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 and academic interests include rhetoric and composition, critical reading, intellectual property, and post-modern literature. Dr. Parrott has been a faculty member at Eastern Kentucky University since 2011, where she has focused on improving undergraduate writing instruction, information literacy, and pedagogical practices in first-year composition courses.

Dr. Parrott has received notable awards for her contributions to teaching excellence, including EKU’s Faculty Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award in 2024, EKU’s Library Faculty Award in 2020, and the American Library Association Library Instruction Roundtable Top 20 recognition in 2018. Her influential publications demonstrate her expertise in collaborative educational approaches and rhetorical analysis. Key works 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 (Utah State University Press, 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 (West Virginia University Libraries, 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 her scholarship, Dr. Parrott has advanced the integration of critical reading and information literacy in composition pedagogy.