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INTRODUCTIONThe challenges faced by humanities programs in recent decades have been well documented. Due to declining budgets and a perception that humanities work is “unstrategic” (i.e., it is not typically training for specific career skills), humanities programming has been pronounced dead or on life support more times than we care to count. Legislators and administrators ask us: what is the value of the humanities? Students ask us: where will the humanities take me? We ask ourselves: how do

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Exhibit opens Fri. 10 Nov. 2017; Exhibit closes Wed. 7 Feb. 2018.Trolls are associated with trouble and magic, with those parts of the world we cannot explain. What does the word “troll” mean? Scholars have many guesses as about the origin of the word but nothing definite. The word appears in Old Norse and suggested many things – giants as well troublesome people and animals. Additionally, Old Norse also had the verb form trylla which John Lindow translates variously as “turn (someone or

specific writing goals. A participant’s final thesis can contain work in multiple genres. Our yearly residencies are held on the PLU campus in magnificent summer weather, in the shadow of Mount Rainier, with easy access to Seattle’s urban culture. We are highly selective, and our alumni have generated a substantial record of success in publication, teaching, and other literary achievements. The Rainier Writing Workshop is a community of talented, mature, and independent writers, working in an