Michelle Marianne Tokarczyk (born 1953) is an American author,poet,and literary critic. She is a long-time professor of English and former co-director of the Writing Program at Goucher College. Her works focus on people living in urban environments,literary history,and women's studies and issues.
Michelle Marianne Tokarczyk was born in 1953[1][2] in the Bronx to a working-class Ukrainian American family.[3] At the age of nine,she moved to a suburban area of Queens. She earned her bachelor's degree at Lehman College. Tokarczyk completed her doctorate in English from Stony Brook University in 1986.[4] Her dissertation was entitled The Rosenberg Case and E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel:A Study of the Use of History in Fiction.[2]
Career
Tokarczyk began working as professor of English at Goucher College in 1989.[4][5] In 2003,she was a co-director of the Goucher Writing Program.[6] Her poetry focuses on urban people,especially women.[3] She also researches literary criticism,history,and women's studies and issues.[5] Tokarczyk is the author of several books.
In 2010,Tokarczyk was the Goucher chapter president of the American Association of University Professors.[7] She was the vice president of the Maryland Conference of the American Association of University Professors in 2014.[8] As of April 2018,Tokarczyk is the president of the Maryland Conference.[9]
Tokarczyk, Michelle M.; Doctorow, E. L. (1988). E.L. Doctorow: An Annotated Bibliography. Taylor & Francis. ISBN0824072464.[11]
Tokarczyk, Michelle M. (1989). House I'm Running From. West End Press. ISBN0931122538.
Tokarczyk, Michelle M.; Fay, Elizabeth A. (1993). Working-class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN0870238353.[12]
Tokarczyk, Michelle M. (2000). E.L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment. P. Lang. ISBN0820444707.[13]
Tokarczyk, Michelle M.; Papoulis, Irene (2003). Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature: Crossing Great Divides. P. Lang. ISBN0820451509.[14]
Tokarczyk, Michelle M. (2008). Class Definitions: On the Lives and Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison. Susquehanna University Press. ISBN978-1575911212.[15]
Tokarczyk, Michelle M. (2011). Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature. Routledge. ISBN978-1136697418.[16]
1 2 Tokarczyk, Michelle (February 1986). "The Rosenberg Case and E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel: A Study of the Use of History in Fiction". Dissertation Abstracts International. 46 (8): 2295.
↑ Reviews of E.L. Doctorow: An Annotated Bibliography:
Klinkowitz, Jerome; West, James L. W. (1993). "Review of E. L. DOCTOROW: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY; ROBERT GOVER: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY; REYNOLDS PRICE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1949–1984, James L. W. West III; PETER TAYLOR: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1934–87, Stuart Wright". Resources for American Literary Study. 19 (1): 160–162. doi:10.2307/26366980. JSTOR26366980.
"E.L. Doctorow: An Annotated Bibliography". Choice. 26. Middletown: 1132. March 1989. ISSN0009-4978.
↑ Reviews of Working-class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory:
Maynes, Mary Jo (1995). "Review of Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory; Spirit, Space and Survival: African American Women in (White) Academy". Signs. 21 (1): 187–190. doi:10.1086/495052. JSTOR3175132.
Walkerdine, Valerie (1995). "Review of Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory". The Journal of Higher Education. 66 (5): 609–611. doi:10.2307/2943944. JSTOR2943944.
Bloom, Lynn Z. (1995). Atkins, G. Douglas; Federman, Leonard; Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher; Mittman, Elizabeth; Kirsch, Gesa E.; Kowalewski, Michael; Spellmeyer, Kurt; Tokarczyk, Michelle M.; Fay, Elizabeth A. (eds.). "Voices from the Ark". College English. 57 (7): 844–851. doi:10.2307/378409. JSTOR378409.
↑ Reviews of E.L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment:
"E.L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment". American Literature. 73 (2): 450. June 2001. ISSN0002-9831.
"E.L. Doctorow's skeptical commitment". Reference and Research Book News. 15 (3). Portland. August 2000.
↑ Reviews ofTeaching Composition/teaching Literature: Crossing Great Divides:
Dahlberg, Sandra L. (2004). Tokarczyk, Michelle M.; Papoulis, Irene (eds.). "Literature Listening to Composition". The Radical Teacher (71): 12–14. JSTOR20710273.
Kerschbaum, Stephanie L. (2005). McDonald, Christina Russell; McDonald, Robert L.; Olson, Gary A.; Worsham, Lynn; Tokarczyk, Michelle M.; Papoulis, Irene; TuSmith, Bonnie; Reddy, Maureen T. (eds.). "Understanding Teaching and Interpretation in Literature and Composition-Rhetoric". College Literature. 32 (4): 189–199. doi:10.1353/lit.2005.0059. JSTOR25115313. S2CID143049832.
↑ Reviews of Class Definitions: On the Lives and Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison:
"Class definitions; on the lives and writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison". Reference and Research Book News. 24 (1). Portland. February 2009.
↑ Reviews of Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature:
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