Smita Agarwal has been publishing poetry in India and abroad for over twenty years. She is the author of Wish-granting Words, Ravi Dayal Publisher, New Delhi. Her poems have been included in anthologies such as, Nine Indian Women Poets, Oxford University Press, 1997; Verse: Indian Poetry Feature, UK & USA, Vol. 17 & 18, 2001; Reasons for Belonging, Penguin, 2002; Midnight’s Grandchildren: Post Independence Poetry from India, Struga Poetry Press, Macedonia, 2003; Fulcrum: Special Issue on Indian Poetry in English, USA: No. 4, 2005. Her Ph.D focused on Sylvia Plath. She is Professor of English at the University of Allahabad, India. Her hobby is Indian music and her songs are available on the Beat of India website.
Sally Bayley is Lecturer in English at Jesus College, Oxford, and a published poet. Her research interests include Victorian, American, and modern literature, Shakespeare, and Renaissance poetry and drama. Her published articles include "'I have your head on my wall': Sylvia Plath and the Rhetoric of Cold War America" and "Sylvia Plath and the Costume of Femininity", and essays on Stevie Smith and Tracy Emin. She recently edited a collection of interdiscilinary essays, From Self to Shelf: The Artist Under Construction (with William May), 2007 and is co-editor (with Kathleen Connors) of Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual (2007).
Catherine Bowman is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University and the author of the poetry collections Notarikon, Rock Farm, and 1-800-HOT-RIBS. Her writing has been awarded the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for Poetry, the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and four Yaddo Fellowships. She was the recipient of a faculty teaching award and the IU President's Arts and Humanities Award. Her poems have appeared in six editions of Best American Poetry as well as many other literary magazines and journals.
Tracy Brain is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Bath Spa University in Bath, England. Her areas of interest include contemporary women's writing, the nineteenth century novel, children's literature, and fairy tales. Her recent publications include The Other Sylvia Plath (2001), "Sylvia Plath's Letters and Journals" in The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath (2006), "Dangerous Confessions: The Problem of Reading Sylvia Plath Biographically" in Modern Confessional Writing (2006), and "Unstable Manuscripts: The Indeterminacy of the Plath Canon" in The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath (2007).
Christina Britzolakis is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her book, Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning (Oxford U P, 1999), situates Plath's poetry and prose in the contexts of modernism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and Cold War culture. She has also published numerous articles and book chapters on Plath, and on a wide range of other twentieth-century authors. Her current research focusses on modernism, urban space and visual culture, with reference to James, Ford, Conrad, Rhys and others.
W. K. Buckley received his Ph.D from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and currently teaches in the English Department at Indiana University (Northwest). He is the editor of Critical Essays on Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1989) and author of Lady Chatterly's Lover: Loss and Hope (1993). His poetry books include By the Horses Before the Rains, Athene in Steeltown, 81 Mygrations, Sylvia's Bells, Lost Heartlands Found, and On Heartland Soils. His poems have appeared in Abiko Quarterly, Coe Review, Left Curve, Poetry New York, The Cafe Review, New Orleans Review, California Quarterly, and others. Buckley is the Founding Editor of Plath Profiles.
Nephie Christodoulides teaches poetry and writing at the University of Cyprus. In 2005, she published Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking: Motherhood in Sylvia Plath's Work. She has a forthcoming book on H.D. and the notion of the rose; the H.D. Companion; and she is working on a critical edition of H.D.'s unpublished novel Magic Mirror. Her publications include essays and chapters in books on Plath, Hughes, Woolf, H.D., and autobiography. Her research interests include literature and the occult, poetry and madness, and psychoanalysis.
Dr. Elena Ciobanu is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Bacau, Romania. Her areas of interest include modern and contemporary American and British poetry and poetics. Her research has focused on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and she is currently completing a book entitled Sylvia Plath’s Poetry: The Metamorphoses of the Poetic Self. She has published translations of contemporary British and American poems in various cultural magazines of Romania, and she regularly contributes cultural essays to the national magazine Ateneu. She is also a published poet: Poezii cu ceas/Poems with a clock, Corgalpress, Bacau, 2004.
Kathleen Connors is Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. She was director/curator of "The Arts of Sylvia Plath" project, which included the Sylvia Plath 70th Year Literary Symposium in 2002 and the exhibition "Eye Rhymes: Visual Arts and Manuscripts of Sylvia Plath" featuring works from the Lilly Library and Mortimer Rare Book Room archives, which formed the basis of Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of theVisual (2007). Her professional field is arts and educational programming, with a focus on women's writing, youth pedagogy, interdisciplinary and Asian cultural initiatives.
Luke Ferretter is Assistant Professor of 20th Century British and American Literature at Baylor University. He is currently working on a study of Sylvia Plath’s fiction. He has published two books of critical theory, and several articles on twentieth century literature and theory, including work on Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, D.H. Lawrence and Hanif Kureishi.
Amanda Golden teaches at the University of Washington. Her dissertation, Annotating Modernism: The Reading and Teaching Strategies of Sylvia Plath,
John Berryman, and Anne Sexton, traces the reading and teaching of modernism as it materialized in the annotated books and teaching notes of Cold War poets. She is the recipient of a Dissertation Fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center and an Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship from the Lilly Library. She also co-edited Virginia Woolf Miscellany's special issue on Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath (2007) and served as research assistant for Karen V. Kukil and Stephen C. Enniss's exhibition and catalogue, "No Other Appetite": Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and the Blood Jet of Poetry (Grolier Club, 2005).
Associate Prof. Dr. Nafize Sibel Güzel has been the head of the English Language and Literature Department at Celal Bayar University, Turkey, since 2002. She completed her MA in 1991 and her Ph.D in 1996. Her MA thesis “Major Barbara: A Linguistic Study in Intentionality, Acceptability and Informativity”, is on Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara. Her Ph.D thesis is “The Teaching of Literature in EFL Classes: Of Mice and Men in the Light of Stylistics Structuralism and Semiotics.” She teaches courses on textual analysis, the novel, and modern literary theory. She has a book published in Turkish discussing linguistic approaches to the teaching of literature.
Suzi Hanna is Subject Leader in Animation and Course Leader for the MA in Animation and Sound Design at Norwich University College of the Arts. Her animated films, including collaborations with poets, composers and dancers, have been selected for international festival screenings. Her MPhil subject was a study of Independent Mixed-Media Animation Production. She contributes to conferences and undertakes international educational collaborative projects in the fields of animation and sound design. Her recent article "Composers And Animators: The Creation Of Interpretative and Collaborative Vocabularies" was selected for publication in The Journal of Media Practice, ed. E. Elsey, Intellect Books Issue 9, Volume 1 (April 2008). For more information, please see Ms. Hanna's website.
Anita Helle's most recent book is The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath (University of Michigan Press, 2007), an edited collection. She is past editor of American Literary Scholarship’s annual review of American poetry 1940s to the present (Duke University Press). Her interests are in Plath and modernism, visual culture, auto/biographical writing, and mid-century lyric. Her articles on Plath and twentieth century lyric have been published in South Atlantic Review, American Literature, The Virginia Woolf Miscellany, and Northwest Review.
Hilary Holladay is a professor of English and director of the Kerouac Center for American Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. Her books include Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton (LSU Press, 2004), which contains a chapter comparing Sylvia Plath's use of menstrual imagery with Clifton's. Holladay is also the co-editor of What's Your Road, Man? Critical Essays on Jack Kerouac's On the Road (Southern Illinois UP, 2008). She is currently a Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
Dianne M. Hunter, Emerita Professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA, has published essays in the journals American Imago, The Psychoanalytic Review, Feminist Studies, Theatre Topics, Theater Journal, Partial Answers, TLS, PsyArt, and European Journal of Women's Studies. She edited Seduction and Theory (University of Illinois, 1989), and The Makings of Dr. Charcot's Hysteria Shows (Mellen, 1998).
Leyli Jamali is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Islamic Azad University of Tabriz, Iran. She completed her M.A. in 1995 and her Ph.D in 2006. Her dissertation is titled "A Psychoanalytic Feminist Reading of Daniel Defoe's Novels under the Light of Lacanian and Kristevan Insights." She teaches courses on drama, the novel, the short story and literary criticism, she has supervised theses and directed workshops on literature. Her research interests cover a range of topics from feminism to comparative literature. Currently, she is working on an encyclopedic dictionary of literary terms as a reader for Iranian students.
Karen Kukil, Associate Curator of Special Collections at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, edited The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962, published by Faber and Faber in London and Anchor Books in New York in 2000. The creative marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes was the focus of a collaborative exhibition co-curated by Karen Kukil and Stephen Enniss at the Grolier Club in 2005. The accompanying catalog, “No Other Appetite”: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and the Blood Jet of Poetry, won the 2007 Division One Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Award. For additional information, see Ms. Kukil’s website.
Barbara Mossberg is President Emerita of Goddard College, Senior Scholar in James McGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland, and Director and Professor of Integrated Studies, California State University. She is one of the first researchers working in the Lilly Library when the Plath materials arrived when working on her PhD at Indiana University, and has lectured extensively on Plath studies in an international setting. Known for her Dickinson scholarship, she published Emily Dickinson: When a Writer is a Daughter (1982).
Amanda Robins Amanda Robins is Studio Head of Painting and Drawing at the South
Australian School of Art at the University of South Australia. In 2008, she was awarded the House of Phillips Fine Art Drawing Prize for her work Net 1. In 2007, she received an ArtsSA grant to complete a body of work on the idea of containment and travelled to the UK to deliver a paper at the Sylvia Plath Symposium and to exhibit her work at Oxford University. In 2006, she completed a Ph.D at the College of Fine Arts (UNSW) as a Post Graduate Award scholar, having also been awarded a residency at the University's studio in the Cite International des Arts in Paris. Robins has exhibited regularly in prestigious exhibitions such as the Dobell Prize for Drawing (AGNSW) 2001, 2003, 2005, the Hutchins Prize (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005) and the Jacarandah Drawing Award (2002, 2004) as well as in the Kedumba Prize for Drawing (2003). In 2001 her drawing Linen Dress was purchased for the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection and was exhibited the following year in “Ten years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing.”
Ghanim Samarrai graduated in 1979 with a Master of Arts from the University of Baghdad, where he taught English literature and developed an interest in Irish drama. He then travelled to England where he earned his Ph. D. in comparative literature. Since then, his focus has been centred on modern poetry, and has, especially, developed an interest in Sylvia Plath's work. Since 1998, he has been teaching a range of literature courses at the University of Sharjah, UAE. He has written a book about the impact of English poets on modern Arabic poetry (to be published in 2009) and is writing a book on Sylvia Plath.
Tom Simmons is a Senior Lecturer at the Norwich School of Art and Design in Norwich, England. His research interests include sound art and design in animated short films, galleries, concert halls, and online environments, especially the use of the internet in sound and art design.
Peter K. Steinberg maintains two websites dedicated to Sylvia Plath. He started A celebration, this is in 1998 and in 2007, he began Sylvia Plath Info Blog. He is the author of a biography, Sylvia Plath, published in 2004 by Chelsea House. His Plath-related photographs have appeared in The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath (ed. Anita Helle, 2007), the A & E Biography Sylvia Plath (2005), and in articles and textbooks.
Linda Wagner-Martin edited a collection of essays on Plath, and her biography of Plath appeared in 1987, and she subsequently wrote the Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life, for Macmillan. She teaches at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and writes on such other twentieth century figures as William Faulkner, Anne Sexton, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein. She is currently writing the history of American literature, from 1950 to the present, for Blackwell.
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