Marsha Carow Markman earned a Ph.D. in English Education from the University of Maryland, College Park. She taught at the George Washington University and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. before returning to her California home. She is currently Professor Emerita of California Lutheran University’s English Department, where she directed the Writing Center; the Freshman Writing program; taught a variety of courses, including, “Children’s Literature,” “The Holocaust through Literature and Film” and cross-curriculum courses with professors in the departments of Music, History, Drama and Philosophy.
Dr. Markman’s publications include: The American Journey (Volumes 1 and 2) and Writing Women’s Lives, with Drs. Susan Corey and Jonathan Boe. (The latter book includes her, “Breast Cancer Diary”). If We Dance . . . A Collection of Poems, is a collaborative effort with CLU faculty. She edited and wrote the “Introduction” to Piri Piroska Bodnar’s Holocaust memoir, Out of the Shadows; a review in The Historian (Vol. 71) of Martha Tomhave Blaufelt’s, The Work of the Heart ; “Teaching the Holocaust through Literature” in New Perspectives on the Holocaust; articles with Dr. Gordon Leighton in, College and Research Libraries News and Research Strategies; and, Do You Know Your Audience with Dr. Lorena Stone. Her poetry appears in Poetry Super Highway.
Markman has edited textbooks for Houghton Mifflin, West Publishing and Scholastic, Inc. She has lectured on the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.; UCLA’s Johnson Center Foundation; the Rotary Club; Wittenberg University; The Jewish War Veterans; and The Jewish Family Service. At Washington, D.C.’s, Gallaudet University for the deaf and hearing impaired, she introduced its faculty to dialogue journal writing, the topic of her doctoral dissertation and an integral part of her teaching career.
Other books by Marsha Markman, Jonathan Boe and Susan Corey
The American Journey
United States History Through Letters and Diaries, Volume 1
These 29 eyewitness accounts provide a unique entrance into the diversity of American society. Diaries and letters are the most reliable of firsthand sources, more so than memoirs that are long removed from the fresh experience of the past.
The American Journey
United States History Through Letters & Diaries-From Construction to Recent Times (Volume II)
These 34 eyewitness accounts provide a unique entrance into the diversity of American society. Diaries and letters are the most reliable of firsthand sources, more so than memoirs that are long removed from the fresh experience of the past.
Writing Women’s Lives
American Women’s History through Letters and Diaries
The 69 selections in this volume are for the most part the voices of women who saw themselves not as inhabiting a separate and enclosed sphere but as coworkers, often but not always in specialized female tasks, in a common enterprise: tending fields, raising children, coping with the stresses of wartime. Some of the women here have written and acted demanding full partnership in the social institutions that they were expected to sustain mostly as subordinates. Together, the entries give a rich depiction of an American womanhood that, even when perceived by husbands, politicians, and scholars as the other, was a participant in a history committed, at least in theory, to equality.
