Faculty Profiles

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. (2026). The Pager. In Writing Artifacts (pp. 206–212). Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Artifacts/Alexis-Rule/p/book/9781041084860

Leake, E. W., Brydon-Miller, M., Columbia, D., & Kroeger, S. (2026). Difficult Empathy, Education, and the Work of Social Change: An Interview with Eric Leake About His Book, Difficult Empathy and Rhetorical Encounters (Routledge, 2023). Educational Action Research.

Leake, E. W., & Carr, N. (2026). Writing, Friction, and Ghoulish AI: An Interview with Nicholas Carr. Writing on the Edge (Vol. 33, pp. 9–20).

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.

Leake, E. W. (2021). Entering Decolonial Translation through Dwelling and Storytelling: In Response to Ellen Cushman. In The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Research (pp. 213–216). New York: Peter Lang.

Leake, E. W. (2021). The Multiple Lives of News Stories: Civic Literacies and Rhetorical Transformations. In Literacy and Pedagogy in an Age of Misinformation and Disinformation (pp. 71–84). New City Community Press. Retrieved from https://parlorpress.com/collections/working-and-writing-for-change/products/literacy-and-pedagogy-in-an-age-of-misinformation-and-disinformation

Leake, E. W. (2020). Implosions and Nostalgia in Las Vegas. Intraspection: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Style, (3). Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/murraystate.edu/intraspection/home/all-issues/issue-3-2020/implosions-and-nostalgia

Alexis, C., & Leake, E. W. (2020). The Stylized Portrayal of the Writing Life in Spike Jonze’s Her. In Style and the Future of Composition Studies (pp. 85–97). Utah State University Press. https://doi.org/10.7330/9781646420117.cOO5

Leake, E. W. (2019). Empathy as Research Methodology. In P. Liamputtong (Ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences (pp. 237–252). Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2779-6_65-1

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. (2017). “To Cultivate Writerly Sensibilities”: An Interview with Doug Hesse. In Teachers on the Edge: The WOE Interviews, 1989–2017. New York: Routledge.

Leake, E., & Masiel, D. (2017). “Enter the Process in Uncertainty”: An Interview with Nancy Sommers. In Teachers on the Edge: The WOE Interviews, 1989–2017. New York: Routledge.

Leake, E. W. (2016). The Dinner Table Debate and the Uses of Hospitality. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, 6(1). Retrieved from http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-6/the-dinner-table-debate-and-the-uses-of-hospitality/

Leake, E. (2016). Writing Pedagogies of Empathy: As Rhetoric and Disposition. Composition Forum, 34. Retrieved from http://compositionforum.com/issue/34/empathy.php

Leake, E. W. (2016). The Promise and Practice of Cosmopolitan Empathy. In D. Aleksandrowicz & A. Aleksandrowicz (Eds.), Countertransference in Perspective: The Double-Edged Sword of the Patient-Therapist Emotional Relationship (pp. 245–254). Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press.

Leake, E. (2016). Empathizer-in-Chief: The Promotion and Performance of Empathy in the Speeches of Barack Obama. Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric, 6, 1–14. Retrieved from http://contemporaryrhetoric.com/articles/Leake_12_1.pdf

Leake, E. (n.d.). Introduction to Donald Murrary. Teachers on the Edge: The WOE Interviews with Composition and Rhetoric Scholars 1989 - 2017. Routledge.

Alexis, C., Barnett, S., & Leake, E. (2016). Composing Place, Composing Las Vegas. In Rhetorics of Names and Naming (pp. 13–32). New York: Routledge.

Leake, E. (2015). The (Un)knowable Self and Others: Critical Expressivism through Critical Empathy. In Critical Expressivism: Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom (pp. 149–160). Anderson, SC: Parlor Press.

Leake, E. (2014). Neon Letters: Writing of Sin City. College Composition and Communication, 66, 228–230.

Leake, E., & Masiel, D. (2014). “Enter the Process in Uncertainty”: An Interview with Nancy Sommers. Writing on the Edge (Vol. 24, pp. 4–12). University of California at Davis.

Leake, E. (2014, October 22). Postmodernism. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research (pp. 634–637). SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446294406.n281

Leake, E. (2014, July). A Cognitive Route to Social Justice: Mark Brachers Radical Pedagogies. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/15314200-2715850

Leake, E. (2014). Humanizing the Inhumane: The Value of Difficult Empathy. In Rethinking Empathy Through Literature (pp. 175–185). New York: Routledge.

Leake, E. (2013). “To Cultivate Writerly Sensibilities”: An Interview with Doug Hesse. Writing on the Edge (Vol. 23, pp. 4–13). University of California at Davis.

Leake, E. (2012). A New Breed of Therapy. Pacific Standard. Retrieved from http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/a-new-breed-of-therapy-animal-48104

Leake, E. (2012). Science as Sound Bites: The Lancet Iraq Casualty Reports and Prefigured Accommodation. Technical Communication Quarterly, 21(2), 129–144. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2012.646132

Leake, E. (2012). “Not Just to Bear Witness”: An Interview with Jeffrey Gettleman. Writing on the Edge (Vol. 23, pp. 4–13). University of California at Davis.

Leake, E. (2012). The Open Gates of the Fourth Estate: Civic Literacy Meets Citizen Journalism. Composition Forum, 25(1). Retrieved from http://compositionforum.com/issue/25/civic-literacy-citizen-journalism.php

Leake, E. (2011). Teaching Empathy to the “Me” Generation. Pacific Standard. Retrieved from http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/teaching-the-me-generation-to-care-33824

Leake, E. (2011). The Intimate Sound of a Writers Voice: An Interview with Phillip Lopate. Writing on the Edge (Vol. 22, pp. 4–13). University of California at Davis.

Leake, E. (2009). Subversive Kitsch and the American Dream at the Liberace Museum. Magazine Americana. Retrieved from http://www.americanpopularculture.com/archive/venues/liberace.htm