Michelle Tokarczyk

Michelle Tokarczyk
Born
Michelle Marianne Tokarczyk

1953
The Bronx, New York City
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Rosenberg Case and E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel: A Study of the Use of History in Fiction (1986)
Academic work
Institutions
Main interests
  • Literary criticism and history
  • Women's studies and issues

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.

Early life and education[edit]

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[edit]

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]

Personal life[edit]

Tokarczyk lives in Baltimore and New York City.[4] She is married to economist Paul Groncki.[10]

Selected works[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Tokarczyk, Michelle M.; Doctorow, E. L. (1988). E.L. Doctorow: An Annotated Bibliography. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0824072464.[11]
  • Tokarczyk, Michelle M. (1989). House I'm Running From. West End Press. ISBN 0931122538.
  • Tokarczyk, Michelle M.; Fay, Elizabeth A. (1993). Working-class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 0870238353.[12]
  • Tokarczyk, Michelle M. (2000). E.L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment. P. Lang. ISBN 0820444707.[13]
  • Tokarczyk, Michelle M.; Papoulis, Irene (2003). Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature: Crossing Great Divides. P. Lang. ISBN 0820451509.[14]
  • Tokarczyk, Michelle M. (2008). Class Definitions: On the Lives and Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison. Susquehanna University Press. ISBN 978-1575911212.[15]
  • Tokarczyk, Michelle M. (2011). Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature. Routledge. ISBN 978-1136697418.[16]
  • Tokarczyk, Michelle M. (2016). Bronx Migrations. Columbia, MD: Cherry Castle Publishing. ISBN 978-0692737651.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. The Library of Congress. Retrieved April 17, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ a b "Michelle M. Tokarczyk". Poets & Writers. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Tokarczyk, Michelle M. (2016). Bronx migrations. Columbia, Maryland: Cherry Castle Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-0692737651. OCLC 958840883.
  5. ^ a b "Tokarczyk, Michelle M." January 1, 2004. Archived from the original on April 17, 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature : Crossing Great Divides. Tokarczyk, Michelle M., 1953-, Papoulis, Irene, 1954-, Παπούλη, Ειρήνη, 1954-. New York. 2003. ISBN 0820451509. OCLC 49403642.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ^ "Goucher College Aaup Chapter". Academe. September 1, 2010. Archived from the original on April 17, 2018.
  8. ^ Vail, Bruce (March 20, 2014). "Academic Labor Unrest Spreads to Maryland Colleges (UPDATED)". Retrieved April 17, 2018.
  9. ^ "State Conferences | AAUP". www.aaup.org. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
  10. ^ Hughes, C. J. (December 28, 2012). "Living In | Chelsea – Calling Activists and Artists of All Stripes". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
  11. ^ 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. JSTOR 26366980.
    • "E.L. Doctorow: An Annotated Bibliography". Choice. 26. Middletown: 1132. March 1989. ISSN 0009-4978.
  12. ^ 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. JSTOR 3175132.
    • 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. JSTOR 2943944.
    • 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. JSTOR 378409.
    • Jenkins, Pamela (1995). "Review of Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory". Gender and Society. 9 (5): 636–637. doi:10.1177/089124395009005010. JSTOR 189902. S2CID 220469325.
  13. ^ Reviews of E.L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment:
    • "E.L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment". American Literature. 73 (2): 450. June 2001. ISSN 0002-9831.
    • "E.L. Doctorow's skeptical commitment". Reference and Research Book News. 15 (3). Portland. August 2000.
  14. ^ 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. JSTOR 20710273.
    • 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. JSTOR 25115313. S2CID 143049832.
  15. ^ Reviews of Class Definitions: On the Lives and Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison:
  16. ^ Reviews of Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature:
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