath Studies solicits articles addressing materiality in any aspect of Sylvia Plath’s oeuvre. Of particular interest are historical approaches considering Plath’s poetry and prose. Topics may include, but are not limited to, archives, things, commodities, texts, nature, the creative process, images, art, visual culture, and history. Articles should be approximately twenty pages in length and demonstrate MLA format. Shorter submissions are also welcome. The deadline has been extended to April 1, 2010.
Thank you for considering Plath Profiles.
