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Cheryl Glenn
Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Women's Studies; Co-director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation

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Contact:
223 South Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-863-0271
cjg6@psu.edu

Office Hours:
Daily by appointment, except Wednesdays

Educational History:
Ph.D., M.A., B.S. Ohio State University

Research Interests:
Rhetorical histories and theories; composition theory and practice; feminist and gender theories; medieval and Renaissance literatures

Awards:
College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award, 2004
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1999; 1993
Society for Early Modern Women Best Book/Honorable Mention, 1997
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1995-6
The Elizabeth P. Ritchie Distinguished Professor Award, Oregon State University, 1996
Conference on College Composition and Communication Richard Braddock (Outstanding Article) Award, 1995
Rhetoric Review Outstanding Article Award (shared), 1994-5
The Burlington Resources Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Teaching, Oregon State University, 1992
Various Oregon State and Oregon Council of Humanities research awards

Major Publications:
The St. Martin's Guide to Teaching Writing (6 th edition, 2008)
The Harbrace Handbook
(16th edition, 2007)
Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004
Rhetorical Education in America. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004
Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997
Making Sense: A Real-Time Rhetorical Reader (Second edition, 2004)
Editor, Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms (Southern Illinois University Press)

National Professional Service (selected)
Assistant Chair,Program/Associate Chair, Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 2005-2008
Executive Committee, CCCC 2000-2002
President, Coalition of Women of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition 1996-1998
Co-director, Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Inaugural Biennial Institute 2005
Advisory Committee, Publications of the Modern Language Society Association (MLA) of America 2005-2008
Chair, MLA Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition, 1999, 2001
Delegate Assembly, MLA 2001-2003
Review Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities 1993, 1997-1998, 2000
Editorial Board or Consulting Reader, Quarterly Journal of Speech, College Composition and Communication, Dialogue , Journal of Teaching Writing, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, College English, Written Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetoric Review