She continued her studies at the University of North Carolina, where she completed a Ph.D. in musicology with a dissertation on the Renaissance composer Benedictus Appenzeller, the leading court musician for the Habsburg regent, Queen Mary of Hungary.
Glenda Dawn Goss began her teaching career at the University of Georgia and was promoted to full Professor.
A native of Saint Simons Island, one of Georgia's Golden Isles, she taught from 2012 to 2019 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland.
Goss is the recipient of numerous research awards from such organizations as The American-Scandinavian Foundation, the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The performances were the collaborative efforts of the Sibelius Academy of Uniarts Helsinki and the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.
Fellow Musicologist, Howard Pollack, dedicated his article, Samuel Barber, Jean Sibelius, and the Making of an American Romantic to Goss.