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  • Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | 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.

    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

  • Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Brenda Miller edited the anthology The Next Draft: Inspiring Craft Talks from the Rainier Writing Workshop. Her most recent collection of her own work is A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form. She is the author of five more essay collections, including An Earlier Life, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir, and she is the recipient of six Pushcart Prizes.

    essays with Julie Marie Wade, Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, received the Cleveland Poetry Center Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her poetry chapbook, The Daughters of Elderly Women, received the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. She coauthored, with Suzanne Paola, the textbook Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, now in its third edition from McGraw-Hill. Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction. Statement: “As both a writer and a teacher, I’m so interested

  • Vice President for Student Life | Division of Student Life | roycedjc@plu.edu | 253-535-7200 | Dr.

    Dr. Joanna Royce-Davis Vice President for Student Life she/her Phone: 253-535-7200 Email: roycedjc@plu.edu Office Location:Anderson University Center - Room 159 Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Rehabilitation Counseling, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 2001 M.A., Counseling Education, Emphasis in Community and Mental Health Counseling, San Jose University, San Jose, California, 1994 B.S., Special Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1990 Biography Dr. Joanna

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  • Professor Emeritus of Physics | Department of Physics | starkovich@plu.edu | Steven P.

    Steven Starkovich Professor Emeritus of Physics Email: starkovich@plu.edu Status:Emeritus Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Physics, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 1993 M.S., Educational Policy and Management, University of Oregon, 1985 B.A., Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 1976 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Mathematical Physics General Relativity Biography Steven P. Starkovich earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Victoria with research in general

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  • Associate Professor of History | Department of History | hamesgl@plu.edu | 253-535-7132 | Gina Hames’ research interests focus on the historic role of how alcohol shapes identity from a comparative perspective across the globe, including Africa, Asia, including China, Japan, and India, Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the United States.

    Gina Hames Associate Professor of History Phone: 253-535-7132 Email: hamesgl@plu.edu Office Location:Xavier Hall - Room 113 Status:On Sabbatical Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Member of the Design Team, Cornerstones General Education Model Pilot Program Education Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1996 M.A., Carnegie Mellon University, 1992 M.A., Eastern Washington University, 1989 B.A., Eastern Washington University, 1986 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Alcohol studies in a

  • Dean, College of Liberal Studies | College of Liberal Studies | stephanie.johnson@plu.edu | 253-535-8397 | Dr.

    Echoes: Eros and the Victorian Double Poem" in "Love Among the Poets: The Victorian Poets of Intimacy" (Ohio University Press 2024) "Poetry's Lyric Call" in "Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies" (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) "Cultivating Vocation in Literary Studies", co-editor with Erin VanLaningham (Edinburgh University Press 2022) "'A Word of Song': Reverberations of the Psalms in Christina Rossetti's Roundels," - Literature and Theology (June 2022) "Christina Rossetti's Ghosts, Soul

  • Associate Professor of Music - Voice | Music | johnsobw@plu.edu | 253-535-7625 | Baritone Barry Johnson is enjoying a successful career as an opera singer, stage director, concert performer, and voice teacher.

    Voice Lessons, Directs Knights Chorus, Co-Directs Opera Production/Workshop Accolades National Winner, Bel Canto Competition of Chicago Regional Winner, San Francisco Opera Auditions Biography Baritone Barry Johnson is enjoying a successful career as an opera singer, stage director, concert performer, and voice teacher. Having sung roles in more than 20 productions at Seattle Opera, Mr. Johnson has performed as a guest artist with companies throughout the west including Seattle Opera, Tacoma Opera

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  • Professor Emeritus | Religion | oakmande@plu.edu | The Reverend Doctor Douglas E.

    Bible Historical Jesus Social Scientific Criticism Books Jesus, Debt, and the Lord's Prayer: First-Century Debt and Jesus' Intentions (Cascade Books 2014) : View Book The Political Aims of Jesus: Peasant Politics in Herodian Galilee (Fortress Press 2012) : View Book Jesus and the Peasants (Matrix: The Bible in Mediterranean Context) (Wipf & Stock 2008) : View Book Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts with co-author K. C. Hanson (Fortress Press 1998) : View Book

  • Assistant Professor of Communication | Communication, Media & Design Arts | ritchiem@plu.edu | 253-535-7093 | Dr.

    Studies Selected Publications "Gasping for War Drama: The 'About to Die Moment' of the Osama bin Laden Assassination" in Critical Studies in Media Communication "War Misguidance: Visualizing Quagmire in the US War in Afghanistan" in Media, War & Conflict "Fusing Race: The Phobogenics of Racializing Surveillance" "Feeling for the State: Affective Labor and Anti-Terrorism Training in US Hotels" Accolades 2021 • Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award 2021 • PLU Center for Gender Equity Award for

  • Lecturer | Music | houstojc@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | A versatile artist, Janeanne Houston has sung the major oratorios from Bach to Verdi, and many symphonic, contemporary works, world premieres, and operas.

    Orchestra, Tacoma Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta, and Eugene Symphony with whom she performed the Mater Gloriosa in the Oregon premiere of Mahler’s 8th Symphony. Other favorite roles in the symphonic repertoire include Verdi’s Requiem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Brahms’ Requiem, and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. Her recent opera roles have been Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Lia in Debussy’s L’Enfant Prodigue, Elisabetta in Don Carlo, Countess Almaviva

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