Female Wits
Emily Toth
Thursday, 24 Jan 1980 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Emily Toth is Assistant Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. A graduate of Swathmore College, Professor Toth received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Before joining the staff at Penn State, she taught at the University of North Dakota, the University of New Orleans, and Morgan state College. In addition to her many honors and awards, she was noted in the 1979 edition of Who's Who of American Women. Some of Professor Toth's professional activities included membership in the Author's Guild and the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages. Formerly the editor of Regionalism and the Female Imaginations, she has edited and written several books including A Kate Chopin Miscellany and the soon-to-be-published Female Wits, a study of humor in American women's writings.Part of the National Affairs Series: Humor in America.
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