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  • Chair, Department of Religion | Religion | choiaa@plu.edu | 253-535-7314 | Agnes Choi teaches courses in biblical studies, with a focus on the earliest generations of Christianity and Judaism during the Second Temple Period.

    consider how these Christian and Jewish texts should be understood in their ancient contexts. She also teaches courses in the International Honors Program and the Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Program. In Academic Year 2018-19, she received PLU’s Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching. She also received a Graves Award in the Humanities (biennial award, 2021-23), which recognizes unusual skill and enthusiasm in teaching, as well as scholarly merit. Her areas of research include archaeology in the

  • Poetry, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Brian Teare, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of seven critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses and Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His most recent publications are a diptych of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction, chronic illness, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia.

    , my job is to support each writer’s individual inquiry into their art, and to inhabit as a reader the negative capability Keats wrote of so beautifully, “without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” I strive to supply accurate description of what’s been achieved by the work at hand, and then to ask artful questions that facilitate honest self-reflection and rewriting as re-visionary work. In counterpoint to supporting artist-led inquiry, I offer a capacious sense of literary history and

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy | Department of Philosophy | leland@plu.edu | 253-535-7396 | As a teacher of philosophy, I very much enjoy both 1) introducing new students to this exciting discipline and 2) teaching broadly across its many different subfields.

    Philosophy 57:2 (2019) 281-312 (16,000 words) “Wolff, Baumgarten, and the Technical Idiom of Post-Leibnizian Philosophy of Mind,” Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 21 (2018) 129-48 (11,000 words) “Kant on Consciousness in Animals,” Studi Kantiani 31 (2018) 75-107 (19,000 words) “Unconscious Representations in Kant’s Early Writings,” Kantian Review 23:2 (2018) 257-84 (12,000 words) “Rational Responsibility and the Assertoric Character of Bald-Faced Lies,” Analysis 75:4 (2015) 550-54 Biography As

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  • Human Resources Specialist | Department of Human Resources | sarah.deback@plu.edu | 253-535-8283

    Sarah deBack Human Resources Specialist she/her Phone: 253-535-8283 Email: sarah.deback@plu.edu Office Location:Hauge Administration Building - Room 110 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: 9:00 am - 4:00 am Professional Personal Education B.A., Communication, University of Puget Sound, 2024 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Advanced Media Studies Responsibilities Student Employment website Position announcements, advertising, and recruitment MVR, safety, and title IX training coordination

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  • Professor of Music - Violin; Coordinator of String Studies | Music | svend.ronning@plu.edu | 253-535-7605 | Violinist Svend Rønning enjoys a varied career as an artistic director, chamber musician, concertmaster, educator, and soloist.

    , Tacoma’s ensemble for early music. Svend Rønning has appeared in venues around the world, including Aspen Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival, Harkness Park Summer Concerts, Jerusalem Winter Classics, Pacific Music Festival, Spoleto U.S.A. Music Festival, and Wintergreen Music Festival. He has served as Concertmaster of various orchestras including the Charlottesville Symphony, the San Jose Symphony, the Spoleto U.S.A. Chamber Orchestra, and the Tacoma Opera Orchestra. As soloist, he has appeared

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  • Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing | barrsj@plu.edu | I am originally from Ohio and have been a nurse since 1996.

    Sandra Barr, MSN, RN-BC Clinical Instructor of Nursing Email: barrsj@plu.edu Professional Biography Education MSN, Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008 BSN, Nursing, Grand Canyon University, 1996 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Clinicals Selected Articles S. Barr, A. Ferro, and S. Prion. "An innovative academic-practice partnership to enhance the development and training of military nurses." Journal of Professional Nursing 2019: Biography I am originally from Ohio and have

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  • Founding Director, In Memoriam | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Judith Kitchen (1941-2014)  was the co-founder of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at PLU.  She is the author of four collections of essays, most recently The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2014).

    , winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize from Graywolf Press, as well as a critical study of William Stafford, Writing the World (Oregon State University Press).  She edited (with Ted Kooser, former U. S. Poet Laureate) an anthology of bird poems: The Poets Guide to the Birds (Anhinga Press).  In addition, she edited three collections of short nonfiction: In Short; In Brief; and Short Takes (all W. W. Norton).  A fourth anthology—Brief Encounter, co-edited with Dinah Lenney—is forthcoming from W. W

  • Mental Health Counselor | Counseling Services | guizare@plu.edu | 253-535-7206 | My name is Evelia Guizar; I am a 4th-year student in the Doctorate in Psychology (PsyD) program at Northwest University in Kirkland, WA. My passion for psychological well-being started early in my teenage years as I navigated the complexity of integrating my cultural identity as a first-generation immigrant.  Before becoming a graduate student, I worked in the field of Logistics, focusing on person-to-person interactions and professional relationships. I believe in a holistic approach to therapy to understand the whole person and how life experiences, environments, and situations impact a person’s well-being.  I embrace and respect diversity in cultural values, which make each client unique in their perspectives and experiences.  I believe that we all experience moments in our lives where a therapeutic relationship helps promote healing and emotional strength as we navigate challenges in our daily life. .

    walks, weight training, family and pets Fun Facts I was never a dog person, now have 3 dogs and a cat! Over 10 yrs w/ 2 little dogs and the last 5 yrs w/ a husky/shepard mix. My cat is a Siamese/Ragdoll mix Service Previous volunteer at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital- Bridges Center for Grieving children: group co-facilitator to support children and family navigating loss of loved one or terminal illness

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  • Associate Professor of Communication | Communication, Media & Design Arts | justin.eckstein@plu.edu | 253-535-8175 | Dr.

    food and rhetorical production (Editor) (Birmingham: University of Alabama Press 2020) : View Book Selected Articles Eckstein, J. "The (Parkland) kids are alright." Communication and the Public Vol. 5, 2020: 26-34. Eckstein, J. "Sensing school shootings." Critical Studies in Media Communication Vol. 37, 2020: 161-173. Eckstein, J. & Young, A. "WastED rhetoric." Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Vol. 15, 2018: 274-91. Eckstein, J. "The acoustics of argumentation and advocacy

  • Visiting Instructor and Interim Coordinator of Music Education | Music | kbrizuela@plu.edu | 253-535-7789 | Katherine Brizuela is a music educator in the Puget Sound region.

    Pacific Lutheran University and a Master of Music in Music Education from Eastern Washington University. Mrs. Brizuela taught K-5 general music for ten years in the Sumner-Bonney Lake School District and led various before school elementary music enrichment clubs including choir, world music drumming, bucket drumming, and marimba ensemble. She pursues continuing education opportunities and has completed Orff Schulwerk Level I, II, and III from Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, two World Music Drumming

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