Curriculum VitaeMarshall Soules5092 Brenton-Page Road EducationPhD. (English/Drama), 1994, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. Topic: Sam Shepard Improvises. Supervisor: Maurice Charney. M.A. (English), 1974, Rutgers University. Teaching Assistantship, 1970-73. B.A. (Honours English, cum laude), 1970, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. Reid Carr Award (English), 1970; Dean's List, 1968-70; Varsity hockey, 1968-70. Honours Secondary School Diploma, 1967, Ridley College, St. Catharines, Ontario. Awards: Mason Gold Medal, Ontario Scholarship. EmploymentMediator, Conflict Resolution Trainer, Coach. Soules Consulting Ltd., Ladysmith, BC: 2015 - Present. Self-employed writer and artist: 2009 - Present. Honorary Research Associate. Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC: 2009 - Present. University Professor. English and Media Studies, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC: 1987-2009. Courses: Modern Drama; Narratives of Cyberspace; Computer-Mediated Communication; Emerging Digital Technologies; Promotion, Persuasion, Propaganda; Canadian Media Theory; Studies in Global Media; Making the News; Public Relations, Advocacy, and the Media; Media and Identity. Chair. Media Studies Department, Vancouver Island University: 1998-2008. Director. Media Research Lab (MRL). Vancouver Island University: 2003-2009. College Instructor. English, Capilano College, North Vancouver, BC: 1977: 1986-87. President. Raincoast Construction Ltd. (custom building contractor), Vancouver, BC: 1978 - 1987. Instructor. English / Creative Writing. Niagara College, Welland, ON: 1975-77. Lecturer. English Literature. University of Guelph, Guelph, ON: 1973-74. Teaching Assistant. English Department. Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey: 1970-73 Publications"Thomas Merton in Black and White: Entre Les Deux." Merton Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2, Advent 2022: pp. 47-60. "Thomas Merton's Blues." New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, Vol.2 No.2 (2022). Retrieved from https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/article/view/38347 "Play Attention." New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, Vol.2 No.1 (2021). Retrieved from https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/article/view/37383 "McLuhan and Carpenter: Tricksters at the Margins: A Postscript to Play Attention." New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, Vol.2 No.1 (2021). Retrieved from https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/article/view/38384 "Street Art Rising." New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, Vol.1 No.2 (2020). Retrieved from https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/article/view/35260 "Surveillance Capitalism Pandemic." New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, Vol.1 No.2 (2020). Retrieved from https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/nexj/article/view/35084 Understanding Conflict: Bridging Theory and Practice. Collaboration with Donna Soules, Andrea Blakeman, Brad Crewson, Robin McQueen and Marshall Soules. Soules Consulting, 2019. ISBN: 199920760. The Charge in the Global Membrane. B.W. Powe (text) & M. Soules (images). Seattle, WA: NeoPoiesis Press: 2019. Winner of the Marshall McLuhan MEA Book Award 2021 Editor. Slightly Corked. By Delbert Horrocks. Ladysmith, BC: Take Five Publications: 2017. Noble Lies. Unpublished screenplay: 2017. Media, Persuasion, and Propaganda. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh, University Press, 2015.
Sam Shepard Improvises: Protocols of Improvisation in Performance, Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert AP, 2012. "Be Hyper-Derivative." Photographs in Curt Cloninger, Hot-wiring Your Creative Process: Strategies for Print and New Media Designers. Berkeley, CA: Pearson / Peachpit Press, 2006: 105-11. "Animating the Language Machine: Computers and Performance." Journal for Computing in the Humanities 36.3 (August 2002): 319-344. "Improvising Character: Jazz, the Actor, and Protocols of Improvisation." The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation and Communities in Dialogue. Eds. Ajay Heble and Daniel Fischlin. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP: 2004: 268-297. (marshallsoules.ca/shepard/character.htm) "From Video Conferencing to the Cybercafé: Membership, Performance and Online Learning." Ed-Media '98 Conference Proceedings. Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education: 1998. "Protocols of Improvisation and Online Communication." LETT '97 Conference Proceedings. Victoria, BC: June 1997. Editor. Atrevida 1.1 (Summer 1990). Published by Malaspina College and Oolichan Press. "Lowdown on Haute Cuisine: An Interview with Wolfgang Goudriaan." Atrevida 1.1 (Summer 1990): 18-25. "Praise Be to Ducks in Flight." Canadian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Quarterly 4.2 (Spring 1989): 11. "B.C.: B.C." Brick 19 (Fall 1983): 11-16. An article on thirty centuries of British Columbia sculpture. Editor and Publisher. Interlude to Battle. Larry V. Platt. Vancouver: Pulp Press: 1980. "Ah! B.C." Brick 6 (June 1979): 26-35. Reprinted in Brick 12: A Brick Sampler. An article on British Columbia art and history. Conference Papers and PresentationsConflict Management with Donna & Marshall Soules, with Gerry Fialka and Robert Grant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=leb5UiODSvw. September 15, 2021. McLuhan Mashup #4, Marshall Soules with Gerry Fialka and Clinton Ignatov. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzfgHcP9QbE, Sept. 11 2020.
"The Juxtaposition Engine: Recombinant Images and Emerging Narratives." Consortium for Computing in the Humanities (COCH/COSH). University of Manitoba: May 2004. marshallsoules.ca/jengine "From Electronic Journals to the Digital Documentary: The Collaborative Learning Archive." Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Consortium for Computing in the Humanities (COCH/COSH). Dalhousie University: May 2003. "Computer Gaming and Protocols of Improvisation." Consortium for Computing in the Humanities (COCH/COSH). University of Toronto: May 2002. "Protocols of Improvisation: Sam Shepard in B.C." Staging the Pacific Province Conference. University of British Columbia, Oct 10-13, 2001. marshallsoules.ca/shepard/. "Collaboration and Publication in Hybrid Online Courses." Connections 2001. British Columbia's Centre for Curriculum, Transfer and Technology. Whistler, BC: May 2001. "Eshu's Cap: Improvisation at the Crossroads of the Diaspora." Guelph Jazz Festival. Guelph, ON: September 2000. "Hybrid Online Courses & Strategies for Collaboration." COCH/COSH Conference. Congress of Learned Societies. University of Alberta, Edmonton: June 2000. "Sam Shepard's Suicide in Bb: Silhouette in Sound." Guelph Jazz Festival. Guelph, ON: September 1999. "Animating the Language Machine." COCH/COSH Conference. Congress of Learned Societies. Bishops University, Lennoxville, PQ: June 1999. "Play, Voluntary Discipline and Protocols of Improvisation." Guelph Jazz Festival. Guelph, ON: September 1998. "From Video-Conferencing to the Cybercafé: Membership, Performance and Online Learning." Ed-Media/Ed-Telecom Conference. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Frieberg, Germany: June 1998. "Sam Shepard Improvises the Nomadic Character." ACCUTE Conference. Congress of Learned Societies. University of Ottawa: May 1998. "GIFs and JPEGs for the Web." Standing Committee on Educational Technology (SCOET) Conference, Vancouver, BC: May 1997. "Protocols of Improvisation and Online Communication." Leading Edge Training and Technology (LETT '97) Conference, Victoria, BC: March 1997. "Enhancing Capacity with Video Conferencing." Malaspina University-College Educational Techology Conference. Nanaimo, BC: May 1996. "Wilson Duff: Survivor." Nanaimo Archeological Society: 1993. "Media in the Family." Dubé Symposium. Nanaimo, BC: 1991. Productions and Exhibits"The Charge in the Global Membrane." Exhibition of prints. Corinne James, curator. The Old School House Gallery (TOSH), Qualicum Beach, BC: September 5-30, 2018. "Lo-fi and Wi-fi: Conjuring Creativity & Performance," Arts and Humanities Colloquium, Vancouver Island University: October 2012. Performance with Marian van der Zon, Robin Davies, Niel Scobie and others. "Cover Up - Bleeding Edges." Prints/film. Datastream 4: Proliferating Signs & Cultural Layers. Nanaimo Art Gallery: January 12, 2012 - February 4, 2012. "Anonymous Identities: Remembering Community." Digital prints. Datastream 3: Machine Communities. Curator: Greg Ball. Nanaimo Art Gallery: Jan. 8 - Feb 13, 2010. Ikarut Silakkut: Canadian North and Inuit Broadcasting. This visionary 1977 report to CRTC by Rod Chiasson argues that the Canadian North needs a broadcasting system which is oriented north-to-south and east-to-west, not south-to-north: 2009. marshallsoules.ca/ikarut/cover.html Be the Media. Nick Middleton and Chad Schroter-Gillespie. DVD. Production Consultant / Participant: 2009. Cuba Now, with Ramiro Zayas Frutos. DVD ISBN 978-1-896886-11-4. Producer. Media Research Lab (VIU): 2008. Dionne Brand. DVD ISBN 978-1-896886-15-2. Producer. Media Research Lab (VIU): 2008. Ishmael Beah. DVD ISBN 978-1-896886-19-0. Producer. Media Research Lab (VIU): 2008. Tom Wayman. DVD ISBN 978-1-896886-19-0. Producer. Media Research Lab (VIU): 2007. Mongolian Rhapsody with Galsan Tschinag. DVD ISBN 978-1-896886-09-1. Producer / Camera. Media Research Lab (VIU): 2008. Producer, reFrame3: Film Symposium with Christine Welsh and Tracy Kim Jack: March 2008. Digital prints and multimedia installation. Datastream 2: Reflections on Power. Curator: Greg Ball. Nanaimo Art Gallery: Feb 16 - March 10, 2007. "Suite Habana." Digital Photography for Urban Eyes Exhibit. Curator: Kim Goldberg. Nanaimo, BC: April 21-23, 2006. Cuba Demands. 2006. Online electronic edition of Editoria Política (Cuban government) publication: 1999. marshallsoules.ca/cubademands/splash.htm. Urban Wallpaper: Almost Heaven. Art exhibit. Curator: Corinne Martin. Old School House Gallery, Qualicum Beach, BC: March 27-April 10, 2006. Urban Wallpaper: Spirit and Politics. Art exhibit. APHID Gallery, Nanaimo, BC: November 2005. Urban Wallpaper Tour: 2005. (marshallsoules.ca/urban/wallpaper.htm). The Cyborg Instructor. avatar.learnnewmedia.ca/. Online interactive software application: 2005. "Reading the Signs on the Wall: Unsanctioned Images in the Public Sphere." With Tricia Irish. 2005. (marshallsoules.ca/Signs/). MediaBC. Website development for Media and Communications Studies Articulation Committee, with funding from BC Council on Admissions and Transfer. mediabc.ca. Sept. 2005-May 2006. Producer, reFrame2: Media and Leadership. Malaspina University-College: May 2005. Photography and digital art installation. Datastream. Curator: Robin Field. Nanaimo Art Gallery: March 2004. The Juxtaposition Engine. Software and website development with Michael Nixon (RA). (http://marshallsoules.ca/jengine/). 2004. Producer, reFrame: Video at the Crossroads Conference, Malaspina University-College: November 2003. Urban Wallpaper. Solo Photography Exhibit. Curator: Pamela Speight. Nanaimo Art Gallery. Nanaimo, BC: June 1997. Professional Activity"Bridging the Barriers of Defensiveness." Presentation at Alternative Dispute Resolution of BC (ADRBC) Symposium, with Donna Soules and Anna Richards. Simon Fraser University (Downtown), Vancouver, BC: 12 June 2018. Outstanding Service Award. Vancouver Island University: June 2011. Master Mediators Intensive: Neuroscience, Empathy, and Mediation. Los Angeles, CA: March 2011. Community Adjustment Fund (CAF) award of $2.7 M in collaboration with the Ladysmith High Street Group to build a community social services centre: September 2009. Activist Documentary 2-week Intensive. Gulf Islands Film and Television School (GIFTS): May 2009. BA Major in Digital Media Studies. Curriculum Development. Media Studies Department, Vancouver Island University: 2008. Board / Program Committee. Nanaimo Global Film Festival: September 2007 - 2010. Canada/Cuba Image Dialogue. SSHRC ITST (Image Text Sound Technology) grant. Research on social and political messages in the public sphere: January 2007 - June 2009. New Opportunities Fund Recognition Award. Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI): March 2006. "Urban Wallpaper in Context." Artist's Talk. Old School House Gallery, Qualicum Beach, BC: April 8, 2006. BA Minor in Media Studies. Curriculum Development. Media Studies Department, Vancouver Island University: 2004. Instructor/Team Leader. Digitization Fundamentals and Their Application, Digital Humanities/Humanities Computing Summer Institute, University of Victoria: June 2004-2006. Board of Directors. Ladysmith Resource Centre Association. Ladysmith, BC: 2004--2011. Director. Media Research Lab, Vancouver Island University: 2003--2009. Chair. Media and Communication Studies Articulation Committee (MACSAC), BC Articulation and Transfer: 2002-2004. Chair of Media Studies, Malaspina University-College / Vancouver Island University: 1998--2008. "Writing and the Web." The Art and Business of Writing Conference. Federation of British Columbia Writers. Malaspina University-College: October 1999. Exhibition Committee. Nanaimo Art Gallery: 1999-2001. President, Board of Directors. Navigator Newspaper Society. Nanaimo, BC: 1997-2000. Faculty Advisor, Cybercafé. Malaspina University-College. Nanaimo, BC: 1997-98. GIFs and JPEGs for the Web. Computer Software. SCOET Conference, Vancouver, BC: May 1997. B.C. Government Innovations Grants for development and delivery of educational technology pilot projects: Emerging Digital Technology (Video Conferencing, Spring 1996); Computer-Mediated Communication, Canadian Media Theory (Spring 1997); Cybercafé (1997-98). Board of Directors. Nanaimo Theatre Festival: 1989-91. Intensive Gamelan Workshop, Simon Fraser University: 1986. Founder and Director. Africa West. (Music promotion): 1984--1996. Musician with Olatunji's Drums of Passion. Whistler Jazz Festival, Whistler, BC: July 1984. Musician. Djembe Bara. Vancouver: 1982-87. [Revised December 2018] |