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  • Professor of Kinesiology | Department of Kinesiology | papadoha@plu.edu | 253-535-8706

    Descriptive Study." Internation Journal of Exercise Science Vol. 6(1), 2013: 52-62. B.E. Saelens and C. Papadopoulos. "The Importance of the Built Environment in Older Adults’ Physical Activity: A Review of the Literature." Washington State Journal of Public Health Practice Vol. 1, 2008: 13-21.

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  • Founding Director, In Memoriam | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Judith Kitchen (1941-2014)  was the co-founder of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at PLU.  She is the author of four collections of essays, most recently The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2014).

    .  She had the distinction of being called—by Newsday—the Evel Knievel of literature.  

  • Fiction, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Renee Simms, J.D., MFA, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a John Gardner Fiction Fellowship at Bread Loaf, and fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center.

    similar to what you’re writing or reading literature that’s wildly dissimilar. I will also encourage you to identify the traditions and conversations with which your writing engages and to think of yourself as a contributor to literary trends and movements. How are you expanding on what has come before? What are you doing that’s traditional and what do you bring that’s new? Most of all, I’ll encourage you to revise your drafts. All writing improves through rewriting, and all writers discover what it

  • Professor | Department of Computer Science | wolffda@plu.edu | 253-535-8735

    Language Cookbook - Third Edition (Packt Publishing 2018) : View Book OpenGL 4 Shading Language Cookbook - Second Edition (Packt Publishing 2013) : View Book OpenGL 4.0 Shading Language Cookbook (Packt Publishing 2011) : View Book

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  • Nonfiction, Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Aram Mrjoian is the editor-in-chief of The Rumpus and a 2022 Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellow.

     Guardian, Runner’s World, Literary Hub, Catapult, West Branch, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Boulevard, Joyland, Longreads, and many other publications. Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction and fiction. Statement: My primary goal as an educator is to help students develop artistic agency and encourage creative sustainability. Rather than fall back on craft axioms around what makes good writing, my teaching emphasizes individual decision-making, creative exploration, and radical revision, with

  • Lecturer - Bassoon | Music | petersfg@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Francine Peterson is an Affiliate Artist and Lecturer at Pacific Lutheran University.  She is a member of the Northwest Chamber Orchestra and the Northwest Sinfonietta.  Mrs.

    Northwest Sinfonietta.  Mrs. Peterson is an active freelance player in the Puget Sound area performing with the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Seattle Opera, and the Fifth Avenue Theatre.  She has performed with the Philadelphia String Quartet and has appeared on the Second City Chamber Music Series.  She is a coach for the Seattle Youth Symphony and maintains a large private studio.

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  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Education | School of Education | rizzardi@plu.edu | 301-788-8270 | Jonathan M.

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Education at Pacific Lutheran University where they teach instructional methodologies for trauma-informed, equity-centered education to future teachers, Jonathan earned their BA and Master of Arts in Teaching at St. Mary’s College of Maryland where they were winner of the Margaret Eagle Dixon Award in Literature and Maryland’s Teachers of Promise distinction. Rizzardi’s practitioner work extends across fields of youth creative drama, arts integration for mental health

  • Chair, Associate Professor of Theatre | Theatre & Dance | swegeran@plu.edu | 253-538-8275 | Amanda Sweger is a lighting and scenic designer who has free-lanced in Seattle, Chicago, Nashville, and Philadelphia.

    Designer’s Forum Participant 2010 Michael Merritt Designer showcase participant Biography Amanda Sweger is a lighting and scenic designer who has free-lanced in Seattle, Chicago, Nashville, and Philadelphia. She received an MFA from Northwestern University in 2011 and is now a tenured professor at Pacific Lutheran University where she has been a professor since 2012. She has been the chair of theatre and dance since Fall 2022. She is proud to have designed with companies such as The Second City, TimeLine

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  • Professor of Psychology | Department of Psychology | hansvick@plu.edu | Academic Liaison on the board of Peace and Justice Studies, as well as teaching Peace Psychology. Faculty Director for joint PLU/Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce Leadership program. Passion for teaching statistics/research methods, where I approach the classroom as a dynamic social environment and continually strive to create a positive, active learning environment for my students. Current research interests: (1) Cognitive complexity and openness to experience in relation to the liberal arts experience; (2) teaching and learning styles in relation to the challenges of teaching Millennials; and (3) changes in perceptions of cities over time. .

    (Southwest Minnesota State University, 1992) Environmental Design Research Association (Second place, doctoral dissertation, 1979) Numerous Who's Who and Who's Who among Women in America nominations Biography Academic Liaison on the board of Peace and Justice Studies, as well as teaching Peace Psychology. Faculty Director for joint PLU/Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber of Commerce Leadership program. Passion for teaching statistics/research methods, where I approach the classroom as a dynamic social

  • Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies | Department of History | griechba@plu.edu | 253-535-7642 | Beth A.

    Griech-Polelle taught at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio for several years before coming to Pacific Lutheran University as Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies. She specializes in Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, Genocide Studies, the Role of Roman Catholic Church leadership in Nazi Germany, and European Women’s history. Dr. Griech-Polelle has published several books, including her most recent one: Antisemitism and the Holocaust: Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred, Second