Emily Toth
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 Kate Chopin's papers and last short story collection, and a volume of essays about regionalism in women's writing. Toth's historical novel ''[https://www.amazon.com/Daughters-Orleans-Emily-Jane-Toth/dp/0553229273/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=daughters+of+new+orleans&qid=1589591939&s=books&sr=1-1 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 ''[https://cjhss.nsula.edu/southern-studies/ Southern Studies]''.
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