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Amanda Golden
Associate Professor; 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 New York Tech: 2015
Before joining New York Tech, Amanda Golden held a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an NEH Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Poetics at Emory University’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and her B.A. in English from Colgate University.
Golden co-edited The Poems of Sylvia Plath (Faber & Faber, 2026), a new, annotated, scholarly edition of Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems with Karen V. Kukil. This project was supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Faber & Faber calls the volume “a landmark publication: the definitive edition of the poet’s work for scholars, students and general readers.” The book contains over 500 poems, nearly twice the number in the Collected Poems (1981), and extensive notes.
Golden is the author of Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (Routledge, 2020), co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (2022), with Anita Helle and Maeve O’Brien, and editor of This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton (UPF, 2016). She also published “Anne Sexton” (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 Feminist Modernist Studies and has published in Modernism/modernity, Woolf Studies Annual, and The Ted Hughes Society Journal.
In October of 2026, Golden will become President of the Modernist Studies Association, a leading, international, interdisciplinary organization. She is currently Vice President and co-organized the Brooklyn Conference in 2023. From 2021–3, she was Vice President of the International Virginia Woolf Society. Golden is a member of Editorial and Advisory Boards for the journals Textual Cultures and Woolf Studies Annual, Bloomsbury Academic’s Modernist Archives Series, the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP), Modernist Networks (ModNets), and the Orlando Project. From 2015–20, she served on the Modern Language Association’s 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 “Sylvia Plath’s Poetry Writing Must-Have? Stolen Pink Paper.” The Independent, May 19, 2026.
- With Karen V. Kukil. The Book Club podcast, The Spectator, UK, May 7, 2026.
- The Poems of Sylvia Plath. A new, scholarly, annotated edition of Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems.Co-edited with Karen V. Kukil, Faber & Faber, 2026. Reviewed by Prospect, The Times (London), Financial Times, The Independent, Voice Magazine, and Ear Read This podcast. Number 6 on hive.co.uk list of 20 bestselling books for the week of May 5, 2026.
- With Linda Wagner-Martin,“Anne Sexton.”Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Ed. Jackson Bryer. Oxford UP, 2025. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0031.
- The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath. Collection co-edited with Anita Helle and Maeve O’Brien. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets. Monograph. Routledge, May 2020.
- This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton. Editor, Collection. University Press of Florida, 2016 (hardcover), 2018 (paperback).
- “Archival Pedagogy: Curating Edna O’Brien’s Sylvia Plath Television Play.” The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath. Edited by Anita Helle, Amanda Golden, and Maeve O’Brien. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, pp. 279–87.
- “Zadie Smith Archiving New York in Grand Union.” Late Modernism & Expatriation. Edited by Lauren Arrington. Clemson UP, 2022, pp. 63–75.
- “Digital Landscapes: Mapping Global Modernist Women Writers.” Teaching Modernist Women’s Writing in English. Edited by Janine Utell. Modern Language Association, 2021, pp. 198–207.
- “‘Latent Energy’: Mulk Raj Anand’s Letter to Langston Hughes.” The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914–1945 15 (2019).
- “Digital Design with William Morris.” Teaching William Morris. Eds. Jason Martinek and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2019. 275–282.
- “Sylvia Plath’s Teaching and the Shaping of Her Work.” Sylvia Plath in Context. Ed. Tracy Brain. Cambridge UP, 2019. 255–263.
- “Sylvia Plath’s Library: The Marginal Archive.” The Contemporary Poetry Archive. Eds. Linda Anderson, Mark Byers, and Ahren Warner. Edinburgh UP, 2019. 111–123.
- With Cassandra Laity, “Introduction: Feminist Modernist Digital Humanities.” Feminist Modernist Studies 1.3 (October 2018): 205–210.
- “On Manuscripts: Virginia Woolf and Archives.” Virginia Woolf and the World of Books. Eds. Nicola Wilson and Claire Battershill. Clemson UP and Liverpool UP, 2018. 26–30.
- “Hughes’s Archives.” Ted Hughes in Context. Ed. Terry Gifford. Cambridge UP, 2018. 347–358.
- “Textbook Greek: Thoby Stephen in Jacob’s Room.” Woolf Studies Annual 23 (2017): 83–108.
- “‘This is an archive’: Agha Shahid Ali’s Postcards from Kashmir.” Mad Heart Be Brave: On the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali. Ed. Kazim Ali. U of Michigan P, 2017. 33–44.
- “John Berryman at Midcentury: Annotating Ezra Pound and Teaching Modernism.” Modernism/modernity 21.2 (April 2014): 507–528.
- NEH Summer Stipend, 2022
- Modernist Studies Association Research Travel Grant, 2019–2020
- 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
- ICLT 330: Global Literature and Digital Media
- ICLT 331: Women, Technology, and Art