Gary A. Olson

Who is Gary A. Olson?

Gary A. Olson is a scholar of rhetoric and culture, a literary biographer, and President of Daemen College. He has served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Idaho State University, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University, and chief academic officer at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.

Olson writes a monthly column on higher education administration for the Chronicle of Higher Education. He has written or edited 22 books and almost 100 essays and articles on subjects including the role of theory in rhetorical scholarship, the connections between ideology and discourse, and the contributions of Stanley Fish to literary and rhetorical studies.