Associate Professor — English
I have had the chance to live outside the US, learn languages other than English, and work with students from around the world. Teaching courses on language, literacy, and culture, at SoutheastI love the daily opportunities to learn about, with, and from my students.
Dietrich, S. (2025). Missed Opportunities and Lessons Learned: A Collaboration with Future Teachers in the U.S.A. and Ukraine. In Peng, J., Dervin, F. & Tremion V. (Eds.)Interculturality in Educational Virtual Exchanges: Critical and Reflexive Perspectives in Research and Education. Routledge.
Dietrich, S. McNeely, C., Hildebrand Clubbs, B., and Ruessler, A. (2024). Hyflex programming as a delivery approach for changing student demographics and demands. In Beatty, B. (Ed.). Hybrid-Flexible Course Design Implementing Student-directed Hybrid Classes.
Dietrich, S. and Ekici, D. (2023). eService-Learning for Transformational Change. In Strait, J., Shumer, R., and Nordyke, K. (Eds.), Taking eService-Learning to the Next Level: Addressing Social Problems in Communities in Times of Crisis. Information Age Publishing.
Dietrich, S. (2022). Unexpected Affordances of Virtual Exchange as Teacher Education: Learning about, with, and from Students in a Conflict Country. Journal for Virtual Exchange. Vol. 5, 24-41.Minett, A.,
Dietrich, S., and Ekici, D. (2022). Person to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication, English Language Teaching: Voices from the Virtual Intercultural Borderlands. Multilingual Matters.
Minett, A., Dietrich, S, and Ekici, D. (2021). Person to person peacebuilding through intercultural communication: An analysis of an online intercultural service-learning project with Afghanistan. In Chiluwa, I. (Ed), Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-Building. Palgrave-Macmillan.