Michael Reder is the director of Connecticut College’s Center for Teaching & Learning. He sits on the Core Committee of the executive board of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), an international professional organization for faculty developers and people running centers for teaching and learning. Within POD, he chairs the Small Colleges Committee, and runs a variety of workshops on small-college teaching and learning, including starting successful centers and creating programs that address the needs of untenured faculty. He has served on the faculty of the National Institute for New Faculty Developers (NINFD) and on the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Management Development Program (MDP).
Reder serves on the advisory boards of Essays in Teaching Excellence and Thriving in Academe, and on the editorial board of Innovative Higher Education. He has published articles on faculty development at small colleges, on supporting early career faculty, on the prudent use of technology in teaching, and on writing. He consults regularly with small liberal arts colleges starting or enhancing their faculty development programs. Reder teaches courses on contemporary literature, culture, and theory in the English Department. He is the author of several chapters on Salman Rushdie, and is the editor of Conversations with Salman Rushdie, a collection of interviews.