Miriam Kosh Starkman

Miriam Kosh Starkman was an American literary scholar. A professor at Queens College and 1962 Guggenheim Fellow, she published the book Swift's Satire on Learning and the edited volumes Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings of Jonathan Swift and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry.

Biography

Miriam Kosh Starkman was born on May 31, 1916, in Płock, a Polish city at the time occupied by the German Empire, daughter of Deborah, as well as her MA and PhD from Columbia University. Her doctoral dissertation was titled Swift's satire on learning in A Tale of a Tub.
In 1944, she moved to Queens College in a teaching position, and was promoted from instructor to assistant professor in the 1950s, before being promoted to associate professor in the early 1960s. In 1965, she was promoted to full professor.
She was a Ford Foundation Fellow in the 1950s. She was a 1962-1963 Fulbright Scholar at Tel Aviv University. She also had visiting professor positions at Columbia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and TAU. She served as chair of the International Exchange of Persons Advisory Screening Committee from 1966 to 1967.
In 1950, she released Swift's Satire on Learning, a monograph on Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub. In 1962, she was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow to study the history of religious poetry. She was the editor of Bantam Books' 1962 collection of Swift works named Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings, as well as a 1967 poetry compilation titled Seventeenth-Century English Poetry. In 1967, she was a delegate to Swift's tercentenary celebrations in Dublin.
She became a naturalized American citizen in 1927. She had one child with his husband Philip J. Starkman. She lived in Forest Hills, Queens. She died on April 12, 2000.