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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
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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. .
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.
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Interim Director, IHON | International Honors | strumac@plu.edu | 253-535-8774 | Arthur Strum teaches interdisciplinary courses drawing particularly upon philosophy, literature, and political theory.
, German Classicism, Romanticism, and Contemporary German Film, among other topics. Since leaving his previous teaching position for family reasons, Prof. Strum’s teaching and scholarship have focused more and more upon the wider horizons in the humanities which are usually obscured in contemporary universities by scholarly specialization and the nearly exclusive focus on marketable ‘research.’ Instead, Prof. Strum focuses in his writing and teaching on who Virginia Woolf called ‘the common reader
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Professor Emeritus | Master of Business Administration | Dr.
innovation coupled with substantial executive-level industry experience and business ownership align with his teaching topics and create opportunities for students to engage both the theory and application of management in unique and powerful ways. Leveraging techniques and frameworks developed through research and practice, Dr. Brown engages students to apply their academic knowledge to live projects in the region and around the world. This has resulted in academic consulting projects with over one
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Assistant Professor of Social Work | Department of Social Work | rwinnett@plu.edu | 253-535-7144 | Dr.
collaborative behavior and safety” (Studies in Clinical Social Work, 2024) and “The experiences of hospital social workers who care for homeless patients: An interpretive phenomenological analysis” (Social Work in Health Care, 2022). His research interests include the care of unhoused hospital patients, clinical intervention in hospitals, and health care social work on a global spectrum.
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Professor Emeritus | Music | After a successful 30 year tenure at PLU, Richard Nance retired in May 2022.
Florence International Choral Festival. “Outstanding Conductor” at the 2014 Florence International Choir Festival Choirs under Nance's direction have been selected to perform for eight division conferences of the American Choral Directors Association, and two National Conferences (2001 and 2013) 2011 and 2013 “American Prize” for Choral Conducting 2013-2014 K.T. Tang Faculty Excellence Award for Research from Pacific Lutheran University 2010 Washington State Leadership Award Recipient of the 2002
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Professor Emeritus | School of Business | Dr.
program at PLU. His scholarship in entrepreneurship and innovation coupled with substantial executive-level industry experience and business ownership align with his teaching topics and create opportunities for students to engage both the theory and application of management in unique and powerful ways. Leveraging techniques and frameworks developed through research and practice, Dr. Brown engages students to apply their academic knowledge to live projects in the region and around the world. This
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Associate Professor of Education | School of Education | kimck@plu.edu | 253-535-7775 | Dr.
and teaches math, science, technology integration, educational psychology, and multicultural education courses. Publications include a chapter for an American Educational Research Association (AERA) special interest group on Community Engaged Learning (CEL) and the application of ideation to deepening teacher technology integration in the Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice. She works with universities across the state in NextGen-WA [NSF grant, Next Generation of STEM Teacher
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies | College of Liberal Studies | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.
Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs. His classes offer interdisciplinary perspectives on American religions, with particular emphasis on the ways religion interacts with gender, race, politics, and violence. His research focuses on the intersection of religion, gender, and American politics in the twentieth century. His book, “Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right”, was published in 2015 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is currently working on a
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Professor Emeritus | School of Music, Theatre & Dance | Paul Tegels retired in May 2023.
Degree in organ performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston where he studied with Yuko Hayashi and William Porter. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship from the Netherlands-America Commission for Educational Exchange. He holds the teaching and performance degrees from the Stedelijk Conservatorium in Arnhem, The Netherlands, where he studied organ with Bert Matter and harpsichord with Cees Rosenhart. He has done extensive research on the organ and harpsichord concertos of Franz
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