Clancy Ratliff
Professor of English
Associate Dean
PhD, University of Minnesota, 2006
MA, University of Tennessee, 2001
Office: H.L. Griffin 101
Phone: 337-482-5500
Email: clancy.ratliff@louisiana.edu
Pronouns: she/her
Teaching and Research Areas
Rhetoric and Composition Studies; Feminist Rhetorics; Environmental Rhetorics; Writing Program Administration; Authorship (Copyright, Intellectual Property, Plagiarism)
Recent Courses Taught
ENGL 464, Special Topics in Rhetoric: Feminist Rhetorics
ENGL 490, Capstone Seminar
ENGL 501, Teaching College English
ENGL 509, Teaching College English Practicum
ENGL 556, Seminar in Rhetoric: What if First-Year Writing Weren't Required?
ENGL 595, Special Project: The Academic Article
ENGL 555, Learning to Live with Large Language Models (LLMs)
Bio
Clancy Ratliff has held a variety of leadership positions in professional organizations (National Council of Teachers of English, Conference on College Composition and Communication) and in the English department. She serves as Co-Editor of Peitho, published by the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. She also serves on several boards of local community organizations, including the Acadiana Regional Coalition on Homelessness and Housing (ARCH). She is proud to have directed ten dissertations and four theses to completion and to be continuing this mentoring work. Below are Ratliff's publications from the last five years, and her full CV is available as well.
Recent Publications
“’We Won’t Back Down’: Feeling Abortion Rights Advocacy Rhetoric through Poetic Inquiry.” In The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric, edited by Jacqueline Rhodes and Suban Nur Cooley. Routledge, 2025, pp. 304-314.
“Creative Reading: Using Poetic Inquiry in Research and Teaching.” Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, vol. 29, 2024, pp. 66-89. (with Abdullah-Al-Musayeb, Barja Islam, Mithila Mumtaz, Rosol Otear, Simon Richard, Noah Smith, Nuzhat Tarannum, and Allyssa Veney)
“Revising LLM Text to (Re)Discover Rhetoric in a Graduate Seminar.” In Teaching and Generative AI: Pedagogical Possibilities and Productive Tensions, edited by Beth Buyserie and Travis N. Thurston. Utah State University’s Empower Teaching Open-Access Book Series, 2024.
(Coauthored with Mary Le Rouge and Donnie Johnson Sackey) “Using Situational Analysis to Reimagine Infrastructure.” Communication Design Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3, 2022, pp. 56-66.
(Coauthored with Daniel A. Smith) "Access and Stratification: One City, Two Dual Enrollment Programs." Teaching English in the Two-Year College 48.1, 2020. 162-176.
"The Adaptive Cycle: Resilience in the History of First-Year Composition." Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 19, 2019. 283-300. Selected for reprint in Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2020, Parlor Press.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/pedagogy/issue/19/2
"The Suffragist Movement and the Early Feminist Blogosphere: Feminism and Recent History of Rhetoric." In Feminist Connections: Rhetoric, Media, and Delivery from the Suffragists to #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, ed. Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette. University of Alabama Press, 2020, pp 197-214.