Gloria graduated from Indiana University NW Campus with a B.A. in English Literature. Her M.A. from IU Bloomington. Her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona (Tucson) in Rhetoric, Composition, and English.
Her dissertation, From Spoken-of to Speakers: Chicago Immigrant Women’s Writing from 1890 to 1940; won the University of Arizona’s Florence Hemley Schneider Prize for Women’s Studies scholarship. 2004.
CAREER
She is currently an appointed Research Associate in the Department of English at the University of Arizona.
She has taught college writing for over 27 years, while a lecturer in the University of Arizona English Department and also at Pima Community College.
PUBLICATIONS
PRODUCED PLAYS
1990 Universe Symphony about the composer Charles Ives, who fought the East Coast and Ivy League establishment in the field of classical music for new and unusual music and included a cosmic perspective, as well as local layers of new England’s natural sounds in his works,. at the University of Arizona’s Flandrau Planetarium theatre. This play was profiled in the international planetarium directors’ magazine.
2008 The comedy mystery Pass the Ectoplasm was staged at the Room Five Players in Tucson and at the Hammond (Indiana) Civic Theatre.
PLANET ZOOM PLAYERS
Currently she is collaborating with the Planet Zoom Players, a Zoom-based international play reading cohort whose readings with some special effects are produced on YouTube, for example:
IN PRODUCTION:
Karel Capek’s R.U.R. using new Stepan Simek trans. Published by MIT Press. Maybe done by Tuscon 52…
“The Crystal Egg” by H. G. Wells, an animatics production, produced in June 2023 on YouTube (560 views)
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcQMqRwuJDs
NOVEL
The Blue Maroon Murder, Anaphora Literary Press, 2011) set at a fictional University of Chicago sports a scientific and largely undetectable murder method. Features Dinah Cassidy as detective. Science fiction characters and theme.
EDITED COLLECTIONS
Children of Steel. Anaphora Literary Press, 2024. This text will be used in the creative Writing classes at Indiana University Northwest Campus starting next fall. Short fiction by twenty writers who grew up in Steel mill towns.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class, published in Sept. 2021.
Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars: Biographical, Anthropological, Literary, Scientific and Other Perspectives (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 41) McFarland, 2013.
In September 2022, Gloria presented two panels in the live theatre track at the 2022 World Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror convention, ChiCon 8, in Chicago.
Gloria has appeared as a panelist at the MLA, CCCCs (Rhetoric and Composition Confs.)
She is a member of The Dramatists’ Guild.
Active in…
University of Arizona Galileo Circle
University of Arizona President’s Club
Arizona Opera League
Baja Arizona Science Fiction and Fantasy Association
Tucson Hard-Science Science Fiction Zoom Group (coordinator)