Plath Profiles
Call for Papers and Submissions
Submission Guidelines
Currently Plath Profiles is not accepting submissions as we prepare for Volume 5 to be published this summer. Please do not submit to Plath Profiles until AFTER 1 September 2012. Thank you for respecting this; and thank you for considering Plath Profiles.
Plath Profiles is an interdisciplinary journal for Sylvia Plath studies. Plath Profiles will be published annually in the summer. The submission period, for consideration in Volume 6, will run from 1 September 2012 to 1 April 2013. Please review the following guidelines.
Formatting your submission: Essays should be double-spaced and use Times New Roman font at 12 pt. size. Please do not have any text in either the header or the footer. Include your name, mailing address, and email in the top right of your paper. Please use footnotes. Your submission should follow the MLA 2009 formatting and style guide. A good resource on the internet to help you with MLA formatting is online here. We will not consider your paper unless it meets the above guidelines. Papers should not exceed 20-25 pages; exceptions may be made but please consult with W.K. Buckley.
All contributions to Plath Profiles are peer reviewed. We will endeavor to respond to your submission as soon as possible, but please keep in mind this process could take several weeks. Plath Profiles does not accept simultaneous submissions; but we do allow reprints after your work is published in our journal.
Please note: All submissions quoting Plath's work must be fair usage. We follow Plath's publisher Faber & Faber's Fair Use guidelines and ask that submissions adhere to these when considering publishing with us. It is up to the author of the essay or creative work to obtain permission from the Plath Estate when use of her artwork, poetry, or prose exceeds what is permitted under fair use. We can assist in helping you contact the Plath Estate.
Plath Profiles 5, Summer 2012: Deadline: 1 April 2012
2012 is the 50th anniversary of the composition of Sylvia Plath's 'Ariel' poems. In Volume 5 we seek papers that celebrate the achievement of Plath's most famous poems. We strongly encourage papers on invididual poems, their drafts and compositions; their influences and interconnectivity. The working manuscripts of these poems are largely held at the Mortimer Rare Book Room, which can supply photocopies for your research. Of course other topics are welcome.
Please note:Because of copyright restrictions in place by Plath's Estate, papers should not quote either from unpublished drafts or from deleted text; but we do encourage conscientious paraphrasing.
Additional subjects on which we are seeking submissions are:
1. Teaching Plath in high school or college. Papers can focus on any of the following points:
a. Should Plath be taught in high school? If so, why? If not, why? Teacher-reactions and student responses welcome.
b. If Plath is taught in college, we seek teacher observations of student responses?
2. The Influence of D. H. Lawrence on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Papers can focus on any of the following points:
a. The influence of Lawrence's nature poetry on Plath and Hughes;
b. When one reads Plath's college papers on Lawrence (held at the Lilly Library), we see that Plath read almost all of his novels. Discuss these as an influence on Plath.
c. Lawrence's views on love, sex, and marriage influenced Plath and Hughes as a married couple. In her college paper on Lady Chatterley's Lover, Plath commented something to the effect of "Maybe he had something here." Papers might focus on The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover, and how they set up an impossible ideal for the couple.
Plath Profiles is accepting submissions for Volume 5 and will continue accepting them until 1 April 2012. Please check back here for updates. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to write us.
Bill Buckley, Editor, and Peter K. Steinberg, Webmaster.
Submission Topics
Plath Profiles seeks to represent Sylvia Plath studies on an international and interdisciplinary scale. We will publish biographical and critical essays, Plath-inspired poetry and fiction, translations, Plath-inspired artwork, youth work, pedagogy, book reviews, and discussion topics. These are general categories; we also encourage submissions of personal statements, autobiographical reflections, dreams, etc. on how Plath affects her readers.
Responses
Plath Profiles will feature a Response section whereby readers are encouraged to react to the papers. Responses should be formatted as stated above and be no more than 1000 words. Responses will be selected by the editor and will appear online periodically. We hope the author of any article responded to by a reader will also contribute, thus establishing a dialogue.
Thank you for considering Plath Profiles.
