
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, ۴ý 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
۴ý 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 ۴ý 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.