Susan Smith Nash, Ph.D.
susan@beyondutopia.com
Curriculum
Vitae
Diversified
and
creative professional, with proven track record in developing and
managing
successful programs in industry and higher education, with a focus
on
innovation and new technologies for economic, professional, and
organizational
development. I have a multi-disciplinary background which helps me
take a
creative, innovative approach to help individuals and
organizations transform
and succeed in an environment of rapid change. This involves
fast-tracking the
path from innovation to new successful start-up / roll-out.
I
like building
programs that develop human capital using solid instructional
design; topics
include economic development, energy, oil and gas, remote sensing
and analytics
(machine learning, Big Data, deep learning), leadership, writing /
humanities,
program assessment, I have 15+ years experience in online program
development
and administration.
I
consider
education as an essential element in all positive progress, and I
am diligent
in incorporating instructional design foundations, and they are
delivered in
hybrid, face to face, and virtual learning environments.
Recent
initiatives:
Applications of analytics (Big Data / AI/ Machine Learning and
Deep Learning): mature
fields, shale /
unconventionals workshops; drone / UAS technologies, analytics /
sensors,
U-Pitch pitch event for commercialization and start-up support
(innovative
ideas / technologies / opportunities meet private equity / venture
capital).
Online
/ hybrid
education: virtual learning environments, have created educational
videos,
audio, ebooks (writing, elearning success, research), learning
objects.
Platforms include Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Buzz, D2L. SoftChalk
(content
platform) and others.
Interests:
Energy
exploration and development, economic development, new
technologies,
creativity & innovation, leadership, apocalyptic narratives
(and their use
/ misuse), innovative literature, Spanish/Russian literature(s)),
art &
humanities, history and philosophy of science.
Social
/
economic development issues I am committed to: Human capital
development
through productive economic development and improved mutually
beneficial
connectivity; Creative development through the life span,
preserving legacies
(memoirs, autobiographies, immigration experiences), creating
environments to
foster innovation and teamwork.
Professional
Positions
Director
of
Innovation and Emerging Science and Technology; Director of
Education &
Prof Dev
AAPG
/ Nov 2008
– Present
Design,
develop,
and administer programs to equip and connect people with skills,
capital, and technical expertise to succeed in energy, technology,
and
innovation. Developed / managed training for online, hybrid, and
face-to-face,
with Virtual Learning Environments. Launched U-Pitch and
"Pitchapalooza" and "U-Pitch" to connect new ventures with
private capital and assist in commercialization. Leadership
initiatives /
strategic management programs; specialty initiatives in analytics
(Big Data,
machine learning), drones, supply chain. Helped launch research
centers in
China, with activities and conferences. Sustainable development
(alternative
energy, water solutions). Strategies for leveraging infrastructure
for economic
development (domestic and trade-based). Extreme emphasis on
creativity, with a
blending of science, technology, economics, and humanities.
Director
Victoria
Resources
/ Jul 2007 – Present
Resource
exploration
and development, administration, including SEC reporting, investor
relations, business development. Virtual Learning Environment
design /
e-learning services, instructional videos / scripts / course
development.
Areas: leadership, writing instruction, petroleum geology,
innovation & new
technologies.
University
of
Oklahoma Adjunct Professor / 1998 - present
Associate
Dean
/ Graduate Program / Liberal Arts
Excelsior
College
/ 2003 – 2007
University
of
Oklahoma
Online
Curriculum
Development Dir / Humanities / Human Relations Adj Professor
Director
of
Engineering & Geosciences Continuing Education
1997
– 2004
EDUCATION
AND
TRAINING
Ph.D. (1996)
University of Oklahoma
English (rhetoric and
composition)
Dissertation:
Apocalypse
in Twentieth-Century Literature, Film, and Cultural Texts: The
Persistence
and Questioning of the Messianic Vision
M.A. (1989)
University of Oklahoma
English (emphasis on
creative writing, culture, world history)
Thesis: Active Fault:
Translations and Convergences
of Geology and Poetics
B.S. (1981)
University of Oklahoma
Geology (Petroleum
Geology track)
Graduate
work
in Economics (University of Oklahoma, 1985-88 and Texas A&M,
2012) –
emphasis on Developmental Economics, Energy Economics, Strategy
Graduate
work
in Geology (University of Oklahoma) – emphasis on fine-grained
systems,
paleoecology, petroleum systems, and mass extinction events
Certificate
Programs
and Courses: Online
Instruction
/ Instructional Design Basics / CREOLE / Multimedia / Hybrid &
Online
Course Design - 2006 - 2010 (Florida State College, Troy
University, University
of Oklahoma Continuing Education); Personnel Management Series
(Cornell
University); Management and Supervising (University of Oklahoma),
Unconventional
Resources and Shale Plays, Alternative Energy (American
Association of
Petroleum Geologists), Canvas training (University of Oklahoma and
Troy
University, 2016-2017)
Languages: Spanish (full
professional proficiency);
French (intermediate written); Russian (very basic
conversational); Portuguese
(written and basic spoken).
PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
Nash,
S. S.
(2022). Review of The New World Written: Selected Poems by
Maria Baranda.
World Literature Today. March 2022. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/march/new-world-written-selected-poems-maria-baranda
Nash,
S.S.
(2021). Review of the book Another End of the World Is Possible:
Living the
Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It), by Pablo Servigne Raphaël
Stevens
Gauthier Chapelle]. World Literature Today 95(4), 92-94.
doi:10.1353/wlt.2021.0255.
Nash,
S. S.
(2021). Ontological Insecurity and Decision-Making during Black
Swan and Dragon
King Events, and COVID-19. Journal of Education, Society and
Behavioural
Science, 34(11), 187-195.
https://doi.org/10.9734/jesbs/2021/v34i1130378
https://journaljesbs.com/index.php/JESBS/article/view/30378
Nash,
S. S. .
(2021). Indeterminacy, Freedom and an Acknowledgement of the
Bronte Sisters in
Emily Dickinson’s “All Overgrown by Cunning Moss”. New Visions in
Science and
Technology Vol. 10, 109–111.
https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/nvst/v10/1616A
https://stm.bookpi.org/NVST-V10/article/view/4894
Nash,
S. S. .
(2021). Text Representation and Cognitive Processes: How the Mind
Makes Meaning
in e-Learning . New Visions in Science and Technology Vol. 10,
104–108.
https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/nvst/v10/1615A
https://stm.bookpi.org/NVST-V10/article/view/4893
Nash,
S. S. .
(2021). Thou Art the Man by Mary Elizabeth Braddon [1]: Scoundrel
Fathers,
Fugue States, and the Problematized Real in Victorian Sensation
Novels.
Selected Topics in Humanities and Social Sciences Vol. 8, 37–40.
https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/sthss/v8/14287D
Nash,
Ph.D., S.
S. (2021). F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald:
Plagiarism,
Destructive Ambition, and “Imposter Syndrome”?. IJRDO - Journal of
Social
Science and Humanities Research (ISSN: 2456-2971), 6(10), 27-30.
Retrieved from
https://ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/4611
Nash, S. S.
(2021). Introduction to
O murmurar dos Buzios e as Miudezas da Alma by Rudencio Morais.
http://elearnqueen.blogspot.com/2021/12/converging-earth-body-and-spirit-in.html
The
Nature of
Poetics (p 55) Purple
Grackle (p 56)
Marsh Hawk Review Poetry Journal, Fall 2021, https://marshhawkpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Marsh-Hawk-Review-fall-2021.pdf
Nash,
Susan
Smith (2021). Sinkhole Hazards in the U.S.: Technologies and
Techniques for
Detection, Identification, and Intervention. Revista Maya de
Geosciencias.
August 2021. Pp. 53-58.
Review of Jakarta,
by Rodrigo
Marquez Tizano. World Literature Today. Winter 2020. pp.
84-85.
Introduction
to
The Aardvark Venus: New and Selected Poems (1961 – 2020) by
Rochelle Owens.
Norman, OK: Texture Press, 2020.
Strategically
Leveraging
Infrastructure and Financing Options for Sustainable Economic
Growth
in Resource-based Economies. Co-authors: Gary Stading and Larry R.
Davis.
(2019). Journal of Education, Society, and Behavioral Sciences.
Vol 30: Issue
4. P. 1-12.
Jobs?
Better
Operations? Look Under a Different Rock.
GeoExpro. October
2019. pp.
26-28.
https://www.geoexpro.com/articles/2019/11/jobs-better-operations-look-under-a-different-rock
Featured
Review:
Carbon, by Kate Ervine. World Literature Today. Summer 2019.
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/summer/carbon-kate-ervine
The
Role of Big
Data and Machine Learning in the Integration and Implementation of
Historical,
Current, and Continuously Gathered Earth Data. Acta Geologica
Sinica (English
Edition), 2019. 93
(z1).
http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/index.aspx
Effective
Learning
Strategies in the Homes of Famous Artists and Writers Converted to
Museums. 2019. Frontiers in Education Technology. Vol 2, No. 1: p.
1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/fet.v2n1p1
Eros
and
Saudade: Languages of Love in the Poetry of Rudencio Morais. WLT Weekly. June 4,
2019.
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-reviews/eros-and-saudade-languages-love-poetry-rudencio-morais-susan-smith-nash
Daughters
of
Prometheus: A Latin American Frankenstein. WLT Weekly. April 18, 2019.
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-reviews/daughters-prometheus-latin-american-frankenstein-susan-smith-nash
Avoiding
the
“Dutch Disease” and “Resource Curse” Maladies through
Strategically Deployed
Infrastructure and Business-to-Business Economic Development
Projects (2019)
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Invention. Vol 1, No 1. p
21-23
http://jhssi.com/index.php/JHSSI/issue/view/1
http://jhssi.com/index.php/JHSSI/article/view/5/3
Review
of A
Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande. World Literature Today. Winter
2019.
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/winter/dream-called-home-reyna-grande
Revisiting
Medieval
Philosophers and their Writing: Lessons when Ideas Can Be
Dangerous
(2018) Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research. Vol 3, No. 12. p.
21-31
https://ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/2589
Infrastructure
Project
Financing Options: Traditional and New Sources, Strategies for
Avoiding
Dutch Disease, China’s White Knight Interventions, and the U.S.
BUILD Act
(2018) for Sustainable Development (November 2018) IJRDO Journal.
Journal of
Social Science and Humanities Research (ISSN: 2456-2971) Vol. 3,
No. 11. pp.
70-82. https://ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/2550
https://ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/2550/2158
"Mary
Elizabeth
Braddon’s Thou Art the Man (1894): Scoundrel Fathers, Fugue
States,
and the Problematized Real in Victorian Sensation Novels," (June
2018)
IJRDO Journal. Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
(ISSN:
2456-2971) Vol 3, No. 6, pp 13-15.
https://ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/2101/1851
The
Victorians'
Opioid Epidemic. (June 2018) IJRDO Journal. Journal of Social
Science and
Humanities Research (ISSN: 2456-2971) Vol 3, No. 6, pp 9-12.
https://ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/2100/1850
Review
of Hoy / Today by
Juan Gelman. World Literature
Today. November 2018. pp. 86-87.
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2018/november/today-hoy-juan-gelman
Review
of
Everything I Kept / Todo lo que guarde by Ruth Behar. World
Literature Today.
September 2018.
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2018/september/everything-i-kept-todo-lo-que-guarde-ruth-behar
Nash
interviewed
in Cortez, Meghan Bogardus. (30 March 2018) 5 Technology Tools in
the Higher Education Classroom. EdTech.
https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2018/03/5-technology-tools-higher-education-classroom-perfcon
New
Technologies
in the Development of Unconventional Resources in the U.S., Susan
Nash, #70359 (2018).dapted from oral presentation given at AAPG
Latin America
& Caribbean Region, Optimizing Exploration and Development in
Thrust Belts
and Foreland Basins, Santa
Cruz de la Sierra,
Bolivia, June
6-8, 2018
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2018/70359nash/ndx_nash.pdf.html
Using
Thermal/IR
and Multispectral Sensors on Drones to Find the Origin of and
Extent
of Contamination from Saltwater Spills from Producing Wells, Susan
Nash, #80650
(2018). Adapted from oral presentation given at 2018 AAPG Annual
Convention and
Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 20-23, 2018
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2018/80650nash/ndx_nash.pdf.html
Basin
Analysis:
Overview and New Uses. PetroPulse. No. 5, July, 2017, p. 10-11.
Fracking
Novels:
Scrabble, Zombies, and the Problematized Real. World Literature
Today.
March 2017.
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2017/march/fracking-novels-scrabble-zombies-and-problematized-real-susan-smith-nash
Inhalaciones, o,
la capacidad negativa.
Periodico de Poesia. No. 96, Febrero 2017. Mexico City,
Universidad Autonoma de
Mexico. http://www.periodicodepoesia.unam.mx/index.php/4496
Drones
and UAVs
for Methane Emissions Detection, Monitoring, and Regulatory
Compliancel Jan 2,
2017 IJRD-Journal
of Biological Science
http://www.ijrdo.org/International-Journal-of-Research-&-Development-Organisation-pdf/Biological%20Science/January-2017/Bio-2017-January-2.pdf
Sesiones Plenarias
NOC e IOC: El
“Escalofrio” del ICE. Petroleum
Revista
(Caracas, VE), Octubre 2016, pp. 23-24.
Review. Absolute Solitude by
Dulce María Loynaz.
World Literature Today. November 2016.
http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2016/november/absolute-solitude-dulce-maria-loynaz
“Blood-Soaked
Feathers:
Urban Farming Meets Urban Flood Control-Created Habitats” International Journal of
Research &
Development Organisation Volume
2, Issue
8, August 2016.
“The
“Honor
Killing” of Social Media Star Qandeel Baloch: Technological
Change, the
Changing Roles of Women, and Grassroots Backlash” International
Journal of
Research & Development Organisation
Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2016
“Unconventionals
Update:
Challenging the Assumptions” Search and Discovery Article. 41804.
May
23, 2016.
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2016/41804nash/ndx_nash.pdf.html
“Free
and
Almost Free Petroleum Information: Low-Cost and Open-Source
Software” Search
and Discovery Article. #70209. Posted February 15, 2016.
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2016/70209nash/ndx_nash.pdf
“Effective
Technology
Strategy for Shale Plays,” Universal Journal of Engineering
Science.
Dec. 2015. Vol 3(4). PP. 79-87.
“An
Apocalyptic
yet Abject “Jubilee” Narrative in George Robert Gissing’s In the
Year of
Jubilee: Mobility, Restoration, and Materiality.” Journal of
English Language
and Literature. Vol 4 No. 2. 2015.
"La
education
y la innovación transformadora en condiciones turbulentas"
Petroleum April 2015. http://www.petroleum.com.ve/
"Geologists
as
Successful Entrepreneurs in Times of Low Oil Prices: The
Importance of
Innovation and Education" WTGS Bulletin. Vol 54, No. 4
(March/April 2015), pp 8-14.
"El desarrollo
económico y los
jóvenes emprendadores en el sector energético: La importancia de
la innovación
y la capacitación" AAPG Search and Discovery Open Journal.
Optimization
in
U.S. Shale Plays: Emerging New Techniques and Technologies.
Midland Playmaker
Forum, Midland, TX. January 14, 2015. Search and Discovery #80442,
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2015/80442nash/ndx_nash.pdf
"La
Caída
del Precio del Petróleo y La Enfermedad Holandesa 2014-2015” (The
Fall in the
Price of Petroleum and the Dutch Disease, 2014-2015") Petroleum
January
2015. http://www.petroleum.com.ve/
"Stranded
Pay
Between the Laterals: New Technologies to Identify and Recover
Stranded and
Bypassed Oil and Gas" AAPG Unconventionals Update Geosciences
Technology
Workshop, November 4-5, 2014, Austin, TX. AAPG Search and
Discovery Open Journal.
"Responding
to
New Discoveries: Workflow and Strategies for Conquering the “Data
Gap” and
Overcoming “Stuck In Rut Thinking” " AAPG Unconventionals Update
Geosciences Technology Workshop, November 4-5, 2014, Austin, TX.
AAPG Search
and Discovery Open Journal.
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2014/70176nash/ndx_nash.pdf
"Springer
Shale:
A Sleeping Giant?" AAPG Granite Wash Geosciences Technology
Workshop, Sept. 25, Oklahoma City. AAPG Search & Discovery
Open Journal.
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2014/10664nash/ndx_nash.pdf.html
/
video:
https://www.aapg.org/videos/playmaker/Articleid/41892/susan-nash-optimization-in-u-s-shale-plays-emerging-new-techniques-and-technologies
"Refining
the
Tactics: Current Approaches to Exploration and Development of
Shale Plays
in the U.S" AAPG Research Exchange - Focus on the Permian Basin,
September
4-6, Houston. AAPG Search & Discovery Open Journal.
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2014/70173nash/ndx_nash.pdf
An
Analysis and
Outlook of the Technology Strategy for Shale Plays: Independents
and Majors.
Petroleum Drilling Techniques, 2014, Issue 5. PDF of article
(translated to
Chinese): http://www.syzt.com.cn/en/oa/pdfdow.aspx?Sid=20140501
http://www.syzt.com.cn/en/oa/darticle.aspx?type=view&id=20140501
"Effective
Technology
Strategy for Developing Shale Gas and Oil: Accounting for the
Success of Independents vs. Majors"
Proceedings of the 8th International Multi-Conference on
Society,
Cybernetics and Informatics (IMSCI 2014),
Orlando, USA, on July 15-18, 2014. Proceedings published in
September
2014.
"Determining
Effectiveness
of Instructional Strategies for Technical Writing Online
Courses" Proceedings of the 8th International Multi-Conference on
Society,
Cybernetics and Informatics (IMSCI 2014),
Orlando, USA, on July 15-18, 2014. Proceedings published in
September
2014.
"Technology
Strategy
for Shale Plays: Independents vs. Majors - An Analysis and
Outlook" Eagle Ford Geosciences Technology Workshop, February
24-26, San
Antonio, Texas (2014). AAPG Search & Discovery. #70159 (2014).
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2014/70159nash/ndx_nash.pdf
“Key
Factors
for Success in Unconventionals: Characteristics, Key Plays,
Typical Challenges”
AAPG Search and Discovery Digest, #80352 (2014)
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2014/80352nash/ndx_nash.pdf
"Trije
eseji: Postpostmoderniaem:
Tehnokratske
kulture?" (Three essays:
Postpostmodernism: Technocratic Culture?" and "Nepreputsnost tu ni
dovoljena"
(Impermeability Not Allowed Here) and "Pasolini, Boccaccio in
Dekameron:
Podlage za razumevenje sodobne kozmologije in iskanje odgovorov na
tehnologo" in Sodobnost 2014 (Ljubljana, Slovenia): p 1-10.
"Review
of
Loteria Jarocha by Alec Dempster" World Literature Today.
May-August 2014,
p. 119-120.
"Review
of
Holy Heathen Rhapsody by Pattiann Rogers" in World Literature
Today.
May-August 2-14, p. 117-118.
“Technology
Strategy
Considerations in Reservoir Optimization”, AAPG Geosciences
Technology
Workshop, August 6-7, 2013.
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2013/70154nash/ndx_nash.pdf
“Producibility
Checklist
for Unconventionals.”
Petroleum. November 2013.
Review
of
Tiempo de ángeles / A Time of Angels. By Homero Aridjis. George
McWhirter, Tr.
Francisco Toledo, Ill. World Literature Today. October 2013. p
66-67.
Reliable
vs.
Unreliable Information in the Eagle Ford: Sources and Credibility
Tests, Search
and Discovery, #70142 (2013).
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2013/70142nash/ndx_nash.pdf
"Produced
Saltwater:
The Overlooked Resource in Resource Plays?" AAPG Search and
Discovery online
journal. May 2013.
"Gunslinger"
The
Correlator: Division of Professional Affairs Journal. April 2013.
"Evald
Flisar
and Live, Face-to-Face Theatre in an Age of Digital Performance"
in
The Collected Plays of Evald Flisar, Part II. 2013. Texture Press,
p. 1-12.
"A
Compilation of Shale Play and Unconventionals Articles: The Role
of Access and
the Making of Normative Standards" #70135 (2013) (adapted from
oral
presentation at Geosciences Technology Workshop, Shale Plays: An
Integrated
Approach, Houston, Texas, November 12-14, 2012). AAPG Search and
Discovery. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2013/70135nash/ndx_nash.pdf
"Hearing
and
Not Believing: The Strange Case of Hydraulic Fracturing" Search
and
Discovery Article #70123 (2012) (adapted from oral presentation at
Geosciences
Technology Workshop, Hydraulic Fracturing, Golden, CO, August
13-15, 2012).
AAPG Search and Discovery.
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2012/70123nash/nash.pdf
"Effective
Strategies
in Museum Distance Education" (co-authored with Elaine
Bontempi) Proceedings
of Informing
Science & IT Conference (InSITE) 2012. June 2012.
http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2012/InSITE12p013-025Bontempi0008.pdf
"Museum
Education
in Transition: What Are the Essential Elements? Responses to
Interview Questions" (co-authored with Elaine Bontempi) Education
Research
Journal, Summer 2012. http://www.resjournals.com
"Making
a
Case" with Case Studies: Comparative Analysis of Three Hydraulic
Fracturing Case Studies" ICSIT-IREPS 2012 Proceedings. 2nd
International
Symposium on Integrating Research, Education, and Problem Solving
(IREPS 2012).
Winter Gardens, FL: International Institute of Informatics and
Systemics.
"Matching
Courses
with Careers" The Correlator. AAPG Division of Professional
Affairs. March 2012:
http://dpa.aapg.org/correlator/careermatchupQ112.cfm
"Effective
Strategies
in Museum Distance Education" (co-authored with Elaine
Bontempi) inSITE,
Montreal, Canada, June
26, 2012. (accepted) Proceedings. 2012 Informing Science + IT
Education
Conference, Montreal, Canada.
"Success
Strategies
for E-Learning" GTW Deepwater Reservoirs: Multi-Disciplinary
Exploration and Development, 24-25 January 2012, Houston, Texas.
Abstract and
presentation published. Search and Discovery Article #70122.
Posted April 26,
2012.
"Assistive
Technologies:
Accessing Voice and Selfhood in an Age of Digital
Technologies" Feminist Cyberspaces: Pedagogies in Transition. Ed. Sharon Collingwood,
Alvina E. Quintana,
and Caroline J. Smith. Cambridge,
UK:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012: pp. 202-229.
“Maximizing
Your
Training and Professional Development Return on Investment” The
Correlator. AAPG Division of Professional Affairs. June 2011: pp.
9-10.
“The
Heart
Journal” Press1 Practicum. Videos and Text. Press1: Vol 5, No. 2.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v5n2/heartjournal.html
"Using
Simulations
and Virtual Worlds for Success in the Marcellus" Search and
Discovery Article #70096. Posted June 26, 2011.
Adapted from presentation at AAPG Geoscience Technology
Workshop,
“Success in the Marcellus and Utica Shales: Case Studies and New
Developments,” Baltimore,
Maryland, May
23-25, 2011.
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2011/70096nash/ndx_nash.pdf. Includes mp3 audio file.
"Review
of
Joey Brown's Oklahomaography" World Literature Today. July-August
issue,
2011, p. 72-73.
"Maximizing
Your
Training and Professional Development Return on Investment" The
Correlator. Division of Professional Affairs, AAPG. Second Quarter
2011.
http://dpa.aapg.org/correlator/maximizeQ211.cfm
"E-Learning
and
the Geoscientist" The Correlator, AAPG Division of Professional
Affairs. 1st Quarter, 2011:
http://dpa.aapg.org/correlator/e_learnQ111.cfm
"Effective E-Learning for
Geoscientists in the Global,
Multi-Generational Workplace," Proceedings of the Gulf Coast
Association
of Geological Societies Annual Meeting 2010.
Houston, TX: GCAGS.
CD-ROM. Search and
Discovery Article #70089 (2010):
(includes presentation slides as well as article)
http://www.searchanddiscovery.net/documents/2010/70089nash/ndx_nash.pdf
“Review
of John
Vick’s Chaperons of a Lost Poet” Untitled Country Review. Issue 4,
Winter 2011.
http://untitledcountry.blogspot.com/2011/02/issue-4-review-john-vick.html
“Review
of
David Wolach’s Occultations” The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to
Zeitgeistland.
Volume 4, Number 3. January
– April
2011.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n3/nash-review.html
“The
Illusion
of Time” The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to Zeitgeistland. Volume 4,
Number 3. January –
April 2011.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n3/psychicsponge1.html
“The
Wildcatters”
The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to Zeitgeistland. Volume 4, Number
3. January – April
2011.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n3/psychicsponge2.html
Effective
E-Learning
for Geoscientists in the Global, Multi-Generational Workplace,
GCAGS
60th Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, October 10-12, 2010.
http://www.searchanddiscovery.net/documents/2010/70089nash/ndx_nash.pdf
http://www.searchanddiscovery.net/documents/2010/70089nash/ndx_nash.pdf
"Love
Philtre." The Psychic
Sponge's
Guide to Zeitgeistland. Press
1, Vol 4,
No 1. May - August, 2010.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n1/psychicsponge.html
“The
Artifice
of Ananios” GHR, vol 13. March
2010.
“Introduction” The Red Room:
Writings from Press 1.
Ed. Arlene
Ang, Valerie Fox, Jordan Schilling.
Philadelphia: Straw Gate Books, 2010, p 1-4.
“Air-Clipping
with
Zoroaster: The Sun-Magnolia Refinery”
The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to Zeitgeistland. Press1, Vol 3, No.
3. January – April,
2010. http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v3n3/nash-review1.html
Review: Brian Clements’ And How
To End It. Press1,
Vol 3, No. 3. January
– April, 2010.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v3n3/nash-review1.html
Review: John Taggart’s There Are
Birds. Press1, Vol
3, No. 3. January –
April, 2010.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v3n3/nash-review2.html
Review
of The
River that Flows Uphill” World Literature Today. Spring 2010.
Review
– World
Literature Today. Winter
2009.
“Libraries
in
Second Life: New Approaches to Education, Information Sharing,
Learning Object
Implementation, User Interactions and Collaborations,” Proceedings.
Education and Information Systems, Technologies and
Applications: EISTA
2009.
Review
of Ana
Merino’s Cell Mate” World
Literature
Today. Winter 2009
“On
Jerome
McGann’s The Point is to Change it:
Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present” Talisman,
Spring 2009
“On
Six
Slovenian Poets, ed. Brane Mozetic” Talisman,
Spring 2009.
“Subjectivity
in
Second Life: Enactments
in the Space
Between the Real and the Virtual” Talisman.
Fall 2008
“Los nuevos manuales de
texto incluirán
guiones para usar en juegos de rol en el mundo virtual: New
training guides
will include scripts to use with role-playing games and
simulations in virtual
worlds” Learning
Review
Latinoamerica. Year
5, No 23.
April-May-June 2008. pp. 24-26.
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
"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. U.S.-China
Forum on
Distance Education. April
2006.
“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. (cited in 65
publications)
Categories: distance education,
program management,
instructional design, humanities, literary criticism
Numerous
articles
in journals and magazines, along with interviews
"Successful
Incorporation
of Learning Objects in Online, Hybrid, Multiple-Modality Distance
Courses," (chapter) in Learning Objects. Ed. Alex Koohang and
Keith
Harmon, Spring 2006 by Informing Science Press (Santa Clara,
California).
Review
of
Riverbend's Baghdad Burning. World Literature Today. Spring 2006.
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 Ghana" Submodern Fiction. 2004.
"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
Dallas Wiebe, Vox Populi Street Stories. Reviewed in Review of
Contemporary
Fiction. Winter 2003.
“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: Two Score and More.
In
Review of Contemporary Literature.
Fall
2003.
“Introduction
to
My Father’s Dreams” My
Father’s
Dreams by Evald Flisar. Ljubljana,
Slovenia.
“I
Write Myself
Alive,” Sodobnost. December 2002. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
"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 Singapore. Winter 2002.
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/poldiscourse/nash/nash1.html
Review
of
Eduardo Garrigues. West
of Babylon. Translated
by Nasario Garcia. In
World Literature Today, forthcoming.
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.
“Land
of
Fire: Azerbaijan and
the Caspian
Continue to Burn Hot with Potential”
Oklahoma City Geological Society Journal. Oklahoma City, OK,
March-April, 2002:
123-129. Cited and
indexed in
PetroAlert.
“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. Asunci?n,
Paraguay: Arundel,
1998.
"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," Washington Review (Nov. 1996), 2-5.
"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," Oklahoma Geological Survey Special Publication
96-3:
Rockhounding and Earth Science Activities in Oklahoma (Norman, OK: Oklahoma Geological
Survey, 1996), 23-30.
"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
Waco Echo Armageddon and Extinction in Literature and Science," Central Park 24 (Spring
1995), 112-120.
"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.
"Language
Poetry: Not Fit for
Human
Consumption?" Juxta 1 (1994),
63-71.
"The
Observing
Eye, The Observing Ear: Using
Personal
Experience in Writing Instruction," Oklahoma English Journal
(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," Central Park 23 (Spring
1994), 181-85.
"Beyond
the
Language Movement: A
Manifesto of
Aesthetics in a Time of Communication, Plague, and a New World
Order,"
Taproot Reviews 4 (Spring 1994), 3-4.
"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" Arkansas Quarterly (Winter 1993), 22-31.
"H.D.'s
Dark
Night of the Soul," The Arkansas Quarterly (Fall 1992), 337-343.
"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.
Short
Fiction,
Creative Non-Fiction, Poetry
"Leper
Farm"
Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.
http://www.talismanmag.net/nash.html
Audio recording:
https://soundcloud.com/beyondutopia/leper-farm-susan-smith-nash
"Shale
Plays
and Hairless Bears" Press 1. Vol. 5, No. 4.
"The
Body
Ekstasis" Press 1. Vol.
5, No. 3.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v5n3/psychicsponge.html
"I,
Vampire"
(fiction). Gargoyle. pp. 464-470, Fall 2011.
"Solar
Flares,
Interconnectivity, and a 2012 End of the World" Press 1. Vol 5,
No. 2
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v5n2/psychicsponge.html
"Shredded
Silk
and Living in Cars: Follow Your Dream" Press 1. Vol 5, No 1.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v5n1/psychicsponge.html
"Review
of
Veronica Golos' Vocabulary of Silence" Press 1. Vol 5, No. 1.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v5n1/nash-review.html.
“The
Illusion
of Time” The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to Zeitgeistland. Press 1.
Volume 4, Number
3. January – April
2011.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n3/psychicsponge1.html
“The
Wildcatters”
The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to Zeitgeistland. Press 1. Volume 4,
Number 3. January –
April 2011.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n3/psychicsponge2.html
"5102010:
A
Story of Signs and a Tornado" The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to
Zeitgeistland. Press 1.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n2/psychicsponge1.html
"Perfect
Storms,"
The Red Room: Writings
from
Press 1. Ed. Arlene
Ang, Valerie
Fox, Jordan Schilling. Philadelphia:
Straw
Gate Press, 2010. p.
68-69.
“Discourses
&
Dustin, Oklahoma,” Gargoyle. # 55.
Winter 2009. p. 246-249.
“Panhandle
Gun
& Coin.” Gargoyle. # 55.
Winter 2009. p.
250-252.
“Crystal
Skulls” Big Bridge. #14.
2009. http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/FIC-SSN.HTM
“Arroyo”
Big
Bridge. #14. 2009. http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/FIC-SSN2.HTM
“Big
Big Sky”
Big Bridge #14. 2009.
http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/FIC-SSN3.HTM
“Perfect
Storms” Press1. May –
August 2008. http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v2n1/nash.html
Edublogs
and
Online Journals:
Elearning
Queen. http://www.elearningqueen.com
Project
Working
Mom:
“Why
More Moms
are Going Back to School” Project
Working
Mom.
http://www.elearners.com/projectworkingmom/resources/be-a-great-mom/why-more-moms-are-going-back-to-college/ December 2009.
(mentioned
in
Page6, New York Daily News, March 2010).
“The
New Jobs
in Healthcare” Project
Working Mom.
http://www.elearners.com/projectworkingmom/resources/go-back-to-school/the-new-jobs-in-healthcare/
December
2009.
EDUCATIONAL
BLOGS,
WEBINAR SERIES, PODCASTS
E-Learn
Chat:
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Academy:
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Thriving with Change: Organized and hosted a series of 20 webinars
on new
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Organized
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online education,
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edublog: E-Learning Corgi
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reshape the
global energy system. Energy Risk Conference. InfoPro Digital.
13
Oct 2021. A
Journey to Mars? How the Once Impossible Can Become Possible in
the Energy
Transition. Global Tech Summit.
21
Oct 2021.
Effective Technological Developments for Existing Oil and Gas
Fields and Future
New Energy in the Energy Transition. Energy China Forum 2021 11th
Asia-Pacific
Shale & Unconventional Resources Summit.
3
Nov 2021.
Machine Learning in Geosciences. First International Conference:
Technological
Innovations and Artificial Intelligence for Profitable and
Sustainable
Development of Oil and Gas Fields. Universidad Nacional de
Ingenería. Lima,
Peru.
8
- 9 Nov 2021.
E3 New Technologies and Digitalization - Panel Discussion. (Earth,
Energy, and
Environment) Student Virtual Conference and Technical Event. Marietta, OH: Marietta
College.
9
Dec 2021.
Grant Writing for Geoscientists. MIT Online Talk: RMAG.
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14
Dec 2021.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Geosciences. Marine Geology: Marginal
Seas - Past and
Future Conference. Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Presentation
and
Discussion: Life Writing. University
of
Ljubljana Department of Philosophy. Ljubljana, Slovenia. April 2,
2015.
"Presentation
and
Discussion / The Role of Experience in Writing" Novo Mesto,
Slovenia.
April 1, 2015.
"Leadership,
Innovation,
and Education to Develop Flexible and Entrepreneurial
Organizations" Ramstein, Germany. March 26, 2015.
"El desarrollo
económico y los
jóvenes emprendadores en el sector energético: La importancia de
la innovación
y la capacitación" Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
Taller para
becarios de ExxonMobil. March 4, 2015. Mexico City, DF.
"Unconventionals
Update"
7th International Symposium on Unconventional Petroleum
Exploration and Exploitation, Chengdu University of Technology,
July 26-27,
2014, Chengdu, China.
“Technical
Writing
Triage” (March 13, 2014). AAPG E-Symposium.
"Success
Factors
for Unconventionals" at PackersPlus Workshop, Rio de Janeiro,
November
8, 2013
“Key
Considerations
in Unconventional Reservoirs” (2013) Presented at the Sweet
Spots in Unconventional Reservoirs AAPG Geosciences Technology
Workshop, August
12, Houston, TX.
"Structure
of
a "Learnings" or "Findings" Report" (2013) Presented
at the Woodford Shale Forum, April 11, 2013, Oklahoma City, OK
"Reliable
vs.
Unreliable Information in the Eagle Ford: Sources and Credibility
Tests" (2013) Presented at the Eagle Ford Geosciences Technology
Workshop,
March 16 - 18, 2013, San Antonio, Texas
"Making
Oil
and Water Mix: Community Relationships in Oil and Gas Production "
AAPG Geosciences Technology Workshop:
February 26-28, 2013, Fort Worth, Texas.
"Brief
Bibliography
of Shale Play Thought Leaders" AAPG Geosciences Technology
Workshop - Shale Plays: Integrated Technologies. November 13-14,
Houston, Texas
"Effective
Strategies
in Museum Distance Education" inSITE, Montreal, Canada, June
26, 2012. (accepted) 2012 Informing Science + IT Education
Conference,
Montreal, Canada.
"Making
a Case"
with Case Studies: Comparative Analysis of Three Hydraulic
Fracturing Case
Studies" Virtual Presentation. Case Studies and Methodologies
Track, 2nd
International Symposium on
Integrating
Research,
Education, and Problem Solving (IREPS 2012),Orlando, FL, March 26,
2012.
Success
Strategies
for Online Teaching and Learning: ?????? ?????????
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Summit, e-Learning
PRO (Moscow, Russia). Online summit, February 9-10, 2012.
"Success
Strategies
for E-Learning" GTW Deepwater Reservoirs: Multi-Disciplinary
Exploration and Development, 24-25 January 2012, Houston, Texas.
Abstract and
presentation published. Search and Discovery Article #70122.
Posted April 26,
2012.
"Using
Simulations
and Virtual Worlds for Success in the Marcellus" Search and
Discovery Article #70096. Posted June 26, 2011.
Adapted from presentation at AAPG Geoscience Technology
Workshop,
“Success in the Marcellus and Utica Shales: Case Studies and New
Developments,” Baltimore,
Maryland, May
23-25, 2011.
Keynote
Address: Summer
Faculty Institute, May
31, 2011. University of Delaware.
http://ats.udel.edu/news/newsletter/20110330/sfi2011.php
"Wimba
and
Blackboard Mashup Tools: Incorporating technology that promotes
interactivity
and student retention." Troy University E-Campus E-Colloquium,
April 13,
2011.
"Return
on
Investment and Edublogging" Panel Discussion. Users Group,
Washington, DC,
March 2011.
"Effective E-Learning for
Geoscientists in the Global,
Multi-Generational Workplace," AAPG Gulf Coast Association of
Geological
Societies Conference, San Antonio, TX, October 11, 2010.
“Knowledge
Transfer
in the Multi-Generational Workplace,” AAPG MidContinent Section
Conference, Tulsa, OK, October 12, 2009.
“Avoiding
Information
Silos in the Distributed Workplace,” AAPG MidContinent Section
Conference, Tulsa, OK, October 12, 2009.
Plenary
Speaker. New
Directions in E-Learning in
Response to Global Environmental and Energy Issues. ,” 13th World
Multi-Conference on Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics.
July 10-13,
2010.
“Libraries
in
Second Life: New Approaches to Education, Information Sharing,
Learning Object
Implementation, User Interactions and Collaborations,” 13th World
Multi-Conference on Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics.
July 10-13,
2010.
“Web
Conferencing
Tips for Training and Education.”
Co-Presented with Ken Molay.
Adobe Systems Webinar Series.
September 25, 2008.
“Developing
Interdisciplinary
Masters’ Thesis.” Hamline
University.
June 21, 2008.
“Educational
Uses
of Mashups” (Keynote Speaker.)
New
Media Consortium Spring Symposium. April 3, 2008.
Guest
Lecturer. Florida
State University
“EDH7635: Higher
Education Administration” March
31, 2008.
“Mobile
Learning
and Great Books,” Informing Science + Information Technology
Conference (InSITE), Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 23-27, 2007.
“Quality
in an
E-Learning Course Featuring Mobile Learning,” 18th Annual
Conference on
Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, FL, April 5, 2007.
"Fighting
Intrusive
Thoughts Using Podcasts: A
Strategy for Effective E-Learning" Informing Science + Information
Technology Conference (InSITE) University of Salford (Greater
Manchester),
England, June 25-28, 2006.
"Students
In
Harm's Way: Effective Learning Strategies for Deployed Military" presented at Sloan-C,
The Eleventh Sloan-C
International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, "The
Power of
Online Learning: Mobilizing to Expand Community" November 16-18,
2005.
(Sloan-C audience evaluation rating: 4.9 out of 5.0)
"Leadership
and
the Strategic Plan" co-presented with George Timmons, at presented
at
Sloan-C, The Eleventh Sloan-C International Conference on
Asynchronous Learning
Networks, "The Power of Online Learning: Mobilizing to Expand
Community" November 16-18, 2005. (Sloan-C audience evaluation
rating 4.6
out of 5.0)
"Saving
Face
through Story: Paraguayan Myth and Folklore." presented at AGLSP -
Association for Graduate Liberal Studies Programs Conference,
October 2005,
Minneapolis, MN.
“Danger,
Will
Robinson!” versus I, Robot: Collisions
of
Art and Artificial Intelligence” and “Graphical Discourses of
Time: The Founders of
Geology and Early Romantic
Epistemologies” AGLSP – Association for Graduate Liberal Studies
Programs
Conference, October 26-28, 2004.
Charlotte, NC.
“The
Future of
Business and Online Learning” at The Future of Online Learning --
Online
Learning Conference. Boston
University.
September 27, 2004. Boston,
MA.
“The
Future of
Online Courses and Deployed Military.”
Workshops in conjunction with education initiatives. Kadena Air Force Base,
Kadena, Okinawa. October
5-9, 2004.
“Online
Courses
for Active-Duty Military” and “Quality Benchmarks for Online
Courses,” 15th Annual
International Conference on
Teaching and Learning, FCCJ, Jacksonville, Florida. March 30-April 2, 2004.
“Keys
to
Successful Online Course Development and Administration” International Conference
on Educational
Multimedia. ICEM /
RIMA. Quebec City,
Quebec. March 14-17,
2004.
December
10,
2003, Center for Military-Civilian Affairs, Wichita, KS. State Partnership
Program. "Civilian-to-Civilian
Initiatives:
Azerbaijan."
February
21,
2003, OU-Tulsa, Schusterman Campus Seed-Sower Series: “Love and Madness in the
Movies” companion
site at:
<http://www.beyondutopia.net/loveandmadness>
October
15,
2001, Mid-America Bible College:
“Key
Considerations for Assessing College Writing”
includes Writing Survival Guide
<http://www.beyondutopia.net/writing-survival-guide>
“Toward Hybrid-Solution
Distance Education:
Developing Programs That Enable Universities, Colleges,
Departments and Units
To Build Their Own Education Programs In An Affordable,
Technologically-Appropriate Manner”
Computers on Campus National Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC,
November 10 –
11, 2002. http://www.rcce.sc.edu/coc/cocconf.html#presentations
“Literature
on
the Internet: Ethical,
Ontological, and
Epistemological Considerations”
SCMLA
(South-Central Modern Language Association) Annual Conference,
Tulsa, OK,
November 7 – 10, 2001.
“Distance
Motivations
in Online Courses” Syllabus
2001,
Santa Clara, CA, July 17-21, 2001.
“Successful
Online
Course Development” (also
led
workshop) Edumall
Education Conference,
Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, March
28-29, 2001.
“Translating
from
Guarani and Spanish” at Biennial Literary Translation Conference: Tyrannies of the Target
Language, Stevens
Institute of Technology, October 18, 2000.
“English
Language
Hegemonies on the Internet” at Biennial Literary Translation
Conference: Tyrannies
of the Target
Language, Stevens Institute of Technology, October 18, 2000.
“Increased
Student-Instructor
Interaction Pays Off in Distance Learning” at TechLearn2000,
Orlando, Florida, October 12, 2000.
“Indigenous
Folklore
in Paraguayan Women’s Writing” at the Western Literature
Association
Conference, October 26, 2000.
“Agricultural
Value-Added
as Key Component in Economic Diversification” October 11, 2000, Baku
Press Club, Baku,
Azerbaijan.
“The
Basics of
E-Commerce” September
14, 2000, The
University of Oklahoma Memorial Union, Norman, OK.
“Keys
to
Successful Online Course Development”
June 6, 2000, Department of Defense Education Conference,
Dallas, TX.
“La Educación a
traves del Internet
– Nuevas fronteras” January
6, 2000,
Colegio el Sembrador, Cuidad del Este, Paraguay.
“Economic
Diversification
in Azerbaijan: New
Strategies” USAID
Conference on Economic
Development (“Avoiding the Dutch Disease”); December 17, 1999,
Baku,
Azerbaijan.
“Successful
Online
Course Development,” Oklahoma Education Conference, October 28,
1999,
Oklahoma City, OK
“Creativity in Online
Course Development,”
July 1999, Syllabus Conference, San Jose, California.
“Developing
Successful
Online Courses for International Delivery” Syllabus Regional
Conference, Orlando,
Florida, March 1999.
Women
in Film
Conference, March 26, 1998, University of Oklahoma, Norman,
Oklahoma.
"Focus
on
Paraguay" Conference organizer (Official trade and cultural
delegation
from Paraguay to U.S.), February 6, 1997, St. Gregory's College,
Shawnee, OK
"The
Literature(s)
of Waco and Oklahoma City:
Apocalyptic Narratives in Cultural Texts" presented at the
National Conference of the
College English Association, April 1996, New Orleans.
"Creative
Writing
and Women's Studies" presented at the Southwestern Women's Studies
Conference, The University of
Oklahoma,
Norman,
Oklahoma, March 1996.
"How
to
Keep A Field Notebook" presented at the Oklahoma Geological
Survey's
Rockhounds' Workshop, October 1995.
"Film
Montage
as a Strategy for Composition"
presented at the National Conference for the National
Council of
Teachers of English, March 1995, Washington, D.C.
"Michel
Foucault
and the Rhetoric of Revelation"
presented at National Conference for the National Council
of Teachers of
English, March 1994,
Nashville,
Tennessee.
Books
Moodle
Teaching
Techniques, 4th Edition. Packt Publishing (Birmingham, England),
2018.
Moodle
Course
Development Best Practices. Packt Publishing (Birmingham,
England), 2018.
Quick-Start
Guide
for Canvas. Video course, 42 modules. Packt Publications.
Birmingham,
England. 2017.
Canvas
for
Collaboration. Video course, 42 modules. Packt Publications.
Birmingham,
England. 2017
Moodle
3.0
Teaching Techniques. Packt Publications. Birmingham, England. 2016
Quick-Start
Guide
for Graduate Research and Writing.
Texture Press, 2017.
Video-Assisted
Mobile
Learning. Texture Press, 2016.
Pensamientos.
Texture
Press, 2016.
Shale:
Extreme
Fiction for Extreme Times. Co-editor.
Texture Press, 2015.
Road
Trip of
the Mind / Random Thoughts. bilingual edition; translated by Maja
Kraigher.
Sodobnost: Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2015.
Designing
Moodle
Themes. (video course) Packt
Publishing
(Birmingham, England), 2014.
Moodle
Course
Development Best Practices. Packt Publishing (Birmingham,
England), 2014
(co-author, Michelle Moore).
Moodle
for
Training and Professional Development (video course). Packt
Publishing
(Birmingham, England), 2013.
Writing
for
Human Relations. Texture Press, January 2013.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/119794339/Writing-for-Human-Relations
E-Learning
Success:
From Courses to Careers. Texture Press, March 2012.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/86590363/E-Learning-Success-From-Courses-to-Careers
Nenavadno
potovanje
male Ane (Where the Butterfly Goes). Sodobnost International:
Ljubljana, Slovenia. January 2013.
The
Adventures
of Tinguely Querer. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Vodnikova Zalozba,
September 2011.
Reviews: Southwestern
American
Literature (Fall 2011), World Literature Today (Spring 2012, Nota
Bene),
Amazon.com, Goodreads.com.
Moodle
1.9
Teaching Techniques (co-authored with William Rice), Packt
Publishing
(Birmingham, UK), 2010.
E-Learner
Survival
Guide. Norman, OK: Texture Press, 2009. Interview at Career
College Central, November
2009.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/56098869/E-Learner-Survival-Guide-by-Susan-Smith-Nash
Excellence
in
Teaching and Learning: Classroom
and
Online. (co-authored
with George
Henderson). Springfield,
MO: Charles C. Thomas
Publishers, 2007. Interviews
about the book here:
Learning
Review: Interview with Susan Smith
Nash
http://www.learningreview.com/e-learning/articulos-y-entrevistas/los-nuevos-manuales-de-texto-incluiran-guiones-para-usar-en-juegos-de-rol-en-el-mundo-virtual-1081-2.html
Donluk:
Interview with Susan Smith Nash
http://tolgaozdemir.net/?p=79#more-79
April 1, 2008
Good
Deeds
Society: Family Plot. (Slovenian title:
Klub dobrih dejanj) (Novel) Sodobnost:
Ljubljana, Slovenia. May
2008. Plans to use in
schools in
conjunction with programs to build self-esteem, self-confidence,
and
tolerance. Under
development: website,
and “serious game” / virtual world
elements. Book tour in Slovenia (February 2009): http://www.gooddeedssociety.com/
Leadership
and
the e-Learning Organization (collection of edublog entries).
Texture Press:
Albany, NY October
2006. (interview
about book and concepts in “Leadership Challenges in eLearning”
Lorenzetti,
Jennifer Patterson. Distance Education Report, 5/1/2006, Vol. 10
Issue 9,
p5-7). Guest on the
VOA’s “Talk to
America” special on
Elearning:
http://www.voanews.com/english/NewsAnalysis/October-2006-Past-Programs.cfm;
On-camera
interview for Discovery Channel “History of Video Games.”
Otozna Boginja
(Disconsolate
Goddess). Sodobnost: Ljubljana, Slovenia. March 2006. Reviewed including
interview with author, in
Bukla (April 2006), Astro Novice (April 2006), Novice Koper (March
2006).
Ophelia’s
Gold.
(novel) Texture Press: Norman, OK.
2006.
Available as audio book as well.
Lonelyhearts
Pawn
Shop. Light & Dust Books, Kenosha, Wisconsin. December 2005.
Parts
published in the Baku Sun (Baku, Azerbaijan), and Gargoyle
(Washington, D.C.)
I
Never Did
Tell You, Did I?: Unsent
Letters. Avec Books.
Penngrove, CA. October
2003.
Lazi
Malih
Zensk (novel). Ljubljana, Slovenia:
Vodnikova Zalozba,
November 2002.
To
the
Uzbekistani Soldier Who Would Not Save My Life.
Avec Books, Pivotal Prose Series.
Penngrove, CA. November
2001.
Reviewed in World Literature Today.
PortretNemirneAmericanke.
(Slovenian
version of I Never Did Tell You, Did I?: Unsent Letters) Ljubljana, Slovenia:
Vodnikova Zalozba,
September 2001.
AyvuMembire, Susy
Delgado. Fall 2001,
Asuncion, Paraguay. (English
translation of Susy Delgado - Spanish and Guarani) Reviewed in
World Literature
Today.
Fly-Over
States
of Mind. Kenosha, WI: Light and Dustbooks,
2000. http://www.fly-over.net Reviewed in Rain
Taxi, Winter 2001, ABR:
American Book Review, Spring 2002.
First
Light: An Anthology
of Paraguayan Women
Writers, editor and translator.
Texture
Press / Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano, 1999. Finalist for the
Oklahoma Book Award (1999).
Tatapype, Junto al
Fuego, Asuncion,
Paraguay: Arandura, 1999. (English translation of Susy
Delgado - Spanish
and Guarani) Reviewed in World Literature Today.
Doomsday
Belly. San Francisco:
Trip Street Press,
1998. Reviewed in
Alsop Review, Rain
Taxi.
Catfishes
and
Jackals, Potes and
Poets Press, Elmwood,
CT, September 1997.
Channel-Surfing
the
Apocalypse, Avec Books, Penngrove, California, May 1996. Reviews in Review of
Contemporary Fiction,
Taproot Reviews, Poetics Briefs, Feminist Bookstore News, Small
Press Review,
St. Mark's Poetry Project, Talisman, Washington Review. Featured guest and
interviewee on Read About
It, aired June 9, 1996. Commentary
and
essay-review in Talisman (June 1996).
A
Paleontologist's Notebook, Left Hand Books, Barrytown, New York,
October
1995. Reviews in the
American Book
Review, Washington Review, 33 Review, Small Press Review, Taproot
Reviews, Weber
Studies, Dusty Dog Reviews, Western
Literature Association Journal.
Finalist
in the 1996 Oklahoma Book Award.
Interview appeared March 31, 1996 on Read About It,
produced by B.J.
Hamilton and the Oklahoma Department of Libraries.
Book
Chapters:
"Mobile
Learning
in Education" 2011 e-Learning Annual. Ed. Michael Allen.
“Blended
Mobile
Learning in Developing Nations and Environments with Variable
Access: Analysis of
Four Cases” Chapter 7. Mobile
Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing
Countries: Effects
and Implications. London: IGI Global,
2010: pp 91-102.
“Learning
Objects” (Chapter 10)
Trends and Issues
in Instructional Design. NY: Pearson Publishing, 2010.
“Recruiting
Military
Students” Chapter 20. Co-author
with
Meredyth Leahy and Susan Dewan.
The
College Admissions Officer’s Guide.
Barbara Lauren, Ph.D., J.D., Editor.
Washington, DC: American Association of Collegiate
Registrars and
Admissions Officers, 2008.
“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.
Categories: distance education,
e-learning, leadership
Translations
Ayvu
Membire,
Susy Delgado. Fall
2001, Asuncion,
Paraguay.
Translations
of
poetry, fiction, prose by Paraguayan women authors, in an
anthology project,
First Light: An Anthology of Paraguayan Women Poetry.
Translations
of
poetry from Guarani and Spanish from the Paraguayan poet, Susy
Delgado.
"On
John
M. Bennett's Translation of Sor Juana's Primer Sueno" Prime Sway. Norman, OK:
Texture Press, 1995.
"Translating
Sor
Juana Ines de la Cruz" The
Washington
Review, Fall 1991.
Translations
of
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in Active Fault, M.A. Thesis, 1989.
Chapbooks
Grammar
of the
Margin Road, Leave
Books, Buffalo, NY,
1992.
My
Love is
Apocalypse and Rhinestone, Texture Press, Norman, OK, 1993. Reviewed in Taproot
Reviews, Situation.
Liquid
Babylon,
Potes & Poets Press, Elmwood, CT, 1994.
A
Veil in the
Sand, Room Press,
White Plains, NY,
1994. Portion of this
was taped and
aired on public radio station in
Portland,
Oregon (1994).
Mind-Noir
and
El Siglo de Oro, Luna Bisonte Productions, Columbus, OH, 1995.
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.
SYNERGISTIC
ACTIVITIES: GRANTS
& RESEARCH
University
of
Oklahoma Libraries / Summer writing grant to produce digital
graduate research
and writing guide. Summer
2016 and
Summer 2017.
Trubar
Translation
Grants / Publication (Texture Press): Evald Flisar (2012,
2013, 2014, 2015)
Recipient
of
Publications Grant / Award for E-Learning Queen
(http://www.elearningqueen.com)
from the Open Source Arts and Letters Initiative (OSALI).
Principal
Investigator
-- RPSEA Technology
Transfer. April 2010.
OpenCourseware: $30,000 from AAPG
Foundation: Role Principle
Investigator.
Technology
Transfer
Workshops and Training (Face-to-Face and Online). Department of Energy. Amount of award: $4.0 million.
October 2009. Role: Principle Investigator: 2009 - 2011.
Carbon
Capture
and Sequestration Workshops and Training.
Department of Energy:
November
2009. 3 years. Amount of Award: $995,00 Petroleum
Technology Transfer
Council. (Note: Part
of ARRA) . Role:
Principle Investigator: 2009 - 2011.
The
Impact of
Diaspora on Communities and Schools:
Teacher Training. April
2007. $105,000. Ford Foundation. Granted
to Excelsior College
.Role: Principle Investigator: 2006-2007.
Numerous
grants
and awards, including Ford Foundation (principle investigator),
Trubar Fund
(Slovenia – publications grant), Paraguayan Ministry of Navigation
and Ports,
University of Oklahoma Outstanding Teaching award; University of
Oklahoma
Outstanding Dissertation
American
Association
of Petroleum Geologists: Education
Committee
Advisory Board Member (2004 – present)
Advisory
Boards
and Directorships
Board
of
Champions, Office of Innovation Management, University of Louisiana,
Lafayette
Board
Member,
DeepTime Digital Earth Project
Proyecto
Fénix,
Quito, Ecuador: Foundation dedicated to economic development of
indigenous
peoples impacted by petroleum exploration and development, mining
and resources
development, 2016
Founder,
Texture
Press. (publications have received numerous awards, reviews, and
honors, including Finalist in the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book
Awards in the
category of Education/Academic for Valerie Fox / Lynn Levin's
Poems for the
Writings: Prompts for Poets)
Texas
A&M
Texarkana College of Business. Advisory Board Member. 2013-2015
Board
of
Directors, VOCA Foundation, a division of ACDI-VOCA. Economic development,
with focus on
agriculture and energy. Washington, DC.
2006 – 2009.
Memberships:
American
Association
of Petroleum Geologists (Active Member); Energy Minerals Division.
Society
of
Petroleum Engineers (Active Member)
Modern
Language
Association. Active
Member.
AWARDS
AND RECOGNITION
Trubar
Fund
(Ljubljana, Slovenia) Translation / Publication Award, 2013, 2014,
2015, 2016,
2018)
Outstanding
Faculty
Award / Recognition. Florida State College Jacksonville. 2012.
Numerous
Awards
and Recognitions for E-Learning Queen
(http://www.elearningqueen.com):
Top Edu-Blog Award, Education Innovator
Award, more.
University
of
Oklahoma Student Association Award for Outstanding Faculty. 2003.
-Trubar
Fund
(Ljubljana, Slovenia) – October 2001, Grant to fund research on
Slovenian
writers.
-Trubar
Fund
(Ljubljana, Slovenia) – Travel grant to attend the Vilenica
Literary Festival,
Lipica, Slovenia.
-Oklahoma
Fund
for Poetry, January 2001, for Flyover States of Mind. Published by Light and
Dust Books, Kenosha,
WI.
-Outstanding
Staff
Award, February 2001, University of Oklahoma College of Continuing
Education.
-Outstanding
Collaboration
Award, February 2001, University of Oklahoma College of
Continuing Education.
-Outstanding
Teaching
Award, May 2000. University
of
Oklahoma College of Liberal Studies.
-Featured
in
Contemporary Authors, Vol 185 (Gale Research) August 2000 –
updated 7,500-word
autobiographical essay, plus updated headnotes.
-Finalist,
Oklahoma
Book Award, March 2000.
Oklahoma Center for the Book.
-Reconocimiento –
Bio-Ethics Distance
Education Initiative – Universidad el Bosque, Bogota, Colombia,
1999.
-Reconocimiento –
Paraguayan Prison
Reform – Ministerio de Justicia y Trabajo, Asunción, Paraguay,
1999.
-Outstanding
Achievement Award –
Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano and the Asociacion Paraguaya
de
Profesionales Graduados en los EE.UU., 1999.
-Premio de Honor,
Paraguayan PEN
Association, Asuncion, Paraguay, 1999.
-Oklahoma
Arts
Council Grant, to make video of the “Setting Face-to-Face in the
Clear Light,”
1998.
-Commendation
by
the Oklahoma Lt. Governor’s Office for originating, organizing,
directing
the Oklahoma International International Film Festival, 1997.
-Research
Grant
to interview and translate literary discourses of Paraguayan women
authors,
August 1997. Received
from
Oklahoma
Fund
for Poetry.
-Outstanding
Ph.D.
Dissertation in Humanities and Fine Arts (for 1996 graduates),
University
of Oklahoma, April 1997.
-Selected
Juror
in area of American Independent Short Films for 8th Annual
International Film
Festival of Asuncion, Paraguay
(1997).
-Research
grant
to study comparative indigenous literatures and discourses of
Paraguay from
Syntax Project for the Arts
(1997).
-Research
travel
grant from the University of Oklahoma College of Continuing
Education
-Education
for
research and presentations in Paraguay (1996), and from the
University of
Oklahoma.
-Grant
(January
1997) from California PEN to travel to San Francisco and make
presentation at
the New College.
-Grant
(Fall
1996) from Potes & Poets Foundation for production of "Let
Dogs
Lie" and "Endangered."
-Travel
grant
to lecture at San Francisco State University (Fall 1996).
-7,500-word
autobiographical
essay in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, (Gale
Research) 1996.
Numerous
other
grants and awards, including
*Clark Memorial Award for
Outstanding Ph.D. candidate (1992),
*Oklahoma Arts Council Grant (1996)
for producing video, "Face-to-Face,"
*Flora Hadsell Award for
Outstanding Teaching (1995),
*Gertrude Stein Award for
Innovative Writing (1995 and 1996),
*Graduate Student Senate Conference
Grant (1994 and 1995),
*Goldia Cooksey Memorial Award for
Creative Accomplishments
(1989 and 1993),
*Finalist for the Oklahoma Book
Award.
*Performance grants received from
Russian River (CA) Association (1994),
*California PEN (1994),
*Washington DC Arts Council (1995),
and others.
Autobiographical
essay
about work, life, and influences commissioned and published by
Gale
Research Publications published in Contemporary Authors:
Autobiography Series;
Volume 25 (1996), and Contemporary Authors; (2000).
Videos
and Plays
"Let
Dogs
Lie" and "Endangered" -- partially performed at the DC/Arts
Center, Washington, DC, October 21, 1996.
World
premiere
full
production January 20-21, 1997 by the St. Gregory's Theatre
Company at the
Sarkey's Performing Arts Center.
Directed
by Pat
Snyder. Technical
Direction: Lee
Neibert.
"Face-to-Face
Setting
in the Clear Light: A
Service of
Contact" written by
Susan Smith
Nash and Carolyn Steinhoff Smith.
Video
produced,
funded by grant from the Oklahoma Arts Council.
"A
Paleontologist at the Apocalypse" at XYZ Night, Issues of Gender,
at the
Living Arts Center, Tulsa, OK, February 1996.
"Channel-Surfing
the
Apocalypse" debuted at the New Genre Festival, Tulsa, OK, June
1995.
Guest
Lectureships
February
21,
2003, OU-Tulsa, Schusterman Campus Seed-Sower Series: “Love and Madness in the
Movies” companion
site at:
http://www.beyondutopia.net/loveandmadness
October
15,
2001, Mid-America Bible College:
“Key
Considerations for Assessing College Writing”
includes Writing Survival Guide
http://www.beyondutopia.net/writing-survival-guide
December
14,
1997, Oklahoma City International Trade Association. Keynote Speaker. "How to Make Your
International Business
Trip a Success."
December
12,
1996, San Francisco State University, San Francisco. Lectured to creative
writing classes on the
subject of Channel-Surfing the Apocalypse, which was a required
text.
November 23, 1996,
La Universidad
Católica, Asuncion, Paraguay.
Lectured
on new American Independent Cinema.
Coverage
in ABC
Color, and guest appearance on Radio ñanduti, (interviewed by
Armando Rubin).
Performances
and
Readings
Audio
Performances
/ Recordings: FringeJournal / Librivox.org
March
31, 1998,
"Paraguayan Women Writers" part of Women in the Arts Series at St.
Gregory's College, Shawnee, Oklahoma.
March
13, 1998,
"Abriendo Nuevos Mercados"
day-long workshop in the Centro Cultural Paraguayo
Americano, Asunci?n,
Paraguay.
October
4 - 5,
1997, Reading and Workshop, Tulsa Arts and Humanities Association,
Tulsa, OK
August
1997, Lecture for the
Paraguayan Women
Writer's Association, Asuncion, Paraguay
Sept.
2, 1997,
Participation in Third Annual Book Fair lecture series,
Libro-Feria, Asunción,
Paraguay, Plaza del Sol.
April
1997,
Norman Public Library (Poet's Month)
April
1997,
Border's Bookstore (Poet's Month Workshop)
March
1997,
Poetry Workshop, Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano, Asuncion,
Paraguay
March
1997,
Lecture on American Independent films and Film Festivals, Centro
Cultural
Paraguayo Americano, Asuncion,
Paraguay
February
1997,
Borders Bookstore, Norman, OK
February
1997,
The New College, San Francisco, CA.
December
1996,
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
November 1996, La
Universidad
Catolica, Asuncion, Paraguay
November
1996,
Taller Centenario (Writer's Workshop), Club Centenario, Asuncion,
Paraguay
October
1996,
DC Art Center, Washington, DC.
March
1996,
Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma.
February
1996,
Living Arts Center, Tulsa, OK
October
1995,
DaDa-Surrealism Show, Fred Jones Art Museum, University of
Oklahoma, Norman,
Oklahoma
March
1995, DC
Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
February
1995,
Canessa Park Art Gallery, San Francisco
February
1995,
Russian River Writers Association, Sebastapol, CA
January
1994,
Bick's, Washington, DC
November
1993,
The Ear Inn, New York City NY
Fund-Raising
Sponsorships
for
research conferences / geosciences technology workshops / joint
research
symposia. 2008 – present.
Grant-writing
/
contract-writing for numerous projects and academic programs;
participated in
proposal-writing, budgets, impact assessment, justification,
project/program
design; humanities and environmental/geological areas; proposals
ranged from
$100,000 - $2.3 million. Past contracts awarded: United States Agency for
International
Development: Economic
Diversification,
2001: amount $23,500.
United States Agency for International Development -- Private Sector
Strengthening Mission
(Azerbaijan) : 1999-2000:
amount
$143,000; United
States Agency for
International Development --
Economic
Diversification in Oil-Dependent Economies (Azerbaijan): 1999-2000: amount
$168,000; Paraguayan
Ministry of Justice and
Labor: Prison Reform
($43,500); Paraguayan
National Administration of Ports
($38,000).
Windmill
literary
magazine of the University of Oklahoma English Department. Fundraising efforts
while editor (1992-94).
Raised
sufficient
funding to pay for printing costs, distribution, and honoraria. Instituted Alumni Donor
program and prepared
press releases and publicity, with resulting coverage in Oklahoma
newspapers,
including The Daily Oklahoman, The Norman Transcript, The Ponca
City News, The
Daily McAlester News-Capital and Democrat, The Oklahoma Daily.
U.S.
Saving
Bond Drive: Kerr-McGee
Chemical
Corporation Chair, raised $23,000 during 1988 drive.
The
United Way,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Loaned
Executive
Program: 103
accounts, headed
team that raised $281,000
COURSES TAUGHT (Since
2000)
University
of
Oklahoma:
HR
5203 –
Graduate Research and Writing
HR
5093 – Introduction
to Human Relations
HR
5003 – Theoretical
Foundations
HR
5033 – Leadership
in Organization
HR
5073 –
Leadership for Difficult Times
HR
3033 –
Writing for Human Relations Professionals
HR
5133 –
Change and Creativity in the Workplace
LSTD
4243 –
Road Trip of the Mind
LSTD
3953 –
Study in Depth Prospectus
Florida
State
College Jacksonville: (online)
ECO
2013 -
Macroeconomics
ECO
2023 -
Microeconomics
ENG
0025 –
Developmental Writing
ENG
1011 –
First Year Composition, I
ENG
1012 - First Year
Composition, II
Troy
University
– Humanities
ENGL
1101
ENGL
1102
Rollins
College
– Instructional Design Certificate Program
Motivation
and
Engagement
Introduction
to
E-Learning
American
Association
of Petroleum Geologists – Certificate Program
Petroleum
Geology
for the Non-Geologist
Leadership
and
Decision-Making in the Oil Industry
Making
Money
with Mature Fields (Presentation / one-hour lunch&learn)
Grant-Writing
for
Geosciences