I am an Associate Professor of English at New York Institute of Technology and a Research Affiliate at Smith College. Previously, I held a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the NEH Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Poetics at Emory University's Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and taught at Agnes Scott College. I received my Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and my B.A. in English from Colgate University. My research and teaching interests include twentieth-century literature, modernism, poetry and poetics, literary archives, composition, and the digital humanities.
I am an Associate Professor of English at New York Institute of Technology and a Research Affiliate at Smith College. Previously, I held a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the NEH Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Poetics at Emory University's Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, and taught at Agnes Scott College. I received my Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and my B.A. in English from Colgate University. My research and teaching interests include twentieth-century literature, modernism, poetry and poetics, literary archives, composition, and the digital humanities.
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I co-edited The Poems of Sylvia Plath (Faber, 2026) with Karen V. Kukil. Faber describes the project as
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Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil in the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College, beneath Plath’s portrait by classmate Susan Adler.
Photo by Jessica Scranton
The Poems of Sylvia Plath was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It has been reviewed by the Times Literary Supplement, Los Angeles Review of Books, Prospect, The Times (UK), Literary Review, The Irish Times, Financial Times, The Independent, Voice Magazine, and Ear Read This podcast. The book was number 6 on hive.co.uk list of 20 bestselling books for the week of May 5, 2026.
Karen V. Kukil and I discuss The Poems of Sylvia Plath on The Book Club podcast, The Spectator, UK. May 7, 2026.
The Poems of Sylvia Plath was featured in
Jessie Thompson, “Sylvia Plath’s Poetry Writing Must-Have? Stolen Pink Paper.” The Independent, May 19, 2026
Cheryl Dellecese, "The Complete Plath," Smith Today, August 14, 2026
Greg Barnhisel, “Fifteen Years, 944 Pages: Editing the Definitive Sylvia Plath.” Pittsburgh Review of Books. 9.9.26.
Maia Snow, “Faber unveils ‘ambitious’ raft of Sylvia Plath Publishing.” The Bookseller, Jan. 28, 2026.
and mentioned in
James Turrell, “A Plath to Rediscovery.” Oh Reader. Issue 024, 2026, p. 31.
Melanie McGee Bianchi, “Sylvia, the Ghost Writer.” The London Magazine. March 30, 2026.
Vass Norbert, “Az őrület szélén írt utolsó verseimegváltoztathatják a Sylvia Plathról alkotott képet.” Karakter, Hungary. March 24, 2026.
Helen Bain, “‘I want my career, my children and a free supple life’: Sylvia Plath’s Radical Reinvention.” The Guardian, UK. March 22, 2026.
Karen V. Kukil and I discuss The Poems of Sylvia Plath on The Book Club podcast, The Spectator, UK. May 7, 2026.
The Poems of Sylvia Plath was featured in
Jessie Thompson, “Sylvia Plath’s Poetry Writing Must-Have? Stolen Pink Paper.” The Independent, May 19, 2026
Cheryl Dellecese, "The Complete Plath," Smith Today, August 14, 2026
Greg Barnhisel, “Fifteen Years, 944 Pages: Editing the Definitive Sylvia Plath.” Pittsburgh Review of Books. 9.9.26.
Maia Snow, “Faber unveils ‘ambitious’ raft of Sylvia Plath Publishing.” The Bookseller, Jan. 28, 2026.
and mentioned in
James Turrell, “A Plath to Rediscovery.” Oh Reader. Issue 024, 2026, p. 31.
Melanie McGee Bianchi, “Sylvia, the Ghost Writer.” The London Magazine. March 30, 2026.
Vass Norbert, “Az őrület szélén írt utolsó verseimegváltoztathatják a Sylvia Plathról alkotott képet.” Karakter, Hungary. March 24, 2026.
Helen Bain, “‘I want my career, my children and a free supple life’: Sylvia Plath’s Radical Reinvention.” The Guardian, UK. March 22, 2026.
My monograph, Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (Routledge, 2020; paperback, 2021), addresses writers' reading of modernism before and after the Second World War by analyzing their personal copies of modernist texts, student notes, and teaching materials. I discussed this project with Dr Dennis Duncan for his Paratexts Podcast series at Oxford University's Bodleian Library. You can listen to the podcast here.
I have also co-edited The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (2022) with Anita Helle and Maeve O'Brien. This collection features the work of twenty-seven scholars considering topics ranging from archives, digital humanities, and pedagogy to media, children's literature, and disability studies.
My monograph, Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (Routledge, 2020; paperback, 2021), addresses writers' reading of modernism before and after the Second World War by analyzing their personal copies of modernist texts, student notes, and teaching materials. I discussed this project with Dr Dennis Duncan for his Paratexts Podcast series at Oxford University's Bodleian Library. You can listen to the podcast here.
I have also co-edited The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (2022) with Anita Helle and Maeve O'Brien. This collection features the work of twenty-seven scholars considering topics ranging from archives, digital humanities, and pedagogy to media, children's literature, and disability studies.
I previously edited the collection, This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton (UPF, 2016, paperback 2018), co-authored an Anne Sexton bibliography (OUP, 2024) with Linda Wagner-Martin, and edited a peer-reviewed cluster on Feminist Modernist Digital Humanities for the journal Feminist Modernist Studies. The issue, published in the journal’s first year, was among those for which the journal received the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) Award for Best New Journal. I have also published in Modernism/modernity, Woolf Studies Annual, The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, and The Ted Hughes Society Journal.
I am Vice President of the Modernist Studies Association, an international, interdisciplinary academic organization, to become president in 2027. I previously served as the International Virginia Woolf Society (2021-3) and the Book Review Editor for Woolf Studies Annual (2010-24). I am a member of the Board of Editorial Advisors of the journal Textual Cultures, the International Advisory Board of the Modernist Archives and Publishing Project (MAPP), and the Editorial Boards of the Orlando Project and Bloomsbury Academic's Modernist Archives Series. From 2015-20, I served on the Modern Language Association’s Executive Committee for the Forum on Bibliography and Scholarly Editing, and from 2020-2, I represented the Forum on the MLA Delegate Assembly.