Curriculum Vitae

Marshall Soules

5092 Brenton-Page Road
Ladysmith, BC  V9G 1L6
250-245-9904
marshall.soules@gmail.com

Education

PhD. (English/Drama)

1994; Rutgers University
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
Reid Carr Award (English): 1970
Dean's List: 1968-70
Varsity hockey: 1968-70

Honours Secondary School Diploma

1967; Ridley College
Awards: Mason Gold Medal, Ontario Scholarship

Employment

Mediator / Conflict Resolution Trainer / Coach

Soules Consulting Ltd; Ladysmith, BC
2015 - Present

Honorary Research Associate

Vancouver Island University; Nanaimo, BC
2009 - Present

Chair: Media Studies Department

Vancouver Island University
1998-2008

Director. Media Research Lab (MRL)

Vancouver Island University
2003-2009

President

Raincoast Construction Ltd. (Custom Building Contractor); Vancouver, BC
1978 - 1987

Lecturer: English Literature

University of Guelph; Guelph, ON
1973-74

Self-Employed Writer and Artist

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

College Instructor: English

Capilano College; North Vancouver, BC
1977; 1986-87

Instructor: English / Creative Writing

Niagara College; Welland, ON
1975-77

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

"Play Attention"

New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, Vol.2 No.1 (2021). Retrieved from [link]

"Street Art Rising"

New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, Vol.1 No.2 (2020). Retrieved from [link]

Understanding Conflict: Bridging Theory and Practice

Collaboration with Donna Soules, Andrea Blakeman, Brad Crewson, Robin McQueen and Marshall Soules. Soules Consulting, 2019. ISBN: 199920760

Editor: Slightly Corked

By Delbert Horrocks. Ladysmith, BC: Take Five Publications: 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

"Protocols of Improvisation and Online Communication"

LETT '97 Conference Proceedings. Victoria, BC: June 1997

"Lowdown on Haute Cuisine: An Interview with Wolfgang Goudriaan."

Atrevida 1.1 (Summer 1990): 18-25

"B.C.: B.C."

Brick 19 (Fall 1983): 11-16. An article on thirty centuries of British Columbia sculpture

"Ah! B.C."

Brick 6 (June 1979): 26-35. Reprinted in Brick 12: A Brick Sampler. An article on British Columbia art and history

"Thomas Merton's Blues"

New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, Vol.2 No.2 (2022). Retrieved from [link]

"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 [link]

"Surveillance Capitalism Pandemic"

New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, Vol.1 No.2 (2020). Retrieved from [link]

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

Noble Lies

Unpublished screenplay: 2017

"Scan amoureux: Pierre Gauvreau et Janine Carreau à la Baron Gallery de Vancouver Octobre 2011—Avril 2012"

in Pierre Gauvreau: Passeur de modernité. Quebec, QC: Musée de la Civilisation/Fides, 2013: pp. 117-132. Online English version: /marshallsoules.ca/automatiste/scan_amoureux.htm.

"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

Editor: Atrevida 1.1 (Summer 1990)

Published by Malaspina College and Oolichan Press

"Praise Be to Ducks in Flight"

Canadian Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Quarterly 4.2 (Spring 1989): 11

Editor and Publisher: Interlude to Battle

By Larry V. Platt. Vancouver: Pulp Press: 1980

Conference Papers and Presentations

Conflict Management with Donna & Marshall Soules

With Gerry Fialka and Robert Grant; September 15, 2021
[link to video]

"Cuba's Revolutionary Landscape" 

Media Ecology Association Conference. St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA: June 2017

"Media, Persuasion and Propaganda"

Arts and Humanities Colloquium, Vancouver Island University: January 2015

"The Image Dialogue: Agile Computing and Social Commentary"

Society for Digital Humanities. Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, UBC: June 2008

"Urban Anthropology: Documenting Images in the Public Sphere" 

Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDI/SEMI). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. York University, May 29, 2006

"The Cyborg Instructor"

Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDI/SEMI). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. University of Western Ontario, London: May 2005

"The Juxtaposition Engine: Recombinant Images and Emerging Narratives"

Consortium for Computing in the Humanities (COCH/COSH). University of Manitoba: May 2004. marshallsoules.ca/jengine

"Computer Gaming and Protocols of Improvisation"

Consortium for Computing in the Humanities (COCH/COSH). University of Toronto: May 2002

"Collaboration and Publication in Hybrid Online Courses"

Connections 2001. British Columbia's Centre for Curriculum, Transfer and Technology. Whistler, BC: May 2001

"Hybrid Online Courses & Strategies for Collaboration"

COCH/COSH Conference. Congress of Learned Societies. University of Alberta, Edmonton: June 2000

"Animating the Language Machine"

COCH/COSH Conference. Congress of Learned Societies. Bishops University, Lennoxville, PQ: June 1999

"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

"Enhancing Capacity with Video Conferencing"

Malaspina University-College Educational Techology Conference. Nanaimo, BC: May 1996

"Media in the Family"

Dubé Symposium. Nanaimo, BC: 1991

McLuhan Mashup #4

Marshall Soules with Gerry Fialka and Clinton Ignatov; Sept. 11 2020
[link to video]

" Neo-Nationalism and the New Propaganda"

Vancouver Island University: March 2017

"Lo-fi & Wi-fi: Conjuring Creativity and Performance"

With Marian van der Zon, Robin Davies and others, Arts and Humanities Colloquium, Vancouver Island University: 2013

"Cuba Now with Prof. Ramiro Zayas Frutos"

Lecture and slideshow. Vancouver Island University: Oct. 14, 2007

"The New Wave of Canadian Media Theorists"

Conference on Media History in Canada. Ryerson University, Toronto: May 2006

"Reading the Signs on the Wall: Unsanctioned Images in the Public Sphere"

Visual Culture Conference. Kansas State University: March 10, 2005. marshallsoules.ca/Signs/.

"Codex Machines: From Fetish to Function in the Dynamic Text"

Consortium for Computing in the Humanities (COCH/COSH). Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. University of Manitoba: May 2004

"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

"Protocols of Improvisation: Sam Shepard in B.C"

Staging the Pacific Province Conference. University of British Columbia, Oct 10-13, 2001. marshallsoules.ca/shepard/.

"Eshu's Cap: Improvisation at the Crossroads of the Diaspora"

Guelph Jazz Festival. Guelph, ON: September 2000

"Sam Shepard's Suicide in Bb: Silhouette in Sound"

Guelph Jazz Festival. Guelph, ON: September 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

"Protocols of Improvisation and Online Communication"

Leading Edge Training and Technology (LETT '97) Conference, Victoria, BC: March 1997

"Wilson Duff: Survivor"

Nanaimo Archeological Society: 1993

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

"Cover Up - Bleeding Edges"

Prints/film. Datastream 4: Proliferating Signs & Cultural Layers. Nanaimo Art Gallery: January 12, 2012 - February 4, 2012 [link]

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

Dionne Brand

DVD ISBN 978-1-896886-15-2. Producer. Media Research Lab (VIU): 2008

Tom Wayman

DVD ISBN 978-1-896886-19-0. Producer. Media Research Lab (VIU): 2007

reFrame3: Film Symposium Conference

Producer. With Christine Welsh and Tracy Kim Jack: March 2008

"Suite Habana"

Digital Photography for Urban Eyes Exhibit. Curator: Kim Goldberg. Nanaimo, BC: April 21-23, 2006

Urban Wallpaper: Almost Heaven

Art exhibit. Curator: Corinne Martin. Old School House Gallery, Qualicum Beach, BC: March 27-April 10, 2006

"Reading the Signs on the Wall: Unsanctioned Images in the Public Sphere"

With Tricia Irish: 2005 (marshallsoules.ca/Signs/)

reFrame2: Media and Leadership Conference

Producer. Malaspina University-College: May 2005

Datastream

Photography and digital art installation. Curator: Robin Field. Nanaimo Art Gallery: March 2004

reFrame: Video at the Crossroads Conference

Producer. Malaspina University-College: November 2003

"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

"Anonymous Identities: Remembering Community"

Digital prints. Datastream 3: Machine Communities. Curator: Greg Ball. Nanaimo Art Gallery: Jan. 8 - Feb 13, 2010

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

Ishmael Beah

DVD ISBN 978-1-896886-19-0. Producer. Media Research Lab (VIU): 2008

Mongolian Rhapsody with Galsan Tschinag

DVD ISBN 978-1-896886-09-1. Producer / Camera. Media Research Lab (VIU): 2008

Datastream 2: Reflections on Power

Digital prints and multimedia installation. Curator: Greg Ball. Nanaimo Art Gallery: Feb 16 - March 10, 2007

Cuba Demands

2006. Online electronic edition of Editoria Política (Cuban government) publication: 1999. marshallsoules.ca/cubademands/splash.htm

Urban Wallpaper: Spirit and Politics

Art exhibit. APHID Gallery, Nanaimo, BC: November 2005

The Cyborg Instructor

Online interactive software application: 2005

MediaBC

Website development for Media and Communications Studies Articulation Committee, with funding from BC Council on Admissions and Transfer. Sept. 2005-May 2006

The Juxtaposition Engine

Software and website development with Michael Nixon (RA): 2004 (http://marshallsoules.ca/jengine/)

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

Community Adjustment Fund (CAF) Award

$2.7 M awarded in collaboration with the Ladysmith High Street Group to build a community social services centre: September 2009

BA Major in Digital Media Studies

Curriculum Development. Media Studies Department, Vancouver Island University: 2008

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

BA Minor in Media Studies

Curriculum Development. Media Studies Department, Vancouver Island University: 2004

Board of Directors

Ladysmith Resource Centre Association. Ladysmith, BC: 2004-2011

Chair: Media and Communication Studies Articulation Committee (MACSAC)

BC Articulation and Transfer: 2002-2004

"Writing and the Web"

The Art and Business of Writing Conference. Federation of British Columbia Writers. Malaspina University-College: October 1999

President, Board of Directors

Navigator Newspaper Society. Nanaimo, BC: 1997-2000

GIFs and JPEGs for the Web

Computer Software. SCOET Conference, Vancouver, BC: May 1997

Board of Directors

Nanaimo Theatre Festival: 1989-91

Intensive Gamelan Workshop

Simon Fraser University: 1986

Musician with Olatunji's Drums of Passion

Whistler Jazz Festival, Whistler, BC: July 1984

Outstanding Service Award

Vancouver Island University: June 2011

Master Mediators Intensive: Neuroscience, Empathy, and Mediation

Los Angeles, CA: March 2011

Gulf Islands Film and Television School (GIFTS)

Activist Documentary 2-week Intensive: May 2009

Board / Program Committee

Nanaimo Global Film Festival: September 2007 - 2010

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

Instructor/Team Leader

Digitization Fundamentals and Their Application, Digital Humanities/Humanities Computing Summer Institute, University of Victoria: June 2004-2006

Director: Media Research Lab

Vancouver Island University: 2003-2009

Chair of Media Studies

Malaspina University-College / Vancouver Island University: 1998-2008

Exhibition Committee

Nanaimo Art Gallery: 1999-2001

Faculty Advisor: Cybercafé

Malaspina University-College. Nanaimo, BC: 1997-98

B.C. Government Innovations Grants

Emerging Digital Technology (Video Conferencing, Spring 1996); Computer-Mediated Communication, Canadian Media Theory (Spring 1997); Cybercafé (1997-98)

Founder and Director: Africa West

Music Promotion. 1984-1996

Musician with Djembe Bara

Vancouver: 1982-87