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Poetry, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Brian Teare, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of seven critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses and Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His most recent publications are a diptych of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction, chronic illness, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia.
, my job is to support each writer’s individual inquiry into their art, and to inhabit as a reader the negative capability Keats wrote of so beautifully, “without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” I strive to supply accurate description of what’s been achieved by the work at hand, and then to ask artful questions that facilitate honest self-reflection and rewriting as re-visionary work. In counterpoint to supporting artist-led inquiry, I offer a capacious sense of literary history and
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Resident Instructor of Business | School of Business | pfaffcm@plu.edu | 253-535-7244 | Cosette Pfaff brings 25+ years of business practitioner experience, working on both the revenue generating and operational side of business and has a passion for growing healthy organizations.
base ranges from banking to big toys; the dental industry to ditch digging and other construction related activities; retail to restaurants; car repair to chiropractic; local, state governmental agencies and non-profits. In addition to “Visiting Instructor of Business” at PLU (2017-18), teaching Organizational Behavior and Global Management, Cosette is the current South Sound Group Leader for Excell Puget Sound and President of Fast Forward Your Success. Previous academic work includes: Adjunct
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Visiting Instructor | School of Business | falskotn@plu.edu | 253-535-7083 | Tom Falskow brings over 30 years of finance and accounting experience to the PLU School of Business. Having started his career in public accounting, he audited clients across the world, first in Seattle, then travelling to Zurich, Switzerland, Oslo, Norway and finally to Anchorage, Alaska. He served clients in a variety of industries with a major focus on manufacturing and energy.
has a B.A. in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from the University of Washington Foster School of Business. He is a Certified Global Management Accountant (CGMA). He also has extensive experience teaching financial topics to a variety of audiences. He lives in his hometown of Tacoma and enjoys travel, cooking and exploring the great outdoors of the PNW.
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Professor of Christian and Environmental Ethics | Religion | obrien@plu.edu | 253-535-7239 | Kevin J.
Virtues of Christian Ecological Ethics and Free Market Environmentalism with Kathryn D. Blanchard." The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics Vol. 34.1, 2014: "Playing God: Religion in the Geoengineering Debate with Forrest Klingerman." Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Vol. May/June, 2014: "The 'War' Against Climate Change and Christian Eco-Justice: Ethical Implications of Martial Rhetoric." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology Vol. 17, 2013: "La Causa and Environmental Justice: César
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Lecturer - Guitar | Guitar & Lute Program | brownec@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | A specialist in standard classical guitar as well as various early guitars and lutes, Elizabeth C.
Elizabeth C. D. Brown Lecturer - Guitar Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: brownec@plu.edu Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Website: http://www.elizabethcdbrown.com/home.html Professional Biography Video Additional Titles/Roles Directs Guitar Orchestra and Guitar Ensemble Directs the PLU Guitar Festival Education B.M., University of Washington B.A., University of Washington Responsibilities Applied Guitar Lessons, Lute Lessons, Teaches Guitar Pedagogy, Guitar and Lute History
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Professor Emerita and Faculty Fellow in Humanities | Religion | killenpo@plu.edu | Patricia O’Connell Killen, professor emerita, taught courses in the Department of Religion and in the International Core at PLU from 1989 through 2010.
Patricia O’Connell Killen Professor Emerita and Faculty Fellow in Humanities Email: killenpo@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987 M.A., Stanford University, 1976 B.A., Gonzaga University, 1974 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise History of Christianity in North America Religion and Spirituality in the Pacific Northwest Theological Reflection and Faith-Inspired Higher Education Books The Future of Catholicism in America (New York: Columbia University Press 2019
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Professor Emeritus | School of Music, Theatre & Dance | Paul Tegels retired in May 2023.
Training, Music History Accolades Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship from the Netherlands-America Commission for Educational Exchange Biography Paul Tegels retired in May 2023. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Organ Performance and Pedagogy and his Master of Arts Degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Iowa, where he studied organ with Delores Bruch, and choral conducting with William Hatcher. Other degrees and awards include the Artist Diploma and the Master of Music
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Professor Emeritus | Music | Paul Tegels retired in May 2023.
Training, Music History Accolades Recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship from the Netherlands-America Commission for Educational Exchange Biography Paul Tegels retired in May 2023. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Organ Performance and Pedagogy and his Master of Arts Degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Iowa, where he studied organ with Delores Bruch, and choral conducting with William Hatcher. Other degrees and awards include the Artist Diploma and the Master of Music
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Professor Emeritus | Communication, Media & Design Arts | Writer.
documentary “Tapped Out: Unearthing the Global Water Crisis.” 2011 Accolade Award of Merit – in the Feature Documentary category as faculty advisor on the documentary film “Oil Literacy.” Presented in January 2011. 2010 Accolade Award of Merit – in the Feature Documentary category as faculty advisor on the documentary film “The New American Family: Defining Commitment in a Changing Society.” Presented in July 2010. 2010 - Award of Excellence: From the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of
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Associate Professor of Education | School of Education | suttonps@plu.edu | 253-535-7285 | Paul Sutton teaches sociocultural foundations of education, secondary humanities methods, and secondary literacy courses as well as various seminar courses in the undergrad and graduate-level teacher education programs.
Education History of Education Selected Articles Jones, S., Sutton, P. S. "Doing equity work while black in a culturally white school district." Phi Delta Kappan 2021: 103(1), 38-42. Sutton, P. S., Shouse, A. W. "Tending to the “deep rules” of teacher collaboration." Commentary found in Teachers College Record 2020: Sutton, P. S., Knuth, R. "How high school departments impact school improvement initiatives." Journal of Curriculum Studies 2020: 52(1), 118-137. Sutton, P. S., Shouse, A. W. "Investigating
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