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Emily Toth, a Robert Penn Warren Professor of English and Women's Studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, is a scholar, novelist, advice columnist, and feminist activist. She earned her PhD from Johns Hopkins University. Toth's scholarly work includes over 300 articles and papers about academic mentoring, Louisiana literature and culture, women's humor, and music; biographies of the American women writers Kate Chopin and Grace Metalious; a cultural history of menstruation; edited collections of Chopin's papers and last short story collection, and a volume of essays about regionalism in women's writing. Toth's historical novel Daughters of New Orleans (1983) was named a "Best Feminist Historical Novel" by Romantic Times in 1984. Toth was also the founder and editor of the journal Regionalism and the Female Imagination (formerly The Kate Chopin Newsletter) from 1975-1979 and on the editorial board of the journal Southern Studies. Activism Since 1977, Toth has been an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP), an American nonprofit publishing organization that works to increase communication between women and connect the public with women-based media. Books Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2008. Inside Peyton Place: the Life of Grace Metalious. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000, updated from 1981. Sold to Fox 2000 and Sandra Bullock for the film, Grace and Kitty. Unveiling Kate Chopin Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999. Published for the centennial of Chopin's The Awakening. Kate Chopin's Private Papers(edited with Per Seyersted and Cheyenne Bonnell). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1997. (currently on its third printing) Kate Chopin (biography). New York: William Morrow, 1990. Paperback: Austin: Univ. of Texas, 1993. Nominated for a 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, 1976. Updated edition, 1988. Regionalism and the Female Imagination (edited essays). New York: Human Sciences Press, 1985. Daughters of New Orleans (historical novel). New York: Bantam, 1983. Named one of three "Best Feminist Historical Novels" by Romantic Times (Fall, 1984).* A Kate Chopin Miscellany (letters, diaries, essays). Associate editor, with Per Seyersted. Natchitoches, LA: Northwestern State University Press and Oslo, Norway: Universitetsforlaget, 1979. Other writings Toth wrote the monthly advice column Ms. Mentor, a monthly column for the Career Network in The Chronicle of Higher Education from 1998 to 2017. For her work as Ms. Mentor, Toth was named one of "The Net's Hottest Columnists" by Content Spotlight (June 19, 2000). The best of Toth's Ms. Mentor column is collected in Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia (now in its third printing) and Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia Archived 2017-02-20 at the Wayback Machine, both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Toth has published over 300 articles, reviews, and columns about women writers and popular and regional culture in academic and literary journals including The Massachusetts Review, The Women's Review of Books, The Southern Review, The Southern Quarterly, Southern Studies, and The Journal of American Culture), and in popular periodicals including Ms., USA Today, The Washington Post Book World, and The Times-Picayune (New Orleans). Toth has also presented her work at over 300 conferences in six countries. Scholarly articles Toth, Emily (1990). "Developing Political Savvy- Many Misadventures Later". Women's Studies Quarterly. 18 (3/4): 147–152. JSTOR 40003184. Toth, Emily (1981). "Female Wits". The Massachusetts Review. 22 (4): 783–793. JSTOR 25089227. Toth, Emily (1985). "Forbidden Jokes and Naughty Ladies". Studies in American Humor. 4 (1/2): 7–17. JSTOR 42573207. Toth, Emily (1975). "The Independent Woman and "Free" Love". The Massachusetts Review. 16 (4): 647–664. JSTOR 25088592. Toth, Emily (1991). "Kate Chopin on Divine Love and Suicide: Two Rediscovered Articles". American Literature. 63 (1): 115–121. doi:10.2307/2926566. JSTOR 2926566. Other Toth, Emily (1992). "Aborting Operation Rescue: We Did It and So can You". Off Our Backs. 22 (9): 11–18. JSTOR 20834224. Toth, Emily (2002). "Common-Sense Columnist: Ann Landers Taught Self-Respect to Generations of Women". The Women's Review of Books. 19 (12): 6–7. doi:10.2307/4024053. JSTOR 4024053. Toth, Emily (1985). "CRISIS ALERT: Kate Chopin House in St. Louis". Legacy. 2 (1): 13. JSTOR 25678924. Toth, Emily (1999). "Emily Toth Thanks Kate Chopin". The Women's Review of Books. 16 (10/11): 34. doi:10.2307/4023250. JSTOR 4023250. Toth, Emily; Kerbs, Paula (2008). "Ms. Mentor Unmasked". Academe. 94 (1): 30–33. JSTOR 40253611. “Nice Protestant Girl Dispenses Advice? Oy Vey!, A.” USA Today. 30 July 2003. 13. Toth, Emily (1982). "Students don't know they're oppressed". Off Our Backs. 12 (5): 3–4. JSTOR 25774425. “A Woman's Place Is Everyplace...” The Women's Review of Books, vol. 7, no. 5, 1990. 28. “Women's Studies.” Off Our Backs, vol. 7, no. 2, 1977. 23. Book reviews “Absolutely Flabulous: Fat! So? by Marilyn Wann, Radiance: The Magazine for Large Women edited by Alice Ansfield, and Mode Magazine edited by Corynne Corbett.” Women's Review of Books, Jan 2001, Vol. 18, Issue 4. 19. “Bringing up Billy: Leading with My Heart: My Life by Virginia Kelley and James Morgan.” The Women's Review of Books, vol. 12, no. 1, 1994, 27. “Review of The Belle Gone Bad: White Southern Women Writers and the Dark Seductress by Betina Entzminger.” South Central Review, vol. 22, no. 1, 2005, 120–122. “Collections: Four by Susan Koppelman.” Off Our Backs, vol. 17, no. 4, 1987. 19. “Cosmo vs. Ms.: Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurly Brown by Jennifer Scanlon.” Women's Review of Books. Jan/Feb 2010, Vol. 27, Issue 1. 26-27. “Country Queens: Patsy: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline by Margaret Jones and Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business by Dolly Parton” The Women's Review of Books, vol. 12, no. 6, 1995. 24–25. “Dishing with the Girls, Oops, the Women: Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause by The Boston Women's Health Book Collective and I Feel Bad about My Neck, and Other Thoughts about Being a Woman by Nora Ephron.” The Women's Review of Books, vol. 24, no. 2, 2007. 16–18. “Fantasy Lives: Deep in the Heart of Texas: Reflections of Former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders by Suzette Scholz, Stephanie Scholz, Sheri Scholz, and John Tullius, The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour, and Tragedy by Clarice Stasz, and Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepb.... Discover the Ann Petry Farah Jasmine Griffin popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ann Petry Farah Jasmine Griffin books.