Rate My Professor Jill Parrott

Dr. Jill Parrott is a Professor in the Department of English at Eastern Kentucky University. She earned her Ph.D. from The University of Georgia, M.A. from Auburn University, and B.A. from Carson-Newman College. Her research interests include rhetoric and composition, critical reading, intellectual property, and post-modern literature. Parrott's scholarship centers on improving student writing through collaborative efforts involving faculty, librarians, and writing centers, as evidenced by her publications on information literacy and curricular approaches.

Parrott has received notable awards for her teaching excellence, including Eastern Kentucky University's Faculty Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award in 2024, the EKU Library Faculty Award in 2020, and recognition in the American Library Association Library Instruction Roundtable Top 20 for 2018. Her key publications encompass a range of topics in composition and literature. These include “Critical Reading and Student Self-Selected Texts: Results of a Collaborative, Explicit Curricular Approach” with Trenia Napier in the Journal of College Reading and Learning (2023); “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 (2022); “A Collaborative, Trilateral Approach to Bridging the Information Literacy Gap in Student Writing” with Trenia Napier, Erin Presley, and Leslie Valley in College & Research Libraries (2018); “Some People are Just Born Good Writers” in Bad Ideas about Writing (2017); “Power and Discourse: Silence as Rhetorical Choice in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior” in Rhetorica (2012); and “How Shall We Greet the Sun?: Form and Truth in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Annie Allen” in Style (2012). Through these contributions, Parrott has advanced pedagogical practices in rhetoric, composition, and literary studies.