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. She is also a writer, including as a columnist and several books and papers on American writer Kate Chopin.

Activism

In 1977 Toth became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.

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.

Other writings

In addition to her books, Emily Toth has published over 300 articles, reviews, and columns. She has presented at over 300 conferences in six countries.

She also writes "Ms. Mentor", a monthly column for the Career Network in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Her column began appearing in August 1998.

She also contributes "Nothing But the Toth", a bimonthly column on writing, books, food, secrets, and more, in an online journal: http://www.talkingwriting.com

Awards and recognitions

Toth has been the recipient of 12 local or national grants. She has appeared in four documentary films.

She currently serves as the Robert Penn Warren Professor at Louisiana State University. There and at Penn State, she has received various faculty teaching and scholarship awards. She has also been named one of "The Net's Hottest Columnists", and a "Pioneer of Popular Culture". Since 1986, the "Emily Toth Award" from the Popular Culture Association honors the best book each year in women's studies and popular culture.