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  • Executive Chef | Campus Restaurants - Dining at PLU | mcginnar@plu.edu | 253-538-5657 | Anthony has been with PLU for over 15 years and has worked many positions in the kitchen.

    Anthony McGinnis Executive Chef He/Him/His Phone: 253-538-5657 Email: mcginnar@plu.edu Biography Biography Anthony has been with PLU for over 15 years and has worked many positions in the kitchen. He is the Executive Sous Chef, overseeing production of food for 208 Garfield and Catering and working on recipe development for The Commons.

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  • Professor of Chemistry* | Department of Chemistry | fryhlecb@plu.edu | 253-535-7530 | Craig Fryhle began his career at PLU  in 1986 working on organic synthesis targets related to natural products and potential mechanism-based enzyme inhibitors of the shikimic acid pathway.   He has mentored undergraduate  researchers in these areas who have gone on to careers in academia, industry and other pursuits.

    ) University First Year Core Curriculum Implementation Committee (1992-1993) Celebration of Science (Academic Festival) Organizing Committee (1995) Natural Sciences Forum Coordinator (1989-1990) Books Organic Chemistry co-authored with T. W. Graham Solomons and Scott A. Snyder (John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2016) : View Book Accolades Fellow, American Chemical Society Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, Pacific Lutheran University William T. King Prize for Teaching, Brown University Professional Memberships

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  • Emeritus Director of the Library | Library

    & Special Collections) with 12 staff and 5 faculty members.  Oversee a $1.8 million budget. Work collaboratively with library faculty and staff, the Provost, and others across PLU to enhance library resources and services in support of students, faculty, and the mission of the University. Collection development subject areas: Global Studies, Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Native American & Indigenous Studies, Publishing and Printing. Library leadership and administration, and library technical support

  • Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, Leaving Tulsa (2013), Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), and The Maybe-Bird (2022), and served as the Associate Editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. She is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford.

    Oklahoma. She lives in San Francisco. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry. Statement:  “Poetry can expand, challenge, and deepen our ways of knowing. Adrienne Rich wrote: “Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.” I believe my work with you is only to serve as a guide, to encourage you towards what you don’t know you know, and to inspire you to grow deeper into your potential as a writer. Poetry is especially vital in today’s world; my teaching work is to challenge you

  • 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.”

  • Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing | lbyer@plu.edu | Originally from Michigan, but have lived on the east/west coasts of the US.

    national level. Most recent experience was managing a care transition and readmission reduction program, collaborating with an acute hospital and a hospice/palliative care agency. Received the first “Takes a Village” award from Michigan Department of Community Health for her work on an adolescent screening project with CDC and has presented at numerous national community health conferences. Lynda is married to Tim (46 years) and they have 3 married sons, 3 bonus daughters and 2 grandchildren. They

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  • MSW Fellow / Non-Clinical Case Worker | Wellbeing Services and Resources | stephanie.gulledge@plu.edu | Stephanie is a BSW graduate of PLU, and a current MSW student with the graduating class of 2025. .

    Stephanie Gulledge MSW Fellow / Non-Clinical Case Worker she/her Email: stephanie.gulledge@plu.edu Professional Biography Personal Additional Titles/Roles Biography Stephanie is a BSW graduate of PLU, and a current MSW student with the graduating class of 2025. Interests Reading, cross-stiching and embroidery, gaming Fun Facts I was in a competitive bowling league in high school. Favorite drink: Dr Pepper, specifically the cream soda flavor!

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  • Faculty Fellow | College of Liberal Studies | ryandp@plu.edu | 253-538-5664 | Donald P.

    field work with Hawaiian petroglyphs. * Author of several books (with translations and editions in over 15 languages) including an archaeological memoir, Beneath the Sands of Egypt, a travel guide to pharaonic Egypt (Ancient Egypt on Five Deben a Day), and volumes describing daily life (e.g., 24 Hours in Ancient Egypt and A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt. Author of dozens of popular and scientific articles. * Presenter of scholarly papers at many US and international conferences and presenter of

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  • Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Wendy Call (she/her) is the co-editor of the craft anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Penguin, 2007) and the new annual Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024).

    books of poems by Mexican-Zapotec poet Irma Pineda, with whom she shared the 2022 John Frederick Nims Prize for Translation from the Poetry Foundation: In the Belly of Night and Other Poems (Pluralia/Eulalia, 2022) and Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater (Deep Vellum, 2024). Her co-translation of How to be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Milkweed, 2024), by Zoque poet Mikeas Sánchez, was called “a significant work in more ways than one” by the New York Times. Wendy has received grants and

  • Professor of Early and Medieval Christian History | Religion | bll@plu.edu | 253-535-7237 | Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen teaches courses in the history of early and medieval Christianity, and specific topics in historical theology and Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

    : Authority and Autonomy at the End of the Antique World (Ashgate 2014) : View Book They Who Give From Evil”: the Response of the Eastern Church to Money-lending in the Early Christian Era (Wipf & Stock 2012) : View Book Biography Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen teaches courses in the history of early and medieval Christianity, and specific topics in historical theology and Eastern Orthodox Christianity. She also teaches in the International Honors program. Her research is focused primarily on social ethics found

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