ABSTRACT
Cheryl Glenn is currently Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and professor of English and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University, where she teaches courses in the history and theory of rhetoric and composition. Equally committed to pedagogical and to theoretical scholarship, Glenn has produced three major textbooks-The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook (third edition, with Loretta Gray, 2005), Making Sense: A Real-World Rhetorical Reader (second edition, 2004), and The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing (fifth edition, 2003); and three scholarly books-Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance, Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence, and Rhetorical Education in America (with Margaret Lyday and Wendy B. Sharer). She is also co-editor, with Shirley Wilson Logan, of Southern Illinois University Press’s “Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms,” which has published several influential works in rhetoric and writing studies. Glenn earned all three of her degrees at Ohio State University, finishing up the PhD in 1989 and immediately beginning a tenure-track position at Oregon State University. She was awarded early tenure in her fifth year and won numerous awards for her teaching and scholarship before accepting the position at Penn State in 1997. In 2004, she put out three books, was promoted to full professor, and won the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award. That same year, she served as an Administrative Fellow with Penn State’s Executive Vice President and Provost, and as a Fellow with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership program.
