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pyramids. Click to view larger. For students of literature, it can be thrilling to see how the people and places in a work of fiction can crossover into the real world. This is especially true for books where location plays an important role, such as in James Joyce’s classic, Ulysses. Using a map like the one below, students can follow, chapter-by-chapter, as the protagonists journey around real-life Dublin. Click on the locations in this interactive map to see how context has been applied. Likewise
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Competition and a Rising Star Award from the 2015 Canada International Film Festival. And, just days before its premiere, Waste Not also was nominated for a Regional Emmy in the Long Form Non-Fiction Category for Colleges. Co-producer Amanda Brasgalla ’15, along with senior co-producer Taylor Lunka ’15 and chief videographer Olivia Ash ’15, traveled across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom to conduct interviews and field research. They spoke with citizens, farmers, activists and government
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Spring 2021 English Capstones[ Seminar in Fiction Writing | Seminar in Literature | Seminar in Poetry ]Engl 429: Capstone Seminar in Fiction Writing, Dr. Jason SkipperThursday, May 20 | 4:00-7:15pmJessica LePoidevinLucianne TrenaryLittlepage GreenElena BauerMim LindblomJessica LePoidevin4:00-4:35pm Capstone Title: “Leaving it Open” Lucianne Trenary4:40-5:15pm Capstone Title: “She Loves Me” Littlepage Green5:20-5:55pm Capstone Title: “Hearts for Sale” Elena Bauer6:00-6:35pm Capstone Title: “The
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Life Presentations/Workshops University House Lunch Speaker Series PLU Lectures & Events Wild Hope Staff Seminar PLU University Leadership Seminar Faculty/Staff Reading & Discussion Groups through Center for Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability, such as J-Term Book Group (recent books have included): 2024: Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Hawk & Van Alst) 2023: Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto (Edafe Okporo) 2022: As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for
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journalist and magazine editor. She received numerous awards for community service journalism, feature writing, and editing from the Louisiana Press Association and the Associated Press. Erin has a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies and liberal arts from McNeese State University and an MFA from Rosemont College. She lives in Delaware. She teaches in the MFA programs at Hamline University and Rosemont College. She also teaches fiction with Gotham Writers Workshop. 2021: Meg Medina Rough Patch: On
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each writer’s work deepens and flourishes. The Rainier Writing Workshop has now produced a critical mass of graduates, many of whom have published books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. These books were often the creative theses that the graduates completed in their final year in the program. For others, the creative thesis is a foundational iteration of work that will be developed into publication-worthy manuscripts. Students obtaining a master’s degree in marketing analytics get fantastic in
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create surges of culture that inspire human connections. For example, both world wars inspired poetry and fiction that brought peoples together. These cultural products changed people, created new connections, and led to more cultural change. “And that really shapes a lot of history…the stories that come out of [crisis], how people reacted, helps us to understand yourself now.” “Humanities [are] how we define ourselves and make ourselves and relate to one another.” Schroder continued. “Think about
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focusing on poetry, fiction, or nonfiction, the mentorship is tailored to the student’s work, which ranges from fantasy novels to journalistic reportage. Despite the virtual and individual set-up, students still connect and support each other’s writing throughout the three-year program and after graduation. Professor Barot believes this sense of community and long mentorships, which allow time to develop significant relationships, makes the PLU MFA program stand out from others. When Professor Barot
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2016-2017 academic year on sabbatical, a year which she dedicated to investigating the texts of Hermann Broch, an Austrian 20th century Modernist writer, with the explicit mission of exploring evidence of visual tropes and metaphors of seeing in Broch’s novels. Broch was born in Vienna on November 1, 1886, into a Jewish family. As a writer aligned with the Modernist movement, which prioritized individuality and subjectivity, he wrote fiction and poetry and was known for his unique and often
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Environmental Studies Innovation Studies Mathematics Physics @plu.natsci/ I’ve known that I want to pursue engineering for a long time now, due in part to my love of ‘Star Trek’ and all things related to space in science fiction. However, I knew that I wanted to also balance my pursuit of engineering with a liberal arts background. This balance between liberal arts and STEM classes is what drew me to decide to do engineering at PLU. — Michelle A. ’19 Did you know? Two PLU students have received the highly
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