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Jill Pruett

Jill Pruett
Jill Pruett Associate Teaching Professor
  • College
    College of Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Department
    English
  • Phone
    (413) 992-8220
  • Office
    O'Leary Library - 462
  • Email
    Jill_Pruett@uml.edu

Expertise

Transatlantic literature; autobiographical narrative & minority identity; gender in literature; digital culture

Research Interests

autobiographical narrative & minority identity; gender in literature; comedy; digital culture

Education

  • Ph D: English, (2007), University of Florida - Gainesville, FL
  • BA: English, (1996), Warren Wilson College - Asheville, NC

Biosketch

Jill Pruett joined UML in January of 2013 to help establish the English Department’s fully online BA program, in which she regularly teaches courses related to American literature and its intersections with humor, gender, autobiography, and digital literacy.

Selected Awards and Honors

  • Teaching Excellence Award (2017) - University of Massachusetts - Lowell
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning (2014) - University of Massachusetts - Lowell
  • UAB Faculty Development (2012) - University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • UAB Mervyn H. Sterne Library (2012) - University of Alabama at Birmingham