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Thomas Campbell Professor of English Email: campbetj@plu.edu Professional Education Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1981 M.A., Portland State University, 1976 B.S., University of Oregon, 1968 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise British Literature Bloomsbury Group and Literary Modernism Personal Writing Romanticism AIDS Literature Accolades Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching, 2003-04 Teaching Excellence Award, PLU Center for Teaching and Learning, 2001
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Arthur C. T. Strum Interim Director, IHON Phone: 253-535-8774 Email: strumac@plu.edu Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles IHON-Oxford Interim Program Director Resident Assistant Professor of Multi-Disciplinary Programs 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
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Appreciations: In Recognition of Mark JensenMark Jensen began his career in the French Program at PLU in 1989, fresh from Berkeley. A specialist of nineteenth-century French literature but polymath at heart, Mark wrote his dissertation on Alfred de Vigny’s historical fiction and is a leading scholar of Paul Bénichou, a preeminent critic of French Romanticism. Mark translated, with characteristic precision and elegance, several of Bénichou’s works from French into English–notably The
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. McPherson’s review of the film Glory in the New Republic raise few important issues that were not debated apropos of Walter Scott’s historical novels. Vigny’s excessively bold views were never accepted even in the heyday of Romanticism. Balzac mocked Vigny’s pronouncement by writing in Les Deux Amis that it amounted to the claim that “There is a truth that is false and a falsehood that is true.” Students at the French Film Festival at PLU in 2019 In its critique of history’s pretensions to objective truth
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