Dr. Eric Leake

  • Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2024

  • 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

2022

  • 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

2021

  • 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

2020

  • 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

2019

  • 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

2018

  • 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

2017

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

2016

  • 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.

2015

  • 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.

2014

  • 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.

2013

  • 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.

2012

  • 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

2011

  • 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.

2009

  • 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