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Geographic “an elegant literary map that celebrates shifting topographies as well as human bodies in motion, not only across water and land, but also through life.” Borich’s previous book, My Lesbian Husband (Graywolf), won the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award. Her work has been anthologized in Waveform: Twenty-First Century Essays by Women and in After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays, and has been cited in Best American Essays and Best American Non-Required Reading
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“Jewish Women as Couriers in the Resistance”Keynote: Dr. Lenore J. Weitzman7:00 p.m. – Keynote: “Jewish Women as Couriers in the Resistance” (Regency Room, AUC) Lenore J. Weitzman, Clarence Robinson Professor of Sociology and Law at George Mason University (emeritus) Weitzman is the author of 5 books, including the award-winning The Divorce Revolution: the Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in America (1985), which focused national attention on the economic
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are being offered in a given semester. Gender & Sexuality Electives (GSEL) ANTH 352 – Anthropology of Age ANTH 353 – Clothing and Material Culture ARTD 490 – Gender and Art BIOL 287/387/389 – when taught as “Biological Effects of Sex & Gender” COMA 303 – Communication and Gender ENGL 232 – Women Writers and the Body Politic ENGL 348 – when taught as “19 th Century American Women Writers” ENGL 360A – when taught as “The Queer Renaissance” ENGL 398A – when taught as “Medieval Bodies” FREN 306/406
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exchanges with local students. The jazz ensemble, a student jazz big band, will perform a program of jazz standards and contemporary, original works. Performances will feature compositions and arrangements of such notable jazz composers as Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, and repertoire from historic big bands such those of Buddy Rich, Count Basie, and the Village Vanguard Orchestra. Styles will range from 1930s swing to funk, Afro-Cuban and Brazilian. Under the direction of Dr. David Deacon-Joyner
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dive in, head first. So she and Lois joined the 10,000- member-strong Romance Writers of America and began attending monthly meetings in Seattle and annual nationwide conventions, where, as you might expect from a group almost exclusively comprised of women, they were warmly welcomed into the fold. And, naturally, they started writing their own romance novels. It’s been a couple of years now, and Gregson is still about 40 pages into her novel. (Don’t expect anything, she warns.) But from the
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conversation the two had a few days earlier: Have you ever read a romance novel? Gregson hadn’t. And she would fully admit that she was like many other people: She assumed romance novels were easy reads, brainless formulaic pop. Then, the box of novels arrived. She read one. And a research topic was born. Gregson and her friend, professor Jennifer Lois of Western Washington University, decided they wanted to study the writers of the romance genre, of which about 95 percent are women. Sure, the novels had
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PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition Cassio Vianna, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies, has been awarded a grant to write a 4-movement suite entitled Invisible Garden, that blends jazz, chamber music and Brazilian music. Posted by: Liza Conboy / April 18, 2024 Image: Jazz Under the Stars featuring Vianna/Bergeron Brazilian Quintet with Cassio Vianna on piano at PLU, Thursday
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Women Writers Memory and Trauma Studies Selected Presentations XXX Congress of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AGSS), Creating an Archive: Women as Holocaust Survivors in Uruguay, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana (November 17-19, 2021) LASA Congress 2021, Refugees and Uruguayan Documentary Filmmaking: Other Upcoming Memories (May 26-29, 2021) XXXVI Internacional Congress of Literature and Hispanic Studies (CILH, Special Virtual Edition), “Quarantine Behaviors” or the Limits of
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-Dictatorial Narrative by Women Writers Memory and Trauma Studies Selected Presentations XXX Congress of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AGSS), Creating an Archive: Women as Holocaust Survivors in Uruguay, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana (November 17-19, 2021) LASA Congress 2021, Refugees and Uruguayan Documentary Filmmaking: Other Upcoming Memories (May 26-29, 2021) XXXVI Internacional Congress of Literature and Hispanic Studies (CILH, Special Virtual Edition), “Quarantine Behaviors
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Free & Open to the PublicWhen: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 The Writer’s Story: 4:00PM, Ness Second Floor Lobby, KHP Reading: 7:00PM, CK East, AUCElissa Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a nonfiction writer. She is the author of Starvation Mode and My Body Is a Book of Rules, named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. With Theresa Warburton, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She has received
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