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  • Nonfiction, Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Lia Purpura is the author of eight collections of essays, poems, and translations, most recently, Rough Likeness (essays) and It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (poems).  Her honors include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, National Endowment for the Arts and Fulbright Fellowships, three Pushcart prizes, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Nonfiction, and the Beatrice Hawley, and Ohio State University Press awards in poetry.  Recent work appears in Agni, Field, The Georgia Review, Orion, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Best American Essays.  She is Writer in Residence at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and teaches at writing programs around the country, including, most recently, the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference.  She lives in Baltimore with her family. Mentor.

    requires, so that each piece is up to its best moments. I hope to remystify the process of writing rather than demystify it. What I mean is this: it’s by engaging with practical, process-oriented habits, and learning techniques and formal gestures, that one becomes receptive enough to trust and catch the unexpected surprises that come along, and to allow mystery (call it the imagination if you like) to freely flourish. I believe in a workshop where risks of all kind are supported and strengthened.”

  • Visiting Instructor of Music, Strings, and Composition | Music | korine.fujiwara@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Montana native Korine Fujiwara is a founding member of the Carpe Diem String Quartet, a devoted and sought-after chamber musician and teacher, and a gifted composer and arranger. Ms.

    and together; her quartet writing is very democratic, with solos for everyone; her solo violin writing is fiendishly difficult.” (Strings Magazine). “Fujiwara beautifully meets the challenge of weaving together different emotions across generations that make sense musically while delighting the ear.” (WOSU Classical 101 by Request) “Fujiwara’s music is rich and beguiling throughout.” (The Columbus Dispatch) “Artfully layered and knitted together…While each “room” has its own musical personality

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  • AV Technician | Information & Technology Services | pbrockwell@plu.edu | 253-535-7261 | Patrick is a native of Tacoma, having grown up about a mile away from the PLU campus.

    Patrick Brockwell AV Technician Phone: 253-535-7261 Email: pbrockwell@plu.edu Office Location:Mortvedt Library Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Biography Biography Patrick is a native of Tacoma, having grown up about a mile away from the PLU campus. Having a background as a drummer led to tinkering with audio and recording, that culminated in enrollment in an Audio Production course through the University of Washington. Since completion of the course, Patrick has run sound

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  • Interim Director, IHON | International Honors | strumac@plu.edu | 253-535-8774 | Arthur Strum teaches interdisciplinary courses drawing particularly upon philosophy, literature, and political theory.

    ’ — someone interested in how literature and philosophy might help teach him/her about how to live. He has taught in the IHON Program since its inception in 2008, contributing courses at every level of the program. Prof. Strum also regularly teaches in the Writing 101 program, teaches an interdisciplinary introduction to the Humanities in PLU’s new Summer Academy, and has taught in the German, Philosophy, and English departments. Prof. Strum co-wrote a book on the conceptual history of the public sphere

  • Lecturer - Guitar | Guitar & Lute Program | brownec@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | A specialist in standard classical guitar as well as various early guitars and lutes, Elizabeth C.

    . Elizabeth’s first solo recording, La Folia de España: Dances for Guitar, features works for baroque, 19th century, and modern guitars, and has been praised for its “…apparently effortless ease.” (Lute News, UK) She is also featured in the recording Dolce Desio as a member of the early music trio Le Nuove Musiche, and in the recording Navidad: Christmas in the New World with Seattle Pro Musica. Her second solo recording, In Her Honor, includes music from the Princess [Queen] Anne Guitarbook and the

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  • Systems Administrator | Information & Technology Services | haitge@plu.edu | 253-535-8388

    Gordon Hait Systems Administrator Phone: 253-535-8388 Email: haitge@plu.edu Website: //www.plu.edu/its

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  • Network Manager | Information & Technology Services | briggsgb@plu.edu | 253-538-5666

    Greg Briggs Network Manager Phone: 253-538-5666 Email: briggsgb@plu.edu Website: //www.plu.edu/its

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  • Senior Systems Analyst | Information & Technology Services | suttonlw@plu.edu | 253-535-7527

    Lennie Sutton Senior Systems Analyst Phone: 253-535-7527 Email: suttonlw@plu.edu Website: //www.plu.edu/its

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  • Director for Enterprise Systems | Information & Technology Services | allendp@plu.edu | 253-535-7524

    David Allen Director for Enterprise Systems Phone: 253-535-7524 Email: allendp@plu.edu Website: //www.plu.edu/its

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  • Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies | Department of History | griechba@plu.edu | 253-535-7642 | Beth A.

    2017) : View Book Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts, co-edited with Christina Guenther (Cambridge Scholars Press 2008) : View Book The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and its Policy Consequences Today, editor (NOMOS Verlag 2008) : View Book Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism (Yale University Press 2002) : View Book Accolades Dr. Griech-Polelle's most recent award was being selected to participate in the Alan S