About the Author

Educational Background

MA, Marshall University, 2010
BA, Marshall University, 2004

Interests and Specializations

Composition and Rhetoric, Contemporary American Literature, Young Adult and Dystopian Fiction

About

Sabrina Jones has spent more than half of her life in the Marshall University community, first as a student then as an English instructor.  She enjoys the typical English teacher hobbies of reading and writing, especially YA fiction, Appalachian literature, and women writers.

Her poem “My Daddy’s Teeth” was published in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers and her essay, “Language is Power: Personal, Cultural, and Political Empowerment in the College Composition Classroom” was published in the Journal of Literacy Innovation.

She is interested in OER because of the benefit to students.  She attended her first OER training workshop in Spring 2020.  In Fall 2021, she joined the WV OER Community of Practice and adopted her first OER textbook. Since then, she has received two grants from WVHEPC for fully integrating OER into two courses. She presented strategies for incorporating OER in the composition classroom at the International Open Education Conference in Fall 2022, and in Spring 2023, she was a member of Marshall’s OER Faculty Learning Community.  She hopes to continue her OER journey after the publication of this book, Women Writers: Feminism and the Search for Identity.