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Founding Director, In Memoriam | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Judith Kitchen (1941-2014) was the co-founder of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at PLU. She is the author of four collections of essays, most recently The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2014).
Judith Kitchen Founding Director, In Memoriam Biography Biography Judith Kitchen (1941-2014) was the co-founder of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at PLU. She is the author of four collections of essays, most recently The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2014). Her other collections are Half in Shade: Family, Photography, Fate and Distance and Direction (Coffeehouse Press) and Only the Dance (U. of South Carolina Press). She is also the author of a novel, The House on Eccles Road
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Professor Emeritus | Music | After a successful 30 year tenure at PLU, Richard Nance retired in May 2022.
Richard L. Nance Professor Emeritus Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Term of Service: 1992-2023 Education D.M.A., Music, Arizona State University, 1992 M.A., Music, West Texas State University, 1982 B.M.E., Music, West Texas State University, 1977 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Choral Conducting Choral Composition Accolades Choirs under Nance's direction were selected to perform for conferences sponsored by the National Association for Music Education in 2009 and 2016. 2016 NWACDA
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Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | April Ayers Lawson is the author of Virgin and Other Stories, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Irish Times and Vice, and a Best Foreign Book of the Year by Spain’s Qué Leer Magazine. Virgin and Other Stories has been (or will be) translated into German, Spanish, Norwegian, and Italian. She has received The Plimpton Prize for Fiction, as well as a writing fellowship from The Corporation of Yaddo. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Die Welt, ZYZZYVA, and Oxford American, among others, has been cited as notable in Best American Short Stories, featured by Huffington Post, and anthologized in The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in Der Spiegel, Granta, Vice, and Neue Zürcher Zeitung Magazine, and been named a Most Popular Read of the Year by Granta. She has taught in the creative writing programs at Emory University and the University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and now teaches at Clemson University. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “The most important thing your writing can be is interesting. And by that I mean interesting to you, because when you’re deeply engaged in the process, the work sparks alive. This level of engagement involves writing into places you didn’t expect and opening to the risk of surprise.
April Ayers Lawson Fiction Biography Biography April Ayers Lawson is the author of Virgin and Other Stories, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Irish Times and Vice, and a Best Foreign Book of the Year by Spain’s Qué Leer Magazine. Virgin and Other Stories has been (or will be) translated into German, Spanish, Norwegian, and Italian. She has received The Plimpton Prize for Fiction, as well as a writing fellowship from The Corporation of Yaddo. Her fiction has appeared in The
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Lecturer - Composition | Music | dsonntag@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Raised in Minnesota and Wisconsin, Dawn Sonntag received a D.M.A.
Year, 2010 Finalist - American Composers Forum Faith Works, 2008 Inge Pitler Prize for Lied Performance, piano and voice, Heidelberg, 1998 and 1999 Professional Memberships/Organizations American Society Of Composers, Authors And Publishers (ASCAP) National Association of Composers - USA (NACUSA) American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) International Alliance of Women in Music (IAWM) Biography Raised in Minnesota and Wisconsin, Dawn Sonntag
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Professor of Psychology | Department of Psychology | ceynarml@plu.edu | 253-535-7297 | “Remember that Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels” – attributed to Ann Richards I became interested in psychology as an undergraduate at the University of Northern Colorado.
issues and prejudice Books Early Psychological Research Contributions of Women of Color, Volume 1 (Routledge 2023) : View Book Accolades Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching 2015-2016, Pacific Lutheran University Biography “Remember that Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels” – attributed to Ann Richards I became interested in psychology as an undergraduate at the University of Northern Colorado. I was lucky to have three professors who piqued
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Professor Emeritus | Communication, Media & Design Arts | Michael Stasinos was born in Canoga Park, CA, but now calls Seattle home.
, Oregon 2001 Excellence In Teaching Award, Eastern Illinois University Professional Memberships/Organizations Association of American Colleges & Universities College Art Association International Registry Of Artists And Art Work Biography Michael Stasinos was born in Canoga Park, CA, but now calls Seattle home. He attended Southern Utah University for his undergraduate degree. Over the years following he has taken many jobs and life experiences, including seasonal work in the Pacific Northwest fishing
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Associate Professor | School of Education | gardinwl@plu.edu | 253-535-8342 | Wendy Gardiner teaches literacy courses in the Education Department.
Wendy Gardiner Associate Professor She/Her Phone: 253-535-8342 Email: gardinwl@plu.edu Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Jolita Hylland Benson Chair in Elementary Education Education Ed.D, Curriculum and Instruction, National Louis University M.Ed, Curriculum and Instruction, National Louis University B.S., Elementary Education, Ohio State University Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Equity Literacy Teacher Education Diversity Responsive Children's Literature Mentoring and New Teacher
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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. .
Lisa Marcus Professor of English Phone: 253-535-7312 Email: marcusls@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-E Status:On Sabbatical Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1995 M.A., Rutgers University, 1989 B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Sex, Gender, and the Holocaust The Holocaust in the American Literary Imagination Comparative Holocaust and Genocide Studies Feminist, Queer, and Cultural Studies Twentieth
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Professor of French | French & Francophone Studies | wilkinrm@plu.edu | Coached by Professor Wilkin in French soccer slang, the French team won the Hong International Hall World Cup. Professor Wilkin teaches in four different programs at PLU: French & Francophone Studies, the International Honors program, the First Year Experience program, and Global Studies.
, stoicism, Cartesianism History of science and medicine: imagination, melancholy, mechanism Early modern French Catholicism: mysticism, mission, colonialism Books Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections, co-translated and co-edited with Angela Hunter (Oxford University Press 2023) : View Book Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France, co-edited with Lewis Seifert (Routledge 2015) : View Book Gabrielle Suchon, A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex: Selected Philosophical and Moral
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Professor Emeritus and Faculty Fellow in Humanities | Religion | torvensa@plu.edu | 253-535-8106 | Samuel Torvend teaches courses in the history of early, medieval, and reformation Christianity as well as historical courses on the reform of social welfare, Christian responses to local and global hunger, Christian art and architecture, and Christian rituals.
Samuel Torvend Professor Emeritus and Faculty Fellow in Humanities Phone: 253-535-8106 Email: torvensa@plu.edu Office Location:Hauge Administration Building - Room 222 J Professional Biography Video Additional Titles/Roles Director for External Relations - Wild Hope Center for Vocation Education Ph.D., Historical Theology, St. Louis University, St. Louis, 1990 M.A., Theology, Aquinas Institute of Theology, Dubuque, Iowa, 1980 M.Div., Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, 1978 B.A., History, Pacific
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