Biography

Melissa Glenn is Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Marketing at the Fox School of Business. She is accomplished in both communication strategies for business and in creative writing with a concentration in fiction. Professor Glenn served as the Marketing Department’s Deputy Chair from 2022-2024 and has a combined 25 years of practical industry experience in nonprofit and corporate sectors as well as academic.

Professor Glenn is an award-winning case writer whose work appears in Ivey Publishing. She utilizes teaching cases in the classroom to better bridge practice and theory. She is passionate about the restorative art of storytelling and believes that business students are among some of the most innovative thinkers.

She additionally serves as a longstanding, professional facilitator for the Center for Executive Education at the Fox School. And working across the University, Melissa has designed, led, and co-facilitated workshops on ‘Decolonizing the Curriculum/Syllabus’ for Temple’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching. A lifelong learner, she successfully completed the CAT’s rigorous Provost Teaching Academy in 2021. Melissa has coupled her commitment to both art and higher education through community efforts. She contributed her creative communications talent as a local board member of two Philadelphia-based organizations and is currently in the running to serve on the Alumni Board of one of her alma maters.

Professor Glenn holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Rosemont College, a Master of Strategic Communication from La Salle University, and a BA in English Literature from Pennsylvania State University, where she also received a Technical Writing Minor.