Ann Watts Pailliotet

Ann Watts Pailliotet, who has died suddenly in Seattle, was an associate professor of education at Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington USA), where she supervised student teachers and taught elementary literacy methods, secondary teaching methods, secondary content area reading, critical reading of children's literature, and media literacy. She was a certified secondary English teacher who received her Ph.D. in English Education from Syracuse University. She was a past winner of the National Reading Conference Graduate Research Award, the Conference on College Composition and Communication Citation for Outstanding Classroom Practice, and Whitman College's Ball Advising Award for Teaching Excellence.

In addition to serving as editor for the New Literacies department, Ann was a coeditor (with Ladislaus M. Semali) of Intermediality: The Teachers' Handbook of Critical Media Literacy (Perseus Books, 1998), Reconceptualizing Literacy in the Media Age (with Peter B. Mosenthal; Elesevier/JAI Press, 2000), Exploring Values through Literature, Multimedia, and Literacy Events (with Patricia Schmidt; International Reading Association, August 2001), and C.P.R.: Creative Planning Resources (with Lyn Lacy; Peter Lang, forthcoming). She published articles in Teaching and Teacher Education, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Basic Writing, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and Journal of Literacy Research, and contributed chapters and articles to numerous books. She presented regularly at meetings of the National Reading Conference, International Visual Literacy Association, American Educational Research Association, and International Reading Association, and at the National Media Educators Conference (sponsored by the Center for Media Literacy) and Summit 2000: Children, Youth, and Media -- Beyond the Millennium.

Ann lived in Walla Walla, Washington, where she shared a historic home with her true love, Thomas Zebovitz, and several cats and dogs. When not teaching or writing, she worked with local America Reads programs and adult literacy organizations, skied, hiked, grew roses, shopped for antiques, and read voraciously.