Toni McNaron

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Toni McNaron
BornApril 3, 1937
Alabama, U.S.
Education University of Alabama
Vanderbilt University
University of Wisconsin
Employer University of Minnesota

Toni McNaron, also known as Toni A. H. McNaron, (born April 3, 1937) is an American literary scholar. She is a professor emerita of English at the University of Minnesota, and the author of several books, including Poisoned Ivy, about lesbophobic and homophobic workplace bullying in academia.

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Early life

McNaron was born on April 3, 1937, in Alabama. She graduated from the University of Alabama, and she earned a master's degree from Vanderbilt University followed by a PhD from the University of Wisconsin. [1]

Career

McNaron spent her entire career in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota. She was assistant professor from 1964 to 1967, associate professor from 1967 to 1983, and a full professor from 1983 to 2001, when she became a professor emeritus. [1]

McNaron is the author and/or co-editor of several academic books about incest, feminism and LGBT topics as well as her own memoirs. In Poisoned Ivy, she writes about closeted academics and what she describes as the homophobic workplace bullying that those who come out are subjected to. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Personal life

McNaron stopped drinking and came out as a lesbian in 1973. [2] She also became a feminist and an anti-Vietnam War activist. [6]

Selected works

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References

  1. 1 2 "McNaron, Toni A. H". SNAC . Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  2. 1 2 Price, Deb (April 7, 1997). "Coming out in the world of academics is difficult" . The News Journal. Wilmington, Delaware. p. 5. Retrieved October 27, 2018 via Newspapers.com.
  3. Phelan, Shane (Winter 1998). "Reviewed Works: Poisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia by Toni McNaron; The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century by Bonnie Zimmerman, Toni McNaron". Signs. 23 (2): 547–549. doi:10.1086/495273. JSTOR   3175113.
  4. Colombo, J. A. (September 1997). "Reviewed Work: Poisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia by Toni A. H. McNaron". Academe. 83 (5): 91–92. doi:10.2307/40251598. JSTOR   40251598.
  5. Reddy, Maureen (June 1997). "Reviewed Works: Poisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia by Toni A. H. McNaron; The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century by Bonnie Zimmerman, Toni A. H. McNaron". The Women's Review of Books. 14 (9): 16–18. doi:10.2307/4022626. JSTOR   4022626.
  6. McNaron, Toni; Bennett, Juda (Fall 2002). "An Interview with Toni McNaron". Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. 13 (2): 7–15. JSTOR   43505822.