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teaching strategies that is being disseminated across campus. Currently preparing to present the session to various campus groups, November 2009 • "Creating Active Learning Environments in College Classrooms" Presented to the faculty of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College at Fall Conference, August 2008 • "Motivating Students for College Math Success" Presented to the Math faculty of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, October 2007 Awards • Bruce and Rosalyn Ray Donaldson Excellence in Advising Award 2010 • Pacesetter in Recognition of Exemplary Service to the ABAC Community, ABAC, 2001 Professional Memberships • Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE) • Kappa Delta Pi (Education), Phi Alpha Theta (History), Blue Key, Mu Alpha Theta, and Phi Theta Kappa Honor Societies Archival Librarian Dr. Lisa Lishman Assistant Professor of English MLS expected, Valdosta State University, August 2011 Ph.D., Western Michigan University 2007. Major: Creative Writing, Fiction. Dissertation: Cottonlandia (original short stories), Major Areas: Contemporary Fiction, Realism and Naturalism, British Modernism. M.A., Mississippi State University, 1997. Emphasis: Creative Writing. Thesis:_"The World Smells More Like Fish Than Cypress" Course expectations in new program: HIST 4100 Fundamentals of Archival Theory and Practice Coursework includes but not limited to: Foundations in Library and Information Science, Cataloging and Classification, Archival Theory and Practice, Collection Development, Library Management, Computer Applications Information for Professionals, Online Searching: An Introduction to Methods of Information Retrieval Used in Commercial Databases and on the World Wide Web, Digital Libraries, Archival Preservation Currently working with the Georgia Museum of Agriculture to inventory their collection of Tift papers (founder of Tift County) Coursework for Ph.D. includes but not limited to: Essay Writing, Fiction Writing, Forms in Fiction, Nonfiction Writing, Forms in Nonfiction, Language Dialects and SOCiolinguistics, Form and Theory of Poetry, Craft of Poetry, Studies in English Lit to 1485, American Literature of the Civil War, Studies in Commonwealth Lit, Studies in English Lit 1832-1900, History of Literary Criticism, Seminar American Lit to 1900, 20 th Century English Lit, Studies in Shakespeare, Seminar 20 th Century English Lit, Seminar 20 th Century American Lit. Publications • 2004 "Winter Trapping" published in debut issue of The Los Angeles Review, a • 2003 Book review of Holocaust Girl published in Rain Taxi, an online journal of book reviews. Awards and Publications • 2003 Honorable mention for short story, "Winter Trapping," in the AWP's nationallntro Awards contest • 2001 $3,500 stipend from Kalamazoo's Irving Gilmore Foundation for time off work to complete a novel-in-stories 41
• 2001 Associated Writing Program (AWP) Intro Award for nonfiction essay, ((Wind." Subsequent publication in Winter 2001 issue of Willow Springs, a national literary journal • 2001 Finalist in Glimmer Traids new writer's competition for "Wild Dogs" • 2001 First place for short story, "Wild Dogs," in Western Michigan University's graduate creative writing contest, judged by writer Wendell Mayo; tie for first place for creative nonfiction( "Wind," judged by writer Sue Silverman • 1993 Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Millsaps College • 1993 Eugene Butler Award in Creative Writing, Mississippi State University • 1991 Dora Lynch Hanley Awardfor Excellence in Writing, Millsaps College, Gwin Scholarship for Excellence in Writing, Mississippi State University Conference Presentation • Non-fiction essay, flWind," Southern Humanities Arts Council Conference, "Home in Literature," Knoxville Spring 2008 42
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