Jeanne Marcum Gerlach is Dean and Professor of Education at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has earned two Doctorates, one in English Education/Curriculum & Instruction from West Virginia University and one in Higher Education Administration from the University of North Texas. Her Masters degree is in English Education from West Virginia University and her Bachelors degree is from West Virginia State College. Recently, she was a Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education's Advanced Management and Leadership Institute.
Her research and publications have focused on Business/Higher Education Partnerships, Issues in English Education, Writing As Learning, Women in Leadership Roles, Collaborative Learning, Governance in Higher Education, Adolescent Literature, and International Education. She has published in numerous education journals, as well as chapters in books. She is the coeditor with Virginia R. Monseau of Missing Chapters: Ten Pioneering Women In NCTE and English Education. She is co-author, with Robin Peel and Annette Patterson, of the book, Questions of English: Ethics, Aesthetics, Rhetoric, and the Formation of the Subject in England, Australia and the United States. Dr. Gerlach has served as an editorial reviewer, guest editor, and editor of several journals. Most recently, she was editor of International English, a National Council of Teachers of English journal which focuses on the exchange of ideas between and among educators in countries where English is the first or second most often spoken language.
She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English Board of Directors and chairs the Commission on the History of the Council. She has presented at numerous state, regional, national, and international conferences, and has received grants from different agencies. Dr. Gerlach has taught in England, New Zealand, France, Germany, Thailand, and Australia.
Her awards include the National Council Teachers of English recognition for Outstanding Woman In English Education and several Outstanding Teaching and Service Awards. She was also the recipient of the University of North Texas' Outstanding Alumni Award/Higher Education, 1992. She is listed in Who's Who Among American Women, Who's Who Among American Educators, and Who's Who Among American Women In Business. In addition to her work in higher education, Dr. Gerlach has taught English in secondary schools, served as communications consultant in business and industry, and worked as a newspaper journalist.