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Visiting Assistant Professor of English | Department of English | lenk@plu.edu | 253-535-7873
- Poetry, Prose, Hybrid Gender and Civic Queerness in Antiquity Victorian Literature and Counterculture Metamodernism and Adaptation / Transformative Literature Selected Publications "ekphora (or, telemachus dreams of funerals)" - F(r)iction Spring Poetry Contest "the night’s last train to paris, two hours delayed" · Twyckenham Notes, Issue 16, Summer "achilles, singing" · Death Rattle Oroboro Lit Penrose Poetry Prize "Reprise: Persephone Before the Underworld." · F(r)iction Spring Creative Nonfiction
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Professor of English | Department of English | marcusls@plu.edu | 253-535-7312 | Lisa Marcus joined the English department after completing a PhD in English at Rutgers University in 1995. She has been active in campus-wide diversity education and advocacy; she chaired the Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies program for many years, and is a founding member of PLU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program. She is deeply committed to first year education and regularly teaches a popular writing seminar on Banned Books for the First Year Experience Program. Her constellation of courses in the English department include: The Holocaust in the American Literary Imagination; American Literature 1914-45: Race, Sex, and War; Anne Frank as a Holocaust Icon; a senior seminar on History & Memory in US Slavery and Holocaust texts; an English Studies course on Gendered Literacy; Feminist Approaches to Literature; Women Writers and the Body Politic; and a first-year seminar on Holocaust Literature developed with Professor Rona Kaufman. Lisa also regularly teaches courses in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Programs. Her current research project is Snapshots of a Daughter: A Feminist Genealogy, a critical exploration of letters between Marcus’s mother and the poet Adrienne Rich, 1979-82. You can read a poem she published about visiting Auschwitz here. .
Century American Literary and Cultural Studies Censorship and Banned Books Accolades Fellow, 2021 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar on LGBTQ+ Histories of the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow for the 19th Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, The Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, 2014 NWSA Fellow, Civic Engagement in the Women’s and Gender Studies Classroom, 2010-11 Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching, 2009-10
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Dean, College of Liberal Studies | College of Liberal Studies | stephanie.johnson@plu.edu | 253-535-8397 | Dr.
Browning, and Woolf. She graduated with an M.S. in English from the University of Minnesota in 1009 and a B.A in English and Religion from St. Olaf College in 1989. Her areas of teaching expertise include the British long nineteenth century; poetry; women’s gender, and sexuality studies; narrative ethics; and writing. Her journal articles and book chapters primarily focus on Victorian women’s devotional poetry and on the lyric as form. She is also the co-editor of Cultivating Vocation in Literary
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies | College of Liberal Studies | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.
Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs. His classes offer interdisciplinary perspectives on American religions, with particular emphasis on the ways religion interacts with gender, race, politics, and violence. His research focuses on the intersection of religion, gender, and American politics in the twentieth century. His book, “Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right”, was published in 2015 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is currently working on a
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Assistant Professor of Social Work | Department of Social Work | zaman@plu.edu | 253-535-7507 | Hazel Ali Zaman received her PhD in Social Work and Social Research, Graduate Certificate in Gender, Race, and Nations, MEd in Elementary Education, and BS in Child and Family Studies at Portland State University.
Certificate in Gender, Race, and Nations, MEd in Elementary Education, and BS in Child and Family Studies at Portland State University. Informed by queer and trans of color scholarship, Hazel engages with various interdisciplinary fields, such as transgender studies, performance studies, and critical youth studies, as a way to explore queer and trans of color life through embodied art, music, and performance. Hazel’s current teaching and research interests include queer and trans wellness, healthcare
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Professor of Religion and Culture | Religion | suzanne.crawford@plu.edu | 253-535-8107 | Suzanne Crawford O’Brien’s area of specialization is Religion and Culture, with emphases in Native American religious traditions, and comparative studies of minority religious communities in North America, including religion and healthcare, gender and ethnicity, and religion and popular culture.
Biography Suzanne Crawford O’Brien’s area of specialization is Religion and Culture, with emphases in Native American religious traditions, and comparative studies of minority religious communities in North America, including religion and healthcare, gender and ethnicity, and religion and popular culture. Her research interests address questions of healing, place, and ecology, and how religious belief and practice can work to promote ecological and social justice in Ireland and in North America. Most
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Associate Professor of English | Department of English | jamesja@plu.edu | 253-535-7217 | Jenny James was born and raised in Michigan, the home of the Great Lakes and the Michigan Wolverines.
-1945 American Literature Contemporary Canadian Literature Gender and Queer Studies Comparative Ethnic Studies Cultural Memory Studies Accolades Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award, presented my accepted paper “London Calling: Dislocated Kinship and Transatlanticism in Baldwin’s Just Above My Head (1979)” at this year’s International Baldwin Conference in Montpellier, France Biography Jenny James was born and raised in Michigan, the home of the Great Lakes and the Michigan Wolverines
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Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | David Biespiel is a contributing writer at The Rumpus, Partisan, American Poetry Review, Politico, New Republic, Slate, Poetry, and The New York Times, among other publications. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Charming Gardeners and The Book of Men and Women, which was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. His books of essays include A Long High Whistle: Selected Columns on Poetry and a book on creativity, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. Recipient of Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, he has taught at Stanford University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, Portland State University, and Wake Forest University, in addition to other colleges and universities. He is a longtime faculty member in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University and is the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland. Mentor.
stories. Poetic utterance shapes our perspective of the mysteries of the present moment and helps us imagine the next one. Walt Whitman says it beautifully — when he calls on us to join the communion between poet and human aspiration — when he writes, ‘And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.’ In this way poetry connects us to our past, and poets unmask both private and civic memories, dreams, and daily urgencies. By harmonizing the body with the mind
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice | Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice | lutherke@plu.edu | 253-535-7593
Criminal Legal System (Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture) (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) : View Book Teaching Criminology at the Intersection: A how-to guide for teaching about gender, race, class and sexuality co-edited with Rebecca M. Hayes and Susan Caringella (Routledge 2014) : View Book
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Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs | Office of the Provost | provost@plu.edu | 253-535-7126 | As Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Joanna Gregson, Ph.D.
sociology from Western Washington University, and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2012. As a faculty member, Gregson has taught and conducted research in the areas of deviance, gender, and qualitative research methods. Over the span of her career, she has published on such topics as teenage mothers, incarcerated mothers, and divorced women. Since 2010 she has been conducting participant observation research with the authors
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