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Emily Van Duyne

Emily Van Duyne
Emily Van Duyne's book Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation is out with W.W. Norton & Co. An associate professor of writing at Stockton University, she is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundations, and from Emory University. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and children, and is at work on a book about the history of campus sexual assault in the United States.


Believing Sylvia Plath: How Our Culture Continues to Blame the Victims of Male Violence

Emily Van Duyne on the Ways Misogyny Masks Itself and Slithers On, Then and Now
July 11, 2024  By Emily Van Duyne
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Choosing to Bear Witness: Writing the Story of a Body

Emily Van Duyne on Emma Bolden’s The Tiger and the Cage
November 17, 2022  By Emily Van Duyne
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Diary of a Pilgrimage: Marking the Gravesite of Assia and Shura Wevill

Emily Van Duyne’s Tribute to a “Lover of Unreason and an Exile”
November 9, 2022  By Emily Van Duyne
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The Impossible, Crucial Task of Teaching About Rape as a Survivor

Emily Van Duyne on Navigating Stories that Institutions Ignore
April 18, 2022  By Emily Van Duyne
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No One Gets Sylvia Plath

Emily Van Duyne on Loving, and Misunderstanding, an Icon
November 6, 2020  By Emily Van Duyne
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A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

Emily Van Duyne on Heather Clark's Red Comet
October 29, 2020  By Emily Van Duyne
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Sylvia Plath and the Communion of Women Who Know What She Went Through

Emily Van Duyne on the Lure of Charismatic, Abusive Men
February 24, 2020  By Emily Van Duyne
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Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

It Would Be Easy to Write It Off—But We Shouldn't.
January 24, 2019  By Emily Van Duyne
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What We Don’t Know About Sylvia Plath

On Revelations from a Chance Graveside Encounter
January 22, 2019  By Emily Van Duyne
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Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?

New Letters Alleging Abuse are Only Shocking if You Haven't Been Listening
July 11, 2017  By Emily Van Duyne
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