Star Rush

Adjunct Instructor

SRush@cornish.edu

Star Rush teaches composition & rhetoric, literature, and creative writing. She earned an M.A. in Literary Studies at Western Washington University in 1997. She has served at Bellevue College as Dean of Arts & Humanities and Director of the Center for Liberal Arts. Previously, she was a member of the Core Faculty at Cornish College of the Arts and Assistant Director of Composition and Lecturer at Western Washington. Her writing has been published in the Hawaii Review and Fireweed, and other literary journals. Star has addressed the Association of American Colleges and Universities, as well as the Washington State Legislature Subcommittee on Global Commerce, on the subject of international education. Her interests include pedagogy, social media, visual literacy, poetry, and photography. Star is active in the visual arts, where she is a documentary and street photographer, and an advocate for mobile photography, an emerging art medium. Her images have appeared on-line, in exhibitions and print in the United States and Europe. She contributes writing to http://www.doho.com photography magazine, http://www.iPhoneography.com , http://www.wearejuxt.com, and others. She’s a founding member of Mobile Photo Group http://www.mobilephotogroup.com, an international collective of photographers, and co-founded/edits Lys Foto Magazine http://www.lysfoto.org. She enjoys collaborating on mix-media and interdisciplinary arts collaborations. Portfolio and writing/photo blog: http://www.starrush.net and twitter: http://www.twitter.com/starrush360