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:

• “Writing In Museums". Teaching and Learning with Museum Exhibitions: Innovations across the Disciplines. 2020. Saratoga Springs: Tang Teaching Museum.
• ‘From consciousness to conscience:  "Can literature save the environment?"’ Virtual Celebration Weekend,  Skidmore College, October 2021.
• “Connectiong Worlds:  Study Abroad in the 21st Century. Reconnetion the Studey Abroad Experiece to Home Institutios.”  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 “The Pedagogy of Place:  Seeing the Forest for More than the Trees.” 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.