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  • Senior Student Financial Services Specialist | Office of Financial Services | sunderpa@plu.edu | 253-535-8029

    Patty Sunderland Senior Student Financial Services Specialist Phone: 253-535-8029 Email: sunderpa@plu.edu Professional Responsibilities Federal Pell Grant Study Away programs Graduate Programs (MFA, Creative Writing, MA, Marriage and Family Therapy)

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  • Executive Creative Director | Marketing & Communications | sungsa@plu.edu | 253-535-7786 | Simon Sung graduated in 1990 from the University of Washington.

    Simon Sung Executive Creative Director Phone: 253-535-7786 Email: sungsa@plu.edu Status:Working Hybrid Professional Biography Education B.F.A., Graphic Design, University of Washington, 1990 B.A., English, University of Washington, 1990 Biography Simon Sung graduated in 1990 from the University of Washington. During his tenure in the design field he has worked for various clients including Simon and Schuster, Random House, Crown, Disney, Chronicle Books, Starbucks, and the National Baseball

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  • Associate Professor of English | Department of English | jamesja@plu.edu | 253-535-7217 | Jenny James was born and raised in Michigan, the home of the Great Lakes and the Michigan Wolverines.

    . Before coming to PLU, she lived in Boston, Hanover, NH and New York City. Jenny teaches American literature from 1860 to the present, with a special emphasis on the representation of race, gender and sexuality in fiction written after 1945.  She also teaches a Writing 101 course on water, politics and place for the First Year Experience Program. Her research traces the development of narratives of affiliation in the post-1960 North American novel. In their depiction of alternative forms of loving

  • Professor of English | Department of English | barotrp@plu.edu | 253-535-7318 | Rick Barot has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002), which received the Kathryn A.

    Rick Barot Professor of English Phone: 253-535-7318 Email: barotrp@plu.edu Office Location:Hauge Administration Building - Room 209 Website: https://rickbarot.com/ Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Director of MFA Education M.F.A., Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1998 B.A., Wesleyan University, 1992 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Creative Writing Poetry Ethnic Literature Gay/Lesbian Literature Books Chord: Poems (Sarabande Books 2015) : View Book Want: Poems (Sarabande Books 2008) : View

  • Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Scott Nadelson is the author of four story collections, most recently The Fourth Corner of the World; a memoir, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress; and a novel, Between You and Me.  His stories and essays have appeared in Harvard Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and have been cited as notable in both Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays.  Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mentor.

    Scott Nadelson Fiction Website: http://scottnadelson.com/ Biography Biography Scott Nadelson is the

  • 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.

     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. Workshops and classes in poetry. Statement: “Every society we’ve ever known has had poetry, and should the day come that poetry suddenly disappears in the morning, someone, somewhere, will reinvent it by evening. Since ancient times, as long as we’ve had language, poetry has ritualized human life. It has dramatized and informed us

  • Dean of Assessment and Core Curriculum | Office of the Provost | rogers@plu.edu | 253-535-7985 | Scott Rogers was born in the desert and grew up on a farm but will always call the city home.

    Scott Rogers Dean of Assessment and Core Curriculum Phone: 253-535-7985 Email: rogers@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 125 Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Associate Professor of English Co-Director of the Parkland Literacy Center Education Ph.D., Univeristy of Louisville, 2011 M.A., University of New Mexico, 2006 B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 2001 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise First-Year Writing Writing Program Administration and Assessment

  • Assistant Vice President for Student Life Strategic Initiatives and Assessment | Division of Student Life | jes.takla@plu.edu | 253-535-7597

    (2019, November) ACPA Annual Convention, Flourish and flow: Cultivating creative mindfulness to support student success [Conference session; co-presented with Avery, L., & Rodgers, M.], Houston, TX (2018, March) NASPA Annual Conference, Flourish and flow: Cultivating creative mindfulness to support student success [Conference session; co-presented with Avery, L., & Rodgers, M.], Philadelphia, PA (2018, March) ACUHO-I Annual Conference and Exposition, Thriving at Pacific Lutheran University

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  • Resident Instructor of Ceramics | Communication, Media & Design Arts | sobecksm@plu.edu | 253-535-5035 | Sobeck is a well-known ceramics artist with a following among students who seek him out and collectors hoping to acquire his distinctive work.

    graduate of PLU in ’72, his career path has led him through various teaching jobs as well as art and design studios. He returned to PLU to teach in 2000, and many of his students have since moved on to their own creative and teaching careers. A quote that describes his outlook is in Henry Glassie’s 1999 book The Potter’s Art (Indiana University Press): “It is good to be a potter. At work, the potter manages the transformation of nature, building culture while fulfilling the self, serving society and

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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.

    Immanuel Kant History and Meaning of Jazz Aesthetics American and African-American Culture and Literature German philosophy Critical Theory Theory/History of Public Sphere Alexander Kluge Biography Arthur Strum teaches interdisciplinary courses drawing particularly upon philosophy, literature, and political theory. He began his career in the field of German Studies, teaching and writing for more than a decade on 18th and 19th century German philosophy, the Bildungsroman, The Frankfurt School, Kant