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, Fla.
  • BA: English, (1996), Warren Wilson College - Asheville, N.C.

Biosketch

Jill Pruett joined UMass Lowell 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

  • Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence (2022) - University of Massachusetts - Lowell
  • English Department Teaching Excellence Award (2021) - University of Massachusetts - Lowell
  • 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