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  • Dean of Assessment and Core Curriculum | Office of the Provost | rogers@plu.edu | 253-535-7985 | Scott Rogers was born in the desert and grew up on a farm but will always call the city home.

    time for the now defunct retail book chain Borders Books and Music (whose demise he rightly predicted as early as 2000). Borders was an excellent learning experience and Scott has the book and music collection to prove it. After taking some time away from school, Scott realized that he wasn’t very good at anything else, and so, graduate school beckoned. He first attended the University of New Mexico, where he earned an M.A. in English Literature and Language in 2006. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in

  • Resident Assistant Professor | International Honors | christian.gerzso@plu.edu | 253-535-7491 | Christian Gerzso was born in Mexico City, where he received his B.A.

    Christian Gerzso Resident Assistant Professor Phone: 253-535-7491 Email: christian.gerzso@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 220H Office Hours: (On Campus) M & W: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Professional Biography Education Ph.D., English Literature, New York University, 2012 B.A., English Language and Literature, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2004 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Late nineteenth and twentieth-century British literature and culture Multidisciplinary

  • Professor of English | Department of English | marcusls@plu.edu | 253-535-7312 | Lisa Marcus joined the English department after completing a PhD in English at Rutgers University in 1995.  She has been active in campus-wide diversity education and advocacy; she chaired the Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies program for many years, and is a founding member of PLU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program.  She is deeply committed to first year education and regularly teaches a popular writing seminar on Banned Books for the First Year Experience Program.  Her constellation of courses in the English department include:  The Holocaust in the American Literary Imagination; American Literature 1914-45: Race, Sex, and War; Anne Frank as a Holocaust Icon; a senior seminar on History & Memory in US Slavery and Holocaust texts; an English Studies course on Gendered Literacy; Feminist Approaches to Literature; Women Writers and the Body Politic; and a first-year seminar on Holocaust Literature developed with Professor Rona Kaufman.  Lisa also regularly teaches courses in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Programs. Her current research project is Snapshots of a Daughter:  A Feminist Genealogy, a critical exploration of letters between Marcus’s mother and the poet Adrienne Rich, 1979-82. You can read a poem she published about visiting Auschwitz here.     .

    Lisa Marcus Professor of English Phone: 253-535-7312 Email: marcusls@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-E Status:On Sabbatical Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1995 M.A., Rutgers University, 1989 B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Sex, Gender, and the Holocaust The Holocaust in the American Literary Imagination Comparative Holocaust and Genocide Studies Feminist, Queer, and Cultural Studies Twentieth

  • Associate Professor & Instruction and Reference Librarian | Library | rarteaga@plu.edu | 253-535-7505 | Roberto is an Instruction and Reference Librarian at Pacific Lutheran University.

    Instruction Librarian: Participating in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Chapters Chapters Visions of the Possible: A Critical Pedagogical Praxis for Information Literacy Instruction. (ACRL 2019) Improving Library Services in Support of International Students and English as a Second Language (ESL) Learners. Chapters Chapters Welcome to Your Library: How an Orientation Can Set Up International Students for Academic Success. (ACRL 2019) Selected Presentations Critical Library and Pedagogy Symposium

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  • Before you go… Research the culture, history, and language of the place you plan to visit. Open your mind to new things and experiences. While are you are away… Keep a journal.

    how to respond or relate, or lost because people do things differently. By imagining how others might interpret your actions differently, you will begin to understand different points of view. 7. Use your blog or journal creatively. Include photos, sketches, song lyrics, poems, or other creative projects. You may also wish to write in the local language. Keeping a vocabulary section will also help you remember the new slang terms and expressions you have learned. 8. Critique your blog or journal

  • Associate Professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian Area Studies | Peace Scholars | berguscj@plu.edu | 253-535-7512 | Why do you serve on the Peace Scholars Committee? Our global society needs young adults who not only want to make the world a better place, but are educated to contribute with knowledge, skills and insight gained from experience.

    Scandinavian Migrant Literature Norwegian Women's Literature Sigrid Undset's Authorship Books Pakkis, Khalid Hussain, translation to English by Claudia Berguson and Ingeborg Kongslien (Nordic Press 2013) Selected Presentations Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study National Conference, "Undset in Exile: The Storyteller and Information Soldier" (2014) Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study National Conference, "Ever Yours, Sigrid: Sigrid Undset as Epistolary Friend and Author" (2013

  • “There is nothing comfortable about studying genocide,” Beth Griech-Polelle, a Pacific Lutheran University history professor and the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies, says. “It’s filthy, violent, degrading, and the worst of humanity.” Yet Griech-Polelle says the study and discussion of these atrocities are crucial…

    the minor but is also a general education course open to all PLU students. Professors from the history, English, German, religion, social work and Hispanic Studies departments worked together to create the course to allow students to investigate the intersections of dehumanization, violent oppression, cultural destruction, and war. “We wanted to highlight the interdisciplinary and global focus of Holocaust and Genocide Studies beyond studying the history alone,” remembers PLU English professor and

  • The Parkland Literacy Center (PLC) is an organization at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) that establishes, implements, and conducts various programs that serve the academic needs of our local

    the Franklin Pierce and Bethel School Districts. In addition to our academic tutoring services, we offer language tutoring assistance as well. This includes English Language Learners (ELL) for people of any background and/or experience, as well as assistance in learning Spanish, and preparing for the STAMP test (allows for students in high school to earn language credits in college). The PLC is an encouraging and safe space. We want to challenge common myths that some students are naturally better

  • The roots of the liberal arts (artes liberales) extend back into classical antiquity. Roman education, for example, progressed from basic literacy (the province of the litterator), to secondary

    educational currents migrated to America and eventually shaped Lutheran institutions of higher learning down to the present. Signs of liberal arts education are everywhere in the curriculum of Pacific Lutheran University. Seven language departments cover languages strategic for the Lutheran intellectual tradition. Great classic literary, theological, and philosophical works are studied in English, Religion, and Philosophy classes. The social sciences offer sophisticated theory and ideas about practical

  • Fostering leadership, learning and empathy between cultures was and remains the purpose of the international scholarship program. - Senator J. William Fulbright

    . The United States Department of State reserves the right to alter, without notice, participating countries, numbers of awards, terms of agreement, and allowances. Award Types 1.  Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Available in 150 or more countries, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for graduates to work overseas as English language teaching assistants. This program facilitates direct cultural interaction and mutual understanding on an individual basis for Fulbright