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  • Rick Barot Professor of English Phone: 253-535-7318 Email: barotrp@plu.edu Office Location:Hauge Administration Building - Room 209 Website: https://rickbarot.com/ Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Director of MFA Education M.F.A., Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1998 B.A., Wesleyan University, 1992 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Creative Writing Poetry Ethnic Literature Gay/Lesbian Literature Books Chord: Poems (Sarabande Books 2015) : View Book Want: Poems (Sarabande Books 2008) : View

  • VOCAL Choir of the WestThe Choir of the West is the premier choral ensemble at Pacific Lutheran University.  It is comprised of undergraduate majors from a wide variety of academic disciplines, achieving a reputation of excellence for its performances at professional music conferences, national and international tours, and numerous recordings.  The choir regularly joins the University Symphony Orchestra in performances of major choral/orchestral works, and participates in the annual Christmas

  • August 18, 2010 Contributions to Excellence By Steve Hansen Alumnae are a proud group of people. Instilled with a passion to give of themselves. Jean (Hesla ’50) Kopta is no exception. Kopta graduated from PLU in 1950 with the bachelor’s degree in education. Jean (Hesla ’50) Kopta. Later in her life, she returned to school to obtain her Master’s degree in vocal performance. Her passion was to share her love of singing and music by teaching voice lessons. She landed at PLU at the Department of

  • May 9, 2011 A $15M bequest propels campaign past $100M, with a year to go By Greg Brewis Upon final accounting, the $10 million bequest from Karen Hille Phillips ’55 that was announced in October now amounts to more than $15 million, helping push the university’s current fundraising campaign beyond the $100 million mark. President Loren J. Anderson announced the milestone at the PLU Board of Regents meeting, May 7. The $10 million bequest from Karen Hille Phillips ’55 that was announced in

  • September 15, 2011 Physics Instructor, Dana Rush, talks about the Hubble Space Telescope in the community room of the GBC. Exploring with Hubble By Chris Albert For more than a decade, the Hubble Space Telescope has been opening doors to the universe. Through its lens, we’ve received astonishing views – from the formation of stars and planets to getting a glimpse of the impact of a comet colliding with Jupiter. Dana Rush, PLU physics instructor, presented a multimedia lecture on the Hubble

  • March 7, 2012 Opening a window, when the door goes shut By Chris Albert In today’s world, innovation, creativity and ideas are the venture capital of tomorrow, PLU President Loren J. Anderson told the assembled crowd of business leaders at the annual meeting of the Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County. At the March 2 meeting, Anderson was the recipient of the first Golden Shovel Award for his, and PLU’s role, in making the South Puget Sound region a healthy community and vibrant

  • Learning With Our Neighbors“I’ve never been here before,” a student told me in June 2014 as my Christian Ethics class walked to the community garden at Trinity Lutheran Church.  I asked what she meant — the garden or the church?  Both, it turned out.  Indeed, she had never set foot in a garden in her life, and while she’d walked by the church across the street from campus a number of times, she’d never been inside or on the grounds. This experience and many others like it have convinced me that

  • PLU Faculty Directs Local Documentary PLU Assistant Professor of Communication Dr. Kate Drazner Hoyt has directed a documentary which will premiere at the Grand Cinema in Tacoma on Monday, November 21. The film is one installment in the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation ’s “Our Communities, Our Neighbors” film series. Funded… November 8, 2022 Communicationcommunity eventsFacultyinterview

  • Childlike vs Childish: Mary’s Meme-ification Melodramatic, selfish, pouty Mary Musgrove is the only Persuasion (2022) character who says anything meaningful about Regency womanhood that is congruous with gender expectations today. Her lines in Carrie Cracknell’s adaptation are like Reductress captions, with just a little less of the same satirical punch.… December 4, 2022

  • Childlike vs Childish: Mary’s Meme-ification Melodramatic, selfish, pouty Mary Musgrove is the only Persuasion (2022) character who says anything meaningful about Regency womanhood that is congruous with gender expectations today. Her lines in Carrie Cracknell’s adaptation are like Reductress captions, with just a little less of the same satirical punch.… December 4, 2022