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  • Professor of Religion | Global Studies Program | hammerej@plu.edu | 253-535-7225 | Erik Hammerstrom has had a deep affinity with Buddhism since he was young and has spent his entire adult life in its study.

    Erik J. Hammerstrom Professor of Religion Phone: 253-535-7225 Email: hammerej@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-H Website: https://plu.academia.edu/ErikHammerstrom Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Religious Studies, Indiana University, 2010 M.A., Religion (Asian), University of Hawai'i, 2003 B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, 1997 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Korean and East Asian Religions Early modern Chinese Buddhism Books The Huayan University Network: The

  • Professor of Religion | Religion | hammerej@plu.edu | 253-535-7225 | Erik Hammerstrom has had a deep affinity with Buddhism since he was young and has spent his entire adult life in its study.

    Erik J. Hammerstrom Professor of Religion Phone: 253-535-7225 Email: hammerej@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227H Website: https://plu.academia.edu/ErikHammerstrom Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Religious Studies, Indiana University, 2010 M.A., Religion (Asian), University of Hawai'i, 2003 B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, 1997 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Korean and East Asian Religions Early modern Chinese Buddhism Books The Huayan University Network: The

  • Department Chair and the Program coordinator of French, Central Washington University | Confucius Institute of the State of Washington | mijohnson@cwu.edu | 509-963-3559 | Dr.

    Michael Johnson Department Chair and the Program coordinator of French, Central Washington University Phone: 509-963-3559 Email: mijohnson@cwu.edu Biography Biography Dr. Johnson is the Department Chair and the Program coordinator of French. He earned his PhD at Emory University in French and Comparative Literature in 2005. Among his teaching and research interests are medieval literature, gender and sexuality, Franco-Belgian comics, French and Spanish language, and grammar.

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  • By the end of their first year, minors should have taken 2 Anthropology 100 level courses and: know and use anthropological concepts know the major perspectives of anthropology (linguistic,

    race, class, and ethnicity on human life have experience writing anthropologically be able to think critically Level II: Anthropology 100 & 200 CoursesBy the end of their second year, minors should have completed their 100-level course requirements, and: be able to integrate the perspectives of three areas of anthropology be able to apply anthropological concepts to specific cultures know how to find anthropological literature on relevant topics (articles, ethnographies, research projects) be able

  • Since 2016, hate speech and crimes directed at members of the Jewish community in the U.S. have increased sharply.

    Christian tradition and in Christian worship and education. Workshop Handout 2:00pm – Recognizing Contemporary Hate Speech through Luther’s Anti-Jewish Writings Dr. Marit Trelstad (University Chair in Lutheran Studies) will ask participants to recognize how Luther’s virulent anti-Jewish writings, denounced and rejected by the ELCA, can serve as a lens for discerning various contemporary forms of hate speech present in social media. 3:00pm – The Art of Memorializing Hate Crimes On the morning of October

  • KPLU invites listeners to travel to Victoria, B.C. KPLU – NPR News and All that Jazz, has put together an exciting listener trip to Victoria, B.C. to celebrate the 28th TD Victoria International Jazz Fest. A group of listeners will enjoy the first weekend of…

    . on Saturday, June 23. Opening night KPLU listener party – Friday, June 22 at the Hotel grand Pacific with light hors d’oeuvres, beverages, and live music. Passes to the Royal British Columbia Museum. Price for two people is $925; price for single traveler is $640. Listeners can book their reservations online at www.kplu.org now. Space is limited and deadline for booking is May 20. Read Previous Visiting Writer Series: Melinda Moustakis Read Next A look at ‘Sidetracked’ COMMENTS*Note: All comments

  • Guilt and Innocence – What does it Mean to be Alive? By Julia Walsh ’14 “Do you enjoy your work?”  It’s an innocuous, innocent question. Would that it had an innocuous, innocent answer. I came to apply for the Kurt Mayer Summer Fellowship in Holocaust…

    topic of guilt and innocence in Holocaust literature, with a focus on Daniel Silva’s trio of Julia Walsh ’14 talks at PLU’s 9-11 ceremony. (John Froschauer, Photographer) Holocaust-related spy novels and on Herman Wouk’s War and Remembrance. Out of my books and thoughts rose a paper on issues of guilt in Holocaust literature, finding patterns in chronology between the first and second wave of Holocaust literature. In the first mode, the antagonist and perpetrator is not specifically an individual

  • TACOMA, Wash. (July 23, 2015)—During the Aug. 2-12 Rainier Writing Workshop, more than 100 students and faculty will gather at PLU to participate in classes, workshops, readings and other creatively immersive activities. The 10-day workshop, the annual summer residency of Pacific Lutheran University’s Master of…

    Poets Guide to the Birds (Anhinga Press) and three collections of short nonfiction—In Short, In Brief and Short Takes—and the anthology Brief Encounter.  Her awards included an NEA fellowship in poetry, two Pushcart Prizes in nonfiction and recognition as a distinguished teacher of adults.  She had the distinction of being called—by Newsday—the Evel Knievel of literature. Wednesday, Aug. 5, 7:15 p.m. Bernard Cooper, The Judith Kitchen Visiting Writer. Cooper has written two collections of memoirs

  • 20 semester hours from PLU courses, equivalent transfer courses, or approved study away programs, depending on placement.

    . French Language 4-20 semester hours, based on placement May include: FREN 101: Beginning French (4) FREN 102: Beginning French (4) FREN 201: Intermediate French (4) FREN 301: Advanced French (4) Must include: FREN 202: Intermediate French (4) French & Francophone literature, film, history, culture 0-16 semester hours selected from the following: FREN 310: French History, Culture, Society (4) FREN 311: Francophone Africa in Global Context (4) FREN 403: Topics in French Literature (4) FREN 404

  • 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