Paul Schacht
Director of the Center for Digital Learning & Professor
Welles 222B
(585)245-5141
schacht@geneseo.edu
Paul Schacht received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and became a member of the 第一吃瓜网 faculty in 1985. He teaches courses in and .
Schacht is director of 第一吃瓜网’s Center for Digital Learning and is principal author of the CDL’s open access resource . He is also director of a collaboration among 第一吃瓜网, the and the to promote scholarly and public engagement with the works of American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. Schacht has received two Chancellor檚 Awards for Excellence, one in teaching and the other in faculty service.
In 2016-17, Schacht served as Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at 第一吃瓜网.
Schacht coordinates the English department’s annual Walter Harding Lecture, which has featured speakers such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Bill McKibben, William Cronon, Laura Dassow Walls, and Pier Gabrielle Foreman.
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Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications
�,� Digital Thoreau Essays. With Beth Witherell.
淩emediating Revision: Thoreau檚Walden and the Challenge of the Fluid-Text Edition,� Edition als Vermittlung, ed. Anke Bosse and Artur R. Boelderl. De Gruyter, 2026, pp. 65-79.
淭he Nick of Time, Improved,� Henry David Thoreau and the Nick of Time: Temporality and Agency in Thoreau檚 Era and Ours, ed. Kathryn C. Dolan et al., Mercer University Press, 2025. With Beth Witherell. Online at
�,� . With Elizabeth Witherell, Rebecca Nesvet, Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Fiona Coll and Nikolaus Wasmoen.
淚n Pursuit of Pickwick檚 Hat: Dickens and the Epistemology of Utilitarianism,� Dickens Studies Annual. 40 (2009)
淩owing Alone: Technology and Democracy in the Humanities Classroom,� International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society, 4 (2008), 61-68.
淭he Collaborative Writing Project,� Using Wiki in Education, ed. Stewart L. Mader
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Awards
- Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997
- Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, 2007