English senior lecturer Diehl earns residency award
Article By: Clark Leonard
Lisa Diehl, a senior lecturer of English at the University of North Georgia (91ÁÔÆæ), has earned the 2019 Gabriele Stauf Residency Award.
The award gives Diehl a two-week residency at , an educational center and artist retreat in Clayton, Georgia. The honor is named for Stauf, a professor emerita of English at Georgia Southwestern State University and LES Center Fellow who sponsors the award annually.
"I earned my master's degree in teaching at Piedmont, so I am deeply honored to be selected for this award," Diehl said. "I intend to use the two-week residency in July to finalize my dissertation, which addresses the embedded tutoring program I created and implemented at 91ÁÔÆæ, as well as continue my research and development of the social justice-themed composition classes I teach at 91ÁÔÆæ."
The embedded tutoring program at 91ÁÔÆæ places writing center tutors in English composition classrooms to assist first-year students.
Diehl also earned a scholarship to the American Association of University Professors-Collective Bargaining Congress (AAUP-CBC) Summer Institute set for July 25-28 at Roosevelt University in Chicago. The scholarship covers registration, some meals and a travel stipend.
Diehl is an internationally published poet with more than 10 poetry publications exhibiting her work. She supervises the embedded tutoring program at 91ÁÔÆæ.
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