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
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]
^ abTokarczyk, 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.
"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: