Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State University, Dr. Cheryl Glenn, is an international leader in the field of rhetoric and writing studies. She has served as chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Dr. Glenn was named Rhetorician of the Year, awarded the 2019 CCCC Exemplar Award and awarded an honorary doctorate from Örebro University (Sweden). Among her many publications are RHETORIC RETOLD: REGENDERING THE TRADITION FROM ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE RENAISSANCE, UNSPOKEN: A RHETORIC OF SILENCE, RHETORICAL FEMINISM AND THIS THING CALLED HOPE, THE HARBRACE HANDBOOKS and HARBRACE GUIDE TO WRITING. She has received numerous awards for her scholarship, mentoring and teaching. Across the arc of her career, she remains most proud of her teaching awards. Today, Dr. Glenn continues to speak worldwide and write extensively about the importance of everyone having a voice, being listened to and, of course, the power of the written word. Professor Emerita at Central Washington University, Loretta Gray, has a PhD in applied linguistics and master's degrees in Spanish and Teaching English as a Second Language. Along with her work on the HARBRACE HANDBOOKS, she is the author of ENGLISH VERBS and co-author of UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH GRAMMAR and RHETORICAL GRAMMAR: GRAMMATICAL CHOICES, RHETORICAL EFFECTS. Professor Gray taught courses in linguistics, rhetorical grammar, pedagogical grammar and discourse analysis. Her projects bring together research on grammar, discourse, language acquisition and composition studies with the goal of helping students become accomplished writers and teachers.
