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Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | David Allan Cates is the author of five novels, most recently Tom Connor’s Gift, a gold medalist in the 2015 Independent Book Publishers Book awards.
David Allan Cates Fiction Biography Biography David Allan Cates is the author of five novels, most recently Tom Connor’s Gift, a gold medalist in the 2015 Independent Book Publishers Book awards. His first collection of poetry, The Mysterious Location of Kyrgyzstan, was released in the spring, 2016. His other novels include: Hunger in America, a New York Times Notable Book, X Out of Wonderland, and Freeman Walker, both Montana Book Award Honor Books, and Ben Armstrong’s Strange Trip Home, a
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Professor Emeritus and Faculty Fellow in Humanities | Religion | torvensa@plu.edu | 253-535-8106 | Samuel Torvend teaches courses in the history of early, medieval, and reformation Christianity as well as historical courses on the reform of social welfare, Christian responses to local and global hunger, Christian art and architecture, and Christian rituals.
Lutheran University, 1973 Books Flowing Water, Uncommon Birth: Christian Baptism in a Post-Christian Culture (Fortress Press 2014) : View Book Luther and the Hungry Poor: Gathered Fragments (Fortress Press 2008) : View Book Daily Bread, Holy Meal: Opening The Gifts Of Holy Communion (Augsberg Fortress 2004) : View Book Through a Child's Eyes: Poems and Stories About War co-edited with Victor Klimoski (Plain View Press 2001) : View Book Accolades K. T. Tang Award for Excellence in Research 2006
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies | College of Liberal Studies | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.
project about the history of Christian masculinity in the United States (under contract with Oxford University Press), and is the author of several articles and book chapters on the history of American evangelicalism, including “American Evangelicalism and the Politics of Whiteness“, published in The Christian Century, 2018.
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Associate Professor of English | Department of English | solveig.robinson@plu.edu | 253-535-7241 | Dr.
Outrage': George Bentley, Robert Black, and the Condition of the Mid-List Author in Victorian Britain." Book History Vol. 10, 2007: "'At All Times Conspicuous as Art': Henry James, Margaret Oliphant, and Resistance to Decadence." Henry James Against the Aesthetic Movement 2006: "Expanding a 'Limited Orbit': Margaret Oliphant, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and the Development of a Critical Voice." Victorian Periodicals Review Vol. 38.2, 2005: "Of 'Haymakers' and 'City Artisans': The Chartist Poetics
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Faculty Fellow | College of Liberal Studies | ryandp@plu.edu | 253-538-5664 | Donald P.
Ancient Egypt: The Real Lives of the People Who Lived There (O'Mara 2022) : View Book 24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (24 Hours in Ancient History Book 2) (O'Mara 2018) : View Book Ancient Egypt: The Basics (Routledge 2016) : View Book Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist (Harper/Collins 2010) : View Book Ancient Egypt on 5 Deben a Day (Traveling on 5) (Thames & Hudson 2010) : View Book A Shattered Visage Lies...Nineteenth
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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.
Brian Teare Poetry, Nonfiction Biography Biography 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
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Visiting Assistant Professor of History | Department of History | fdhardyway@plu.edu | 253-535-7595
Fred Hardyway Visiting Assistant Professor of History Phone: 253-535-7595 Email: fdhardyway@plu.edu Office Location: Xavier Hall - 105
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Professor of Religion | Religion | hammerej@plu.edu | 253-535-7225 | Erik Hammerstrom has had a deep affinity with Buddhism since he was young and has spent his entire adult life in its study.
Teaching and Practice of Avataṃsaka Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China (Columbia University Press, Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies 2020) : View Book The Science of Chinese Buddhism: Early Twentieth - Century Engagements (Columbia University Press, Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies 2015) : View Book Biography Erik Hammerstrom has had a deep affinity with Buddhism since he was young and has spent his entire adult life in its study. At PLU, he teaches a variety of classes that all
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Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | 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.
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
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Professor Emerita and Faculty Fellow in Humanities | Religion | killenpo@plu.edu | Patricia O’Connell Killen, professor emerita, taught courses in the Department of Religion and in the International Core at PLU from 1989 through 2010.
Patricia O’Connell Killen Professor Emerita and Faculty Fellow in Humanities Email: killenpo@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987 M.A., Stanford University, 1976 B.A., Gonzaga University, 1974 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise History of Christianity in North America Religion and Spirituality in the Pacific Northwest Theological Reflection and Faith-Inspired Higher Education Books The Future of Catholicism in America (New York: Columbia University Press 2019
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