was awarded her Ph.D from Lancaster University in March 2010 for her thesis "The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath." She is currently a lecturer in the Sociology department at Lancaster University, is an Associate Lecturer for the Open University, and is Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Historical Sociology . Her current research interests are feminist life writing, sociological hauntings and post-industrial ruins. She is Guest Editor for this issue of Plath Profiles.