English Department Capstone Presentations: May 17th and 18th
Every semester, PLU English faculty, students and community members come together to celebrate the work of our excellent graduating senior English majors. This semester’s senior capstone presentations illustrate the great variety of creative and critical work that makes up our department’s dynamic curriculum in English Studies.…
Dr. Élika Ortega | E-Literature and the Global Digital Humanities
The English Department is proud to sponsor Dr. Élika Ortega’s visit to campus on March 2nd and 3rd 2017. Dr. Ortega is an expert in the Digital Humanities and a Professor in the Department of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies at Northeastern University. Dr.…
Dr. John Nunes | Where Grace Meets Race
by Aubrey Bowen It was an honor having Dr. John Nunes, President of Concordia College in New York City, speak during this year’s Lutheran Studies Conference. With Dr. Nunes’ lecture on grace meeting race, came a fresh outlook on his aspirations within the Lutheran community.…
Introducing: Jane Wong
by Jesse Henrickx As of fall semester 2016, the Pacific Lutheran University English Department has benefited from the addition of Visiting Assistant Professor Jane Wong, who is currently teaching courses in first-year and creative writing, as well as Asian American studies. Professor Wong describes her…
Introducing: Liam O’Loughlin
by Isabel Olson-Boger Dr. Liam O’Loughlin earned his Ph.D. in Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His areas of emphasis in education and teaching are Postcolonial Studies, South Asian English Literature, Disaster Studies, The Novel, and Ecocriticism. This fall semester 2016 is…
Student poets showcase their work at local coffee shop
TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 12, 2016)- Jane Wong knows good poetry when she hears it. The published poet, who is a visiting assistant professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University, was impressed with her students’ prose and wanted to share them off campus. “They are real…
EMROC Transcribathon 2016
What is EMROC ? The Early Modern Recipe Online Collective. It is a collective of scholars and enthusiasts who come together to ensure that everybody has free access to historical archives and quality online texts. What is a Transcribathon ? It is the EMROC’s annual…
Anastacia Tolbert: The Writers We Need
On Thursday, September 15, 2016, Professor Wendy Call invited professional writer Anastacia Tolbert to PLU’s campus. Tolbert visited Professor Call’s Writing 101, Intro to Creative Nonfiction, and Creative Nonfiction Capstone classes that day. Along with my Capstone classmates, I was able to spend the evening…
Reflections on PLU Visiting Writer Lori Ostlund’s Work and Reading
By Allison Needles Fiction writer Lori Ostlund visited PLU on March 16 to read from her novel, After the Parade , a story about a forty-year-old man named Aaron Englund who leaves his partner, Walter, to make a new life of his own. In the…
On exhibit: Shakespeare First Folio Facsimile
Folio of Shakespeare’s works, but two first-edition supplementary volumes by Charlton Hinman, the scholar whose work informed the production of the facsimile. After their time on display, the new books will be available for use by students and faculty in a wide range of programs,…
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