'Editing Sylvia Plath' with Amanda Golden and Karen Kukil

Five College Seminar in Book History

Amanda Golden is Associate Professor of English at New York Institute of Technology and a Research Affiliate at Smith College. She is the author of Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (Routledge 2020, paperback 2021), co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (2022, paperback 2023) with Anita Helle and Maeve O’Brien, and editor of This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton (UPF 2016, paperback 2018). She is currently co-editing The Poems of Sylvia Plath, a new, scholarly, annotated edition of Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems, with Karen V. Kukil. This project has received support from the National Endowment of the Humanities. Golden has published in Modernism/modernity, Woolf Studies Annual, and The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. She serves on the editorial boards of Bloomsbury Academic’s Modernist Archives series, the journal Textual Cultures, and the Orlando Project and the International Advisory Board of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP).

Karen Kukil is a Research Affiliate in English Language & Literature at Smith College. She is an international authority on Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. She edited the unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000) and co-edited a two-volume edition of The Letters of Sylvia Plath for Faber and Faber in London (2017–18). She has also edited Woolf in the Real World: Selected Papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on Virginia Woolf (Clemson, 2005), a conference she co-hosted at Smith College in 2003. Her scholarly chapters and articles on Plath and Woolf appear in many publications, including The Boundaries of the Literary Archive (Ashgate, 2013), Sylvia Plath in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (2022). Exhibitions curated by Kukil include “No Other Appetite”: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and the Blood Jet of Poetry (Grolier Club, 2005) and One Life: Sylvia Plath (Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2017–18). In addition to curating rare books and literary manuscripts at Yale University and Smith College for more than 40 years, Kukil has taught courses on editing Sylvia Plath’s correspondence and poetry for Smith’s Archives Concentration program. Kukil is currently co-editing a complete, scholarly edition of The Poems of Sylvia Plath with Professor Amanda Golden to be published in 2025 by Faber & Faber.

This event will be held in person and on Zoom. To join online please register here.