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  • Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice | Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice | lutherke@plu.edu | 253-535-7593

    Kate Luther Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice Phone: 253-535-7593 Email: lutherke@plu.edu Office Location: Xavier Hall - 245 Professional Education Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Riverside, 2008 M.A., Sociology, University of California, Riverside, 2004 B.A., Sociology & Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University, 2002 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Corrections, Criminology, Juvenile Delinquency Deviance Family Gender Books #Crime: Social Media, Crime, and the

  • Director of Retail Services | Campus Restaurants - Dining at PLU | girnusjc@plu.edu | 253-535-7476 | Josh is a recent grad from Pacific Lutheran University in 2016 with a B.A.

    Josh Girnus ’16 Director of Retail Services He/Him/His Phone: 253-535-7476 Email: girnusjc@plu.edu Office Location:Anderson University Center - Room 276 Professional Biography Education B.A., Philosophy, Minor in Political Science, Pacific Lutheran University, 2016 A.A., General, Pierce College, 2014 Biography Josh is a recent grad from Pacific Lutheran University in 2016 with a B.A. degree in Philosophy with department honors and a minor in politics and government. He comes to PLU with an

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  • Poetry, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Brian Teare, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of seven critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses and Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His most recent publications are a diptych of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction, chronic illness, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia.

    creative practice, drawing traditional and experimental writing and art into conversation through a feminist, queer language politics. And I encourage each writer to gather around their work an expansive, eclectic archive of writers, thinkers, and artists whose practices inspire, challenge, and drive inquiry ever deeper, stranger, and more true to their individual vision.

  • Professor Emeritus | Religion | oakmande@plu.edu | The Reverend Doctor Douglas E.

    Bible Historical Jesus Social Scientific Criticism Books Jesus, Debt, and the Lord's Prayer: First-Century Debt and Jesus' Intentions (Cascade Books 2014) : View Book The Political Aims of Jesus: Peasant Politics in Herodian Galilee (Fortress Press 2012) : View Book Jesus and the Peasants (Matrix: The Bible in Mediterranean Context) (Wipf & Stock 2008) : View Book Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts with co-author K. C. Hanson (Fortress Press 1998) : View Book

  • Associate Professor of Earth Science | Earth Science | davispb@plu.edu | 253-535-5770 | I graduated in the spring of 2008 from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with a Ph.D.

    rocks in northern New Mexico. My undergraduate is from the University of Wisconsin, Madison where I worked as closely as an undergraduate can to Dr. Gordon Medaris on the Precambrian evolution of the Great Lakes region. Interests Design Wood Metal and Stone Work Politics Music Fun Facts The music component ranges from jazz through new wave into noise rock.

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  • Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Rigoberto González is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and eleven books of prose, including Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

    shared and hopefully appreciated. Writing bears the responsibility to appeal to the linguistic, intellectual and/or emotional pleasures, and to expand the reader’s understanding of the powers and politics of voice, knowledge, and/or identity. I also take mentorship seriously, and my role as an instructor is to motivate and guide students to a place of creativity and reflection, where those students can build on their strengths and improve on their weaknesses. I believe the goal of interacting in a

  • Department Chair of Sociology and Criminal Justice | Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice | mcclouls@plu.edu | 253-535-7342

    Culture and Mass Media Accolades Faculty Excellence Award in Advising 2015-2016, Pacific Lutheran University Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award Recipient 2015-2016, Pacific Lutheran University The Fragile American: Hardship and Financial Troubles in the 21st Century

  • UI/UX Designer | Marketing & Communications | oharasm@plu.edu | 253-535-7436

    Sam O’Hara UI/UX Designer Phone: 253-535-7436 Email: oharasm@plu.edu Status:Working Hybrid Website: http://samofsorts.com/ Employed: 7 Years Professional Education B.A., New Media, Western Washington University, 2003 M.B.A, Pacific Lutheran University, 2016 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise User Experience Design Web Design Front End Web Development Social Media Graphic Design Video Professional Memberships/Organizations American Marketing Association , (2015 - Present)

  • Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | David Biespiel is a contributing writer at The Rumpus, Partisan, American Poetry Review, Politico, New Republic, Slate, Poetry, and The New York Times, among other publications.  He is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Charming Gardeners and The Book of Men and Women, which was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry.  His books of essays include A Long High Whistle: Selected Columns on Poetry and a book on creativity, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces.  He is a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.  Recipient of Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, he has taught at Stanford University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, Portland State University, and Wake Forest University, in addition to other colleges and universities.  He is a longtime faculty member in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University and is the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland. Mentor.

    with metaphors and figures of feeling and thought, mysteries and politics, birth and death, and all the occasions we experience between womb and tomb. Poetic utterance ritualizes how we come to knowledge. Poetic form ceremonializes those rituals. In the same way that poems illuminate our individual lives, poems also help us understand ourselves as a culture. Or at least they spur us to ask the questions. Poetic utterance mythologizes our journey of being. Poetic utterance tells and interprets our

  • Chair of Computer Science | Department of Computer Science | lmurphy@plu.edu | 253-535-8729 | Research and Professional Activities Prof.

    , Taylor & Francis publishers, 2007-2017 PLU Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) Grant to fund “Social Media and Video Podcasts to support a new course in Media Computation,” 2011-2012 Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC) Proof of Concept Grant to fund “Scaffolding active programming instruction with theoretically grounded screencasts and annotated worked examples,” with David Wolff, 2008-2009 Professional Memberships/Organizations Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special

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