Emily Toth

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Emily Toth, a Robert Penn Warren Professor of English and Women's Studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, is a scholar, novelist, advice columnist, and feminist activist. She earned her PhD from Johns Hopkins University. [1] Toth's scholarly work includes over 300 articles and papers about academic mentoring, Louisiana literature and culture, women's humor, and music; biographies of the American women writers Kate Chopin and Grace Metalious; a cultural history of menstruation; edited collections of Chopin's papers and last short story collection, and a volume of essays about regionalism in women's writing. Toth's historical novel Daughters of New Orleans (1983) was named a "Best Feminist Historical Novel" by Romantic Times in 1984. Toth was also the founder and editor of the journal Regionalism and the Female Imagination (formerly The Kate Chopin Newsletter) from 1975-1979 and on the editorial board of the journal Southern Studies .

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Activism

Since 1977, Toth has been an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP), an American nonprofit publishing organization that works to increase communication between women and connect the public with women-based media.

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Other writings

Toth wrote the monthly advice column Ms. Mentor, a monthly column for the Career Network in The Chronicle of Higher Education from 1998 to 2017. For her work as Ms. Mentor, Toth was named one of "The Net's Hottest Columnists" by Content Spotlight (June 19, 2000). The best of Toth's Ms. Mentor column is collected in Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia (now in its third printing) and Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia Archived 2017-02-20 at the Wayback Machine , both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Toth has published over 300 articles, reviews, and columns about women writers and popular and regional culture in academic and literary journals including The Massachusetts Review , The Women's Review of Books , The Southern Review , The Southern Quarterly , Southern Studies , and The Journal of American Culture ), and in popular periodicals including Ms., USA Today , The Washington Post Book World , and The Times-Picayune (New Orleans). Toth has also presented her work at over 300 conferences in six countries.

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Other

Book reviews

Awards and recognitions

During her time at Louisiana State University and Penn State, Toth received various teaching and scholarship awards and was recognized for her pioneering work in popular culture by the Popular Culture Association. She has also been the recipient of 12 local and national grants and has appeared in four documentary films.

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  2. Petry, Alice Hall (2000). "Kate Chopin's Private Papers (review)". Resources for American Literary Study. 26 (1): 124–127. doi:10.1353/rals.2000.0017. S2CID   161555716. Project MUSE   29805.

Further reading

Reviews of Kate Chopin

  • Elaine Sargent Apthorp. “Looking for Kate: A Review of Kate Chopin: A Life of the Author of "The Awakening" by Emily Toth.” The Women's Review of Books, vol. 8, no. 8, 1991. 8–9.
  • Beck, Mary Ellen. “Review of Kate Chopin by Emily Toth.” Library Journal. 15 October 1990. Vol, Issue 17. 89.
  • Bonner, Thomas. “Review of Kate Chopin by Emily Toth.” South Central Review, vol. 9, no. 1, 1992. 110–11.
  • Goodwyn, Janet. “Kate Chopin by Emily Toth (Review).” The Modern Language Review, vol. 88, no. 1, 1993. 189–90.
  • Kakutini, Michiko. "Books of The Times; A Woman Who Portrayed Adultery and Paid for It." The New York Times. 27 November 1990.
  • Kendall, Elaine. "Book Review: Rediscovering a Champion of Feminism. Kate Chopin by Emily Toth." Los Angeles Times Book Review. 30 November 1990.
  • Kessler, Carol Farley. “Review of Kate Chopin: A Life of the Author of The Awakening by Emily Toth.” American Literature, vol. 63, no. 4, 1991. 755–56.
  • Moseley, Merritt. “A Review of Kate Chopin by Emily Toth.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 56, no. 4, 1991. 123–26.
  • O'Brien, Sharon. "Bored Wives and Jubilant Widows." The New York Times. 30 December 1990.
  • "Review of Kate Chopin." Kirkus Reviews. October 15, 1990.
  • Stivers, Camilla. “Reflections on the Role of Personal Narrative in Social Science: Review of Kate Chopin by Emily Toth (and other books)” Signs, vol. 18, no. 2, 1993. 408–25.
  • Tucker, Susan. “A Solitary Soul: The Life of Kate Chopin: A Review of Kate Chopin

Reviews of Unveiling Kate Chopin

  • Larue, Dorie. "Toth, Emily Unveiling Kate Chopin (Book Review)." Southern Quarterly. Vol. 38, Iss. 2, (Winter 2000): 159.
  • McHaney, Pearl A. “Women's Voices, Black and White: A Review of Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered by Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, Comic Visions, Female Voices: Contemporary Women Novelists and Southern Humor by Barbara Bennett, and Unveiling Kate Chopin by Emily Toth.” The Southern Literary Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, 2000. 158–64.
  • Review of Unveiling Kate Chopin. Publishers Weekly
  • Thomas, Heather Kirk. “A Review of Unveiling Kate Chopin by Emily Toth.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 65, no. 1, 2000. 217–20.

Reviews of A Vocation and a Voice

  • Bracy, Addie Lee. “Review of A Vocation and a Voice by Kate Chopin, edited by Emily Toth.” Library Journal. 1 December 1990. Vol. 115, Issue 21. 126.

Reviews of Kate Chopin's Private Papers

  • Burns, Allan. “Review of Kate Chopin's Private Papers by Emily Toth and Per Seyersted.” American Literary Realism, vol. 33, no. 1, 2000. 90–91.
  • Leader, Jennifer. “Kate Chopin's Private Papers (Book Review).” Women's Studies. Oct99, Vol. 28 Issue 5. 603.
  • Nash, Charles C. “Review of Kate Chopin's Private Papers.” Library Journal. 1 August 1998. Vol. 123, Issue 13. 89-90.
  • Petry, Alice Hall (2000). "Kate Chopin's Private Papers (review)". Resources for American Literary Study. 26 (1): 124–127. doi:10.1353/rals.2000.0017. S2CID   161555716. Project MUSE   29805.

Reviews of Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia

  • Cohen, Judith Beth. “Words to the Wise: Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia by Emily Toth .” The Women's Review of Books, vol. 15, no. 5, 1998. 10–11.
  • Franke, Ann H. “A Review of Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia by Emily Toth.” Academe, vol. 84, no. 1, 1998., 84–86.
  • Hufnagel, Glenda Lewin. “Review of Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia by Emily Toth, Shattering the Myths: Women in Academe by Judith Glazer-Raymo, and Gender on Campus: Issues for College Women by Sharon Bohn Gmelch.” NWSA Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, 2000. 189–93.
  • “Review of Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia by Emily Toth.” Publishers Weekly. 16 June 1994. Vol. 244, Issue 24. 56.
  • Stout, Janis. “Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia by Emily Toth (Review).” South Central Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 2000. 128–30.

Reviews of Ms. Mentor's New & Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women & Men in Academia

  • Goral, Tim. “Between the Lines: Ms. Mentor's New & Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women & Men in Academia (Review).” University Business. Jan2009, Vol. 12 Issue 1. 10.

Reviews of The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation

  • Eliasson, Mona. “A Review of The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation by Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton, and Emily Toth.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 1, no. 1, 1990. 175–77.
  • Douglas, Carol Anne. ”Review of The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation, Emily Toth, Janice Delaney and Mary Jane Lupton.” Off Our Backs, vol. 6, no. 8, 1976. 15.
  • Ernster, Virginia. “Falling Off the Roof: A Review of The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation by Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton, and Emily Toth.” Family Planning Perspectives, vol. 9, no. 2, 1977. 94–95.
  • Hall, Roberta L. “Review of The Female Animal by Irene Elia and The Curse, revised edition by Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton, and Emily Toth.” Human Biology, vol. 62, no. 1, 1990. 167–69.
  • Long, Diana Elizabeth. “Going with the Flow: Images of Bleeding: Menstruation as Ideology by Louise Lander, The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation by Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton, and Emily Toth, The Wise Wound by Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove, Red Flower: Rethinking Menstruation by Dena Taylor, and Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation by Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb” The Women's Review of Books, vol. 6, no. 8, 1989. 21–22.
  • Mitchell, Sally. “Review of The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation. Revised edition by Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton, Emily Toth.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 44, no. 2, 1989. 262–63.
  • Porter, Roy. “Review of The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation. Rev. ed. by Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton, and Emily Toth and Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation by Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 63, no. 3, 1989. 485-86.

Reviews of Inside Peyton Place, the Life of Grace Metalious

  • Leonard, Vickie. “Grace of Peyton Place: Review of Inside Peyton Place, the Life of Grace Metalious by Emily Toth.” Off Our Backs, vol. 11, no. 11, 1981. 17.