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LINDA GAYLE LYLELinda Lyle is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee where she was graduated in 1970 from Young High School. Following her graduation with high honors in English Education from the University of Tennessee in 1974, she taught for nine years at Knoxville's Doyle High School, where her competitive drama teams earned national recognition. During the summer terms from 1975 - 1983, she studied and traveled extensively abroad, attending the University of Cambridge, England; The Sorbonne, Paris, France; the University of Innsbruck, Austria; and the Collegio Messicano, Rome, Italy. In 1979, she received her Master of Science degree in Speech & Theatre Education, also from UTK. From 1983 - 1986, she taught English, drama, and debate at Memphis Preparatory School in Memphis, Tennessee, was instrumental in reviving competitive debate in the Memphis district (District 6) of the Tennessee High School Speech & Drama League, and received the National Forensics League Ruby Award in 1985. From 1986 - 1990, her career took a different turn when she served as Director of Regional Marketing and Public Relations for the American Leadership Study Groups of Worcester, Massachusetts. (ALSG) In 1990, she returned to Tennessee and was employed for a time as an Assistant Professor of Communications for Walters State Community College in Morristown, Tennessee. In 1992, she began working part-time as Communications Specialist for the MBA program at the University of Tennessee; in 1994, she came to UT full time and added to her MBA duties those of Lecturer in the Department of Speech Communication, in which capacity she is currently employed. In addition to teaching at UT, she also teaches Management Communication at Tusculum College in Knoxville, does private communications consulting, and is Vice President of the Board of Directors of Woodlawn Cemetery in Knoxville. She received a Ph.D. in Communications from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in May 1998, having written and defended the widely-acclaimed doctoral dissertation appearing here.
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