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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. .
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
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Visiting Assistant Professor of English | Department of English | apm@plu.edu | 253-535-8277
Alex McCauley Visiting Assistant Professor of English Phone: 253-535-8277 Email: apm@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 201-D Professional Education Ph.D., English, University of Washington, 2020 M.A., English, University of Washington, 2015 B.A., English, Seattle Pacific University, 2010 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Environmental and Ecocritical approaches Narratives of Empire British and Global Literatures
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Assistant to the Dean | College of Health Professions | howardrm@plu.edu | 253-535-7659 | Rachel Howard is the Senior Administrative Assistant for the College of Health Professions and the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy.
Rachel Howard Assistant to the Dean Phone: 253-535-7659 Email: howardrm@plu.edu Office Location: Garfield Station - 104 Professional Biography Education B.A., English, University of Windsor , 2006 Biography Rachel Howard is the Senior Administrative Assistant for the College of Health Professions and the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy. In 2006, she graduated from the University of Windsor with a background in Literature. Upon obtaining her BA, she accepted a teaching position abroad
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Professor of Biology | Department of Biology | ellardma@plu.edu | 253-535-7357
Mary Ellard-Ivey Professor of Biology she/her/hers Phone: 253-535-7357 Email: ellardma@plu.edu Office Location: Rieke Science Center - 144 Office Hours: (On Campus) Wed: 11:40 am - 1:30 pm (On Campus) Thu: 10:30 am - 11:30 am (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Education Ph.D., Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, 1994 M.S., Botany, University College Dublin, 1988 B.S., Botany, University College Dublin, 1987 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Plant responses to the
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Visiting Assistant Professor of English | Department of English | dks@plu.edu | 253-535-7808
Devina Sindhu Visiting Assistant Professor of English she/her/hers Phone: 253-535-7808 Email: dks@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 222-D Professional Education Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 2024 M.A., English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University, 2012 B.A., English, University of California, Irvine, 2007 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Decoloniality Post-1945 Global Anglophone Literature Writing by and about Women Literature and
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Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies and Global Studies | French & Francophone Studies | lekani@plu.edu | 253-535-8340 | Dr.
Lise Mba Ekani Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies and Global Studies Phone: 253-535-8340 Email: lekani@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 201-B Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Education Ph.D., French Literature, Louisiana State University, 2018 M.A., French Literature, University of Oregon, 2011 Biography Dr. Lise Ekani holds a joint appointment in the French & Francophone Studies program and Global Studies. She is known for her
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Professor of Theatre | Theatre & Dance | smithtt@plu.edu | 253-535-7323 | Tom Smith is a playwright, director and improviser. His plays are published by Samuel French, Playscripts, and YouthPLAYS, among others. Monologues from his plays appear in five collections of works, and his short plays have been produced internationally. His work has been enjoyed by audiences in cities across the U.S., including Seattle, Kansas City, San Francisco, and Chicago, as well as in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Tom is also the author of The Other Blocking: Teaching and Performing Improvisation(Kendall Hunt) and articles and reviews for Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, The Players Journal, and several resource books. Tom graduated from Whitman College with a BA in Dramatic Arts and Secondary Education certification, and earned his MFA in Directing from University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is a proud member of the Dramatist’s Guild and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. .
(book review)."." Theatre Journal 70.2 (2018): 267-68. 2018: "More than Games: Integrating Improvisation with Stanislavski Actor Training." METHODs 2016: "Long Form Improvisation and American Comedy: The Harold by Matt Fotis (book review)." Theatre Journal 68.2 (2016): 324-25. 2016: "Directing in Musical Theatre: An Essential Guide (book review)." SDC Journal Fall (2016): 52. 2016: "Craig Lucas." The Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature 2008: "Charles Ludlam." The Encyclopedia of
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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.
Community-Based and Public Writing Museum and Memorial Rhetorics Biography Scott Rogers was born in the desert and grew up on a farm but will always call the city home. As a kid, his family moved from Arizona to Missouri and then to Southern California where he attended high school. After languishing in a local community college for several years, he got his act together and, in 2001, earned a B.A. in Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. While earning this degree, Scott worked full
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Associate Professor of Philosophy | Department of Philosophy | schleemt@plu.edu | 253-535-7218 | Mike Schleeter began teaching as an Assistant Professor at PLU in 2011, having received a B.A.
Recipient 2015-2016, Pacific Lutheran University Awarded a DAAD research grant to study with Professors Axel Honneth and Hermann Deuser at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main Biography Mike Schleeter began teaching as an Assistant Professor at PLU in 2011, having received a B.A. in Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Biology from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Penn State University. He regularly teaches courses in ethics, social and political
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Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Scott Nadelson is the author of four story collections, most recently The Fourth Corner of the World; a memoir, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress; and a novel, Between You and Me. His stories and essays have appeared in Harvard Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and have been cited as notable in both Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mentor.
encouraging them to make discoveries of their own. Above all, I try on a daily basis to remind myself and my students of the joy that literature can provide both reader and writer, the relief from a world that often suppresses joy, the pleasure of finding a way to communicate genuinely what it feels like to be human. What a wonderful way to spend one’s life, working day after day to compose, in the words of the great William Goyen, ‘the music of what was.’”
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