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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. .
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 Additional Titles/Roles Director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program 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
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Professor of Hebrew Bible | Religion | finitsak@plu.edu | 253-535-7319 | Antonios Finitsis’ approach to biblical literature is deeply socio-historical.
Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Hebrew Bible Second Temple Literature Visual Interpretations of the Bible Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Studies Ancient Near East Books Dress Hermeneutics and the Hebrew Bible: Let Your Garments Always Be Bright (T&T Clark 2022) : View Book Dress and Clothing in the Hebrew Bible: For All Her Household Are Clothed in Crimson (T&T Clark 2019) : View Book Visions and Eschatology A Socio-Historical Analysis of Zechariah 1-6 (Bloomsbury T&T Clark 2013) : View Book Biography
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Director of IHON | Interdisciplinary Programs | 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.
, First-Year 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
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Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Hispanic and Latino Studies | urdangga@plu.edu | 253-535-7240
-Dictatorial Narrative by Women Writers Memory and Trauma Studies Selected Presentations XXX Congress of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AGSS), Creating an Archive: Women as Holocaust Survivors in Uruguay, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana (November 17-19, 2021) LASA Congress 2021, Refugees and Uruguayan Documentary Filmmaking: Other Upcoming Memories (May 26-29, 2021) XXXVI Internacional Congress of Literature and Hispanic Studies (CILH, Special Virtual Edition), “Quarantine Behaviors
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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.
Jennifer James Associate Professor of English Phone: 253-535-7217 Email: jamesja@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 201-C Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Chair, Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Director, Native American & Indigenous Studies Education Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2012 M.A., Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 2004 B.A., Comparative Literature, Smith College, 2001 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Post
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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.
Award for Research 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
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Dean of Inclusive Excellence | Office of the Provost | jennifer.smith@plu.edu | 253-535-7811
Jennifer Smith Dean of Inclusive Excellence Phone: 253-535-7811 Email: jennifer.smith@plu.edu Professional Additional Titles/Roles Associate Professor Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Faculty International Honors Faculty Title IX Committee Education Ph.D., English, Western Michigan University, 2006 M.A., English, Miami University, 2001 B.A., English, Franklin College, 1998 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Modern & Contemporary British Literature LGBTQ Studies Women's Literature Popular Culture
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Professor of French | French & Francophone Studies | wilkinrm@plu.edu | Coached by Professor Wilkin in French soccer slang, the French team won the Hong International Hall World Cup. Professor Wilkin teaches in four different programs at PLU: French & Francophone Studies, the International Honors program, the First Year Experience program, and Global Studies.
, for Gabrielle Suchon, A Woman who Defends All the Persons of her Sex, with Domna C. Stanton, 2011 K. T. Tang Award For Excellence in Research 2010 Biography Coached by Professor Wilkin in French soccer slang, the French team won the Hong International Hall World Cup. Professor Wilkin teaches in four different programs at PLU: French & Francophone Studies, the International Honors program, the First Year Experience program, and Global Studies. Whether teaching verb tenses or New Wave cinema, she
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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.
Joanna Gregson Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Phone: 253-535-7126 Email: provost@plu.edu Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Professor of Sociology Education Ph.D., Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1998 B.A., Sociology, Western Washington University, 1993 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Research Methods Deviance / Criminology Sex and Gender Family Books Culture of Teenage Mothers (State University of New York Press 2010) : View Book Biography As
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice | Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice | lutherke@plu.edu | 253-535-7593
: 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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