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Greg Youtz Professor Emeritus Blog: https://gregoryyoutz.wordpress.com Professional Biography Video Additional Titles/Roles Term of Service: 1984-2023 Education D.M.A., Composition, University of Michigan, 1987 M.M., Composition, University of Michigan, 1982 B.A./B.M., Music/Composition, University of Washington, 1980 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Music Composition Responsibilities Applied Composition Lessons; Director of Composers’ Forum; teaches Music and Culture, Analyzing Music, Making

Judith Kitchen Founding Director, In Memoriam Biography Biography Judith Kitchen (1941-2014)  was the co-founder of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at PLU.  She is the author of four collections of essays, most recently The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2014).  Her other collections are Half in Shade: Family, Photography, Fate and Distance and Direction (Coffeehouse Press) and Only the Dance (U. of South Carolina Press).  She is also the author of a novel, The House on Eccles Road

Korine Fujiwara Visiting Instructor of Music, Strings, and Composition she/her Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: korine.fujiwara@plu.edu Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Website: //www.korinefujiwara.com Professional Biography Education M.M., The Juilliard School B.M., Northwestern University School of Music Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Violin Viola Composition Responsibilities Applied Violin, Viola, and Composition Lessons Biography Montana native Korine Fujiwara is a founding

Sequoia Nagamatsu Fiction Biography Biography Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the national bestselling novel, How High We Go in the Dark (William Morrow, 2022), a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and the story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press, 2016), silver medal winner of the 2016 Foreword Reviews Indies Book of the Year Award. His work has appeared in publications such as Conjunctions, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Tin House, Iowa Review, Lightspeed

Rebekah M. K. Mergenthal Department Chair of History Phone: 253-535-7395 Email: mergenrm@plu.edu Office Location: Xavier Hall - 109 Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Associate Professor of History Education Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2008 M.A., University of Chicago, 1997 B.A., Columbia University, 1992 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise 19th U.S. History Westward Expansion Frontiers and Borderlands Environmental History Biography Rebekah M.K. Mergenthal defended her dissertation at

Jessica Sklar Professor of Mathematics she/her/hers Phone: 253-535-8341 Email: sklarjk@plu.edu Office Location: Morken Center for Learning & Technology - 259 Status:On Sabbatical Website: https://sites.google.com/view/jessica-k-sklar Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Oregon, 2001 M.S., Mathematics, University of Oregon, 1997 B.A., Mathematics and English, Swarthmore College, 1995 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Mathematical Art

Xiaohong Fan, Ph.D. Associate Professor Phone: 253-535-8130 Email: fanxa@plu.edu Office Location: Morken Center for Learning & Technology - 332 Status:On Sabbatical Biography Biography Dr. Xiaohong Fan joined School of Business of PLU as an assistant professor of accounting in September 2018. She earned her PhD in Accounting from University of Texas at Arlington. Prior to joining PLU, she worked as an assistant professor of accounting at Eastern Washington University, an assistant professor of

Keith Cooper Associate Professor of Philosophy Phone: 253-535-7234 Email: cooper@plu.edu Office Location:Hauge Administration Building - Room 206-B Status:Phased Retirement Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Member: Title IX Working Group Faculty Athletics Representative Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1988 M.A, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1981 M.T.S., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 1979 B.A., Gordon College, 1976 Accolades Faculty Excellence Award

Kory Brown, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Management & Strategy, University of Utah, 2010 M.B.A., Idaho State University, 1995 B.S.E.E., Brigham Young University, 1991 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Corporate Strategy Entrepreneurship Global Management Collaborative Innovation Selected Publications Selected Publications and Presentations Accolades Professional Achievement Award – Idaho State University, 2016 Wells Fargo Award for

Jennifer Foerster Poetry Biography Biography 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