Glenda Carl graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison with a PhD in medieval French literature in 1988. She has taught French and Latin language courses, French literature courses and French culture and civilization courses at Southwestern since 1988. Carl's research is in the area of medieval retellings of the Trojan War story. She is especially interested in the medieval notions of translation that underlie the transformation of two sparse late Latin texts into the 30,000-line Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure. She is currently finishing an essay on the Amazons for publication in a volume on transgressing gender boundaries.

Carl is also one of two bibliographers for the North American branch of the International Arthurian Society and a member of the branch's Executive Committee. The Society has branches in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, North America, Rumania, Spain and Switzerland, as well as corresponding secretaries in 12 other countries. Every spring semester Carl searches scholarly journals for new articles on the Matter of Britain. She then requests abstracts of the articles from their authors or, when necessary, writes them herself. The abstracts are published every year in the Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society. Carl has served as Secretary-Treasurer and Vice President of the Central Texas chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French, and is currently finishing her second term as Chapter President.