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Leo Marx is Senior Lecturer
and William R. Kenan Professor of American Cultural History Emeritus in
the Program in Science, Technology, and
Society at MIT. He received his B.A. (History and Literature,
1941) and his Ph.D. (History of American Civilization, 1950) from Harvard
University. He taught at the University of Minnesota and Amherst
College before coming to MIT in 1976. He has three times been a Fulbright
Lecturer in Europe, twice a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Rockefeller Fellow.
In October 2002 he received the Leonardo Da Vinci Medal from the Society
for the History of Technology, the highest recognition bestowed by that
organization. Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology
and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define
the area of American studies concerned with the connections between scientific
and technological advances, and the way society and culture both shape
these changes and are shaped by them.
He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, President of the American Studies Association, and chair of the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association. His work examines the relationship between technology and culture in 19th and 20th century America. He is the author of many books, including The Machine in the Garden (1967), The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Society in America (1988), and editor, with Merritt Roe Smith, of Does Technology Drive History? (1994). |
Links:"The Pandering Landscape: On the Illusory Separateness of American Nature," a paper by Leo Marx, presented at the Harvard Seminar on Environmental Values, December 6, 2000.
Listing of Marx's books carried by the MIT Press Bookstore in Cambridge, Mass., including brief descriptions.
Announcement of establishment of a new professorship named in honor of Professor Emeritus Leo Marx at MIT.
Description of Progress: Fact or Illusion? at the University of Michigan Press (1996).
"The Struggle Over Thoreau," a two-part review essay by Leo Marx, reprinted from The New York Review of Books, June 24, 1999.
Bibliography of books and articles by Leo Marx in The New York Review of Books.
Leo Marx, "American Studies: A Defense of an Unscientific Method," New Literary History (1969).
Updated December 24, 2002