Contact Information

Office: 4163 JFSB

Phone: 422-3747

E-mail: jackie_thursby@byu.edu

Office Hours:
Fall 2009:
MWF 11:00-12:00 or by appointment

Since joining the BYU English faculty in 1996, Jacqueline Thursby has specialized in creating pedagogy which combines folklore, mythology, and young adult literature. She teaches classes in secondary English methods, world literature, folklore, women's folklore and culture, and myth/legend/folktale.

She has published several articles about the construction of student discussion and writing in secondary language arts classrooms. She has also published articles in folklore, ethnography, and American Studies and served on various editorial boards. A folklorist, she has written five books since joining BYU: (Utah State University Press, 1999); (Deseret Book, 2004); (University Press of Kentucky, 2006); (Greenwood Press Folklore Handbooks, 2006); (Greenwood Press Folklore Handbooks, 2008).

A frequent lecturer, she has presented her research regionally, nationally, and internationally. She is active in English education leadership as the past president of the Utah Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts.

She and her husband live in Provo and are often visited by their four children and their spouses, twelve grandchildren, and many friends from around the world.

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