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Brian Teare Poetry, Nonfiction Biography Biography Brian Teare, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of seven critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses and Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His most recent publications are a diptych of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction, chronic illness, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty

Lia Purpura Nonfiction, Poetry Website: http://www.liapurpura.com/ Biography Biography 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

essays with Julie Marie Wade, Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, received the Cleveland Poetry Center Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her poetry chapbook, The Daughters of Elderly Women, received the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. She coauthored, with Suzanne Paola, the textbook Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, now in its third edition from McGraw-Hill. Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction. Statement: “As both a writer and a teacher, I’m so interested

Spanish Language at many levels as well as courses focused on Latin American literatures and cultures. She is the author of several articles on Latin American poetry and project coordinator of the bilingual edition of Ernesto Cardenal’s El estrecho dudoso/The Doubtful Strait published by Indiana University Press. Her current research interests focus on masculinities as they relate to the recovery of lyrical subjectivities in contemporary Mexican poetry and fiction. She pioneered PLU’s first J-term

Jenny Johnson Poetry Biography Biography Jenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017).  Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Waxwing, and elsewhere.  Her honors include a Whiting Award, a Hodder Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship.  She has also received awards and scholarships from the Blue Mountain Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo.  She is an

Rebecca Wilkin Professor of French Email: wilkinrm@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 222-G Professional Biography Education Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2000 M.A., University of Michigan, 1996 B.A., Brown University, 1994 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Early modern women philosophers: Elisabeth of Bohemia, Gabrielle Suchon, Louise Dupin Enlightenment political philosophy: equality, freedom, contract theory, rights Early modern French philosophy: skepticism

Lauren Loftis Archivist & Special Collections Librarian she/her/hers Phone: 253-535-7586 Email: loftis@plu.edu Office Location: Mortvedt Library - 303 Professional Additional Titles/Roles Assistant Professor Education MS, Archival Management/MA in History, Simmons University, 2019 MFA, Poetry, University of Montana, 2016 BA, English, Washington State University, 2013 BA, Philosophy, Washington State University, 2013 Responsibilities Archives Administration History

Devina Sindhu Visiting Assistant Professor of English she/her/hers Phone: 253-535-7808 Email: dks@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 222-D Professional Education Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Oregon, 2024 M.A., English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University, 2012 B.A., English, University of California, Irvine, 2007 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Decoloniality Post-1945 Global Anglophone Literature Writing by and about Women Literature and

Jennifer James Associate Professor of English Phone: 253-535-7217 Email: jamesja@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 201-C Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Chair, Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Director, Native American & Indigenous Studies Education Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2012 M.A., Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 2004 B.A., Comparative Literature, Smith College, 2001 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Post

Kelsey Eagen Associate Director, Academic Advising she/her Phone: 253-535-8776 Email: kelsey.eagen@plu.edu Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Biography Kelsey has been with PLU since May 2019 and has worked in higher education since 2014. Kelsey has a BS in Psychology and a MS in Higher Education Administration with a focus on Title IX Law from the University of North Florida. Kelsey works primarily with biology students, pre-med students, and theatre students in addition to