Jill Fitzgerald

Jill Fitzgerald, PhD, is Research Professor and Professor Emerita in the School of Education at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former primary-grades teacher and reading specialist, she has most recently conducted research on literacy issues involving multilingual learners, text complexity, and vocabulary measurement. Dr. Fitzgerald is a member of the Reading Hall of Fame, a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and a recipient of research awards from Phi Delta Kappa, the International Literacy Association, and the AERA. She has published over 150 works, is currently associate editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology, and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. Dr. Fitzgerald also has received university teaching and advisement awards and has been a review panelist for the U.S. Department of Education, the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute for Literacy.