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.
Peter K. Steinberg
Peter K. Steinberg
is 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 published articles on Plath in this journal, as well as in Fine Books & Collections and Notes & Queries. He maintains the website "A Celebration, This is" http://www.sylviaplath.info/index2.html and the Sylvia Plath Info Blog http://sylviaplathinfo.blogspot.com. He holds a Masters of Library and Information Science from Simmons College, in Boston, Massachusetts.