Lisa Phillips Diehl

Lisa Phillips Diehl is a Part-Time Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of North Georgia, affiliated with the College of Arts & Letters. She holds an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership (ABD, Creighton University, 2018), an MAT in Secondary English (Piedmont College, 2009), and a B.A. in English/Writing (University of Tampa, 2009).

Her research focuses on Embedded Tutoring, Social Justice, First-Year Composition, and Modern Poetry. She supervises the Embedded Tutoring Program at UNG, placing writing center tutors in composition classrooms. Her conference presentations include work on social justice-themed courses and embedded tutoring implementation.

• 2017 MMLA presentation: "Implementing an Embedded Tutoring Program"
• 2016 MMLA presentation: "Embedded Tutoring Program: Writing Across the Curriculum"
• 2017 UNG Student Leadership Conference: "Understanding 'White Privilege'"

She has published extensively in poetry journals, with themes spanning emotional expression, nature symbolism, and existential reflection. Her academic service includes:

• Faculty mentor for UNG Women's Golf Team
• ACTT Center Advisory Committee member
• Secretary of MMLA's "Teaching Writing in College" section (2017-2018)

As an internationally published poet with over ten publications, her work appears in Nano Nostrovia! Poetry, Leaves of Ink Journal, and Counterexample Poetics. She maintains a personal life in Cleveland, Georgia with her husband, five parrots, six chickens, a pot-bellied pig, and a dog.