Bell Jar Z.0
Published: Jul 11th, 2024
I’ve taught Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar many times in several courses: American literature, major authors, women’s literature, and the American 1950s. Most are brimming with English majors. During my… Read More
Articles Tagged “Sylvia Plath” 
Plath and the Periodic Table
Published: Apr 6th, 2016
I’m teaching The Bell Jar this week in my “Desperate Domesticity” class on the American 1950s. And what strikes me this time around is English major Esther Greenwood’s adventures in physics and… Read More
Parody Pedagogy: Plath as Style
Published: Dec 6th, 2014
Here’s my lead-in to a piece on Plath parodies for Plath Profiles #7. It’s a collaboration with students from my 2013 course on ‘Plath and Her Cultural Afterlife at 50’ (timed to… Read More
Revisiting Plath and Her Cultural Afterlife at 50
Published: Jan 1st, 2014
This academic year I offered fall courses to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s death and her novel, The Bell Jar. (My last Plath course coincided with the… Read More