 Professor of EnglishDirector, Service Learning Office: Hellems 146 Telephone: 303-492-8945 E-mail: Martin.Bickman@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Nineteenth-century American literature; pedagogy
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1974
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1973
M.A.T., Harvard University, 1969
B.A., Amherst College, 1967
Publications
Books
Minding American Education: Reclaiming the Tradition of Active Learning. Teachers College Press of Columbia University, 2003
Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education. Preface by Jonathan Kozol. Houghton Mifflin, 1999
Walden: Volatile Truths. Macmillan, 1992
Co-auth. and co-ed., Approaches to Teaching Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick." Modern Language Association, 1985.
The Unsounded Centre: Jungian Studies in American Romanticism. Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1980. Second edition, retitled American Romantic Psychology: Poe, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville. Spring Publications, 1988.
Essays
“Seeing What I Say: Emerson, Berthoff, and the Dialectical Notebook.” Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism and Pedagogy 51 (2004)
“Moving from the Margins.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature Language, Composition, and Culture 4 (Winter 2004): 141-50
"Reforming All the Time: Recuperating the Tradition of the Active Mind for Teacher Education." Phi Delta Kappan, December 2000
"Teaching Melville's Texts, Melville's Texts Teaching." Leviathan, October 2000
"Transcendentalism." Dictionary of Literary Biography: The American Renaissance in New England. Ed. Wesley Mott. Gale, 2000
"Reinventing the Whale: Teaching Moby-Dick as Aesthetic Experience." Melville Society Extracts, June 1999
"Thinking Toward Utopia: Reconstructing the Tradition of the Active Mind." Phi Delta Kappan, September 1998
"Teaching Teaching: Construction and Reflection in the Classroom." Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy, Spring/Fall 1995.
"From Emerson to Dewey: The Fate of Freedom in American Education." American Literary History, Fall 1994
"'The Turn of His Sentences': The Open Form of Emerson's Essays: First Series." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 1st and 2nd Quarters, 1988
"Melville and the Mind." A Companion to Melville Studies. Ed. John Bryant. Greenwood Press, 1986
"'The Snow that never drifts': Dickinson's Slant of Language." College Literature, Spring 1983
"Kora in Heaven: Love and Death in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson." Dickinson Studies, Second Half, 1977
"Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness: Form and Content." Science-Fiction Studies, March 1977. Rpt. in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness: Modern Critical Perspectives. Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1987
"The Occult in American Romanticism." Literature and the Occult. Ed. Luanne Frank. Univ. of Texas Press, 1977
"Animatopoeia: Morella as Siren of the Self." Poe Studies, December 1975
"Flawed Words and Stubborn Sounds: Another Look at Structure and Meaning in Walden." Southern Humanities Review, Spring 1974
Selected honors and awards
Best Should Teach Gold Award, 2004
Outstanding Book Award, Curriculum Division of the American Education Research Association, 2004
University of Colorado Creating Community Award, 2002
Nominee, CASE Professor of the Year, 2001, 2002
Nominee, Carnegie US Professor of the Year, 1995
President's Teaching Scholar, CU Boulder, 1988-
Faculty Teaching Lectureship, CU Boulder, 1987-88
Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching Award, 1984
Theodore Christian Hoepfner Prize, Southern Humanities Review, 1974
Current projects
A book on the intersection of pedagogical theory and radical politics in the American 1960s
Article on the relations among Emerson, Proust, reading, and pedagogy