Susan Smith Nash

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Susan Smith Nash’s PhD dissertation from the University of Oklahoma examined apocalyptic narratives in literary, film, and cultural texts. She has combined her passion for geology and energy technologies to develop programs that promote innovation and new solutions. Her latest projects involve a deep dive into Mexican cinema and the influence of the golden age of Mexican cinema.

The Poetry of Polycrisis

March 2024
Susan Smith Nash
It is not easy to open one’s heart to the crises of the world, and to observe, gauge, and feel the impact. In The Defense of Poesy (1580), the Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney pointed out that the a…
Rudêncio Morais: Suturas do Amor and the Beautiful, Persistent Threads of Pessoa

February 3, 2020 Susan Smith Nash
On the cover of his latest book of prose poems, Suturas do Amor (Editorial Autor, 2019), Mozambican author Rudêncio Morais announces that he is a poeta falso or “false poet…
Eros and Saudade: Languages of Love in the Poetry of Rudencio Morais

June 4, 2019 Susan Smith Nash
Photo: Chandrashekhar Basumatary / Flickr The cover of Rudencio Morais’s collection of prose poems, Os dialetos do Amor (filLetras Editora, 2018; The languages of love), features a woman con…
Daughters of Prometheus: A Latin American Frankenstein

April 18, 2019 Susan Smith Nash
Carne de mi carne: Antología de cuento (Plural Editores, 2018; Flesh of my flesh: Short-story anthology), is a collection of short stories inspired by the philosophical underpinnings of Mary…
$An aerial view of hydraulic fracturing in progress at Jonah Field in Wyoming. Photo: Bruce Gordon / Ecoflight$
Fracking Novels: Scrabble, Zombies, and the Problematized Real

March 2017
Susan Smith Nash
An aerial view of hydraulic fracturing in progress at Jonah Field in Wyoming. Photo: Bruce Gordon / Ecoflight The growth of hydraulic fracturing has inspired a subgenre of dystopian novels envisi…