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:

• SSP 100: Human Dilemmas
• SSP 100: Can Literature Save the Environment?
  
• EN 103: Writing Seminar I
• EN 105: Writing Technology
• EN 105: News Literacy
• EN 201: Evolving Canon I
• EN 205: Writing Hypertext
• EN 213: Poetry
• EN 229: Literature and the Environment
• EN 375: Ecocriticism

Professional Accomplishments:

• 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.]
• "Bringing Tutorials to a Close: Counseling's Termination Process and The Writing Tutorial." The Writing Center Journal (Spring 1991).     
• "Distant Writers, Distant Critics, and Close Readings: Linking Composition Classes Through A Peer Critiquing Network." Computers and Composition (November 1990).