Gail Crowther was awarded her PhD by the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University in March 2010 for her thesis "The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath." She is a scholar, researcher and writer and currently an Associate Lecturer for the Open University, England.
Peter K. Steinberg
Peter K. Steinbergis the author of the "Introduction" to the 2010 CD The Spoken Word: Sylvia Plath (British Library Publishing) and the 2004 biography Sylvia Plath (Chelsea House). He has authored and co-authored numerous articles on Sylvia Plath in Plath Profiles, as well as in Fine Books & Collections and Notes & Queries. He maintains the most consistently updated website on Sylvia Plath, "A Celebration, This is" (http://www.sylviaplath.info), as well as the Sylvia Plath Info Blog (http://sylviaplathinfo.blogspot.com). He holds a Masters of Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives from Simmons College, in Boston, Massachusetts.