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Gretchen Ronnow
American Literature, Composition
 Gretchen
Ronnow was born in Reno, Nevada, and raised in the Sierra
Nevadas mountains and Great Basin deserts. She received a
BA and an MA in English from Utah State University and a PhD
from the University of Arizona in Tucson with an emphasis
on American literature and culture, American Indian literatures,
and Arabic literature in translation. She has taught at the
University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Southern
Utah University, Utah State University, Barnaul State Pedagogical
University in Siberia, Universidad de Sonora Mexico, and in
Cunen, Guatemala.
She publishes and does presentations on topics in American
literature, American Indian literature, gender studies, and
Arabic literature. She has contributed to The Dictionary of
Literary Biography, The Encyclopedia of North American Indians,
The Dictionary of Native American Literature, and The Garland
Directory of Minority Women. She received a Fulbright Foreign
Scholar Grant and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant.
She also produced a series of videotapes on the lives, myths,
and politics of the Southern Paiute Indians.
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