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Professor Margaret Toth Visiting Assistant Professor of English

 

Education:

• B.A., English and Classical Studies, The College of Wooster, 1997.
• M.A., English, Boston College, 2001.
• Ph.D., English, Tufts University, 2009.

Research and Scholarly Interests:

19^th, 20^th and 21^st century American literature and visual culture; Multicultural literature; Film studies;  Literary and Cultural theory;  Post-colonial literature and theory; New Modernist Studies.

Publications:

“Framing the Body:  Imperialism and Visual Discourse in Maria Cristina Mena’s Short Fiction.”  Legacy:  A Journal of American Women Writers 26.1 (2009): 92-118.

Three chapters (“Love and Lust,” “Vengeance and Forgiveness,” and “Greed, Gluttony, and Generosity”) in the Instructor’s Resource Manual for Connections:  Critical Explorations of Vice, Virtue, and Human Nature.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, (forthcoming, 2008).

“Decolonizing Pedagogy:  Teaching Louise Erdrich’s The Bingo Palace.”  Studies in American Indian Literatures 19.1 (Spring, 2007):  91-116.

Instructor’s Manual for The Generation of Ideas:  A Thematic Reader.  Boston:  Thomson Wadsworth, 2005.

 

Courses Taught/Teaching:

• ENGL 110:  College Writing
• ENGL 253: Masterworks of American Literature: Modernism/Postmodernism
• ENGL 255: Elements of Film
• ENGL 285:  Literary New York

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 862-7369
• Office: Miguel 408
• Fax: (718) 862-8044
• e-mail: margaret.toth@manhattan.edu

 

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