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Amanda Golden
Professor; Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences
Director of Writing; Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences
Education Credentials: Ph.D.
Expertise: American and British Literature from the 19th Century to the Present, Modernism, Poetry, and Composition
Joined 蘑菇传媒: 2015
Before joining 蘑菇传媒, Amanda Golden held a at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an NEH Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Poetics at . She received her Ph.D. in English from the and her B.A. in English from .
Golden co-edited (Faber & Faber, 2026), a new, annotated, scholarly edition of Sylvia Plath鈥檚 Collected Poems with Karen V. Kukil. This project was supported by the . Faber & Faber calls the volume 鈥渁 landmark publication: the definitive edition of the poet鈥檚 work for scholars, students and general readers.鈥� The book contains over 500 poems, nearly twice the number in the Collected Poems (1981), and extensive notes.
Golden is the author of (Routledge, 2020), co-editor of (2022), with Anita Helle and Maeve O鈥橞rien, and editor of (UPF, 2016). She also published (2024), a bibliography for Oxford University Press, with Linda Wagner-Martin.
Golden previously edited a peer-reviewed cluster on Feminist Modernist Digital Humanities for the journal and has published in , , and .
In October of 2026, Golden will become President of the , a leading, international, interdisciplinary organization. She is currently Vice President and co-organized the in 2023. From 2021鈥�3, she was Vice President of the . Golden is a member of Editorial and Advisory Boards for the journals and , , the , , and the . From 2015鈥�20, she served on the Modern Language Association鈥檚 Executive Committee for the Forum on Bibliography and Scholarly Editing, and represented the Forum on the Delegate Assembly from 2020-2.
- Interviewed by Jessie Thompson for The Independent, May 19, 2026.
- With Karen V. Kukil. , The Spectator, UK, May 7, 2026.
- A new, scholarly, annotated edition of Sylvia Plath鈥檚 Collected Poems.Co-edited with Karen V. Kukil, Faber & Faber, 2026. Reviewed by , (London), , , and podcast. Number 6 on list of 20 bestselling books for the week of May 5, 2026.
- With Linda Wagner-Martin,鈥�.鈥�Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Ed. Jackson Bryer. Oxford UP, 2025. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0031.
- . Collection co-edited with Anita Helle and Maeve O’Brien. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- . Monograph. Routledge, May 2020.
- . Editor, Collection. University Press of Florida, 2016 (hardcover), 2018 (paperback).
- “Archival Pedagogy: Curating Edna O’Brien’s Sylvia Plath Television Play.” . Edited by Anita Helle, Amanda Golden, and Maeve O’Brien. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, pp. 279鈥�87.
- “Zadie Smith Archiving New York in Grand Union.” . Edited by Lauren Arrington. Clemson UP, 2022, pp. 63鈥�75.
- “Digital Landscapes: Mapping Global Modernist Women Writers.” . Edited by Janine Utell. Modern Language Association, 2021, pp. 198鈥�207.
- “.” The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914鈥�1945 15 (2019).
- “Digital Design with William Morris.” . Eds. Jason Martinek and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2019. 275鈥�282.
- “Sylvia Plath’s Teaching and the Shaping of Her Work.” . Ed. Tracy Brain. Cambridge UP, 2019. 255鈥�263.
- “Sylvia Plath’s Library: The Marginal Archive.” . Eds. Linda Anderson, Mark Byers, and Ahren Warner. Edinburgh UP, 2019. 111鈥�123.
- With Cassandra Laity, “.” Feminist Modernist Studies 1.3 (October 2018): 205鈥�210.
- “On Manuscripts: Virginia Woolf and Archives.” . Eds. Nicola Wilson and Claire Battershill. Clemson UP and Liverpool UP, 2018. 26鈥�30.
- “Hughes’s Archives.” . Ed. Terry Gifford. Cambridge UP, 2018. 347鈥�358.
- “Textbook Greek: Thoby Stephen in Jacob’s Room.” 23 (2017): 83鈥�108.
- “‘This is an archive’: Agha Shahid Ali’s Postcards from Kashmir.” . Ed. Kazim Ali. U of Michigan P, 2017. 33鈥�44.
- “John Berryman at Midcentury: Annotating Ezra Pound and Teaching Modernism.” 21.2 (April 2014): 507鈥�528.
- NEH Summer Stipend, 2022
- Modernist Studies Association Research Travel Grant, 2019鈥�2020
- Digital Humanities Summer Institute Tuition Scholarship. University of Victoria, B.C., 2018
- Robert B. Heilman Prize for Best Dissertation. University of Washington English Department, 2009
- FCWR 101: Foundations of College Composition
- FCWR 151: Foundations of Research Writing
- ICLT 311: Literature and Culture of the Early Twentieth Century