Martha Wiseman

Lecturer, Director, The Philip Boshoff Writing Center

B.A., Barnard College
M.A.L.S., Skidmore College

Office: Palamountain 315
Phone: (518) 580-5144
Email: mwiseman@skidmore.edu 

Teaching and Research Interests

• Nonfiction and personal essays
• Memory and narrative
• Comparative literature of absurdity
• Film studies and film adaptation
• Portrayals of mental illness in literature and history
• Stylistics and grammar

Courses Taught

• LS1: Human Dilemmas
• EN 105: Are We Home Now?
• EN 105H: Sanity and Madness
• EN 105H: The Land of Absurdity
• EN 105: Everything Is Relatives
• EN 213: Poetry
• EN 219: Nonfiction
• EN 228: Fiction into Film
• EN 228: Film Memoir
• EN 228: Photo Essay
• EN 280: Nonfiction Workshop
• EN 303H: Peer-Tutoring Project (co-taught with Philip Boshoff)
• Master’s seminar (Skidmore MALS program, July 2010): Memory’s Mirrors

Selected Publications

• "Dr. No Meets J. Robert Oppenheimer, " personal essay, The Georgia Review 68.2 (Summer 2014).
• "In the Flesh," personal essay, The Georgia Review 65.4 (Winter 2011).
• “In Rehearsal,” personal essay, The Georgia Review 63.4 (Winter 2009).
• “My Versions of You,” personal essay, The Truth about the Fact 2.1 (Spring 2007).
• “Waking to the Night: Proust’s Dream Theater.” Marcel Proust Aujourd’hui 2 (2006).
• “A Basic Grammar of Love,” poem, Poetry East 53 (2005).
• “The Morpheus Arms,” poem, Clackamas Literary Review 8 (2004).
• “On the One Thousand and Third Night,” by Abelkebir Khatibi, translation from French, Review of the Center for the Studies of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa (CELAAN) 2.3 (2004).
• Double Vision, fiction (White Eagle Coffee Store Press, 2004).