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Ami Shah Chair of Global and Cultural Studies Phone: 253-535-7687 Email: shah@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 222-C Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Director of Global Studies Associate Professor of Global Studies Education Ph.D., Development Studies, University of Oxford, 2007 M.Phil. with Distinction, Development Studies, University of Oxford, 2002 B.A., International Affairs, The George Washington University, 2000 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise

and wellness, stewardship for student populations in juvenile detention centers and drug rehabilitation facilities, and creating alongside youth in the foster care system. Their scholarship unpacks how acts of education, maturation, and coming-of-age intersect with theatre and public performance in the early twentieth century United States, and unravels queer readings of teaching and learning as mechanisms of citizen-making in the theatrical past. Rizzardi hopes to use theatre scholarship to

Book Victorian Literature Books The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture (Broadview Press 2014) : View Book A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers (Broadview Press 2003) : View Book Selected Articles "The Victorian Novel and the Reviews." The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel 2013: "Victoria Woodhull-Martin and The Humanitarian (1892–1901): Feminism and Eugenics at the Fin de Siècle." Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Vol. 6.2, 2010: "'Sir, It is an

Nancy Jo Bob Visiting Lecturer of Southern Lushootseed Email: nancy.bob@plu.edu

Giovanna Urdangarain Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies Phone: 253-535-7240 Email: urdangga@plu.edu Office Location: Xavier Hall - 111 Professional Education Ph.D., Indiana University, 2008 M.A., Hispanic Literature, Indiana University, 2001 B.A., Secondary Education Literature, Artigas Teacher Training Institute, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1991 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Contemporary Latin American Narrative Southern Cone Dictatorial and Post-Dictatorial Narrative by Women Writers Memory

pandemic. She serves as Principal Cello of the Northwest Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra and Bellevue Philharmonic. Mara has performed with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Cornish Chamber Series, the Silsbee Piano Trio, the Seattle International Music Festival, the Governor’s Chamber Music Series, the Bacchus Trio, the Fear No Music Twentieth Century Ensemble, and the Paley Music Festival in France. She has appeared regularly with the Music of Remembrance series since

Rigoberto González Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry Biography Biography Rigoberto González is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and eleven books of prose, including Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.  The recipient of Guggenheim, NEA and USA Rolón fellowships, a NYFA grant in

the College of Professional Studies at Pacific Lutheran University, in addition to holding the academic rank of Professor of Music. He has also served as Dean of the School of Arts and Communication, Chief Innovation Officer, Associate Provost for Strategic Academic Initiatives and Acting Provost at PLU.  He previously served at Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was Chair and Professor of one of the most respected liberal arts music programs in the nation. Dr. Bennett has also held numerous

Suzanne Crawford O’Brien Professor of Religion and Culture Phone: 253-535-8107 Email: suzanne.crawford@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-C Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Education Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003 M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1997 B.A., Willamette University, 1995 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Native American Religious Traditions Religious Diversity in North America Health, Healing, and Religious and Cultural

-1945 American Literature Contemporary Canadian Literature Gender and Queer Studies Comparative Ethnic Studies Cultural Memory Studies Accolades Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award, presented my accepted paper “London Calling: Dislocated Kinship and Transatlanticism in Baldwin’s Just Above My Head (1979)” at this year’s International Baldwin Conference in Montpellier, France Biography Jenny James was born and raised in Michigan, the home of the Great Lakes and the Michigan Wolverines