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Michelle Tokarczyk

{{short description|American poet}}

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{{Infobox academic|name=Michelle Tokarczyk

|image=|caption=Tokarczyk in 2015 at an AAUP conference|birth_name=Michelle Marianne Tokarczyk

|birth_date=1953|birth_place=The Bronx, New York City

|alma_mater={{Plainlist|

|thesis_title=The Rosenberg Case and E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel: A Study of the Use of History in Fiction

|thesis_year=1986

|workplaces={{plainlist|

  • Goucher College}}|main_interests={{plainlist|
  • Literary criticism and history
  • Women's studies and issues

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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{{Cite web|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87906647.html|title=LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)|website=id.loc.gov|others=The Library of Congress|access-date=2018-04-17}}{{Cite journal|last=Tokarczyk|first=Michelle|date=February 1986|title=The Rosenberg Case and E. L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel: A Study of the Use of History in Fiction|journal=Dissertation Abstracts International|volume=46|issue=8|pages=2295}} in the Bronx to a working-class Ukrainian American family.{{Cite news|url=https://www.pw.org/content/michelle_m_tokarczyk_1|title=Michelle M. Tokarczyk|work=Poets & Writers|access-date=2018-04-17|language=en}} 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.{{Cite book|title=Bronx migrations|last=Tokarczyk|first=Michelle M.|publisher=Cherry Castle Publishing, LLC|year=2016|isbn=978-0692737651|location=Columbia, Maryland|oclc=958840883}} 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.

Career

Tokarczyk began working as professor of English at Goucher College in 1989.{{Cite journal|date=2004-01-01|title=Tokarczyk, Michelle M.|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3438017762.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417192114/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-3438017762.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2018-04-17}} In 2003, she was a co-director of the Goucher Writing Program.{{Cite book|title=Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature : Crossing Great Divides|others=Tokarczyk, Michelle M., 1953-, Papoulis, Irene, 1954-, Παπούλη, Ειρήνη, 1954-|year = 2003|isbn=0820451509|location=New York|oclc=49403642}} Her poetry focuses on urban people, especially women. She also researches literary criticism, history, and women's studies and issues. Tokarczyk is the author of several books.

In 2010, Tokarczyk was the Goucher chapter president of the American Association of University Professors.{{Cite journal|date=2010-09-01|title=Goucher College Aaup Chapter|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2160677451.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417105441/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2160677451.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2018-04-17|journal=Academe}} She was the vice president of the Maryland Conference of the American Association of University Professors in 2014.{{Cite web|url=http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/16461/academic_labor_unrest_spreads_to_maryland_colleges|title=Academic Labor Unrest Spreads to Maryland Colleges (UPDATED)|last=Vail|first=Bruce|date=2014-03-20|access-date=2018-04-17}} As of April 2018, Tokarczyk is the president of the Maryland Conference.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aaup.org/state-conferences#maryland|title=State Conferences {{!}} AAUP|website=www.aaup.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-17}}

Personal life

Tokarczyk lives in Baltimore and New York City. She is married to economist Paul Groncki.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/realestate/living-in-chelsea-calling-activists-and-artists-of-all-stripes.html|title=Living In {{!}} Chelsea – Calling Activists and Artists of All Stripes|last=Hughes|first=C. J.|date=2012-12-28|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-04-17|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

Selected works

= Books =

  • {{Cite book|title=E.L. Doctorow: An Annotated Bibliography|last1=Tokarczyk|first1=Michelle M.|last2=Doctorow|first2=E. L.|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=1988|isbn=0824072464}}Reviews of E.L. Doctorow: An Annotated Bibliography:
  • {{Cite journal|last1=Klinkowitz|first1=Jerome|last2=West|first2=James L. W.|date=1993|title=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|jstor=26366980|journal=Resources for American Literary Study|volume=19|issue=1|pages=160–162|doi=10.2307/26366980 }}
  • {{Cite journal|date=March 1989|title=E.L. Doctorow: An Annotated Bibliography|journal=Choice|location=Middletown|volume=26|pages=1132|issn=0009-4978}}

  • {{Cite book|title=House I'm Running From|last=Tokarczyk|first=Michelle M.|publisher=West End Press|year=1989|isbn=0931122538}}
  • {{Cite book|title=Working-class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory|last1=Tokarczyk|first1=Michelle M.|last2=Fay|first2=Elizabeth A.|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|year=1993|isbn=0870238353}}Reviews of Working-class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory:
  • {{Cite journal|last=Maynes|first=Mary Jo|date=1995|title=Review of Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory; Spirit, Space and Survival: African American Women in (White) Academy|jstor=3175132|journal=Signs|volume=21|issue=1|pages=187–190|doi=10.1086/495052}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Walkerdine|first=Valerie|date=1995|title=Review of Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory|jstor=2943944|journal=The Journal of Higher Education|volume=66|issue=5|pages=609–611|doi=10.2307/2943944}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Bloom|first=Lynn Z.|date=1995|editor-last=Atkins|editor-first=G. Douglas|editor2-last=Federman|editor2-first=Leonard|editor3-last=Joeres|editor3-first=Ruth-Ellen Boetcher|editor4-last=Mittman|editor4-first=Elizabeth|editor5-last=Kirsch|editor5-first=Gesa E.|editor6-last=Kowalewski|editor6-first=Michael|editor7-last=Spellmeyer|editor7-first=Kurt|editor8-last=Tokarczyk|editor8-first=Michelle M.|editor9-last=Fay|editor9-first=Elizabeth A.|title=Voices from the Ark|jstor=378409|journal=College English|volume=57|issue=7|pages=844–851|doi=10.2307/378409}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Jenkins|first=Pamela|date=1995|title=Review of Working-Class Women in the Academy: Laborers in the Knowledge Factory|jstor=189902|journal=Gender and Society|volume=9|issue=5|pages=636–637|doi=10.1177/089124395009005010|s2cid=220469325}}

  • {{Cite book|title=E.L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment|last=Tokarczyk|first=Michelle M.|publisher=P. Lang|year=2000|isbn=0820444707}}Reviews of E.L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment:
  • {{Cite journal|date=June 2001|title=E.L. Doctorow's Skeptical Commitment|journal=American Literature|volume=73|issue=2|pages=450|issn=0002-9831}}
  • {{Cite journal|date=August 2000|title=E.L. Doctorow's skeptical commitment|journal=Reference and Research Book News|location=Portland|volume=15|issue=3}}
  • {{Cite book|title=Teaching Composition/Teaching Literature: Crossing Great Divides|last1=Tokarczyk|first1=Michelle M.|last2=Papoulis|first2=Irene|publisher=P. Lang|year=2003|isbn=0820451509}}Reviews ofTeaching Composition/teaching Literature: Crossing Great Divides:
  • {{Cite journal|last=Dahlberg|first=Sandra L.|date=2004|editor-last=Tokarczyk|editor-first=Michelle M.|editor2-last=Papoulis|editor2-first=Irene|title=Literature Listening to Composition|jstor=20710273|journal=The Radical Teacher|issue=71|pages=12–14}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Kerschbaum|first=Stephanie L.|date=2005|editor-last=McDonald|editor-first=Christina Russell|editor2-last=McDonald|editor2-first=Robert L.|editor3-last=Olson|editor3-first=Gary A.|editor4-last=Worsham|editor4-first=Lynn|editor5-last=Tokarczyk|editor5-first=Michelle M.|editor6-last=Papoulis|editor6-first=Irene|editor7-last=TuSmith|editor7-first=Bonnie|editor8-last=Reddy|editor8-first=Maureen T.|title=Understanding Teaching and Interpretation in Literature and Composition-Rhetoric|jstor=25115313|journal=College Literature|volume=32|issue=4|pages=189–199|doi=10.1353/lit.2005.0059|s2cid=143049832 }}
  • {{Cite book|title=Class Definitions: On the Lives and Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison|last=Tokarczyk|first=Michelle M.|publisher=Susquehanna University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-1575911212}}Reviews of Class Definitions: On the Lives and Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison:
  • {{Cite journal|last=Schiff|first=Sarah Eden|date=2009-10-28|title=Class Definitions: On the Lives and Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/363109|journal=Biography|language=en|volume=32|issue=3|pages=550–553|doi=10.1353/bio.0.0115|s2cid=162335866|issn=1529-1456}}
  • {{Cite journal|date=February 2009|title=Class definitions; on the lives and writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Sandra Cisneros, and Dorothy Allison.|journal=Reference and Research Book News|location=Portland|volume=24|issue=1}}

  • {{Cite book|title=Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature|last=Tokarczyk|first=Michelle M.|publisher=Routledge|year=2011|isbn=978-1136697418}}Reviews of Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature:
  • {{Cite journal|last=Buchanan|first=David|date=2014|title=Michelle M. Tokarczyk (ed.), Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/michelle-m-tokarczyk-ed-critical-approaches-to-american-workingclass-literature-new-york-and-london-routledge-2011-14900-pp-xv-249-isbn978-0-4158-8546-1/1AD8EB5B9EC7B58E618AE0362991213C|journal=Journal of American Studies|language=en|volume=48|issue=1|doi=10.1017/s0021875813002296|s2cid=147316887 |issn=0021-8758}}

  • {{Cite book|title=Bronx Migrations|last=Tokarczyk|first=Michelle M.|publisher=Cherry Castle Publishing|year=2016|isbn=978-0692737651|location=Columbia, MD}}

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Category:Living people

Category:Goucher College faculty and staff

Category:Lehman College alumni

Category:Poets from Baltimore

Category:Stony Brook University alumni

Category:Writers from the Bronx

Category:Writers from Queens, New York

Category:Poets from New York (state)

Category:American people of Ukrainian descent

Category:1953 births