Senior Instructor

About

  • Office Hours:

    Spring 2024 Office Hours are Tues/Thurs. from 8:15-9:00 a.m. and 2:15-3:00 p.m. Additional times available by appointment.

  • Role:

    Faculty

  • Position:

    • Senior Instructor
    • Director, Composition Placement
    • Associate Editor, Academic Labor: Research and Artistry

  • Department:

    • English and University Composition Program

  • Education:

    • Ph.D. in English Studies, Illinois State University
    • Master's in English, Illinois State University
    • Bachelor's in Psychology, University of South Florida

Biography

Catherine Ratliff teaches courses in literature, American studies, and composition. Her primary research interests focus on American cultural studies, especially the female expatriate artistic communities of inter-war Paris. In addition, she works with the Composition Program as Placement Director and is interested in the ways that self-placement practices benefit student success.

Before joining CSU, Catherine taught at the University of South Carolina and in the American Studies Department at the University of Paderborn, Germany.

Catherine is currently chief content and production editor for the journal Academic Labor: Research and Artistry.

Publications

Review of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis, by Georgiann Davis (2016) in American Book Review.

Courses

  • E 332: Modern Women Writers

  • AMST 101: Self/Community in American Culture Since 1877

  • E 334: Gay and Lesbian Literature

  • CO 300: Advanced Composition

  • CO 301B: Science Writing