Michelle Tokarczyk

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 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

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]

Personal life

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

Selected works

Books
  • 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
  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. 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. "Michelle M. Tokarczyk". Poets & Writers. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
  4. Tokarczyk, Michelle M. (2016). Bronx migrations. Columbia, Maryland: Cherry Castle Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-0692737651. OCLC 958840883.
  5. "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. Middletown. 26: 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. Portland. 15 (3). 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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