Academia
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- Jonathan Alexander (PhD 1993), rhetorician and professor of English at University of California, Irvine [1]
- Ray Authement (MA 1952, PhD 1956), fifth president of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1974–2008; longest serving president of a public university in the United States; received two graduate degrees from LSU; [2] [3] "father of Louisiana state archives"
- Sally Clausen (three LSU degrees in 1967, 1971, and 1980), former Louisiana commissioner of higher education; former president of Southeastern Louisiana University [4]
- John R. Conniff (MA 1923 English), New Orleans and Baton Rouge educator; president of Louisiana Tech University 1926–1928 [5]
- John B. Conway (PhD 1965), professor emeritus of mathematics at George Washington University
- Edwin Adams Davis (PhD in history from LSU), former professor of History at LSU; author of two textbooks[ citation needed ]
- Colleen Denney (BA 1981, MA 1983), Professor of Art History and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wyoming
- Ronald G. Douglas (PhD 1962), Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Texas A&M University
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, former professor of English at Pomona College; Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University
- Michelle K. Johnston (PhD 1999), Clifton A. Morvant Distinguished Professor in Business at Loyola University New Orleans
- Michael I. Jordan (BS Psychology 1974), leading researcher in machine learning at University of California, Berkeley
- Joomyeong Kim (PhD 1995), Russell Thompson, Jr. Family Professor of Biology at LSU
- Jeffrey A. Lockwood (PhD entomology), award-winning author and University of Wyoming professor of Natural Sciences and Humanities
- Fredrick Muyia Nafukho, Vice Provost for Academic Personnel, Professor of Management and Organization at Foster School of Business
- Ray Marshall, Professor Emeritus of the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin [ citation needed ]
- Sandra Murchinson (MFA), director of the School of Art and Design at Eastern Michigan University
- Leon C. Megginson (PhD 1952), later became an LSU faculty member in the business school, notable in part for his clarifying statements about Darwinism
- J. Tinsley Oden (BS 1959), pioneer in the field of computational mechanics; professor at The University of Texas at Austin
- Virgil Orr (BS, MS 1948, PhD 1950, chemical engineering), Louisiana Tech University vice president; former state representative from Lincoln and Union parishes
- Arthur T. Prescott (BA 1883), later M.A., first president of Louisiana Tech University (1895–1899) [6]
- Bin Ramke, professor at University of Denver, poet, winner of the 1978 Yale Younger Poets Prize
- Charles P. Roland (PhD), historian at Tulane University and the University of Kentucky and specialist in the American Civil War and the American South
- Ralph L. Ropp (MA 1925), professor at Northwestern State University 1923–1949; president of Louisiana Tech University 1949–1962 [7]
- Annette Shelby (PhD), first woman tenured professor at the McDonough School of Business
- Martha Serpas (BA), poet, professor of creative writing in University of Houston Creative Writing Program
- David S. Stern (BA 1977), provost and professor of Philosophy at The University of Tampa
- Robert B. Stobaugh (PhD), retired professor of Harvard Business School and currently at Rice University
- Virgil Suárez (MFA 1987), professor of English at Florida State University, award-winning writer
- Ivory A. Toldson (BS 1995), educational scholar, counseling psychology professor at Howard University, and award-winning author
- Olympia Vernon (MFA 2002), author, Hallie Ford Chair in Writing at Willamette University
- Richard M. Weaver (PhD English), professor of English at the University of Chicago, known for the book, Ideas Have Consequences
- Allen Wier (MA), professor at University of Tennessee
- Dara Wier, director of MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, award-winning poet
- John D. Winters (BA, MA, PhD), historian, Louisiana Tech University
