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  • Resident Assistant Professor | International Honors | christian.gerzso@plu.edu | 253-535-7491 | Christian Gerzso was born in Mexico City, where he received his B.A.

    humanities International modernisms and avant-gardes Theories and representations of labor Literary and critical theory Books History, Empire, Critique: New Essays in World Literature. Ed. Asher Ghaffar Chapters "Aesthetic Re-Imaginings of Mexican Sovereignty: Esrtidentismo’s Anti-Imperialist Avant- Garde" (Routledge 2018) Selected Articles "No Useless Labor: Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis and the Importance of Intellectual Work." Textual Practice Vol. 33, no. 6, 2019: "Estridentistas de Estado: la

  • Professor of Economics | Department of Economics | traviskm@plu.edu

    Karen M. Travis Professor of Economics Email: traviskm@plu.edu Status:Emeritus Professional Education Ph.D., Economics, University of Washington, 1995 M.A., Economics, University of Washington, 1990 B.S. with honors, Physics and Mathematics, University of Puget Sound, 1986 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Teaching Areas: Health Economics, Econometrics, and Introductory Statistics Research Interests: Physician Payment, Access to Health Care, Prenatal Care Productivity, and Economics Education

  • Program Manager for Partnerships and Professional Development | School of Education | apc@plu.edu | Angenette originally came to PLU in 2018 as the Parkland Education Initiative Coordinator while serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA at the Center for Community Engagement and Service.

    Angenette originally came to PLU in 2018 as the Parkland Education Initiative Coordinator while serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA at the Center for Community Engagement and Service. In 2019, she joined the Center for Professional Continuing Education as a Program Coordinator in the Center for Continued Nursing Learning, and then transitioned while still in GPCE to Program Manager, working on programs such as Summer Sessions, IPP, and several professional development offerings through Continuing Education

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  • Visiting Assistant Professor of English | Department of English | lenk@plu.edu | 253-535-7873

    Contest "How We See." · Columbia Journal Online "The Mourning Club." · F(r)iction No. 17, Winter Research Projects Lenk, Jerico. Rearranging the Room: An Adaptation of Jane Eyre with Afterword, 2022. University of Washington, Master of Fine Arts critical thesis. Lenk, Jerico. happy russians (& other fairy tales), 2022. University of Washington, Master of Fine Arts creative thesis. Books The Missing (Month 9 Books 2017) : View Book Selected Presentations Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference

  • Professor of English | Department of English | marcusls@plu.edu | 253-535-7312 | Lisa Marcus joined the English department after completing a PhD in English at Rutgers University in 1995.  She has been active in campus-wide diversity education and advocacy; she chaired the Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies program for many years, and is a founding member of PLU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program.  She is deeply committed to first year education and regularly teaches a popular writing seminar on Banned Books for the First Year Experience Program.  Her constellation of courses in the English department include:  The Holocaust in the American Literary Imagination; American Literature 1914-45: Race, Sex, and War; Anne Frank as a Holocaust Icon; a senior seminar on History & Memory in US Slavery and Holocaust texts; an English Studies course on Gendered Literacy; Feminist Approaches to Literature; Women Writers and the Body Politic; and a first-year seminar on Holocaust Literature developed with Professor Rona Kaufman.  Lisa also regularly teaches courses in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Programs. Her current research project is Snapshots of a Daughter:  A Feminist Genealogy, a critical exploration of letters between Marcus’s mother and the poet Adrienne Rich, 1979-82. You can read a poem she published about visiting Auschwitz here.     .

    Holocaust Literature developed with Professor Rona Kaufman.  Lisa also regularly teaches courses in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Programs. Her current research project is Snapshots of a Daughter:  A Feminist Genealogy, a critical exploration of letters between Marcus’s mother and the poet Adrienne Rich, 1979-82. You can read a poem she published about visiting Auschwitz here.    

  • Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Apocalypse, Darling (2018), which was short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award.

    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 (2000), won the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award. Borich’s essays have been anthologized in: Isherwood in Transit; Critical Creative Writing; Waveform: Twenty-First Century Essays by Women; and in After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays, and have been cited in Best American Essays and Best American Non

  • Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | torrin a.

    process, treating each draft as a space for experimentation, for excess, and for bold choices they might otherwise never make.In the creative writing classroom, I aim to rethink and decenter traditional approaches to the workshop, which structurally privilege a small set of identities and formal approaches. Integrating critical interventions by Arielle Greenberg and Felicia Rose Chavez, I use an alternative workshop pedagogy that engages each writer in shaping the structure of the workshop. This

  • Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy | Marriage and Family Therapy | nicela@plu.edu | 253-535-8307 | I’ve been at PLU since 2013, and continue to appreciate having this as my professional home.

    Lindsey Nice Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy she/her Phone: 253-535-8307 Email: nicela@plu.edu Office Location:Garfield Station - Room 110 Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy Education Ph.D., Marriage and Family Therapy, Loma Linda University, 2013 M.S., Marriage and Family Therapy, Seattle Pacific University, 2010 B.S., Nursing, Walla Walla University, 2007 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Working with couples and

  • Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Rigoberto González is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and eleven books of prose, including Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

    writing program is for students to see themselves as artists participating in an expansive and diverse literary landscape that expects them to write compelling work, to challenge and surprise their readers, and to encourage curiosity, critical thinking and emotional growth. To that end, I uphold a high standard for myself, and I invite those who choose to work with me to do so as well.”

  • Dept. Chair and Program Director of Marriage and Family Therapy | Marriage and Family Therapy | ofarrefe@plu.edu | 253-535-8802 | Dr.

    in MFTs Queer-affirmative clinical care Sex and intimacy enhancement for relational units Professional Memberships/Organizations American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) American Association of Sexuality Educator, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) International Family Therapy Association (IFTA) Biography Dr. Fiona O’Farrell (she/they) graduated from the Marriage and Family Therapy program at PLU in 2012 and is excited to return to the department as a Faculty member in 2024