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will read diverse texts within their historical and cultural contexts, developing a critical understanding of how literature can both uphold and resist existing structures of power. 5. Critical Approaches. Students will apply ideas from works of criticism and theory in their own reading and writing. 6. Vocation and Community. Students will evaluate the roles reading, writing, and language play in their vocational goals and in different community settings.

This project seeks to answer three questions: First, what happens when we focus our reading and discussion of Austen’s work on her representations of the environment. Our definition of the environment includes air, wind, water, landscapes and grounds, and the more-than-human world (animals, plants, microbes, and more). Second, what can reading Jane Austen in the midst of our present environmental crises teach us about the possibilities that literature opens up and closes off for our deep

contemporary world is one of business, busy-ness; but contemplation requires leisure, about which the Greek word for leisure σχολή, reminds us in our cognates school, scholar, scholastic, etc.Some years ago, John Ciardi offered a regular program on NPR called “A Word in Your Ear.” This was a program about fascinating word etymologies, such as the Greek roots of “scholar.” Ciardi also wrote memorable poetry, mining the ancient power of words to show that some things human never change. For instance, these

can readily understand how he and his courses have this effect.  Dr. Bergman is infectious.  He doesn’t hold back.Learn more about Dr. Bergman at his website www.charlesbergman.com Such unique dimensions of his work should not distract us from his many other, no less valuable contributions. Year in and year out he has taught vital courses for the English Department – Environmental Literature, English Renaissance Literature, American Environmental Writing, etc. He was the founding director of the

2017 Special Focus: Crossing DisciplinesHumanities faculty are involved with all of the interdisciplinary programs at PLU. These programs include majors in Chinese Studies, Environmental Studies, Global Studies, Scandinavian Area Studies (soon to be Nordic Studies), and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as minors in Holocaust Studies, Publishing and Printing Arts, and Children’s Literature and Culture. Additionally, the First-Year Experience Program and International Honors Program are taught

, and Nancy Powell, Powell Family Foundation.9:00-10:00am: “Holocaust Distortion and Denial``Dr. Yehuda Bauer, Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem Introduction by Dr. Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC10:00-10:30am: Commentary and Q&AHosted by Dr. Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus of History at

murders, and contemporary film representations of resistance and repression. The project will weave together different moments in time, where moments of white terror, black resistance and violence against African-Americans went hand in hand. Ehrenhaus will remain in Tacoma as he compiles the research for this book. He is hoping to have it reach a broad public audience, both inside and outside of academia, when he finishes. By Genny Boots ’18

co-edited with Susannah Heschel, Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (Fortress Press, 1999); plus 50 articles and/or book chapters. He expects his next book, Christians in Nazi Germany, to appear with Cambridge University Press in 2018. Ericksen is Chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC. He serves on the Board of Editors of a German journal, Kirchliche  Zeitgeschichte, and of an online journal, Contemporary Church History

co-edited with Susannah Heschel, Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (Fortress Press, 1999); plus 50 articles and/or book chapters. He expects his next book, Christians in Nazi Germany, to appear with Cambridge University Press in 2018. Ericksen is Chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC. He serves on the Board of Editors of a German journal, Kirchliche  Zeitgeschichte, and of an online journal, Contemporary Church History

co-edited with Susannah Heschel, Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust (Fortress Press, 1999); plus 50 articles and/or book chapters. He expects his next book, Christians in Nazi Germany, to appear with Cambridge University Press in 2018. Ericksen is Chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC. He serves on the Board of Editors of a German journal, Kirchliche  Zeitgeschichte, and of an online journal, Contemporary Church History