Amanda Golden

Amanda Golden is associate professor of English at New York Institute of Technology. She is the author of Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (Routledge, 2020) and editor of This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton (UPF, 2016). With Anita Helle and Maeve O’Brien she is currently editing The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath. Golden has published in Modernism/Modernity, Woolf Studies Annual, and The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. 

Twitter: @plathpoem

Is there a genre of music that influences your writing/thinking? Do you listen to music while you write?

I love folk music, especially The Nields. 

Favorite non-reading activity?

Rollerblading.

Is there a work of art that you love. Why? Have you ever visited it in person?

Yes! Charleston House, filled with paintings by Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and others.

Do you have another artistic outlet in addition to your writing? Do you sew? Paint? Draw? Knit? Dance?

I like to paint furniture.

If you could create a museum exhibition, what would be the theme?

Marginalia.