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  • Monday, April 17, 2023 7:30 PM, Regency Room, AUC This event is open to the campus community for in-person attendance.

    Schooner, Columbia Journal, The Offing, Electric Literature and more. Her fiction has been selected for inclusion in Best Microfiction 2023 and nominated for Best of the Net. She is thrilled to be working with young writers as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at PLU. Erin Strubbe is a writer, editor, educator, and scholar from Southern California. Her fiction explores intersections of gender, belonging, and alienation through speculative fiction, and her scholarly work delves into the

  • When: Tuesday, September 26 The Writer’s Story: 4:00PM, Ness Family Lobby Reading: 7:00PM, Scandinavian Cultural Center

    Foundation, the Santa Maddalena Foundation, the Dora Maar House, the Camargo Foundation, and Yaddo. In 2018, Raj will be the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig.

  • Tuesday, March 7, 2023 7:00 PM, Scandinavian Cultural Center, AUC This event is open to the campus community for in-person attendance.

     nonfiction book of 2021 by Electric Literature and Kirkus. Chang’s earlier book of  poetry, OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) was named a New York Times Notable Book, a Time Must-Read Book, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was also longlisted for a National Book Award and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. She has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship

  • A forum at PLU on Dec. 4 called #BlackLivesMatter addressed issues surrounding the deaths of African Americans by police. The forum, attended by more than 250 students and members of PLU faculty, staff and community, was sponsored by the Diversity Center, the Women’s Center and…

    . “What do you see as the challenges that this university faces in terms of structural racism?” PLU senior Chris Jordan asked the panel. Panelists said they believed a variety of racially implicated challenges exist for PLU that could be addressed immediately, or in the near future. Among their suggestions were the potential founding of an Ethnic Studies Program, the hiring of more racially diverse faculty and the continued involvement of recent alumni in helping to influence campus culture. “One of

  • PLU Department of History You might notice that Dr. Rebekah Mergenthal is not listed as an instructor on the History Department’s teaching schedule during the 2021-2022 school year. Although she is eager to get back into the classroom after so many ‘Zoom sessions,’ we’ll have…

    community today. My other (bigger!) project is a book manuscript. With the working title, “A Muddy Eden: Border Lines and Borderlands in the lower Missouri Valley before the Civil War,” I explore how different racial and ethnic groups got along (and often didn’t) one the western frontier of the U.S. My research explores the westward movement of enslavers as they sought economic opportunity for their families and the countermovement of enslaved people who ran away to try and reshape their own kin

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 6, 2016)- The scholarship of a Pacific Lutheran University faculty member has evolved into a three-part, cross-cultural project that brings together artists and scholars from around the world. Paul Manfredi, chair of Chinese studies, recently published his book “ Modern Poetry in…

    campus Oct. 28. “The conference aims to take a very broad approach to understanding word-image aesthetics in contemporary China and beyond,” Manfredi said. Participating scholars are coming from the United Kingdom, Taiwan, China, Canada and various locations in the United States, Manfredi said. They are specialists in Chinese contemporary art, contemporary literature and film, as well as literature and art from other regions of the world. The project, titled “Ekphrastic Assimilations: Finding Poetry

  • 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

  • Intellectual Ventures and TerraPower Innovation are seeking a Radiochemistry and Isotopes Intern. This paid internship position will participate in activities related to the chemistry of radioelements and their resulting compounds. The TerraPower laboratory has a range of characterization tools including; thermal gravimetric analysis/differential scanning calorimetry, powder…

    coupled atomic emission spectroscopy, electrochemistry methods, gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, and chemical extraction systems. The candidate will be expected to learn one or a number of these systems and expected to develop reports and manuscripts describing their performed research and any relevant literature. The expected work hours are flexible and will accommodate student schedules. For more information or to apply, please contact: Ken Czerwinski (kczerwinski@terrapower.com) and

  • Associate Professor of Chinese and American Studies and Culture, Washington State University. | Confucius Institute of the State of Washington | xinmin.liu@wsu.edu | 509-335-8713 | Xinmin Liu is an associate professor of Chinese and Comparative Cultures at Washington State University.

    Xinmin Liu Associate Professor of Chinese and American Studies and Culture, Washington State University. Phone: 509-335-8713 Email: xinmin.liu@wsu.edu Biography Biography Xinmin Liu is an associate professor of Chinese and Comparative Cultures at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale in 1997, and is currently teaching Chinese culture, film and language in the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures at WSU. His teaching and research are chiefly

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  • Standards of living have increased dramatically worldwide over the past 100 years, yet poverty and inequality remain features of our world.

    justice concerns, the concentration incorporates the approaches of multiple disciplines such as anthropology, economics, literature, history, and religion.“Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.” -Amartya Sen “Development as Freedom” Approved CoursesRequired of all students in this concentration: GLST 357: Global Development (4) Other course options: ECON 333: Economic Development FREN 204/404: Postcolonial Francophone Fictions HIST 333