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  • Lecturer | School of Music, Theatre & Dance | delator@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Active as a performer, teacher, adjudicator, curator, and scholar, Dr.

    MTNA Northwest Division Competition finals, the Spokane Piano Competition, Pacific Lutheran University’s Concerto Competition, the Washington State Music Teachers Association Outstanding Artist Competition, and the Performing Arts Festival of the Eastside. Having taught Piano Ensemble, private lessons and music analysis at PLU, Ricardo also serves as an instructor for the Community Music program at the University of Puget Sound and was on faculty at East Central University in Oklahoma, teaching a

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  • Lecturer | Music | delator@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Active as a performer, teacher, adjudicator, curator, and scholar, Dr.

    MTNA Northwest Division Competition finals, the Spokane Piano Competition, Pacific Lutheran University’s Concerto Competition, the Washington State Music Teachers Association Outstanding Artist Competition, and the Performing Arts Festival of the Eastside. Having taught Piano Ensemble, private lessons and music analysis at PLU, Ricardo also serves as an instructor for the Community Music program at the University of Puget Sound and was on faculty at East Central University in Oklahoma, teaching a

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  • Associate Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Hispanic and Latino Studies | davidsef@plu.edu | 253-535-7311 | If I had to describe my identity with a Facebook relationship status it would read: “It’s complicated”.

    History: Navigating Through the Memory Sites of the Panama Canal.” The Global South. 6.2 (2012): 130-153. Print. Accolades PLU Excellence in Teaching Award, 2023-24 Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education Faculty Research Grant, AY 2020-2021. Fellow, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), University of Victoria, June 2017. Inspirational Woman Recognition, PLU Center for Gender Equity, 2016. Grant Recipient, Latino Americans: 500 Years of History, National Endowment of the Humanties

  • Professor of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics | edgartj@plu.edu | 253-535-7238 | Tom grew up in Colorado and attended college at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

    ) Algebraic Combinatorics Selected Presentations 12th Annual Western Washington Community College Student Mathematics Conference , Keynote Presentation, Bellevue College (February 24, 2018) Colloquium, Generalized Binomial Coefficients via the Dominance Order on Natural Numbers, Seattle University (October 2014) Colloquium, Generalized Binomial Coefficients via the Dominance Order on Natural Numbers, University of Puget Sound (October 2013) Dickinson College Math/CS Chats, A Fascinating Connection Between

  • Associate Professor of Music; Director of Jazz Studies | Music | cassio.vianna@plu.edu | 253-535-7760 | Cassio Vianna is the Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University where he directs the University Jazz Ensemble and teaches jazz music courses.

    Network Annual Conferences, International Composers Symposium, NAfME Northwest and WMEA Conferences. Vianna is also a very active clinician with high school and college bands. In 2015, he traveled to China to perform and to teach a two-week program at the Guangxi Arts Institute (Nanning Provence). Before his appointment at PLU, Dr. Vianna was on the faculties at Umpqua Community College and Western Oregon University. In recent years, Dr. Vianna’s compositions for jazz ensemble have received national

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  • Associate Director of Choral Studies; Assistant Professor of Music | Music | domingr@plu.edu | 253-535-7613 | Raul Dominguez is the Associate Director of Choral Studies at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) in the Tacoma, WA area where he leads their University Chorale, University Singers, and teaches courses in Secondary Methods and the Conducting sequence.

    sequence. He is also the Associate Conductor for Choral Union, PLU’s community ensemble. His research focus is the choral music of the United Mexican States and seeks to provide choral directors the necessary means to create artful performances of this repertoire. Prior to PLU, he served as the Director of Choral Activities at Regis University, in Denver, CO, where he conducted the Regis University Singers, led the Voice Area, mentored music education students, and taught a Fine Arts course, Mexican

  • Professor of Music - Trumpet; Coordinator of Wind, Brass, and Percussion Studies | Music | lymanzt@plu.edu | 253-535-7612 | Zachary Lyman is Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), where he teaches trumpet, music theory, directs the trumpet ensemble, coaches chamber music, and performs with the Lyric Brass Quintet.

    Orchestra, PLU Wind Ensemble, PLU Symphony Orchestra, the University Chorale, Choir of the West, the Tacoma Community College Orchestra, the Seattle Bach Choir, Brass Unlimited, Brass Band Tacoma, and many others. He plays throughout the northwest as a member of the Seattle-based Mosaic Brass Quintet. He has appeared with the Vashon Opera Orchestra and at the Olympic Music Festival, and plays regularly with Symphony Tacoma, the Tacoma Opera Orchestra, and the Tacoma City Ballet Orchestra. He also serves

  • Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | David Biespiel is a contributing writer at The Rumpus, Partisan, American Poetry Review, Politico, New Republic, Slate, Poetry, and The New York Times, among other publications.  He is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Charming Gardeners and The Book of Men and Women, which was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry.  His books of essays include A Long High Whistle: Selected Columns on Poetry and a book on creativity, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces.  He is a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.  Recipient of Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, he has taught at Stanford University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, Portland State University, and Wake Forest University, in addition to other colleges and universities.  He is a longtime faculty member in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University and is the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland. Mentor.

    , serving both young and old, poetry is a guide to deliver us into a fresh engagement with our inner lives and with modernity. If we care about order and disorder, then poetry matters because it is the art of the utterance of beauty and the grotesque. If we care about the deepest aspirations of men and women across every community and culture, language and race, then poetry is always relevant because it is the art of the utterance of what we share in our innermost psyches. Since culture and society

  • Professor of Music - Voice; Coordinator of Vocal Studies | Music | brownja@plu.edu | 253-535-7614 | James Brown enjoys an eclectic career of singing, teaching, stage direction and conducting.

    -renowned community of early music specialists in concerts and operas at Seattle’s Town Hall, St. James Cathedral, Intiman Theatre and the Moore Theatre. James sang in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with Tony award winners Handspring Puppet Company with music direction by Stephen Stubbs and stage direction by internationally celebrated artist William Kentridge at Seattle’s Moore Theatre and in San Francisco (as part of a retrospective of Kentridge’s artistic work for the Museum of Modern Art). James has

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  • Assistant Vice President for Student Life Strategic Initiatives and Assessment | Division of Student Life | jes.takla@plu.edu | 253-535-7597

    Three-Study Dissertation. (Publication No. 30637121) [Doctoral dissertation, Azusa Pacific University]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. Takla, J. (2015, February). Living the learning: It starts with TLC (themed learning communities). Synergy: Newsletter for NASPA SAPAA Knowledge Community, 9-13. Selected Presentations NASPA Annual Conference, From Arriving to Thriving: THRIVE (Transition, Holistic Wellbeing, Retention, Innovation, Vocation, and Engagement) Framework [Conference Session

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