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About Lisa Costello

Lisa Costello is a professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. She joined Georgia Southern in 2007. Prof. Costello is the director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies on Statesboro Campus 

Positions

2007 - Present Professor, Georgia Southern University ‐ College of Arts and Humanities
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Present Director, Georgia Southern University ‐ Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), Statesboro Campus
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Present Professor, Georgia Southern University ‐ Department of Writing and Linguistics
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Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

2020 - 2021 OIE Award for Inclusive Excellence
Georgia Southern University
$1,000
2019 University Award for Excellence in Service
Georgia Southern University
Colleague(s): Jonathan McCollar
$4,000
2017 Internal CLEC Grant
Georgia Southern University
$4,000
2016 Internal CLEC Grant
Georgia Southern University
$1,700
2016 Internal CLEC Grant
Georgia Southern University
$22,000
2015 Internal CLASS Seed Grant Award
Georgia Southern University
$5,000
2013 External Grant
Project BESST grant
$5,000
2012 Internal CLEC Grant
Georgia Southern University
$1,300
2011 GSU-CLASS Research Scholars Workshop
Georgia Southern University
$500
2009 - 2010 CLEC Grant
Georgia Southern University
$3,500
2008 Distinguished Dissertation Award
Louisiana State University
$1,000
2008 Lewis P. Simpson Dissertation Award
Louisiana State University
$500
2008 Professional Travel Grant Award
Georgia Southern University
$1,800
2007 - 2008 Department of Writing and Linguistics Grant Award
Georgia Southern University
$2,000
2004 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities outreach grant
Louisiana State University
$1,818
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2018 - Present Member, Gender Inclusive Housing Task Force, GS
2017 - Present Fellow, Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Fellow, GS
2016 - Present Chair, WGSS Assessment Committee, GS
2016 - Present Chair, WGSS Awards Committee, GS
2016 - Present Chair, WGSS Executive Board, GS
2015 - Present Member, Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), GS
2009 - Present Member, WGST Executive Board, GS
2017 - 2021 Chair, GSM Task Force, GS
2017 - 2021 Member, President’s Diversity Advisory Council, GS
2019 - 2020 Member, Provost’s Commission on the Status of Women, GS
2007 - 2020 Faculty Advisor, GSU-NOW student group, GS
2019 Participant, NCORE National Conference on Diversity
2018 Participant, NCORE National Conference on Diversity
2018 Roundtable Chair, National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Pre-conference Roundtable
2018 Founder, Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Training, GS
2017 Participant, NCORE National Conference on Diversity
2016 Chair, Diversity, Inclusion, and Fairness (DIF) Conference
2016 Participant, NCORE National Conference on Diversity
2009 Interim Director, WGST Program, GS
2004 Panel Chair, Feminisms and Generic Exponentiality: The Necessity of Resistance to Mono-delineations
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Honors and Awards

  • Recipient, Sarah Liggett Teaching Award, English Graduate Student Association, LSU (2005-2006)
  • Recipient, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of English, LSU (2005-2006)
  • Recipient, Outstanding Essay Award, Department of English, LSU (2005-2006)
  • Participant, Digital Media and Composition Summer Institute, The Ohio Stare University (May-June 2008)
  • Fellow, Holocaust Education Foundation Summer Institute, Northwestern University (June-July 2008)
  • Recipient, Dorothy Golden Teaching Award, Georgia Southern University (Spring 2011)
  • Selected Member, GSU-CLASS Research Scholars Workshop, GS (Fall 2011)
  • Fellow, 2012 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for Faculty, “Teaching the Gendered Experience of the Holocaust” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. (2012)
  • Participant, Rhetoric Society of America Institute, Workshop Thirteen, “Rhetoric Memory Archive Museum” (June 7-9, 2013)
  • Participant, GWP Summer Workshop (June 2014)
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS) at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM): Summer Research Workshop: Teaching the Holocaust 3 Digitally: A Source Study Approach (16-19 June 2014)
  • Participant, Rhetoric Society of America Career Retreat for Associate Professors (22-23 May 2014).
  • Recipient, Educational Leave, GSU University Leave Award (Spring 2015)
  • Recipient, Social Justice Award for a Program, Multicultural Student Center, WGSS Program (Spring 2017)
  • Recipient, Social Justice Award for a Program, Multicultural Student Center, WGSS Program (Spring 2018)
  • Recipient, CLASS College Award for Excellence in Teaching, (May 2018)

Courses

  • ENGL 1101 Composition
  • ENGL 1102 Composition II
  • UHON 1132 The Holocaust
  • WGSS 2200 Gender in Global Contexts
  • WGSS 2530 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
  • WRIT 2533 Writing Popular Culture
  • WRIT 3030 Writing Autobiography
  • UHON 3090 Bearing Witness to Genocide: Discourses of the Holocaust
  • WRIT 3435 Writing and Healing
  • WRIT 3531 Introduction to Writing Studies
  • UHON 4191 Honors Thesis Seminar
  • WRIT 4570 Writing, Rhetoric, and Culture
  • WGSS 4900 Internship
  • WRIT 5533 Teaching College Composition
  • WRIT 5570 Advanced Writing, Rhetoric, and Culture
  • WGSS 5700 Perspectives in Feminist Theory

Education

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May 2007 Ph.D. Rhetoric and Composition Studies, Louisiana State University
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May 2002 M.A. Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Literature, California State University, Long Beach
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August 1993 B.A. Recreation and Leisure Studies, California State University, Long Beach
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Links

Contact Information

Department of Writing and Linguistics 
Georgia Southern University 
Statesboro, GA 30460
912-478-5561 
P.O. Box 8026

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Publications (9)

Invited Presentations (4)

Conference Presentations (31)