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  • Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, Leaving Tulsa (2013), Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), and The Maybe-Bird (2022), and served as the Associate Editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. She is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford.

    strengths and weaknesses both as points of departure. I don’t believe art is made by getting comfortable in a voice or style. If poetry is going to be a life-long endeavor, we must practice becoming comfortable with its surprises and its failures, and, most of all, being excited by its questions.”

  • 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

  • Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Kelli Russell Agodon is a bi/queer poet and editor from the Pacific Northwest.

    Studdard. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry. Statement: Carolyn Kizer wrote in the foreword of On Poetry & Craft by Theodore Roethke that when another student was critical of something eccentric she had tried in her poem, Roethke said to the student: You want to be very careful when you criticize something like that, because it may be the hallmark of an emerging style. Kizer wrote, He knew that our eccentricities are our true voice. As a poet myself, this is something I keep in mind while

  • Associate Professor of English | Department of English | solveig.robinson@plu.edu | 253-535-7241 | Dr.

    Outrage': George Bentley, Robert Black, and the Condition of the Mid-List Author in Victorian Britain." Book History Vol. 10, 2007: "'At All Times Conspicuous as Art': Henry James, Margaret Oliphant, and Resistance to Decadence." Henry James Against the Aesthetic Movement 2006: "Expanding a 'Limited Orbit': Margaret Oliphant, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and the Development of a Critical Voice." Victorian Periodicals Review Vol. 38.2, 2005: "Of 'Haymakers' and 'City Artisans': The Chartist Poetics

  • Associate Director of Choral Studies; Assistant Professor of Music | Music | domingr@plu.edu | 253-535-7613 | Raul Dominguez is the Associate Director of Choral Studies at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) in the Tacoma, WA area where he leads their University Chorale, University Singers, and teaches courses in Secondary Methods and the Conducting sequence.

    sequence. He is also the Associate Conductor for Choral Union, PLU’s community ensemble. His research focus is the choral music of the United Mexican States and seeks to provide choral directors the necessary means to create artful performances of this repertoire. Prior to PLU, he served as the Director of Choral Activities at Regis University, in Denver, CO, where he conducted the Regis University Singers, led the Voice Area, mentored music education students, and taught a Fine Arts course, Mexican

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Music - Piano | Music | erhsuan.li@plu.edu | 253-535-7647 | Praised by the New York Concert Review as having “played with astonishing maturity and flair,” Dr.

    officer of the CU Boulder Collegiate Chapter of MTNA, he has delivered “Designing the Sensory Friendly Recital,” and “Hidden Voices: Exploring Piano Works by Black Women Composers in the Helen Walker-Hill Collection,” at MTNA national conferences. A seasoned lecturer, Li has given a variety of insightful presentations on “Approaching New Music with Confidence,” “How to work with a pianist,” “Voice of Taiwan: Ma, Shui-Long,” “Strategies for Performing Pierre Boulez’s Douze Notations,” “Joseph Bologne

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  • Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies | Native American and Indigenous Studies | storfjta@plu.edu | 253-535-8514 | Troy Storfjell (Sámi) specializes in Sámi and Indigenous studies, where his work is largely guided by Indigenist criticism and decolonize methodologies.

    Indigenous studies Nordic literature and film Responsibilities Council Member, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). 2017 to present. Selected Presentations Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, These songs of freedom: Matti Aikio, Aagot Vinterbo-Hohr and the aesthetics of Sámi literary survivance, University of Hawai'i, Manoa (May 2016) Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Unraveling the Master’s Voice: Matti Aikio’s Subversive Turn, New Orleans (May

  • Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Hispanic and Latino Studies | urdangga@plu.edu | 253-535-7240

    ): memoria, mujeres y barbarie, co-organized by The University of Oregon, Portland State University, and Oregon State University Portland, OR (March 9-11, 2019) XXVIII Annual Meeting of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS), Memoria(s) y saber(es): una aproximación a tres proyectos museísticos conosureños, Panel Giving Voice to the Voiceless through Narratives of Trauma and Healing, University of Illinois at Chicago (September 27-29, 2018) 2nd International Symposium of the Southern