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.

“Our Minds Are Porous and Forgetfulness Seeps In”: A Conversation on Translation and AI with Ilan Stavans

November 2025
Susan Smith Nash
Photo by Kevin Gutting Ilan Stavans has tackled some of the most complex literary problems imaginable, ranging from piecing together the fragmentary work of poetry composed first in Nahuatl to teas…
Responding to Nezahualcóyotl: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans

March 20, 2025 Susan Smith Nash
Illustrations by Cuauhtémoc Wetzka / Courtesy of Restless Books Lamentations of Nezahualcóyotl: Nahuatl Poems (Restless Books, 2025), by Ilan Stavans, is a collection of poems th…
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 poe…
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), feature…
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 / EcoflightThe growth of hydraulic fracturing has inspired a subgenre of dystopian novels envision…