Education
Doctorate Degree
PhD in English Rhetoric and Composition
University of Louisville, 2011
Master's Degree
MA in English
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2000
Bachelor's Degree
BA in English
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2002
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
- Blankenship, L., & Leake, E. W. (Eds.). (2026). Empathy and the Other: Difference, Connection, and the Teaching of Writing. Utah State University Press. Retrieved from https://www.upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/empathy-and-the-other
- Blankenship, L., & Leake, E. W. (Eds.). (2026). Enacting Empathy: Stories and Strategies from the Writing Classroom. Utah State University Press. Retrieved from https://www.upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/enacting-empathy
- 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. (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. (2026). The Pager. In Writing Artifacts (pp. 206–212). Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Artifacts/Alexis-Rule/p/book/9781041084860
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
- Reviewer / Referee
Writing on the Edge
- Reviewer / Referee
Close Encounters in War Journal
- Reviewer / Referee
Bloomsbury Academic
- Reviewer / Referee
International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
- Reviewer / Referee
Routledge
- Reviewer / Referee
College Composition and Communication