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  • Jennifer James Director, Native American & Indigenous Studies Phone: 253-535-7217 Email: jamesja@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 201-C Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Associate Professor of English Chair, Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Education Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2012 M.A., Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 2004 B.A., Comparative Literature, Smith College, 2001 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Post

  • see things from graffiti of a giant squid on the walls as well as men in black, to statues of giant caged dinosaurs and sharks devouring chairs. It was fun to walk around and I wish we had more time to explore the vastness of it…MORE Tudor England Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 By Michael Halvorson British Museum and Unusual Discoveries Today our adventuresome group visited the British Museum and made other individual excursions around London. About a third of the class wanted Indian food for dinner, and

  • explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context.” Shelagh D. Grant, Polar Imperative: A History of Artic Sovereignty in North America (Douglas and McIntyre, 2010) “Based on Shelagh Grant’s groundbreaking archival research and drawing on her reputation as a leading historian in the field, Polar Imperative is a compelling overview of the historical claims of sovereignty over this continent’s polar regions

  • Law and Government JOSHUA ORF-RODRIGUEZ (2010) Assistant Attorney General, Washington State Attorney General’s Office Majors: English, Literature Concentration; Classics Minor: Religion Graduate Degree: Juris Doctorate, University of Washington School of Law, 2015 How did your English major establish a foundation for your career path? A dirty little secret about being a lawyer is that a large part of it is writing what are basically persuasive essays to the court, a client, or opposing counsel

  • Barbara Temple-Thurston Professor of English Email: templeba@plu.edu Professional Education Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, 1985 M.A., Southern Illinois University, 1979 B.A., University of Witwatersrand-Johannesburg, 1971 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Post-Colonial Literature Caribbean Literature African Literature Books Nadine Gordimer Revisited (Twayne's World Authors Series, No. 881) (Twayne 1999) : View Book

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  • won first place in the Association of Health Care Journalists Awards for “Saving Bobby,” a long-form feature about the race to save a toddler after his father accidentally ran over his head. As a freelance writer, Nelson’s bylines have included features on national parks, conservation, and the green building industry for the New York Times. He has written extensively about Covid-19 for The Daily Beast and The British Medical Journal. He initiated the “Frontiers” column on scientific innovation at

  • Why Study English?Written works preserve our history, describe our current reality and color our future beyond imagination. Whether you aspire to analyze literature or write it, the study of English offers a versatile and challenging major. Through reading we have the opportunity to live a thousand lives, while writing with care and imagination can reveal new self-truths. A disciplined experience with the written word develops broad vision, fresh insight, and the more sophisticated skills of

  • New Honor Society Enters LutedomeEvery year, nine thousand students worldwide join Sigma Tau Delta, an English Honor Society founded in 1924. This international group of readers and writers engages in formal and informal discussions about literature, fosters literacy education through outreach programming, and celebrates the impact of words on culture and experience. In the 2014-2015 academic year, Sigma Tau Delta made its way to PLU. PLU students and faculty have joined a conversation that

  • perspectives to examine issues such as socialization and stereotypes, relationships and sexuality, interpersonal and institutional violence, revolution and social change in the U.S. and in other selected international contexts.IHON 257: Aesthetics and Politics of the British ‘Postcolonial’ NovelThe British Empire changed its subject peoples, but those peoples ended up also changing Britain and the British themselves. However, the complexity of these changes is not always visible through analytic