Jo Gill is a Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetics (2007) and the editor of Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays (2007). She is currently working on a book about the poetry of the American suburbs. Melanie Waters is a Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Northumbria University. She has published essays on feminist theory, popular culture and twentieth-century women’s poetry, and is the author of a forthcoming monograph on the gothic. She is also the editor of Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture (2011).
