Margaret Toth, PHD

Education

PHD, Tufts University
MA, Boston College
BA, College of Wooster

Research

I am currently conducting archive research for a book manuscript on the early-twentieth-century author María Cristina Mena and her relationship to various modernist circles. I'm also working on several essays on Edith Wharton, modernism, and material culture. 

Professional Experience

  Assistant Professor, Manhattan College (2008-present)

Publications & Professional Activities

• "Staged Bodies: Passing, Performance, and Masquerade in Charles W. Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars." MELUS 37.4 (Winter 2012): 69-91.
• "Race and Imperialism." Edith Wharton In Context. Ed. Laura Rattray. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012.
• “Framing the Body:  Imperialism and Visual Discourse in María Cristina Mena’s Short Fiction.”  Legacy:  A Journal of American Women Writers 26.1 (2009): 92-118.
• “Decolonizing Pedagogy:  Teaching Louise Erdrich’s The Bingo Palace.”  Studies in American Indian Literatures 19.1 (Spring, 2007):  91-116.
• "María Cristina Mena, Transnationalism, and Mass Media: Untold Stories in the Archive." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Forthcoming.
• Introduction and Edition of "My Protocol for Our Sister Americas" (1943) by María Cristina Chambers (née Mena). Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Forthcoming.

Conference Papers:

• October 2012, "Writing, Revising, Belonging: María Cristina Mena and Authorship." The Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Denver
• June 2012, "Edith Wharton and Orientalism." Edith Wharton in Florence: A Sesquicentennial Conference, Florence, Italy
• November 2010, “Visual Media and African-American Modernism.” MELUS Panel. SAMLA, Atlanta
• October 2009, “Diets, Corsets, and the Technologically-Produced Image: Wharton and Women’s Visual Cultures.” Edith Wharton Society Panel. Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia
• June 2009, Invited Talk. “Seeing (And Not Believing) Archival Sources: Photography and Film of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition’s Midway.” Photography & Visual Culture Panel. Maine Women Writers Collection 50th Anniversary Symposium (Women in the Archives), Portland, ME
• February 2009,  “Remixing Memory: Paul Miller’s Rebirth of a Nation.” NEMLA,   Boston
• November 2006, “Framing the Body: Imperialism, Photography, and Visual Discourse in The Collected Stories of María Cristina Mena.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia
• May 2005, “Teaching the Ojibwe Narrative of Louise Erdrich’s The Bingo Palace.” ALA, Boston
• March 2005, “The Spectacular Evolution of Film Noir’s Femme Fatale.” Panel Organizer and Presenter. ACA/PCA, San Diego
• July 2003    “The Cannibal at Home: Wharton’s The House of Mirth.” The Edith Wharton Society International Conference, London
• May 2003    “Eating Away: Cannibalization, Starvation, and the Female Body in Wharton’s The House of Mirth.” ALA, Boston

Professional Memberships

• Modern Language Association
• Society for the Study of American Women Writers
• MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.)
• The Edith Wharton Society
• Society for Cinema & Media Studies

Grants

• Summer Research Grant, Manhattan College, 2012
  

   

• Tournées Film Festival Grant, 2010-2011

Courses Taught/Teaching

ENGL 110      College Writing

ENGL 150      Roots of Literature: Crimes and Punishments

ENGL 255      Elements of the Film

ENGL 256      Types of Film Experience: Film Noir

ENGL 306      Introduction to Literary Study

ENGL 372      American Literature to 1914

ENGL 380      Ethnic American Literature

ENGL385       Film Narrative