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The Saint John’s Bible will be on display at PLU from September 2016 through May 2017. (Photo / John Froschauer, PLU.) The Saint John's Bible at PLUThe Lutheran Reformation was inspired by the scholarly study of the Bible as a charter for the reform of church and society. As PLU begins to mark the 500th anniversary of Lutheran education, we welcome to the campus the first hand-written and illuminated Bible created since the invention of the printing press in the 15th century. Commissioned by

: Conference ScheduleNatalie MayerModerator: Natalie Mayer Conference ScheduleKirsten ChristensenModerator: Kirsten M. Christensen, Professor of German, PLU Bio: Kirsten M. Christensen earned her Ph.D. in Germanic Studies, with an emphasis on medieval and early modern literature and culture, from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. Her research has focused on writings by medieval women mystics. In particular, she explores the often fraught relationships between women mystics and their male

: Conference ScheduleNatalie MayerModerator: Natalie Mayer Conference ScheduleKirsten ChristensenModerator: Kirsten M. Christensen, Professor of German, PLU Bio: Kirsten M. Christensen earned her Ph.D. in Germanic Studies, with an emphasis on medieval and early modern literature and culture, from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. Her research has focused on writings by medieval women mystics. In particular, she explores the often fraught relationships between women mystics and their male

of becoming a writer, but quickly got the message that such ideas were impractical. I majored in biology, instead. A decade after college, inspired by the words of Angela Davis, Joan Didion, Eduardo Galeano, bell hooks, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Leo Tolstoy (among many others), I decided to give that writer-dream another try.” Wendy Call; photo by Kathy Colwell Nancy Simpson-Younger We are also excited to welcome Nancy Simpson- Younger to the PLU community as our new specialist in Early Modern

From Quills to Laptops: Transcribing Early Modern Manuscriptsby Nancy Simpson-YoungerBringing the Literary World to the Classroomby Wendy CallA Work-in-Progress: A New English Faculty Writing Workshopby Jenny JamesEnglish Department Welcomes New Faculty Members!by Jenny James

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Printing Madame DupinLast fall, Students in French 401, “Women and Print in Early Modern France,” got to try their hand at something really new (or old?!): letterpress printing. The occasion was momentous.  They were putting into print, for the very first time, the manuscript words of Madame Dupin. Dupin is best known as the châtelaine of the beautiful castle of Chenonceau in the Loire valley, and for saving this historic site from destruction during the French revolution by allowing

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professor of history at the University of Wyoming. His first book, entitled An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa, appeared in September 2022 in the Pennsylvania State University Press’s series “Germans Beyond Europe” sponsored by the Max Kade Research Institute. Among Dr. Blackler’s other recent publications include a co-edited anthology, entitled After the Imperialist Imagination: Two Decades of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies and a chapter in the multi-volume

History Article Prize ‹ Resolute Online: Spring 2015 Home Features Germany J-Term Women’s Center at 25 Jehane Noujaim It’s On Us Attaway Lutes Editor’s Note On Campus Discovery Research Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Alumni Profiles Homecoming 2015 Twin Cities ‘Waste Not’ Seattle Connections Easter Egg Hunt Night at the Rainiers Alumni Events Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Home Features Germany J-Term Women’s Center at 25 Jehane Noujaim It’s On Us Attaway