Steven Marx

English Department

Cal Poly University

San Luis Obispo CA 93407

(805) 756-2411

smarx@calpoly.edu

http://cola.calpoly.edu/~smarx/

EDUCATION:

Ph. D. in English, Stanford University, l981
B. A. Columbia University, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude , 1963

TEACHING:

Assistant/Associate/ Professor of English, Cal Poly University, 1988-present

[Undergraduate and graduate courses in Ecoliterature, Cal Poly Land, Shakespeare, the Bible as literature, Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, Romantic and Modern literature, Multimedia Blake and Ethnic American literature]

Lecturer in English and Western Culture, Stanford, 1984-1988

[Literature and the Arts in Western Culture; freshman composition;

Shakespeare; Seminar in "Humanism, Militarism and Pacifism"]

Instructor in English, Scripps College, Claremont CA, 1982-1984

[Freshman composition: "Language, Gender and Power"]

Instructor in English, Skyline College, San Bruno CA, 198l-1982
Instructor in English, Malaspina College, Powell River, B.C., 1976-1979
Instructor in English, Capilano College, North Vancouver, B.C., 1973-1975
Assistant Professor of English, Columbia University, 1967-1970

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
- Books
  - Cal Poly Land: A Field Guide 2003
  - Shakespeare and the Bible Oxford University Press, 2000; [Japanese translation September 2001]
  - Youth Against Age: Generational Strife in Renaissance Poetry Peter Lang Publishing. New York and Bern, l985.
- "Shakespeare's Clout: Political Capital and Renaissance Drama" at Bainbridge Island Humanities Institute Spring 2005
- Ada Redmond Reader at Whitworth College: "Shakespeare and the Bible" October 2001

"The Towers: Reflections on September 11"--multimedia presentation to Cal Poly memorial--September 2001
Guest Editor, Moebius: A Journal of the Liberal Arts, Sustainability Issue, Fall 2004
"Greenaway's Books,"Early Modern Literary Studies September 2001--
"The Place of a University: The Cal Poly Land Project" -- Multimedia Presentor and Chair of Panel at Conference of ASLE, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment--June 2001
"A Masque of Revelation: The Tempest as Apocalypse"--Presentation to the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, June 2000
"Natural Capitalism by Amory Lovins, a Book that Counts," presentation to Books at High Noon, Cal Poly January 2001

Triangulating Shakespeare [multimedia website on teaching Shakespeare--presented to Shakespeare Association of America, 2000]
"Moses and Machiavellism," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Fall 1997
"Progeny: Prospero's Books, Genesis, and The Tempest," Renaissance Forum Vol. 1 #2
"Holy War in Henry V," Shakespeare Survey 48, Nov./Dec. 1995, reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism Gale Publications, 1996
"The Path of Totality" [novella]

The Blake Multimedia Project

"Northrop Frye's Bible," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Winter 1994
"A Problem in Rhetoric: Teaching Writing with Western Culture," in The Canon and the Core, The University of North Texas Press, 1993.
Initiatory Lecture The American Scholar Lecture Series, Cal Poly University,October 21 1993
"The Prophet Disarmed: Milton and the Quakers," Studies in English Literature 1500-1800 Winter 1992.
"Priesthoods and Power: Some Thoughts on Diablo Canyon," in Mapping American Culture, University of Iowa Press, 1992.
"Shakespeare's Pacifism." Renaissance Quarterly Spring 1992.
"Why Care?"--An Address to Holocaust Memorial Gathering April 1990
"Beyond Hibernation: Ralph Ellison's 1981 Edition of Invisible Man." Black American Literature Forum, Winter l989.
"Teaching in the School of Donne: Metaphysical Poetry and English Composition," in Approaches to Teaching the Metaphysical Poets, MLA Publications, 1990"
"'Everything's Dead but the Tree'"--A lecture to the Western Culture Program at Stanford
"Present Perfect: Stanford's Durand Oak," The Stanford Magazine [photoessay] December l986.
"Fortunate Senex: The Pastoral of Old Age," Studies in English Literature, Spring l985.
Mosaic I, Mosaic II. New York, Random House, 1985 [co-authored ESL texts].

THEATRICAL DIRECTION:

Twelfth Night, English 510 Players, 1989 [click title for movie]
Macbeth, English 510 Players, 1992 [click title for movie]
The Winter's Tale, English 510 Players, 1994 [click title for movie]
Measure for Measure, English 510 Players, 1998 [click title for website]

SERVICE

Organizer: Cal Poly Sustainability: Earth Day 2005
Organizer: "Sustainability and the Future of the Polytechnic University," A University Centennial Program featuring Amory Lovins March 2002
Organizer: "Education for Sustainability: Engaging the Polytechnic University" A University Convocation featuring David Orr, April 2004
Faculty Senate representative to Campus Planning
Committee--1996-2003
Author-Editor, Natural Resources Task Force for Campus Master Plan
Coordinator, Cal Poly Land Centennial Seminar, Cal Poly Land Project
Member, Campus Sustainability Initiative
CLA PSSI committee--procedures--1997
CLA FMI committee--appeals--1998
CLA Faculty Leave Committee--2000-present
English Department major advisor--1995-2000
English Department minor advisor--1995-present
English Department Core Committee--1998-present

AWARDS:

CSU Systemwide Quality Improvement Award
Quest for the Best Faculty Mentor Award 2003
Cal Poly College of Liberal Arts Scholar of the Year Award June 2002
Provost's Faculty Centennial Seminar Grant 2000-2001
State Faculty Support Grant, Cal Poly University, l996
Cal Poly Distinguished Professor Award 1994
NEH Summer Seminar Yale 1993, "The Bible as Literature: Theory and Practise"
State Faculty Support Grant, Cal Poly University, Summer 1991
CARE Grant, Cal Poly University, Autumn 1990
NEH Summer Seminar Berkeley 1989, "The New Historicism: Shakespeare"