Interview with Ruth McAdams

Interview with Ruth McAdams

November 17, 2022

Saratoga Labor History Digital Archive

Ruth M. McAdams is a Senior Teaching Professor in the English Department at Skidmore College, where she has taught courses in literature and writing since 2017. She is a scholar of Victorian literature with a PhD from the University of Michigan. She has written many articles for scholarly journals and has a book under contract with Edinburgh University Press. She grew up in Chicago, and has also lived in Philadelphia, Edinburgh (Scotland), Ann Arbor (MI), Atlanta, and Istanbul (Turkey), as well as Saratoga Springs. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, running, and playing the oboe. She was one of the lead organizers of the successful campaign to unionize Skidmore’s non-tenure-track faculty in September 2022. She is currently serving on the Negotiating Committee of Skidmore Faculty Forward, SEIU Local200 United.

English

Eric Morser

Oral History

Sam Stiefel '24 and John Sveen '24

Ruth McAdams

Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Audio recording

1:03:49

August 11, 2023