Jill Parrott, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Education
- Ph.D., The University of Georgia
- M.A., Auburn University
- B.A., Carson-Newman College
Research & Academic Interests
- Rhetoric & composition
- Critical reading
- Intellectual property
- Post-modern literature
Publications
- “Critical Reading and Student Self-Selected Texts: Results of a Collaborative, Explicit Curricular Approach.” With Trenia Napier. In Journal of College Reading and Learning, 53:4, 316-334, 2023. doi: 10.1080/10790195.2023.2247462
- “But It’s (Not) the Same: A Data-Driven Challenge of Equivalency Bias in Dual-Enrollment Composition.” With Dominic Ashby. In The Dual Enrollment Kaleidoscope: Reconfiguring Perceptions of First-Year Writing and Composition Studies, edited by. Christine Denecker and Cassie Moreland. Louisville, CO: Utah State UP. 2022. 147-161.
- “A Collaborative, Trilateral Approach to Bridging the Information Literacy Gap in Student Writing.” College & Research Libraries, vol. 79, no. 1, 2018: pp. 120-145. With Trenia Napier, Erin Presley, and Leslie Valley.
- “Some People are Just Born Good Writers.” Bad Ideas about Writing, edited by Cheryl Ball and Drew Loewe. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Libraries, 2017. Reprinted for Inside Higher Ed, November 17, 2017.
- “Power and Discourse: Silence as Rhetorical Choice in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior.” Rhetorica, vol. 30, no. 4, Autumn 2012: pp. 375-391.
- “How Shall We Greet the Sun?: Form and Truth in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Annie Allen.” Style, vol. 46, no. 1, Spring 2012: pp. 27-41.
Awards & Accolades
- EKU’s Faculty Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, 2024
- EKU’s Library Faculty Award, 2020
- American Library Association Library Instruction Roundtable Top 20 for 2018
