Assistant Professor of English and General Education Assessment Coordinator
Email: hratcliff@tusculum.edu
Campus Phone: 5234
Campus Mail: P.O. 5044
Office: Virginia 301
Department: Division of Humanities
Campus or Site Location: Greeneville
M.A., English, The University of Tennessee
(Thesis: “The Artist’s Loving Hand: The Travel Letters of Emily Eden, Isabella Bird, and Mother Catherine McAuley Written to Their Sisters in 19th Century Britain and Ireland”)
B.A., Political Science/History, King College
Holly Ratcliff has been teaching at Tusculum since 2003 when she began as an adjunct for the English department at the Knoxville campus. Ms. Ratcliff joined the Greeneville campus in August of 2018 as a Visiting Instructor of English.
Prior to starting work in Greeneville, Holly spent over four years as an Assistant Professor, Director of the Knoxville Writing Center, and Co-facilitator of the Online Writing Lab at King University. In addition to these previous commitments at King, she has taught in the English departments at both The University of Tennessee (Knoxville) and Pellissippi State Community College. Ms. Ratcliff teaches Introduction to Rhetoric & Composition and Rhetoric & Research, Composition I Writing Lab, Folklore & the Fairy Tale, and Writing in Organizations, but she has also recently taught the following courses for various universities (both on campus and online): American Literature I and American Literature II, Appalachian Literature, Dual-Enrollment English Composition, Professional Writing for Information Technology, Writing for Healthcare Professions, Introduction to Higher Education, The Quest for Self-Knowledge, The Quest for Stewardship and Ethical Responsibility, and 20th & 21st Century Global Literature.
After completing her graduate degree at the University of Tennessee, Holly began working full-time as a Marketing Coordinator for an international civil and environmental engineering firm. During her time there, she participated in efforts to prepare and write technical reports, as well as many proposals for state, local, and federally funded transportation infrastructure assignments, regional economic development studies, environmental impact statements, major design/build jobs, and bridge design and rehabilitation projects. In 2011, Holly returned to her original passion of teaching students at the college-level which is where she remains to this day.
Holly Ratcliff lives in Limestone, Tennessee on a 16-acre farm where she keeps her horses, dogs, and several cats.