Marshall Saenz is a PhD in Rhetoric and Writing. He has served as a Teaching Associate and Co-Coordinator of the Game Space Learning Laboratory. He earned his Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Texas-Pan American, where he focused on New Media, screenwriting, and worked as a writing center consultant. He also earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Geology at Texas A&M University-Kingsville where he engaged in research for the United States Army Corp. of Engineers and was part the university’s inaugural Geographic Information Systems certificate program.
His major dissertation work, Networks of Interaction: Investigating Writing Course Design through Fourth Generation Activity Theory and Principles of Play explorers course design through the intersections of principles of play, activity theory, and collaborative practices. His continuing research efforts explore pedagogical processes and tools that consider the rhetoric of play, multimodoality, writing, and culture. Much of these investigations explore exigencies in writing modalities and First-Year Composition (FYC).
His active teaching roles include both themed and non-themed courses including Introduction to Academic Writing, Academic Writing, and Intermediate Writing. Some of the particular themed course offerings include designs connecting procedural rhetoric found in games and play to writing, multimodal composition, and professional writing; He has also collaborated with faculty outside of English to deliver course content that connected students with writing in other departments across campus.
Service has included working as a graduate member of various departmental hiring, curriculum, and conference committees. He also worked closely with the Director of General Education through the Provost’s office to assist in matters including campus-wide collaborative programming for the Common Read program, Gen Ed course committees, transfer, course appeals, and sub-committee meetings with departmental deans and chairs.
He currently prepares to graduate from Bowling Green State University in May 2019 and seeks to join an energetic and forward thinking department where he might further collaborate with future colleagues and students.
Outside of academia, he enjoys cooking, camping, sports, craft beers, and of course, games of all kinds. He is also a dog advocate and the proud parent of a chihuahua.