Miriam K. Starkman

Miriam Kosh Starkman (May 31, 1916 – April 12, 2000) 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 (1962) and Seventeenth-Century English Poetry (1967). Biography Miriam Kosh Starkman was born on May 31, 1916, in Płock, a Polish city at the time occupied by the German Empire,

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. She also had visiting professor positions at Columbia (1957-1958), University of Wisconsin, Madison (1963), and TAU (1972). 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 had one child with his husband Philip J. Starkman.