Academic CV

MARGARET (MEG) TOTH

Writer, Editor, Researcher, Learning Specialist

EDUCATION

• Ph.D.   Tufts University, English

• M.A.    Boston College, English

• B.A.    The College of Wooster, English & Classical Studies

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Aug. 2008-May 2024

• Professor, Manhattan College (2019-2024)

• Associate Professor, Manhattan College (2014-2019)

• Assistant Professor, Manhattan College (2010-2014)

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Manhattan College (2008-2010)

Aug. 2013-May 2024

• Founder & Director, Film Studies minor, Manhattan College

2023-24 courses: Feminism & Film; Adaptation Studies; Film Noir: Landscapes of Gender, Sexuality, Race, & Class; The Short Story: American Gothic; Intro. to Film Studies

 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES

• Managing Editor, Early American Studies, September 2024-present

• Assistant Editor/Reader, Conjunctions Magazine, July 2023-present

• Editorial Board Member, Shirley Jackson Studies, 2022-present

• Consultant, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 2016-present

• Co-Director (with Dr. Jay Jessee), Edith Wharton in New York: An International Conference, July 2020

• Member-at-Large, Executive Board of the Edith Wharton Society: 2021-2023; 2016-2018

• Peer Reviewer and/or Consultant for the following journals: Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature; African-American Review; Adaptation (Oxford); The Edith Wharton Review; MELUS: Multiethnic Literatures of the United States; and MFS: Modern Fiction Studies.

SELECT HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS

• Artist-in-Residence (Fiction), Ragdale, August 2024

• Cultivation Grant, The Recovery Hub of American Women Writers, 2023-2024

• The Costello Excellence in Teaching Award (nominated 2013-2024)

• Pushcart Prize Nomination, Fall 2023

• PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers Nomination, Fall 2023

• Winterthur Short-Term Residential Fellowship, May 2022

• Remote Scholar Fellowship, NYU, Faculty Resource Network, Spring 2022

• Scholar-in-Residence, NYU, Faculty Resource Network, Fall 2021

• Two-Week Residency, The Wellstone Center in the Redwoods (Fiction), Fall 2021

• Winterthur Short-Term Residential Fellowship, April 2016

• Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship, Indiana University, March 2016

SELECT CONFERENCE PAPERS & TALKS (Past Ten Years)

• June 2022, “1940s Domestic Noir: Adapting Elisabeth Sanxay Holding’s The Blank Wall.” The Association of Adaptation Studies, Lisbon, Portugal

• June 2021, “Dark Journeys: Adapting Women’s Noir Fiction from the 1940s.” The Association of Adaptation Studies, Edinburgh, Scotland (virtual)

• November 2018, “The Age of Cinema: Edith Wharton’s Dialogue with Film.” The Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Denver, CO

• July 2017, “Entering Middlebrow Territory: Edith Wharton’s The Glimpses of the Moon and its Commercial Afterlives.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers’ International Conference. Bordeaux, France

• June 2016, “Modern Visions: Clairvoyance and New Spiritualism in Wharton’s Post-War Fiction.” Wharton in Washington. Edith Wharton Society. Washington, D.C.

• May 2016, Invited Panelist, "Staging Spirituality: Wharton and Orientalist Material Culture." Edith Wharton Society Panel. The American Literature Association, San Francisco.

• November 2015, “Seeing Edith Wharton’s Ghosts.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia

• June 2014, “Authorial Reinvention: María Cristina Mena and Middlebrow Writing.” Inventing the Middlebrow Conference, St. Paul, MN

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• The Society for the Study of American Women Writers

• The Edith Wharton Society

• The Association of Adaptation Studies