Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured grants
- Leake, Eric Wallace. Writing at a Crossroads of Languages and Cultures: American Studies in Slovenia, The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, Federal. (Submitted: July 27, 2018, Funded: September 1, 2019 - January 15, 2020). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Leake, E. W. (2018). “Should You Encounter”: The Social Conditions of Empathy. Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1265
- Leake, E. W. (n.d.). Difficult Empathy, Education, and the Work of Social Change: An Interview with Eric Leake. Educational Action Research.
- Leake, E. W. (n.d.). Writing, Friction, and Ghoulish AI: An Interview with Nicholas Carr. Writing on the Edge.
- Blankenship, L., & Leake, E. W. (Eds.). (n.d.). Empathy and the Other: Difference, Connection, and the Teaching of Writing. Utah State University Press.
- Blankenship, L., & Leake, E. W. (Eds.). (n.d.). Enacting Empathy: Stories and Strategies from the Writing Classroom. Utah State University Press.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: College of Liberal Arts Achievement Award for Excellence in Service, Texas State University. 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National Honor Society. 2021
- Award / Honor Recipient: Fulbright Scholar, The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. September 2019 - January 2020
- Award / Honor Recipient: Graduate Dean's Citation, University of Louisville. May 1, 2011
- Award / Honor Recipient: John Richard Binford Memorial Award, University of Louisville. May 1, 2011
Featured service activities
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Bloomsbury Academic
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International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
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Routledge
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College Composition and Communication
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University of South Carolina Press
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Public Humanities