Michael Marx
Associate Professor
Director, Expository Writing
A.B., Columbia University
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Office: Palamountain 320
Phone: (518) 580-5173
Email: mmarx@skidmore.edu
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Nature writing and environmental literature
- Rhetoric and composition
- Writing and technology
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
Courses Taught:
- EN 103: Writing Seminar I
- EN 105: Writing Seminar II (multiple themes)
- EN 105H: Writing Seminar II, Honors
- EN 201: Evolving Canon I
- EN 205: Writing Hypertext
- EN 213: Poetry
- EN 224: Literature and the Environment
- EN 230: Bible as Literature
- EN 375: Ecocriticism
- EN 375: Race and Nature
- SSP 100: Human Dilemmas
- SSP 100: Can Literature Save the Environment?
Professional Accomplishments:
- 鈥淲riting In Museums". Teaching and Learning with Museum Exhibitions: Innovations across the Disciplines. 2020. Saratoga Springs: Tang Teaching Museum.
- 鈥楩rom consciousness to conscience: "Can literature save the environment?"鈥� Virtual Celebration Weekend, Skidmore College, October 2021.
- 鈥淐onnectiong Worlds: Study Abroad in the 21st Century. Reconnetion the Studey Abroad Experiece to Home Institutios.鈥� DIS Interantional Educators Workshop. March 2013.
- Cultural Diversity in the Teaching of Environmental Studies, Lunch Roundtable (co-convener). Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences 2012 conference. Santa Clara, CA.
- Bringing Diversity to Environmental Studies Programs (session organizer). Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences 2012 conference. Santa Clara, CA.
- The Pedagogy of Place: Literature for the North Woods. In the Session 鈥淭he Pedagogy of Place: Seeing the Forest for More than the Trees.鈥� Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences 2011 conference. Burlington, VT.
- AAC&U Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success. Burlington, VT
Skidmore Team member. June 2011. - Georgetown University Teagle Foundation "Fresh Thinking" Grant Working Group. "Defining Social Pedagogies and Their Relevance to Liberal Education." 2007-2009.
- New York Council for the Humanities "Reading Between the Lines: Into the American Wilderness." Scholar-Facilitator. Crandall Public Library, Glens Fall, NY. Spring 2008.
- Carnegie Scholar. Carnegie Academy for the Advancement of the Scholarship for Teaching and Learning, 2003-2004.
- "Disciplining the Minds of Students: The Study of English." Change The Magazine of Higher Learning. March/April 2005. 40-42. [One of three profiles of academic disciplines including Psychology (by Daniel Bernstein) and Biology (by Harvey Bender). 36-43.
In addition to the teaching and research interests outlined above, I have also served in many administrative positions at Skidmore College, including the Coordinator for Liberal Studies I: The Human Experience, the Director of the Writing Center, the Director of Expository Writing, the chair of the College Curriculum Committee, the chair of the Self-Determined Majors Subcommittee, and most recently, associate chair of the English Department.