Dr. 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. She is currently a fellow at the Oregon Center for the Humanities, where she is working on mid-century lyric and photography.