About Our People
Melanie Mock’s (English) essay, “Why Christians Like Me Should Listen to Critiques of Evangelical Adoption,†was published in a recent issue of The Nation. Also, her essay “Mothering, More With Less†was just published in the book Mothering Mennonite, put out by Demeter Press.
Rhett Luedtke (Theatre) is directing The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam at the Idaho Repertory Theatre this summer. This is his third season directing for Idaho Repertory Theatre. Previously, he directed Unnecessary Farce by Paul Slade-Smith in 2009 and As You Like It in 2010.
Ed Higgins (English) published the poem “Without Knowing It†in the Spring 2013 edition of The Merton Seasonal: A Quarterly Review, edited by Patrick F. O’Connell and published by the Merton Center of Bellarmine University. The Trappist monk Merton is renowned as an anti-war and social justice activist. Ed also published a haiku, “bruised words,†in the June 2013 issue of A Hundred Gourds, a quarterly journal featuring haiku and other Japanese-heritage short poetry forms. Finally, Ed’s two poems, “Communion” and “you feel terrible sometimes,” were published in the June 13 issue of the online e-zine Cease, Cows.