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Lisa Marcus Professor of English Phone: 253-535-7312 Email: marcusls@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-E Status:On Sabbatical Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1995 M.A., Rutgers University, 1989 B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Sex, Gender, and the Holocaust The Holocaust in the American Literary Imagination Comparative Holocaust and Genocide Studies Feminist, Queer, and Cultural Studies Twentieth

Departures, key management and access Support students that request to live at home, students that need special request housing and students who need guidance in their housing options Assess the needs of students and develop strategies to support the needs of a diverse population Maintain functional areas of supervision and priorities for Community Directors, the Campus Life Front Desk and Office Staff

as Sámi in Northern European Religious Imagination,” joint project with Kathi Breazeale and Britta Helm, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008 Professional Memberships/Organizations Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Norwegian Researchers and Teachers Association of North America American Association of University Professors Biography Troy Storfjell (Sámi) specializes in Sámi and Indigenous studies, where his work is largely guided by Indigenist

Book Darker Fall: Poems (Sarabande Books 2002) : View Book Accolades John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, for Chord, 2016 Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, for Chord, 2016 PEN Open Book Award, for Chord, 2016 Thom Gunn Award, for Chord, 2016 Civitella Ranieri Residency Fellowship, 2011 K.T. Tang Award for Faculty Excellence in Research, 2010 Artist Trust Fellowship Award, 2009 Grub Street Book Prize, for Want, 2009 Finalist for Lambda Literary Awards, for

Barrie Jean Borich Nonfiction Biography Biography Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Apocalypse, Darling (2018), which was short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award.  PopMatters said “Apocalypse, Darling soars and seems to live as a new form altogether. It’s poetry, a meditation on life as ‘the other,’ creative nonfiction, and abstract art.”  Her memoir Body Geographic (2013) won a Lambda Literary Award in Memoir, and in a starred review Kirkus called the book “…an elegant literary map that

Germany European Women's History Responsibilities Oversees the Powell-Heller Family Conference each year; organizes the Lemkin Lecturer; oversees the Mayer Summer Scholars program for undergraduates doing research; mentors students engaged in Lemkin essay contests; works to build the Holocaust and Genocide Studies minor at PLU; brings scholars and survivors together for presentations on campus. Books Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust: Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred (Bloomsbury Academic

Rigoberto González Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry Biography Biography Rigoberto González is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and eleven books of prose, including Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.  The recipient of Guggenheim, NEA and USA Rolón fellowships, a NYFA grant in

Yorker, Orion Magazine, Oxford American, PBS NewsHour, Ploughshares, and Poetry Northwest. A recipient of the Anne Halley Poetry Prize, the Dogwood Prize in Poetry, the Porter Fund Literary Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Wabash Prize for Poetry, Davis has also been awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf, Cave Canem, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Whiting Foundation for his involvement with The Prison Story Project, which strives to empower incarcerated women

Magazine, and One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories, and has been listed as notable in Best American Non-Required Reading and the Best Horror of the Year. He has previously taught at The College of Idaho, Southern Illinois University, and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. He currently teaches at St. Olaf College and resides in Minneapolis. He is at work on forthcoming novel, Girl Zero. More at http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com. Mentor.  Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement

Sherry Simpson Nonfiction Website: http://www.sherrysimpson.net/ Biography Biography Sherry Simpson is the author of Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in Alaska, which received the 2015 John Burroughs Medal for a distinguished book of nature writing, and two collections of essays, The Accidental Explorer: Wayfinding in Alaska and The Way Winter Comes, which won the inaugural Chinook Literary Prize. She has also written four travel books, most recently Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska