Office Location: S-103, Library, Lower Level, Springer Admission/Administration Building

Campus Phone Number: 405-789-7661 x3451
Email Address: Marilyn.hudson@swcu.edu ; scu.library@swcu.edu

Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Research Interests: Role of Women in Christianity, mythology, storytelling as communication and educational tool, American social history, book-author promotion

Publications and Professional Presentations:

Author presentation, Chisholm Trail Book Festival, 2011

Author presentation, Enid Public Library, 2011

Guest Reader, OU,  2011

Featured teller, Oklahoma Olio, OKC Storytellign Festival, 2011

Featured Teller, Choctaw Public Library, "Tellabration!", 2011

"Noel Brooks: A Life Shining and Burning" (Whorl Books, 2011)

"The Mound: A Novel" (Whorl Books, 2011)

"When Death Rode the Rails", Whorl Books, 2011.

"Tales of Hell's Half Acre", Whorl Books, 2011.

'In Her Own Words: The Life and Inspirational Poetry of Velma Terry (1915-1999)', Whorl Books, 2010.
Peer Reviewer, Association of Christian Librarians Journal, 2009-2011.
“Pentecostal Holiness Classics: Book Reviews of Early Works.” IPHC ‘Networking, e-newsletter, Office of Communications, 2009 -.
“Southwestern Christian University.” Bethany Centennial. Quade Publishing, 2009.
“St. Joseph Orphanage History.” Bethany Centennial. Quade Publishing, 2009.
Those Pesky Verses of Paul: Examining Women in the New Testament. Whorl Books, 2009.
“The Bottomless Well.” Red Dirt Book Festival Anthology, Volume 3. Pioneer Library System, 2009.
“Save Our Stories: Using Storytelling to Reinvigorate Local Communities.” Workshop. Wagoner Public Library, July 7, 2009.
“Headlines from History.” IPHC ‘Networking, e-newsletter, Office of Communications, 2008-2009.
Peer reviewer, Association of Christian Librarians Journal, 2008.
“Rune stone.” Red Dirt Book Festival Anthology, Volume 2. Pioneer Library System, 2007.
“Storyteller.” Spirit of Oklahoma Storytelling Festival, Seminole, Ok, June 6, 2007.
“Book by Book: Southwestern Christian University Library History, 1946-2006”. Oklahoma Library Association, Centennial project located at http://199.164.253.25/centennial/libbio/swchristianunivlib.html
“Beginning Storytelling: Workshop.” Choctaw Library, October 10, 2006.
One Nightclub and a Mule Barn: The first sixty years of Southwestern Christian University. Tate Publishing, 2006.
“Using Mood to Enhance Stories”, workshop, Red Dirt Book Festival, Shawnee, Oklahoma, 2005.
“Annie Oklahoma: An original tall tale.” Red Dirt Book Festival Anthology, Volume 1. Pioneer Library System, 2005.

Mission/Passion: To encourage others to love the journey of learning as much as the destination.

Favorite Bible Verse: Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

Personal Interests: Historic research, Storytelling, Creative Writing, Photography , author/book promotion