Dr. Gretch Busl

Dr. Gretchen Busl (PhD in Literature, University of Notre Dame) is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Coordinator for the MA in English and PhD in Rhetoric at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX. Her scholarship and teaching combine narrative theory, rhetoric, and gender studies to examine how we communicate across borders and between discourse communities. She is a passionate advocate for public humanities work, with a particular focus on the role of narratives in society.

From 2018-2020, she co-directed the “Building Global Perspectives in the Humanities” project with Dr. Ashley Bender, funded by a Humanities Initiatives at Hispanic-Serving Institutions grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Building on her Public Voices Thought Leadership fellowship with the OpEd Project in 2015, she is a co-PI of the Women’s Thought Leadership project funded by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leadership, along with colleagues Drs. Ashley Bender, Jackie Hoermann-Elliott, and Danielle Phillips-Cunningham. Gretchen is also a member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and a founding co-host of the Narrative for Social Justice podcast. As a Midwestern transplant to Texas, she is proud to serve Denton County as a member of the Human Services Advisory Committee.