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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.
arrive at the revelation of new understanding. Through study of creative nonfiction literary form and strategy we find new ways to uncover meaning and render actuality, which is why I ask students to analyze craft. Yet I no longer believe, as I did when I began teaching over twenty years ago, that my first job is to identify and repair flaws on your draft pages. Editing too soon is futile. Writing is revision. Critique is suggestion. First I help you identify and re-identify the intention, voice and
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Visiting Instructor and Director, MSW & BSW Practicum Programs | Department of Social Work | carrington@plu.edu | 253-535-7859 | Maria Carrington earned her Bachelor of Social Work from Pacific Lutheran University and obtained her master of Social Work from Boston College.
Maria Theresa Carrington, MSW, LICSW, CST Visiting Instructor and Director, MSW & BSW Practicum Programs she/her/hers I love teaching PLU students because it gives me the unique opportunity to witness the next generation of social workers. I am deeply enthusiastic about nurturing their compassion, fostering critical thinking, and equipping them with the tools to create positive, meaningful change. Phone: 253-535-7859 Email: carrington@plu.edu Office Location: Xavier Hall - 110 Office Hours: (On
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Assistant to the Dean | College of Health Professions | howardrm@plu.edu | 253-535-7659 | Rachel Howard is the Senior Administrative Assistant for the College of Health Professions and the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy.
Rachel Howard Assistant to the Dean Phone: 253-535-7659 Email: howardrm@plu.edu Office Location: Garfield Station - 104 Professional Biography Education B.A., English, University of Windsor , 2006 Biography Rachel Howard is the Senior Administrative Assistant for the College of Health Professions and the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy. In 2006, she graduated from the University of Windsor with a background in Literature. Upon obtaining her BA, she accepted a teaching position abroad
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Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Sherry Simpson is the author of Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in Alaska, which received the 2015 John Burroughs Medal for a distinguished book of nature writing, and two collections of essays, The Accidental Explorer: Wayfinding in Alaska and The Way Winter Comes, which won the inaugural Chinook Literary Prize.
piece or a direction hears the right question and then realizes what to do next. To me a workshop or mentorship doesn’t involve ‘teaching’ or ‘learning’ so much as rediscovering what we already know but may have forgotten, overlooked, or masked. I think we’re all apprentices to our work, and the heart of this relationship lies in the way we choose to be in the world. I want students to interrogate their experiences, trust their sensibilities, and open themselves to the possibilities revealed through
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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. .
Century American Literary and Cultural Studies Censorship and Banned Books Accolades Fellow, 2021 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar on LGBTQ+ Histories of the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow for the 19th Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, 2014 NWSA Fellow, Civic Engagement in the Women’s and Gender Studies Classroom, 2010-11 Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching, 2009-10
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Associate Professor | School of Education | gardinwl@plu.edu | 253-535-8342 | Wendy Gardiner teaches literacy courses in the Education Department.
Induction Books Responsive Mentoring: Supporting the Teachers all Students Deserve (Rowman and Littlefield 2020) : View Book Selected Articles Gardiner, W., Hinman, T., Tondreau, A., Degener, S., Dussling, T., Stevens, E., Wilson, N., & White, K. "When “nice” isn’t: Confronting niceness and whiteness to center equity in teacher education." Action in Teacher Education 2023: 90-106. Weisling, N. & Gardiner, W. "Why mentoring for equity requires we stop being so nice." Phi Delta Kappan 2022/2023: 42-47
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Paul Fritts Endowed Chair; Assistant Professor of Music, Organ | Music | jjm@plu.edu | Justin J.
instrument, will be released by Acis in 2025. As a composer, Jay inhabits accessible and avant-garde domains equally, writing for both professional and amateur musicians. His music has been performed by Ensemble SurPlus and the Callithumpian Consort as well as by members of the Mivos Quartet and TAK. Much of his original output is inspired by themes and texts from the early Middle Ages, especially that of Anglo-Saxon England. A committed educator, Jay began teaching secondary organ, composition, and
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Professor Emeritus | Communication, Media & Design Arts | Writer.
host. On-air reporter. Author. Commentator. Educator. In a career spanning more than two decades, Robert Marshall Wells, Ph.D., has worked in multiple mass media roles. Dr. Wells, an Associate Professor of Communication, has shared his unique blend of skills and experiences with Pacific Lutheran University students since 2003. Dr. Wells teaches courses in writing, reporting, editing, media studies and ethics. He is also the Co-Founder of and Faculty Adviser to MediaLab at PLU, an award-winning
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Poetry, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Brian Teare, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of seven critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses and Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His most recent publications are a diptych of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction, chronic illness, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia.
Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia. An editorial board member of Poetry Daily, he lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for Albion Books, his micropress. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry, nonfiction, environmental writing. Statement: As a mentor
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Lecturer - Percussion | Music | takekama@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Dr.
Washington State Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society, an annual guest speaker for the University of Washington Percussion Lab, and a co-founder of Smile for Japan, a Seattle- based fundraising event for the victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. She was also a contributing performer to a fundraising CD to aid victims of the Oso (Washington) Mud Slide. She has worked to foster cultural exchange between Japanese and American youth groups, leading or coordinating tours by the University of
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