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  • Locals embrace Lutes as they meet living legends, learn about vibrant events such as Carnival and Panorama, and develop valuable racial consciousness within a multicultural society that celebrates

    Several months and thousands of miles away from Hughes, Barbara Temple-Thurston punctuated those remarks, as though the two sat next to each other in the retired professor’s North Tacoma living room. Temple-Thurston says Trinidad is what her native South Africa should have been. As symptoms of apartheid continue to plague her homeland, the beloved Caribbean island she considered a part-time home for two decades embraces widespread difference. “Trinidadians have such a beautiful attitude toward race

  • Community Director for Pflueger and South Halls | Residential Life | washington@plu.edu | 253-535-7773

    Lorance Washington Jr. Community Director for Pflueger and South Halls he/him/his Phone: 253-535-7773 Email: washington@plu.edu Office Location: South Hall - 114 Professional Responsibilities Campus Life Responsibilities Coordinates move-in and move-out, and manage room assignments for South and Pflueger Supervises South & Pflueger Resident Assistants (RAs) Oversees the selection and hiring of South and Pflueger RAs Manages hall programming and administrative budgets Mediates staff and resident

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  • The Department of English offers minors in Writing and Literature, and also anchors the interdisciplinary minor in Publishing and Printing Arts (PPAP).

    English Minors at PLUThe Department of English offers minors in Writing and Literature, and also anchors the interdisciplinary minor in Publishing and Printing Arts (PPAP). Literature, Culture, and Power This 20-credit minor involves: ENGL 300: Living Stories (4 semester hours) Literature Electives (16 semester hours) Any English-designated literature course. ENGL 227 may be substituted for 4 of these hours. Writing This 20-credit minor involves: ENGL 300: Living Stories (4 semester hours

  • In Times Challenging and Uncertain: Plans Change – Values and Mission Endure By President Loren J. Anderson Welcome to our 2009 University Fall Conference. This morning we gather and prepare to launch the 120th year in the life of Pacific Lutheran University. We do so with…

    September 8, 2009 In Times Challenging and Uncertain: Plans Change – Values and Mission Endure By President Loren J. Anderson Welcome to our 2009 University Fall Conference. This morning we gather and prepare to launch the 120th year in the life of Pacific Lutheran University. We do so with a spirit of hope and excitement, confident about the days ahead, and energized by the presence of one another. As we begin anew, it is an honor to welcome our faithful retirees and emeriti faculty to this

  • TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 2, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University students and staff gathered outside Leraas Hall in the Rieke Science Center on Oct. 2. to write and sign sympathy cards for the communities of North Seattle College and Umpqua Community College. Five students of North Seattle College…

    vehicle and a bus in Seattle; 50 people were sent to area hospitals. Nine people, including several first-year students and a teacher, were killed by a gunman at Umpqua Community College on Oct. 1. Seven other people were wounded in the attack in Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland.       Read Previous PLU Ranked a Top 10 “Value Added” College Read Next Trans-Rights Scholar/Activist Dean Spade Speaks at PLU Nov. 3 COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 15, 2017)- Pacific Lutheran University students are people of many interests. This semester, several courses illustrate how the university’s curriculum caters to those eclectic interests. Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory “Who Beyoncé is for?” is not usually a question that you ask…

    grandmother not come to the U.S. that year. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) The Holocaust in the American Literary ImaginationThis year, Professor of English Lisa Marcus will do something different with her class, “The Holocaust in the American Literary Imagination.” Along with readings, literary analysis and the other trappings of a literature course, students will work with historical artifacts from the Holocaust. “To engage in the material,” Marcus said, “I think one has to do other things than just

  • The Global Studies and French-Francophone Studies programs of the Cultural Studies Department are pleased to present their 2024 Spring Capstones Monday, May 13 - 1:30-5:00 pm and Tuesday, May 14 -

    JeterThe Impact of Diaspora Activism on the Authoritarian Regime of Equatorial Guinea2:30-3:00 - Alina BoorseBeyond the Brochure: Examining the Impact of Voluntourism Marketing on African Development3:00-3:15 Break3:15-3:45 pm - Madelynne Jones3:45-4:15 - Kaden Bolton4:15-4:30 pm - Sydney Tembo3:15-3:45 pm - Madelynne JonesA Review: America's Policy on Nuclear Energy3:45-4:15 - Kaden BoltonThe ``Chinese Virus``: Political Sinophobia and Its Consequences4:15-4:30 pm - Sydney TemboThe Other Language of

  • Henri Coronado-Volta grew up in Seattle, Washington, and chose PLU because the smaller school offered the opportunity to build community, a chance to continue swimming, and living close to home—but not too close. He double majored in global studies and Hispanic studies and minored in…

    how events in these other countries impact our daily lives. I particularly enjoyed the Global Studies final projects because my classmates and I each chose a country and problem, then figured out how to solve it effectively. My case studies focused on Bangladesh, Mali, Uruguay and Bhutan. One that stood out was a project on how China, India and South Africa dealt with the pandemic during the lockdown and its effects on the greater world economy. How did your PLU academic studies compliment your

  • Henri Coronado-Volta grew up in Seattle, Washington, and chose PLU because the smaller school offered the opportunity to build community, a chance to continue swimming, and living close to home—but not too close. He double majored in global studies and Hispanic studies and minored in…

    in these other countries impact our daily lives. I particularly enjoyed the Global Studies final projects because my classmates and I each chose a country and problem, then figured out how to solve it effectively. My case studies focused on Bangladesh, Mali, Uruguay and Bhutan. One that stood out was a project on how China, India and South Africa dealt with the pandemic during the lockdown and its effects on the greater world economy.How did your PLU academic studies compliment your post

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of English | Department of English | lenk@plu.edu | 253-535-7873

    - Poetry, Prose, Hybrid Gender and Civic Queerness in Antiquity Victorian Literature and Counterculture Metamodernism and Adaptation / Transformative Literature Selected Publications "ekphora (or, telemachus dreams of funerals)" - F(r)iction Spring Poetry Contest "the night’s last train to paris, two hours delayed" · Twyckenham Notes, Issue 16, Summer "achilles, singing" · Death Rattle Oroboro Lit Penrose Poetry Prize "Reprise: Persephone Before the Underworld." · F(r)iction Spring Creative Nonfiction