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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.
with metaphors and figures of feeling and thought, mysteries and politics, birth and death, and all the occasions we experience between womb and tomb. Poetic utterance ritualizes how we come to knowledge. Poetic form ceremonializes those rituals. In the same way that poems illuminate our individual lives, poems also help us understand ourselves as a culture. Or at least they spur us to ask the questions. Poetic utterance mythologizes our journey of being. Poetic utterance tells and interprets our
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Associate Professor of Psychology | Department of Psychology | clcook@plu.edu | 253-535-7471 | My research explores how social motives and beliefs (e.g., religious, existential, or social beliefs) influence perceptions of threats and opportunities regarding others in our social environment.
interests include morality/values, evolutionary psychology, and “alternative” belief systems (e.g., conspiracies, the occult, etc.). Selected Publications Cook, C. L., & Franks, A. S. (2022). Religious identity and intersectional privilege: (A)Symmetric biases in Christians and atheists are unaffected by prompts to consider religious and racial privilege. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000477 Klein, R. A., Cook, C. L., Ebersole, C. R., Vitiello, C., Nosek, B. A
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Associate Professor of Philosophy | Department of Philosophy | cooper@plu.edu | 253-535-7234 | Keith Cooper has been teaching at PLU since 1984.
- Excellence in Advising 2005 Biography Keith Cooper has been teaching at PLU since 1984. His graduate degrees in philosophy are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; he also has a master’s degree in theology. His main areas of interest are the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science, especially the question of methodological parallels between metaphysical inquiry and scientific theorizing (e.g., abductive reasoning). Favorite courses, in addition to those areas, include Formal Logic and
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy | Department of Philosophy | leland@plu.edu | 253-535-7396 | As a teacher of philosophy, I very much enjoy both 1) introducing new students to this exciting discipline and 2) teaching broadly across its many different subfields.
a teacher of philosophy, I very much enjoy both 1) introducing new students to this exciting discipline and 2) teaching broadly across its many different subfields. I have taught courses in the following areas: logic, ethics (incl. metaethics and moral psychology), epistemology, philosophy of mind and language, social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and all periods in the history of Western philosophy. That’s not an exhaustive list (!), and I have many philosophical
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing | School of Nursing | knowltrt@plu.edu | 253-535-7699 | Clinician, Administrator, Educator.
Pathophysiology, Clinical procedures for the Family Nurse Practitioner, Leadership and Organizational management, Policy and Politics in Healthcare, Clinical faculty for the FNP I FNP II and FNP III courses. Chair, Doctor of Nursing Practice projects. Scholarly interest Wilderness and austere healthcare. Alternative and complementary healthcare practices. Traditional Chinese Medicine practices, specifically Acupuncture. Correctional Health Care. Trauma Certified Registered Nurse (TCRN). Wilderness
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Emeritus Librarian | Library | Gail worked in Library Services at PLU from 1992-2020. .
Gail Egbers Emeritus Librarian Status:Emeritus Professional Biography Education M.A., Library Science, University of Denver, 1974 B.A., English, Midland Lutheran College, 1973 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise English History Religion Selected Presentations Part of Tacoma Reads Together, panel discussion with Adam Woog, Mary Levesque and Julie Ciccarelli, Everybody Loves a Mystery, Tacoma Public Library (May 25, 2010) PLU Faculty House Noon Presentation, Libraries at Oxford, Pacific Lutheran
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Professor Emeritus | Department of Social Work | kellerjg@plu.edu | JoDee Keller is Professor of Social Work at Pacific Lutheran University.
of a housing development, in Kalliola, S., Kettunen, P., Eskelinen, O. Kosonen, K., Rostila, I. & Leander, A. (eds)." Improvement by evaluation: Peer reviewed full papers of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation for Practice “Evaluation as a Tool for Research, Learning and Making Things Better 2012: 41-49, ISBN: 978-951-44-8859-7. Keller, J. "Book review: ‘Politics of Home: Belonging and Nostalgia in Western Europe and the United States' by Jan Willem Duyvendak." Housing, Theory and
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Kurt Mayer Chair, Emeritus | Department of History | ericksrp@plu.edu | Robert Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies Emeritus and Professor of History at PLU, earned his Ph.D.
Museum, and the Lutheran Academy of Scholars at Harvard University; he has received research awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others; he is a founding member on the board of editors of a German journal, Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, and of an online journal, Contemporary Church History Quarterly; and he serves as Chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2004 Ericksen delivered the biennial Kaplan Holocaust Lectures
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Professor Emeritus of Physics | Department of Physics | starkovich@plu.edu | Steven P.
to the university on many levels, Starkovich was awarded PLU’s Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award that may be granted to a current PLU employee. The award cited, in part, his “…ongoing commitment to the advancement of knowledge, thoughtful inquiry and questioning, the discernment of vocation, and the preparation of citizens in service to the world.” Before pursuing his graduate studies, Starkovich pursued an early interest in politics, and in 1982 he was elected to the Oregon State
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Resident Assistant Professor | International Honors | christian.gerzso@plu.edu | 253-535-7491 | Christian Gerzso was born in Mexico City, where he received his B.A.
and colonial and post-colonial authors. Gerzso also teaches an IHON 257 on theories and representations of labor under capitalism since the Industrial Revolution, and has taught an IHON 257 course on the modern university in Britain for the International Honors Program at Oxford University, where he served as site director in fall 2018. His Writing 101 course focuses on visual art and culture, and in 2019-2020 he will teach an IHON 328 course on politics and utopia, focusing on theories and
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