Gail Crowther was awarded her PhD 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 next summer’s Plath Profiles 4 on Plath and Places.