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paperwork associated with their newly registered classes. They also left with the novel “Into the Beautiful North,” by Luis Alberto Urrea, and a series of study questions associated with the book. Homework already?!! Not really. But every incoming student is being asked to read the novel as part of an innovative new program at PLU. In the eyes of Starre Helm ’12, an English major who helped select the book, the arrival of this novel is an easy, and interesting, way for students to become acclimated to
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Looking Outward: Mark Carrato ‘94 leads the U.S. Government’s Power Africa initiative Posted by: Silong Chhun / January 12, 2021 January 12, 2021 By Anneli HaralsonMarketing and Communications Guest WriterA year after graduating from Pacific Lutheran University, Mark Carrato ‘94 had been island hopping around rural southwestern Japan teaching English to junior high school students. But now he had a decision to make—return to the United States and begin the law school he had been deferring or
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English Writing, with minors in Music and Philosophy. She wrote this article as part of her work in English 320: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction. Read Previous The Trail to Social Justice: Ultrarunning Meets Dark Green Religion Read Next Indivisible: English Faculty Members Join the Anti-Trump Resistance LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26
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another title under K.L. Hib.” Translated into English, the title reads “Unpublished Writings from the Casanova Archive.” Essentially, this text was the work of Broch writing a fictional account from the perspective of Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, presenting itself as one of Casanova’s memoirs. K.L. Hib, as Dr. Jenkins soon discovered, is a pseudonym for Broch. The first and last letters of “Hib” allude to the initials of Hermann Broch, while “K.L.” immediately follows the letter J, the initial for
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December 5, 2012 German-language Advent service The Department of Languages and Literatures and Campus Ministry are sponsoring a German-language Advent service at 5 p.m. Dec. 5 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. There will be a homily, readings and songs all in German with German text and English summaries provided. Special guest Pastor Björn Meinhardt, of Vashon Lutheran Church, will speak. All are welcome and encouraged to bring friends, colleagues, roommates and family members. There will
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polyphonic work by English composer John Sheppard; three of James MacMillan’s Strathclyde Motets – modern sacred works that feature Scottish folk influences; followed by Warum ist das Licht gegeben, the largest unaccompanied work by the Romantic master Johannes Brahms. Choir of the West will give the United States premiere performance of Paul Crabtree’s The Valley of Delight, a three-movement work on texts by Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker sect. The program will also feature two Christmas works: O Magnum
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the PLU Diversity Center, and another search committee member, noted that Krise is deeply committed to diversity. In addition, his references said “he was a strategic thinker and planner,” Hambrick said. Before coming to PLU, Krise, 50, has been Dean of the College of the Pacific, the arts and sciences college of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Prior to his appointment at Pacific, Krise was chair of the Department of English at the University of Central Florida in Orlando
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October 15, 2012 Deirdre N. McCloskey – distinguished professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago – spoke about the value of the middle-class during the annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. (Photo by John Struzenberg ’15) The value of the bourgeoisie By Katie Scaff ’13 Don’t be ashamed of being bourgeois, said Deirdre N. McCloskey, distinguished professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the
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PLU’s Visiting Writer Series Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary Posted by: Marcom Web Team / November 6, 2014 November 6, 2014 By Taylor Lunka ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 7, 2014)—In 2005, two new professors in the Pacific Lutheran University English Department came up with an idea for the Visiting Writer Series (VWS). This year, the series celebrates its 10-year anniversary—with a dedicated budget from the Provost’s office and a group of new writers
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decided to plan this event.” At the PLU event, Dr. Ami Shah, PLU Visiting Professor of Anthropology, will provide opening remarks regarding the high stakes of educating in violent times in a global context. A panel discussion will follow, featuring Dr. Chris Gerzso, PLU Visiting Assistant Professor of English; Dr. Jordan Levy, PLU Assistant Professor of Anthropology; José Ramón Ortigas, Associate Instructor and Ph.D. candidate at UC Davis; Dr. Adela Ramos, PLU Assistant Professor of English; and
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