 Lisa Hammond is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Lancaster. Originally from Florence, SC, she earned her BA from Francis Marion University, and an MA and a PhD from the University of Alabama. She taught in the Department ofAmerican Thought and Language at Michigan State University before joining the faculty of USC Lancaster in 1998.
Dr. Hammond is the author of a chapbook of poetry, Moving House, which won the 2006 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize and was published by Texas Review Press in 2007. She has published poems in Southern Poetry Review, storySouth, River Oak Review, South Carolina Review, Literary Mama: A Literary Magazine for the Maternally Inclined, and English Journal, among others.In addition to writing poetry, she is also an active scholar. Her research focuses on American women writers, composition and technology, and gender issues in culture; her work has appeared in the National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Biography, and Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. She teaches first-year composition, a wide range of sophomore-level literature courses for majors and non-majors, and a senior-level women’s literature course. Her online introductory women’s studies course, WOST J111: Women in Culture, won the Distinguished Program Award of the Region VII Association for Continuing Higher Education (region VII includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas). Dr. Hammond’s vitae |
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