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: I believe my job as a writing teacher is to do three primary things:  Serving as a supportive guide, helping you discover literature you may not have encountered on your own that will add to your literary toolkit, and helping you deconstruct the architecture of stories so that you might better unpack your own decisions. Whether you write domestic realism or speculative work or work that defies categorization, I place an emphasis on helping my students appreciate and understand not only the craft

in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Konstanze in Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio. Her recordings are available on Naxos, Albany, and the Elmgrove labels. She has been a member of the adjunct voice faculty at Pacific Lutheran University since 1989 and has been master class clinician for the Summer Opera Workshop since its beginning. She has assisted with other projects at PLU such as scholarship auditions, recruitment efforts, and search committee service. She served for the second time as a judge for

(Maize Books 2021) : View Book The Grounded Instruction Librarian: Participating in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Chapters Chapters Visions of the Possible: A Critical Pedagogical Praxis for Information Literacy Instruction. (ACRL 2019) Improving Library Services in Support of International Students and English as a Second Language (ESL) Learners. Chapters Chapters Welcome to Your Library: How an Orientation Can Set Up International Students for Academic Success. (ACRL 2019) Selected

University of Virginia. One of the most active performers in the Puget Sound, Dr. Rønning serves as Concertmaster of Symphony Tacoma, as well as performing frequently as soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and recording artist. He is also Artistic Director of the Second City Chamber Series, Tacoma’s award winning producer of chamber music concerts and chamber music educational programs. Additional activities have included period instrument performance with the Puget Sound Consort, Tacoma’s ensemble for

 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. Workshops and classes in poetry. Statement: “Every society we’ve ever known has had poetry, and should the day come that poetry suddenly disappears in the morning, someone, somewhere, will reinvent it by evening. Since ancient times, as long as we’ve had language, poetry has ritualized human life. It has dramatized and informed us

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

of Vocal Studies, Teaches Applied Voice Lessons, Vocal Pedagogy, Solo Vocal Literature, Diction, Directs Opera Production/Workshop Accolades Production Grant from the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music in New York, NY Regency Scholarship Grant, Pacific Lutheran University Biography James Brown enjoys an eclectic career of singing, teaching, stage direction and conducting. James is the Chair of Vocal Studies at Pacific Lutheran University where he directs the opera and oversees a large voice program

, Decolonizing, & Queering Praxes [Conference session; co-presented with Harris, N. R., Plascencia Saldana, B., & Pierre, D.], Virtual ((2023, February)) NASPA Western Regional Conference, Radical imagination and critical creativity praxis for liberatory futures [Conference session; co-presented with Harris, N. R., & Plascencia Saldana, B.], Anaheim, CA ((2022, November)) ASHE Annual Conference, Bringing the literature to life through storytelling praxis: From scholarship to collective action [Conference

. Elizabeth’s first solo recording, La Folia de España: Dances for Guitar, features works for baroque, 19th century, and modern guitars, and has been praised for its “…apparently effortless ease.” (Lute News, UK) She is also featured in the recording Dolce Desio as a member of the early music trio Le Nuove Musiche, and in the recording Navidad: Christmas in the New World with Seattle Pro Musica. Her second solo recording, In Her Honor, includes music from the Princess [Queen] Anne Guitarbook and the

, Choral Methods and Choral Literature. Dr. Galante continues to find success and acclaim as a composer and arranger. His compositions are published by GalanteMusic, Walton, Colla Voce Music, and Pavane Publishing; have been performed by professional, collegiate, and advanced high school choirs throughout the United States and Europe; and recorded for commercial release by Delos, Centaur Records, MSR Classic, and PLU Media. He is the recipient of multiple ASCAP Plus awards, and a regular composer-in