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  • The Choir of the West takes to the road Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / January 21, 2013 January 21, 2013 Performing in Washington and British Columbia The PLU Choir of the West will be on tour in Washington and British Columbia later this January and in early February. The repertoire for this year’s Choir of the West tour spans many stylistic eras and genres. Audience members will hear premiere performances of three works: Exultate, by PLU choral faculty member Brian Galante; Northern Lights, by

  • , dialogue, and setting. Students will learn to critically read and evaluate scripted media and to produce their own original scripts. (4) ENGL 241 : American Traditions in Literature - IT Selected themes that distinguish American literature from British traditions, from colonial or early national roots to current branches: for example, confronting the divine, inventing selfhood, coping with racism. (4) ENGL 251 : British Traditions in Literature - IT Selected themes that define British literature as one

  • through intensive writing workshop courses. The Professional, Public, and Digital Literacies Concentration teaches students skills of effective writing and storytelling for a variety of practical situations – including an emphasis on digital media. The Literature Concentration allows students to explore the diverse range of literatures written in English – American, British, and Global – to understand how writers have used the creative power of literary expression to understand and engage the world

  • in Costa Rica (now offered in Uruguay) and is co-founder, with Professor John Lear (UPS) of PLU’s Fall Semester Program in Oaxaca, Mexico. At PLU, she has been a tireless advocate for global education. Adela Ramos | is this semester’s on-site Director of the PLU/UPS Fall Semester Program in Oaxaca. She is a Mexican and American Associate Professor of English and specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and critical animal studies. A native of Mexico City or “Chilanga,” she holds a B.A

  • , and scholar.  Equally equipped to teach Samuel Pepys, William Blake, Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag, Julian Barnes, and Mark Doty, Tom could—and did—teach British literature from the eighteenth century forward, with plenty of Americans thrown in for good measure. He also taught unfailingly popular courses on the Personal Essay and in the First-Year Experience Program. Tom taught destination courses—courses students would intentionally seek—because he was a destination professor. As one student

  • easy to assess student work.   Example Assignments English Literature – Frankenstein’s Library Instructor: Dr. Adela Ramos View the assignment prompt (PDF)   Nordic Studies – Ibsen Collaboration Instructor: Dr. Jen Jenkins View the assignment prompt (PDF)   Liberal Arts and the Professional Schools Hypothesis can also be used in all fields. You can find examples at Liquid Margins. For example, in 008 Part 1 and Part 2 mathematician, Dr. Matthew Salomone (Bridgewater State University), explains his

  • September 29, 2008 The comic book final gets some respect as literature Harvard professor Hillary Chute took students and faculty alike into the world of graphic novels, from a woman’s point of view, last week. In a talk titled “Comics as Literature: Women’s Contemporary Graphic Narratives,” Chute spoke of how the issues in women’s lives, from significant others to sexual abuse, are explored in graphic novels, or narratives written on comic book form. Now teaching at Harvard University, Chute

  • wontons The class getting to try their hand at folding and sealing wontons Steaming the dumplings Veggie eggrolls This year's theme is Food & Literature

  • (April 4-7, 2013) 110th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Whose Trauma, What Memory? O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias” by Cao Hamburger (2006), Seattle University, Seattle (October 19-21, 2012) Xenographies II: The Representation of Foreigners in Literature, Travel Writing and Other Discourses, sponsored by Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada (SELGYC), the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), and the Centre for

  • (April 4-7, 2013) 110th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), "Whose Trauma, What Memory? O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias” by Cao Hamburger (2006), Seattle University, Seattle (October 19-21, 2012) Xenographies II: The Representation of Foreigners in Literature, Travel Writing and Other Discourses, sponsored by Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada (SELGYC), the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), and the Centre for