Susan Smith Nash, Ph.D.
e-mail: smithnash@earthlink.net
CURRICULUM
VITAE
Ph.D.
in English, 1996,
1997
- 2007, Ongoing professional development / postgraduate and certificate courses
in leadership, humanities, instructional technology, instructional design,
program design and evaluation through University of Oklahoma (Norman,
Oklahoma), Union Institute/Herzen University
(Schenectady, NY), Creating Optimal Online Learning Environments (CREOLE)
6-course certificate program (Florida Community College Jacksonville and
Virginia Tech), Effective Multimedia in Online Learning (FCCJ University -
professional development certificate).
M.A. in
English, 1989,
Graduate
studies in Economics (emphasis in developmental economics), 1984-1987,
B.S. in
Geology, 1981,
Advisory Board Memberships
Board
Member, Education Committee, American Association of Petroleum Geologists
(AAPG). 2004 – present.
Books
Excellence in Teaching and Learning: Classroom and Online. (co-authored with
George Henderson).
Leadership and the e-Learning Organization. Texture Press:
On-camera
interview for Discovery Channel “History of Video Games.”
Otozna Boginja (Disconsolate Goddess). Sodobnost:
Ophelia’s
Gold. (novel) Texture Press:
http://www.learningportal.com/Detail.aspx?id=WOuEzOJLJCZd59SDD%2fLY5g%3d%3d
Lonelyhearts Pawn Shop. Light & Dust Books,
I Never Did Tell You,
Did I?: Unsent Letters. Avec Books.
Lazi Malih
Zensk (novel).
To the Uzbekistani
Soldier Who Would Not Save My Life. Avec Books, Pivotal Prose
Series.
Portret Nemirne
Americanke. (Slovenian
version of I Never
Did Tell You, Did I?: Unsent Letters)
Ayvu Membire, Susy
Delgado. Fall 2001,
Fly-Over
States of Mind.
First Light: An
Anthology of Paraguayan Women Writers, editor and translator.
Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano
/ Texture Press, 1999. Finalist for the
Tatapype, Junto al Fuego, Asuncion, Paraguay: Arandura, 1999. (English translation of Susy Delgado - Spanish and Guarani)
Reviewed
in World Literature Today.
Doomsday
Belly.
Catfishes and Jackals, Potes and
Poets Press,
Channel-Surfing the
Apocalypse, Avec Books,
A Paleontologist's
Notebook, Left Hand Books,
Dealing With Date Rape: True Stories from Survivors, Texture Press,
Selected
Articles and Book Chapters
More than 100 articles on
e-learning, published by xplanazine.com, an online journal of technology and
learning. Articles cited in several other publications, with
total of more than 150 links and citations in journals, online reviews, weblogs. Partial index of articles here: http://beyondutopia.tripod.com/xplanazine
Mobile
Learning, Cognitive Architecture and the Study of Literature, Summer 2007,
Issues in Informing Sciences, Volume 4,
http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2007/IISITv4p811-818Nash399.pdf
. Journal of Issues in Informing
Science and Information Technology (IISIT), pages 811-818. It is also listed in
the Proceedings of the 2007 Informing Science and IT Education (InSITE) conference
“Learning
Lost Along the Way? Warning Signs for an e-Learning
Organization” Chapter 7.
Advanced Principles of Effective e-Learning.
Edited by Nicole A. Buzzetto-More.
Informing Science Press, 2007, p 185-195.
“Criticism
as a Commodification Process: DuPlessis
and a Strategy of Resistance,” Spring 2007, p
56-59.
“Review
of Evie Shockley’s A Half-red sea”
Talisman, Spring 2007.
“Review
of Corinne Robins Today’s Menu” Talisman, Spring
2007.
“Resisting
the Nihilistic HyperPolitical, or, Philomela’s Revenge: Chomsky's
Tongue, Roasted” Golden Handcuffs,
Spring 2007, p 311-314.
“Realities”
(on Diane Wakoski, Emerald Ice) Talisman,
Winter 2006, p. 146-49.
“From
Cat Magic (short fiction)” Gargoyle vol
51, Fall 2006, p 248-250.
“Schubert
in Poetry: The Schubert
Papers: Lace Oval Back Heart Coming
Home; Beheld Untoward Coming; Palacio Gritful Ink Without Mark; I Die Syphilitic Young.” Schubert Society of the
“The Subtle, the Hidden, the Deliberately Concealed: Forest Gander’s A Faithful Existence” Talisman Summer/Fall 2006. Nos. 32-33: p. 190-93.
"Fighting Intrusive Thoughts Using Podcasts: A Strategy for Effective E-Learning"
InSITE Informing Sciences Proceedings. June 2006. http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2006/ProcNash137.pdf
"Pedagogically optimizing the use of weblogs
and podcasts for maximum effectiveness in online and
hybrid learning." with
Sabrina Johnson-Taylor.
“Learning
Objects, Learning Object Repositories, and Learning Theory: Preliminary Best
Practices for Online Courses” Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and
Learning Objects, Volume 1, pages 217-228. page
http://ijklo.org
(cited in 16 publications)
"When
e-Learning Crosses an Ethical Line" with companion podcast. "Inside
e-Learning" elearners.com http://community.elearners.com/blogs/inside_elearning/archive/2006/06/06/269.aspx June 6, 2006.
“The
Language(s) of Rochelle Owens,” in Triptych,
(2006). The essay
also appears at the fringejournal.com, retrieved March 10, 2006,
http://fringejournal.blogspot.com/2006_03_18_fringejournal_archive.html
“How
Can I Tell If I’ve Found a Good Online Course?” e-learners.com,
(with companion podcast) April 27, 2006.
http://community.elearners.com/blogs/elearning_expert/archive/2006/04/27/78.aspx
“Inspiring e-learners to
“Listen” to Each Other” e-learners.com, (with companion podcast) April 24, 2006. http://community.elearners.com/blogs/elearning_expert/archive/2006/04/24/41.aspx
"Serious Games and E-Learning: Where We Are Now" at Inside E-Learning at elearners.com. May 31, 2006 http://community.elearners.com/blogs/inside_elearning/archive/2006/05/31/234.aspx
Review of Riverbend's
Review
of Diana Wakoski’s Selected Poems. Talisman, Fall
2005.
“Jim
McCrary: Unbounded Portals of Being” Black Spring. Summer 2005.
Contributing
author for chapters on online / web-based composition elements, in Jane
Aaron’s Little Brown Handbook. Longman. 10th ed.
2006.
Review
of Selected Poems - Ilhan Berk,” Rain Taxi. Fall 2004.
“Review
of Burning Salt by Anna
Mockler” Rain Taxi. Fall 2004.
“Online
Courses for Active-Duty Military Personnel,” US Naval Institute
Proceedings. Accepted August 2004.
“Technology and the Adult Degree Program: The
Human Element,” Developing
and Delivering Adult Degree Programs. Ed. James P.
Pappas and Jerry Jerman. New
Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. 103:
Fall 2004, 73-79. (with Frank Rodriques).
“Stranded
Again, This Time in
“Nizami, Literary Appropriations,
and the Internet,” Contemporary Turkish Culture. 1:1 Winter 2004: 64-68.
Companion website for The
World is a Text, Jonathan Silverman, 1st ed. Prentice-Hall. http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_silverman_worldtext_1/0,6331,490765-main,00.html
Review
of Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry. ed. Todd Swift, Philip Norton. NY: Rattapallax. Winter 2004.
"New
Quality Benchmarks for Online Courses: Meshing Technology and Conceptual
Underpinnings" Selected Papers from the 15th International Conference on
College Teaching and Learning. (Received recognition). April
2004.
Links
to more than 100 articles and columns written on online education: http://www.beyondutopia.net/learning
and http://beyondutopia.tripod.com/xplanazine/
Review
of
“Successful
Online Training and Education: Lessons Learned” US Naval Institute
Proceedings. Accepted July 2003.
“Reality
Mapping with T-Mobile Sidekick: Using Low-End PDAs such as
T-Mobile’s Sidekick for Truly Mobile, Field-based Online Education” xplana.com Mobility. XPLANA.COM May 2003 http://www.xplana.com/articles/archives/T-Mobile_Sidekick-based_Online_E
“Love,
Madness, and Shakespeare: Embedded journalist and video game-inspired
collaborative strategies” xplana.com
Articles. XPLANA.COM May 2003 http://www.xplana.com/articles/archives/Shakespeare_collaborations_video
“Intro
to Online Course Development VII – Identity Construction” xplana.com Whitepapers.
XPLANA.COM April 2003 http://www.xplana.com/whitepapers/archives/Identity_Construction
“Intro
to Online Course Development VI – A Worksheet”
xplana.com Whitepapers. XPLANA.COM April 2003
http://www.xplana.com/whitepapers/archives/Dev_Worksheet
“Intro
to Online Course Development V – The New Info World” xplana.com Whitepapers.
XPLANA.COM April 2003
http://www.xplana.com/whitepapers/archives/New_Info_World
“Intro
to Online Course Development IV – The e-Learning Environment”
xplana.com Whitepapers. XPLANA.COM
April 2003
http://www.xplana.com/whitepapers/archives/Elearning_Environment
“Intro to Online Course Development III -- The Role of
Relevancy,” xplana.com Whitepapers.
XPLANA.COM April 2003 http://www.xplana.com/whitepapers/archives/Relevancy_Online_Courses
“How
the Mind Makes Meaning in e-Learning, Part I,” xplana.com Whitepapers. XPLANA.COM April 2003 http://www.xplana.com/whitepapers/archives/mind_makes_meaning_part1
“How
the Mind Makes Meaning in e-Learning, Part II” xplana.com Whitepapers. XPLANA.COM April 2003 http://www.xplana.com/whitepapers/archives/mind_makes_meaning_part2
“What Should a Good Online Course Do?”
xplana.com Whitepapers.
XPLANA.COM April 2003. http://www.xplana.com/whitepapers/archives/good_online_course
“Madonna
in Che Guevara’s Beret: Using
Pop Culture Images to Teach Students to Track the Dislocated Referent” in Integration. Xplana: Exploring How We Can Learn and Teach with Technology.
XPLANA.COM April 2003.
Review
of Burning Deck:
“Introduction
to My
Father’s Dreams” My Father’s Dreams by Evald Flisar.
“I
Write Myself Alive,” Sodobnost. December
2002.
"The
Function of Collections of Little-known National Literatures on the Internet:
The Case of Azerbaijan"
Political
Discourse: Theories of Colonialism and Post-Colonialism. George Landow, ed. U
of
Review
of Eduardo Garrigues. West of
Review
of Sheryl St. Germain. Swamp Songs:
The Making of an Unruly Woman in World Literature Today,
forthcoming.
Review
of Robert Murray Davis’ Mid-Life Mojo in World Literature Today,
forthcoming 2003.
Review
of Cydney Chadwick’s Flesh and Bone, in World Literature Today, Spring 2003.
Review
of Cheese
in Contemporary Literature Review, Fall
2002.
Review
of Victor Osojnik’s And Things Happen for the First
Time, in Rain Taxi, Summer 2002. http://www.raintaxi.com
Review
of Juan Felipe Herrera’s Giraffe on Fire in World Literature Today, Winter 2002.
“
“Female
Desire in Paraguayan Filmmakers Maneglia and Schemboir’s Artefacto de la primera
necesidad: Revenge
Fantasy, Camp, or Postdictatorship
Self-Loathing?” in Women in Contemporary World Cinema. Ed. Alexandra
Heidi Karriker.
NY: Peter Lang, 2002: 1-14.
“Defenders
of Islam or OPEC?” The Daily Oklahoman. 2
January 2002.
“Rochelle
Owens and Luca:
Discourse on Life and Death,” Rain Taxi, Vol 6, No.
4, Winter 2001/2002, 33-34.
“David
Wojahn: Strange Good Fortune” Rain Taxi online Winter
2001/2002. http://www.raintaxi.com/frame.htm
“Translating Bilingual Texts: The Guarani/Spanish
Poetics of Susy Delgado,” Talisman,
Winter/Spring 2001, 136-142.
“Poetics
// The Next Level,” 13th Moon: A Feminist Literary Magazine.
(SUNY/Albany), 138-146.
“Creativity
in an Online Course,” Syllabus, October 1999.
"Introduction
to the Work of Susy Delgado and
Notes on Translating from Spanish and Guarani"
(Spanish and English versions) "Introduction" Tatapype / Junto
al fuego.
"Current
Trends in Contemporary Poetics," Rhizome, October 1997.
"The
Poetics of Erotic Writing," Juxta Summer 1997.
"Apocalypse
and Exotic Meat," Talisman Spring 1997.
"Contemporary Innovative Writing: Post-Language
& Other Traumas" Rhizome Spring 1997.
"David Koresh, The
Branch Davidian Tragedy
and its Aftermaths: The Uses of Apocalyptic Narratives in Cultural
Texts" Perforations Issue
#7.
http://www.pd.org/topos/perforations/perf7/perf7_index.html. Fall 1996. Edited by Robert
Cheatham.
"The
Small Press and Future Literacy,"
"Apocalyptic
Enactments in the Work of Rochelle Owens," Poetics and Criticism Forum: Light
and Dust Books, online, edited by Karl Young.
http://www.thing.net. (Fall 1996).
"The
Artifice of Confession: T.E. Lawrence and Autobiographically Representing
Rape in Seven Pillars of Wisdom" T.E. Notes 6:1 (Summer 1996), 1-3.
"Revoicings:
Collaboration and Individual Art Production," Synergism ed.
Valerie Fox and Kelly McQuain.
(Philadelphia, PA: Boshi Press,
1996), 14-17.
"Dorothy
Richardson's Technologies of Gender" Witz
(Winter 1996), 2-3.
"Keeping
a Field Notebook,"
"Leslie
Scalapino and the Making of
Consciousness," Witz 6
(Spring 1996), 1-3.
"Erotic
Apocalypses in The Crow," Perforations 7 (Summer 1996), http://www.noel.pd-org/topos/perforations.
"Cultural
and Political Apocalypses in the Work of Stephen-Paul Martin" Perforations 6,
http://www.noel.pd-org/topos/perforations.
"Mainstreaming
the Apocalypse: Doomsday Narratives in
"Magic
and Mystery in Poetic Language: A Response to the Writings of Leslie Scalapino," Talisman 14
(Fall 1995), 90-100.
"Channel-Surfing
the Apocalypse: Excerpt," Talisman 14 (Fall 1995), 90-100.
"Apocalypse
as Reconnection in James Chapman's Our Plague," Juxta 4 (Fall
1995), 10-14.
"The
Rhetoric of Revelation: The Case of Biographical Representations of Michel
Foucault," ERIC copy of paper
presented at the Conference for College Composition Nashville, TN, March 1994. http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2/content_storage_01/0000000b/80/24/37/1f.pdf
"Language
Poetry: Not Fit for Human Consumption?" Juxta 1
(1994), 63-71.
"The
Observing Eye, The Observing Ear: Using Personal Experience in Writing
Instruction,"
(Spring
1994), 23-31.
"On Editing and Publishing a Small Magazine:
Saddle-Stitching Away from the Margin," Chain 1 (1994), 86-89.
"Construct
Gloved and Anthropos Texted," A
Poetics of Criticism (Buffalo, NY: Leave Books, 1994), 33-37.
"Essay-Review
of James Miller's The Passion of Michel Foucault, and Cydney
Chadwick's Enemy Clothing" To: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Visual Arts (1994),
288-292
"Science
and the Spatial in Experimental Poetics,"
"Beyond
the Language Movement: A Manifesto of Aesthetics in a Time of
Communication, Plague, and a
"Redefining
Meaning's Topographies: Poetic Language and the Female Body," Anatomy: Raw 12
(1994), 33-35.
"Introduction,"
Wolf's Clothing by Rillo,
(Barrytown, NY: Left Hand
Books, 1994), i-ix.
"AIDS
and the Avant-Garde," Talisman 11
(Fall 1993), 42-50.
"Fractal
Geometry and the Poetry of John Perlman," Witz 1:3 (Spring 1993), 1-3.
"Gustaf Sobin and the
Consolation of Imagerie," Talisman 10
(Spring 1993), 52-53.
"Death,
Decadence, and the Ironies of Language Poetics," Talisman 10
(Spring 1993), 202-06.
"An
Alien Double in Poetics," Writing from the New Coast: Technique (1993),
189-191.
"On
Visual Poetics," CORE:
A Symposium on Contemporary Visual Poetry (1993), 114-120.
"On
Camille Paglia's Sexual
Personae"
"H.D.'s Dark
Night of the Soul," The
"Stevens'
'The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm'," The Explicator 50:4
(Summer 1992), 231-232
"Paradigms
in Collision: A Few Considerations on the Nature of Geological
Controversy," The
Shale Shaker 43:1 (Nov-Dec,
1992),
2-5.
"T.
E. Lawrence and the Limits of Will," T. E. Notes 3:6 (June 1992), 1-3.
"The
Courage to Fall," The Georgia Review (Winter 1992), 794-98.
"Building and Explanation: Todorov's Minimal
Units," Aerial 5
(1989), 161-62.
"Interrogating Text and Textuality:
The Rupture of Poetics" Aerial 5 (1989), 173-176.
Online Learning:
More than 100 articles, columns, and essays on online education, instructional
design, xplana.com,
xplanazine.com, e-learning queen, and other online journals.
Literary, Film and
Cultural Criticism: More than 100 reviews, essay-review
articles, and book briefs in numerous publications, including Review of Contemporary Fiction,
Jack Magazine, World Literature Today, Georgia Review, Multicultural Review,
Central Park, Another Chicago Magazine, Weber Studies, To, Washington Review, Witz, Factsheet Five, Literary Magazine Review, Taproot
Reviews, Atelier, Lower Limit Speech.
More
than 100 poems and short stories in numerous publications, including Baku Sun (Baku, Azerbaijan), Literatyura (Baku, Azerbaijan), 2000andwhat?, Avec, Talisman, Rain City
Review, The Madison Review, Paper Air, Aerial, Branch Redd Review, Avec Sampler, Chain, Another Chicago
Magazine, Aerial, Riverrun, Gryphon, Washington Review, Juxta, Kiosk,
Black Bread Review, O-Blek, First
Intensity, Lost and Found Times, Generator, The Southern Review (Australia), Prakalpana Literature (India), Kobisena (India), tight, Aries, Central
Park, La Nación (Asunción, Paraguay).
Grammar of the
My
Love is Apocalypse and Rhinestone, Texture Press,
Liquid
A Veil in the Sand, Room Press,
Mind-Noir and El Siglo de Oro, Luna Bisonte
Productions,
Candles by Starlight:
A Selection of Works by Susan Smith Nash, Light & Dust Books
On-Line.
http://www.thing.n.../nash/1-nash-1.htm. Fall 1996.
“Mobile Learning and Great Books,” (accepted) Informing Science + Information Technology Conference (InSITE), Ljubljana , Slovenia