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Plath and the Periodic Table

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

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

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