Emily Toth

Emily Toth is a professor of English and Women's Studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She earned her PhD from The Johns Hopkins University.

Toth writes the monthly "Ms. Mentor" column for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Current column: Ms. Mentor: "A Dissertation on Pussy Riot?".

Published Books

• Ms. Mentor’s New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, 2009.

• Inside Peyton Place : the Life of Grace Metalious. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2000, updated from 1981. Sold to 20th Century Fox and Sandra Bullock for film.

• Unveiling Kate Chopin (biography). Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1999.

• Kate Chopin's Private Papers (edition, with Per Seyersted and Cheyenne Bonnell). Bloomington : Indiana University, 1998.

• Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, 1997.

• Kate Chopin (biography). New York : Morrow, 1990. Nominated for Pulitzer Prize.

• A Vocation and a Voice (edition of Kate Chopin's last story collection). New York : Penguin Classics, 1991.

• The Curse: a Cultural History of Menstruation. With Janice Delaney and Mary Jane Lupton. Urbana : University of Illinois, 1988, updated from 1976.

• Regionalism and the Female Imagination (edited essays). New York : Human Sciences Press, 1985.

• Daughters of New Orleans (historical novel). New York : Bantam, 1983.

• A Kate Chopin Miscellany (letters, diaries, essays). Associate editor, with Per Seyersted. Natchitoches : Northwestern State University and Oslo : Universitetsforlaget, 1979.

Academic Advice Column

"Ms. Mentor," monthly column for Chronicle of Higher Education's Career Network, starting August, 1998. http://www.chronicle.com/jobs—click on “Advice” and then on “Ms. Mentor” Most recent: “Do I Have To Finish My Dissertation?” <http://chronicle.com/article/Do-I-Have-to-Finish-My/130397/>

Columnist and Contributing Writer

“Nothing But the Toth,” bimonthly column on writing, books, food, secrets, and more in online journal: http://www.talkingwriting.com Most recent entry:“Bloody But Unbowed”.

Awards, Articles, Recognitions

Over 300 published articles, reviews, and columns. Over 300 conference presentations in six countries. 12 local or national grants. Appearances in 4 documentary films.

Robert Penn Warren Professor, Louisiana State University

Faculty teaching and scholarship awards at Louisiana State University and Penn State Named one of "The Net's Hottest Columnists," a “Pioneer of Popular Culture” Since 1986, the “Emily Toth Award” (Popular Culture Association) honors the best book each year in women’s studies and popular culture.