July 29, 2022
Awards

Rebecca Dingo was recently awarded a Chancellor’s Leadership Fellowship (CLF) for the 2022-23 academic year. The CLF program seeks to cultivate future campus leaders by offering a half-time, one-year temporary appointment to an administrative area on campus and providing mentoring from the leader of the host unit. In addition, fellows are expected to launch a significant program during their fellowship year.  

Dingo will be assessing faculty scholarly writing support offered by the Office of Faculty Development and making recommendations for further program development and sustainability. Dingo will be working with Michelle Budig, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. 

Dingo’s research focuses on feminist approaches in rhetoric and writing, including faculty and graduate writing support and development. She recently stepped down as UMass Writing Program Director and is now completing a monograph with Dr. Rachel Riedner titled Beyond Affirmation: Reckoning with Race, Nation, Imperialism, and Exceptionalism in Feminist Rhetorical Theory (under contract with University of Pittsburgh Press) and has been developing courses in contemporary rhetorical theory and writing human rights.

“As a CLF, I hope to gain more knowledge of how OFD and UMass can best support faculty writers and scholarly production,” says Dingo. “At the end of my fellowship, I plan to offer advice for how UMass can create a sustainable, strong, and mutually supportive community of faculty writers across campus.”

For more on Dingo’s work, see her faculty profile.