Clancy Ratliff :: Curriculum Vitae

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Education

• Ph.D. student, University of Minnesota, 2002-present.
• M.A., University of Tennessee, 2001.
  
  Thesis: "I Cannot Read This Story Without Rewriting It": Haraway, Cyborg Writing, and Burkean Form.
• B.A. University of North Alabama, 1997.

Research Interests

Weblogs, Feminist Rhetorics, Intellectual Property, Internet Studies, Genre Theory, Cultural Studies, Composition Theory, Technical Communication, Pedagogy

Publications

• Editor, Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs, 2004.
• Contributor, Inman, James. Computers and Writing: The Cyborg Era. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., 2003.
• Contributing Editor, Literary Culture: Reading and Writing Literary Arguments. 2nd ed. Ed. L. Bensel-Meyers, Susan Giesemann North, and Jeremy W. Webster. Boston, MA: Pearson, 2002.

Courses Taught

• University of Minnesota

  Rhetoric 1101: Writing to Inform, Convince, and Persuade

  Rhetoric 1223: Oral Presentations in Professional Settings

  Rhetoric 3562: Technical and Professional Writing

• Roane State Community College
  

  English 1010: Composition I

• University of Tennessee
  

  English 101: English Composition I
  

  English 102: English Composition II
  

  Interdisciplinary Studies 493: Technical Writing Module, Ronald McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program

Conference Presentations

• "Making the Adjunct Visible: Normativity in Academia and Subversive Heteroglossia in the Invisible Adjunct Weblog Community." Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference, North Dakota State University, scheduled April 24, 2004.
• "Whose Voices Are Getting Heard? Gender Politics in the Blogosphere." Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio, TX, scheduled March 26, 2004.
• "Women Born Women Only: The Dialogue Between the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and Camp Trans." Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s), The Ohio State University, October 23, 2003.
• "Sites of Resistance: Weblogs and Creative Commons Licenses." Association of Internet Researchers, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 18, 2003.
• "Blogging as Social Action: The Weblog as Genre." Computers and Writing, Purdue University, May 23, 2003
• "Kairosnews: A Weblog for the Computers and Writing Community." Computers and Writing, Purdue University, May 24, 2003.
• "Looking to Lorde and Daly: When It's Not Okay to Be Silent in Feminist Rhetorical Theory." Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, New York, March 20, 2003.
• "Kairosnews: A Weblog for the Rhetoric Community." Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, New York, March 21, 2003.
• "The Populist Cyborg: Resituating Haraway in Activism." Humanities and Technology Association, Terre Haute, Indiana, October 25, 2002.
• "What is Form to a Cyborg? Burkean Form for a Postmodern Audience." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, Illinois, March 23, 2002.

Professional Activities

• Site Administrator, Computers and Writing Conference Weblog
• Founder and Associate Editor, Kairosnews: A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
• Feminist Rhetoric Field Editor, rhetcomp.com: A Portal of Sites Relevant to the Field of Rhetoric and Composition.
• Member, National Council of Teachers of English
• Member, The Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
• Member, Association of Internet Researchers