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  • The conventional wisdom around the most recent cinematic take on Jane Austen’s Persuasion (2022) hardened almost immediately. Too Fleabag- y, too Bridgerton -y, and not Austen-y or Persuasion -y enough to tempt me was the consensus. I focus here mainly on U.S. based publications and…

    in as-yet unrealized glosses of familiar, even beloved, texts. All stories, all narratives, all novels—no matter how elongated and stretched or brief and compressed—wrap up. But the ending of the novel is not coterminous with an ending full stop—the narrative points to a future it does not fully bring into view—we never see Anne in her glory at being a sailor’s wife or watch her experience quick alarm. In the end, Fleabag and Anne Elliot—whether on page or screen—do the same thing as all

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 15, 2017)- Classes are over, tests are on the horizon and therapy dogs are waiting in the wings. It’s the end of spring semester, and for several hundred Lutes that means life after college beckons. Pacific Lutheran University students are fast approaching…

    , and the topic of high school band has always given me motivation,” Horn said. “I thought analyzing that subculture through qualitative interviews with the kids would be cool.” In addition to his studies, Horn seized multiple opportunities to study away during his time at PLU. He participated in an alternative spring break program, traveling to Nicaragua to help build a water well. “(It) was a really powerful experience in itself, seeing a new culture,” he said of the trip. "Maybe the most

  • It’s 11 a.m. in Harlem. Justin Huertas ’09 and Kiki deLohr ’10 are feeling loose, relaxed — even a bit silly — as they sip coffee outside Sugar Hill Café. In a few short hours they will make their off-Broadway debuts in a musical written…

    , Allen suggested that Huertas journal about his coming out story. He laughs while explaining that when he came out to his friends and family as a teenager they all had already assumed and loved him no less or no more. “I’m very lucky that that was my experience, but it’s boring,” Huertas says. When he began writing about it in his journal, he wanted to spice it up. He thought about the comic book superheroes he loved: X-Men, Spiderman and the Ninja Turtles. He wrote a story about a queer protagonist

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bfe90PTrXY Pacific Lutheran University Inaugural Address By President Thomas W. Krise Before we get started, I’d like to have a word with the brand new freshmen and transfer students. You are, after all, MY class.  We all become Lutes together today. I have proof that…

    becomes your family and your familiar place. Soon it will all be about the hard work and great fun of living the PLU experience. One day you wake up and you REALLY feel it: “I’m a Lute.” I think that day came for me this morning! And, looking at you now, I KNOW that feeling lasts a lifetime. President Thomas W. Krise gives his inaugural address. (Photo by John Froschauer) And so our celebration today is two-fold. We celebrate the beginning of a new era for PLU as we open its 123rd year. And we

  • Originally Published 1996 Introduction Like other disciplines such as English and Sociology, Foreign Languages also have a history in the United States which is linked to the changing values of society as a whole. The discipline of foreign language teaching has evolved over the last…

    student expectations based on childhood experience she can scarcely even imagine. Applied Feminist Pedagogy Applying feminist pedagogy to the foreign language classroom means asking how our theory and practice connect. The aims of feminist pedagogy are, first, to empower students to direct their own learning; second, to reduce hierarchical differences in student-teacher interactions; and third, to expose the biases and objectives of educational agendas. In the foreign language classroom, despite the