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Dr. Jennifer Smith Dean of Inclusive Excellence Phone: 253-535-7811 Email: jennifer.smith@plu.edu Professional Additional Titles/Roles Associate Professor International Honors Faculty Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Faculty Education Ph.D., English, Western Michigan University, 2006 M.A., English, Miami University, 2001 B.A., English, Franklin College, 1998 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Modern & Contemporary British Literature LGBTQ Studies Women's Literature Popular Culture

Arthur C. T. Strum Resident Assistant Professor of Multi-Disciplinary Programs Phone: 253-535-8774 Email: strumac@plu.edu Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles IHON-Oxford Interim Program Director Education Ph.D., German Studies, Cornell University, 1997 M.A., Cornell University, 1991 B.A., Stanford University, 1988 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Humanities Education German Idealist philosophy and Romanticism German philosophy and literature of the Enlightenment Immanuel Kant History

Michael Johnson Department Chair and the Program coordinator of French, Central Washington University Phone: 509-963-3559 Email: mijohnson@cwu.edu Biography Biography Dr. Johnson is the Department Chair and the Program coordinator of French. He earned his PhD at Emory University in French and Comparative Literature in 2005. Among his teaching and research interests are medieval literature, gender and sexuality, Franco-Belgian comics, French and Spanish language, and grammar.

Leila Renee Assistant Professor of English Phone: 253-535-7873 Email: leila.green@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 220-C Professional Biography Education B.A., English Literature, University of Notre Dame, 2015 MFA, Creative Writing, Syracuse University, 2022 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Creative Writing Fiction BIPOC Literature Accolades Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, 2021 Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction, Syracuse University, 2022 Biography Select Publications

Scandinavian Migrant Literature Norwegian Women's Literature Sigrid Undset's Authorship Books Pakkis, Khalid Hussain, translation to English by Claudia Berguson and Ingeborg Kongslien (Nordic Press 2013) Selected Presentations Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study National Conference, "Undset in Exile: The Storyteller and Information Soldier" (2014) Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study National Conference, "Ever Yours, Sigrid: Sigrid Undset as Epistolary Friend and Author" (2013