Clancy Ratliff

Clancy Ratliff
  • Faculty
  • Professor of English

Biography

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 twelve dissertations and four theses to completion and to be continuing this mentoring work.

Student Research/Collaboration

  • Rhetoric and Composition Studies
  • Feminist Rhetorics
  • Environmental Rhetorics
  • Writing Program Administration
  • Authorship (Copyright, Intellectual Property, Plagiarism)

Publications

  • 鈥溾橶e Won鈥檛 Back Down鈥: Feeling Abortion Rights Advocacy Rhetoric through Poetic Inquiry.鈥 In The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric, edited by Jacqueline Rhodes and Suban Nur Cooley. Routledge, 2025, pp. 304-314
  • 鈥淐reative Reading: Using Poetic Inquiry in Research and Teaching.鈥 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)
  • 鈥淩evising LLM Text to (Re)Discover Rhetoric in a Graduate Seminar.鈥 In Teaching and Generative AI: Pedagogical Possibilities and Productive Tensions, edited by Beth Buyserie and Travis N. Thurston. Utah State University鈥檚 Empower Teaching Open-Access Book Series, 2024
  • (Coauthored with Mary Le Rouge and Donnie Johnson Sackey) 鈥淯sing Situational Analysis to Reimagine Infrastructure.鈥 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
  • "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