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  • Brian Norman’s Story https://www.plu.edu/archives/digital-exhibits-and-resources/a-queer-history/brian-normans-story/

    literary studies and became a scholar of African American literature. He has continued to work within institutions of education to challenge them to live by their own values, a commitment he solidified at PLU. Notably, one of Brian’s capstone projects was a queer history of PLU — an early precursor to this project. “So there was a moment, even that early, of an attempt to document, and an awareness that progress had been made, and that we were entering new chapters. I think that’s always an important

  • 2021 Capstones https://www.plu.edu/environmental-studies/2021-capstones/

    2021 Environmental Studies CapstonesProfessors Claire Todd (Geosciences and Environmental Studies) and Sergia Hay (Philosophy) had the honor of working with this year’s class of Environmental Studies students as they completed their interdisciplinary and culminating projects for their major. This capstone cohort tackled a wide range of current environmental issues and employed the methods and tools of multiple disciplines including biology, literature, chemistry, philosophy, art, political

  • First MSK Graduate Class: Delaney Salter https://www.plu.edu/master-of-science-kinesiology/news/graduate-delaney-salter/

    happier lives in the moment and over time. The importance of service is enhanced by the importance of ensuring the transition of theory to practice by always staying current with literature and striving to be the best professional I can be for those I am working with and helping in their lives. I believe that PLU’s program has prepared me for the job hunt process as well as for my future career by developing my ability to research seminal and current research as well as emphasizing theory to practice

  • Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than ho https://www.plu.edu/natural-sciences/news/three-students-share-how-scholarships-support-them-in-their-pursuit-to-make-the-world-better-than-how-they-found-it/

    , English Lit and Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Religion, Gender and Sexuality Studies“My goals are to teach English and/or work in genocide prevention and education. I want to educate others as I educate myself.” Austyn Blair ’25 has a full schedule. He is majoring in English Literature and minoring in Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Religion; and Gender and Sexuality Studies. In 2023, Blair was nominated as the Student Speaker for convocation, and his speech centered on the importance of a holistic

  • ‘Porgy and Bess’ https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2011/10/13/porgy-and-bess/

    a career in singing or opera? “Life isn’t a dress rehearsal,” she said. “Do your best work every time. Be accountable. Be flexible. Be able, ready and fierce with your art.” Like Van Mechelen, McIntyre arrived at PLU as a transfer student. She graduated with an English literature major, and a vocal and religion minor. McIntyre’s mother, Nancy McIntyre ’74, also graduated with a degree in education from PLU. After teaching in various places around the country, McIntyre now teaches theater arts in

  • John Evanishyn ‘21 studied environmental science on campus—and in France and Costa Rica—during his f https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2021/05/10/john-evanishyn/

    creativity, writing a column for The Mast that was based on his experiences studying abroad. Evanishyn’s overseas experiences included a year in Aix-en-Provence, France, a Tacoma-sized city located about 20 miles from Marseilles. There he studied subjects ranging from European literature to the ecology of the Mediterranean Sea, all the while soaking up the majestic ambiance of France’s wine country. “It’s a really beautiful area,” he said. “There’s a very dry, beautiful mountain (Mont Sainte-Victoire

  • How Mexico slowly, but surely, began to change my life – Oaxaca Program 2017 https://www.plu.edu/oaxaca-2017/how-mexico-slowly-but-surely-began-to-change-my-life/

    place around the globe. This idea of migration as a global and international phenomenon was something I was conscious of based on the experiences I had working at Tacoma Community House with Immigration Services, taking HISP 423 Special Topics in Spanish Literature, going to volunteer workshops for organizations such as AID NW, and more. But it was not something I felt or had a deeper connection to. Program students at IMUMI during the joint presentation of IMUMI and Clínica de Acción Legal. Photo

  • Scholarship, Sleep, and Self in the Pandemic https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/scholarship-sleep-and-self-in-the-pandemic/

    the idea for the book while they were doing research together at the Folger Shakespeare Library a few years ago. “We were doing some research into handwriting and paleography, but we realized that we both had an interest in consciousness and what it meant to be awake and what it meant to be asleep, and the philosophical implications of that, as they manifested in literature.” Professor Nancy Simpson-Younger Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance CoEdited by Nancy

  • Speakers and Panels https://www.plu.edu/wang-center-symposium/speakers/

    Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, 2018). She also directs Disability and Climate Change: A Public Archive Project, a project that partners with grassroots disability leaders to document the way that disability communities are responding to climate change. Her latest book is Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole (Beacon Press, 2023) which won a 2024 National Jewish Book Award for “Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice”Jenny OdellHow to Do

  • Students Speak https://www.plu.edu/gender-sexuality-race/student-resources/students-speak/

    and African American Studies program at Loyola University Maryland, while contributing courses to its gender studies program. I also participate in relevant student organizations addressing LGBT rights, sexual assault, and other important concerns. My feminist literature courses continue to be my most intellectually rewarding. In fact, when I interviewed for my job at Loyola, I pitched my dream course: a study of “dead women talking.” From Madeline Usher to Toni Morrison’s Beloved, these strange