Rain Prud’homme-Cranford (Dr. PC)
Associate Professor
Phd University of Oklahoma, 2014
MA Michigan State University, 2002
Office: HL Griffin 233
Phone: 482-5469
E-mail: Rain.PrudhommeC@louisiana.edu
Teaching and Research Areas
Global Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous Literatures & Cultures; Indigenous, Creole, Cajun, Redbone, Black, and Méstizo cultures of the Gulf South; Traditional Educational Knowledge (TEK) and STEM within Rhetoric, Writing, and Literacies; Rhetorics of America(s); Fatness, Wellness, & Body Studies; Environmental Humanities; Creative Writing (Poetry; Creative non-fiction, Prose); Gender & Sexuality; and Southern Studies
About
Dr. PC reads too much, drinks too much black tea, and watches too much SF/Fantasy and Speculative Fiction. Dr. PC’s classes are highly multimodal community discussion-driven spaces where: “We read a lot. We talk a lot. We tell and listen to stories. We watch and listen to a lot. We laugh a lot and even cry. We witness and tell stories to be better relatives, and we think through the tensive spaces to imagine better futures.” Dr. PC is also the Executive Editor, Publisher, and “Book Doula” for That Painted Horse Press, a borderless non-profit p.o.d. publishing house. A former (tenured) Associate professor of English, Creative Writing, and International Indigenous Studies at University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), she joined ULL Fall 2025, returning to the gulf southern homelands of her youth and family.
Noteworthy
Dr. PC’s most recent books include the co-edited collection, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community (2022); Miscegenation Round Dance: Poémes Historiques (2021); and the forthcoming Singin’ the Tides Home: Poems in Call, Response, and Chorus (2026), with Carolyn Dunn & Maaliyah Papillion. Her monograph Gumbo Stories: Quantum Relation-Making Rhetorics in the Creole South is under submission/review. Dr. PC's current projects include the monograph "Gather at the River": Spiritual Ecologies in Red/Black Literatures; the edited collection "Genealogies of Water (Re)Storying the Indigenous Gulf Circum-Caribbean: A Collection of Thought and Arts" (eds. Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, Carolyn Dunn, and Jean-Luc Pierite); the collection “Nobody Loves a FAT Girl”: Obesity, Obsession, Exile, and the Largeness of Literary Resistance; and Epidermal Journal, a multimodal poetry collection exploring fatness, health/chronic pain, land memory/ecologies, and homecoming through cycles of grief and healing.
Selected Bookshelf
Books:
Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain. Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community. Eds. Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, Darryl Barthé, and Andrew Jolivétte. University of Washington Press, 2022.
Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain. Miscegenation Round Dance: Poèmes Historiques. Mongrel Empire Press,Norman, OK. 2021.
Goméz, Rain, C. Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory. Mongrel Empire Press, Norman, OK . 2012.
Articles/Chapters:
Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain “’Dolo toujou couri lariviere:’ Tidalectic transRhetorical Transubstantiation in Creole Futurism(s).” Afrosouthernfururism. Eds. Joanna Davis-McElligatt, A.D. Boyton, and Kristen Reynolds –accepted forthcoming–
Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain and Carolyn M Dunn. “‘Shell shaking sisters and chain cries blues’: Creole Tidalectics & Echolocative Indigenous Rhetorical Praxis.” Native American Poets Doing Theory,Methodology, Pedagogy. Eds. Inés Hernández-Ávila and Molly McGlennen. Michigan State University Press. 2025. 80-111.
Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain. “Summoning Swamp Songs: Decolonizing Creole-Indigenous Textual Tributaries.” Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies. Eds. Eric Gary Anderson, TaylorHagood, Kirstin Squint, and Anthony Wilson. LSUP. 2020. 91-115.
Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain. “From Bayou to Academe: A Story of Alliance Making.” The Mississippi Quarterly: New Voices in Southern Studies Special Issue. Fall., 2017.19-23.
Goméz, Rain Prud’homme C. "Crossin’ the Log: Death, Regionality, and Race in Jeremy Love’s Bayou." Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture. Eds. Eric Gary Anderson, Daniel Turner, and Taylor Hagood. Louisiana State Un Press. 2015. 211-223.
