Can Art Save the Environment?

Join us to explore how a Theater professor and an English professor approach environmental issues, from their respective disciplines, in their FYE Scribner Seminar courses. Can literature save the environment? In what ways can theater represent, illuminate, and intervene in the processes of climate change? Dr. Jackson-Schebetta will share hands-on activities through which students are connecting science, activism, and art in and beyond the classroom. Dr. Marx will share examples of writings from John Muir, Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, and Dr. Seuss.

Presented by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, Associate Professor and Chair, Theater and Michael Marx, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, English

Michael Steven Marx is an associate professor of English at Skidmore.   In addition to serving as the director of Expository Writing and the Associate Chair of the English Department, he is a past director for the Environmental Studies and Sciences Program.  Michael developed the study of environmental literature and nature writing at Skidmore.   Along with courses under the title "Literature and the Environment," he has taught "Race, Place, and Environmental Literature" and "Ecocriticsim: The Greening of Reading."

Dr. Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (she/her/hers) is associate professor and Chair of Theater at Skidmore College.  An award winning scholar and theater artist, her research centers on histories and theories of performance and theatre in the Americas, Latin America, and Spain.  Her current book project explores intersections between peace-making, performance, and ecological justice in contemporary Colombia.