Faculty Profiles

Dr. Eric Leake

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.

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
Blankenship, L., & Leake, E. W. (Eds.). (n.d.). Empathy and the Other: Difference, Connection, and the Teaching of Writing. Utah State University Press.
Leake, E. W. (2024). Difficult Empathy and Rhetorical Encounters. Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Difficult-Empathy-and-Rhetorical-Encounters/Leake/p/book/9781032321714
Leake, E. W. (2022). The Empathy Framework and Social Inclusion. In Handbook of Social Inclusion (pp. 211–225). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48277-0_11-1
Kiernan, J., & Leake, E. W. (2021). Encountering Difference through Empathy and Translingualism. In The Matter of Practice: Exploring New Materialisms in the Research and Teaching of Languages and Literacies (pp. 11–30). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press.

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