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interest cover studies of subcultural consumption, music/art consumption, market co-optation, cultural fragmentation, consumer resistance, consumer/brand activism, identity projects, sustainability, ethical consumption, social innovation, alternative food consumption and technologies, and veganism. Also, he seeks to keep his research interest as eclectic as possible where topics range from marketing strategy to electronic marketing. As a result, he has published numerous articles in leading peer

champion the artistic and educational aspirations of students of all ages, and to create collaborative art that promotes conversation. Jonathan is an avid runner, singer/musician, and sports fan (Go LakeShow!)

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.”

Biography Samuel Torvend teaches courses in the history of early, medieval, and reformation Christianity as well as historical courses on the reform of social welfare, Christian responses to local and global hunger, Christian art and architecture, and Christian rituals. He has taught in PLU’s International Honors Program and has led student and regent study tours in Rome and central Italy. Since 2005, he has led faculty, staff, and student workshops on the liberal arts and higher education, published

Fin de Siècle." Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Vol. 6.2, 2010: "'Sir, It is an 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

Opera Theater’s 2018 New Opera Works (NOW) festival. Scenes from her opera Coal Creek, which is based on a community of miners and Han natives in east-central Alaska, were performed at the 2019 and 2020 NOW festival. The full opera will be premiered in 2021. Her operatic works have also been performed by ContempOpera Cleveland, at the Hartford Opera Theater’s New in November festival, the Hartford Women Composers’ Festival, and the Opera from Scratch festival in Halifax. Dawn’s choral works and art

simply helping people discover what they already knew. I finally came to understand that’s what teaching creative writing is. My job as a writing mentor is to bring the toolbox, both literal and metaphorical. It might include kitchen utensils, glue stick and scissors, postcards, advertisements, original works of art, bottled scents, raw vegetables, or items from a recycle bin or thrift shop. It includes world literature, direct engagement with working writers, and concepts borrowed from linguistics

-renowned community of early music specialists in concerts and operas at Seattle’s Town Hall, St. James Cathedral, Intiman Theatre and the Moore Theatre. James sang in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with Tony award winners Handspring Puppet Company with music direction by Stephen Stubbs and stage direction by internationally celebrated artist William Kentridge at Seattle’s Moore Theatre and in San Francisco (as part of a retrospective of Kentridge’s artistic work for the Museum of Modern Art). James has

studies, such as: “Was the Galilean Economy Oppressive or Prosperous? Socio-Archaeology and Dimensions of Exploitation in First-Century Palestine” (2014); “Execrating? or Execrable Peasants!” (2013); “The Shape of Power and Political-Economy in Herodian Galilee,” Liberating Biblical Study: Scholarship, Art, and Action in Honor of the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice” (2011); “The Perennial Relevance of St. Paul”; and “The Radical Jesus: You Cannot Serve God and Mammon” (2004

Jes Takla, Ph.D. Assistant Vice President for Student Life Strategic Initiatives and Assessment she/they Phone: 253-535-7597 Email: jes.takla@plu.edu Office Location: Anderson University Center - 157 Professional Education Doctor of Philosophy, Higher Education, Azusa Pacific University, 2023 Master of Arts, College Student Personnel, Bowling Green State University, 2008 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography & Fiber Material Studies, School of the Art Institute Chicago, 2006 Responsibilities